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I love to go out on the town and get wasted but I can't balance it with fitness training. Does anyone else feel the same? ofcourse people will say "drink in moderation" but lets be honest we all enjoy getting rat arsed.
Drink messes me up and Im much happier and focussed when I lay off the booze. We all strive so hard to fine tune our bodies yet abuse it. What does anyone else think to this matter?

If you were going to be a real soldier passing a BFT/CFT with a hangover is part of the game.

use saturday as a rest day and just go and sit in a sauna to sweat it all out

I'm a competing boxer and I can't keep a training regime and drink at the weekends. I just can't relax and enjoy it! Whats the point in killing yourself all week in the gym and in the ring then boozing away on a friday and saturday night? I prefer to go home sober and think how I'm going to KO my opponent in a few weeks! The buzz from doing that lasts a lot longer than alcohol!

You have to go out now and then, though, and have a laugh. Its also fun seeing all the 'hard' bouncers and pissed up 18 years trying to start fights with you days after you've KO'd a real hard man!

I love Beasting, your in training arent you?! Stay off the piss.

Rob

Going on the piss seriously ruins you if you want to improve strength and get fitter. I remember alex ferguson saying he rather his players smoked rather than drank in terms of it affecting players fitness.

Having said that I've heard many people reckon that a long run helps you feel better after drinking - it may be the case for them, as for me - no thanks.

By the sound of most of you I would forget about joining the forces and stick with the healthclub. Being a soldier/marine/sailor, etc is not being a fully race prepared athelete. Its being fit enough and strong enough with the mental determination to do your job. You don't need to take supplements or live like a monk. Some of the posts I read on here make me despair of the youth of today. I never trained once for joining up I was not a sportsman at school but I did walk everywhere as we had no car. The whole point of training is to get you up to standard, Yes there are selections for some units but they are hardly olympic standard. If you have to put this much effort into getting in how do you honestly expect to last through training.

There are more servicemen and women that smoke than don't drink.

Rant over back in me box.......

i understand the need for training hard and keeping off the drink but also as a society some people do need to 'chill' out and have a few drinks, some more than othes.
Surely working harder to combat the luxuries in life is a good thing. I work hard at the gym and enjoy myself at the weekend and also am glad i do this or else i may go insain. We only live once but watching our intake is important. After all we could smoke,drink and do no exercise!....

I love beasting wrote:I love to go out on the town and get wasted but I can't balance it with fitness training. Does anyone else feel the same? ofcourse people will say "drink in moderation" but lets be honest we all enjoy getting rat arsed.
Drink messes me up and Im much happier and focussed when I lay off the booze. We all strive so hard to fine tune our bodies yet abuse it. What does anyone else think to this matter?

Well it's not a problem for me, but seems harder for others. I normally go down the pub a few nights a week, I don't get hammered though. And at weekends I normally drink allot more depending on where I go. But It rarely gets in the way of my fitness.

It’s all about moderation, happy drinking

Dave.Mil wrote:By the sound of most of you I would forget about joining the forces and stick with the healthclub.

Thing is Dave its pretty easy to say things like that but many people who want to join the forces (in particular Marine/Para/Infantry etc) get scared by the Fitness requirements. The requirements are there to be met and all the guys want to do is be in tip top shape and not fail.

Boozing does mess up training but as you said you have to be able to crack on the day after, regardless.

I’m not a big drinker to be honest with you... and since working in a pub I’ve drunk even less, I don’t smoke, I don’t drink sugary or fizzy drinks, and rarely eat sweets now... yet I do go out and enjoy myself, there are other ways of having fun rather than sitting in a Smokey bar drinking, or dancing in a crowded club with the same old slag’s every week...


lew

hear hear^ I dont smoke or drink either, I think Britain as a whole has a bit of a drink problem...

Go Ashore get pi**ed. Next day you Yomp/Tab whatever.

It's what servicemen do and it will never ever change.

Saturdays at CTCRM when little me was in training the finale to the week was the Gronks ball in the NAAFI. Get as a newt wake up the next day, lie in. Loved Sundays! Monday back to the grind.

Pass out of training and you do what you want. Trap gronks, get rattarsed, it's the rich tapestry of life. Long may it never change! O and you had to soldier as well.

Artist

So I take it there isn't much opportunity for boozing (apart from leave) during training then?

Mate of mine went on a rugby trip to Newquay recently. Got there at about 10am and the others went out sightseeing. F T thinks former bootneck, bar's open. Apparently he had a bit of a session - a lone mission, and retired to the hotel bar for a few quiet ones at about 8pm -when the others were splashing on the Old Spice for the good ladies of Newquay. Lads return to the hotel late and find former bootneck asleep slumped on the bar with trolleys round his ankles and soiled carpet Why do all bootnecks seem to have that 'kick the arse out of it' approach to just about anything they do?