3 reasons your fitness will always be trash if you drink alcohol

Last week, our coaching group for my son’s competitive sports team was standing around chatting about trying to get to the gym.

“Oh, I go to the gym regularly,” one of the dads said. “It’s just the Big Mac meal and 12 beers after that keep me looking like this.”

Everyone had a good laugh at his self-deprecating joke.

But he did hit on a nugget of truth there: if you drink alcohol, at best you’re going to be treading water from a fitness perspective.

I did this for years, working out hard just to stay at the same level and never actually feeling “good”.

At worst, you’ll be working out and still gaining weight and feeling worse than ever.

It’s not just the calories, either.

Last week, I happened upon an article that actually quantified just how much alcohol is impacting your fitness in ways you wouldn’t even consider.

Here are 3 reasons you’ll never feel truly fit or energized if you continue to drink alcohol.

You can work out all you want, but your gains will be limited if you drink alcohol. (Image licensed under the Unsplash+ License)

An extra meal per day

If you’re a hard daily drinker like I was just 8–9 months ago, you’re probably ingesting 5–6 alcoholic beverages a night.