Weed and Weightlifting; my little experiment

Interesting.

I just get as lazy as shit when I smoke, so I try to do physical activities before smoking. Knowing me, i'd just stay on the eliptical staring at some chicks ass or in the sauna staring at some chicks ass.

Oh my, too high.

 

I'm calling bullshit. You can't not do cardio and have a very low bodyfat, as well as weed takes away motivation, you're less likely to push that extra rep.


Bullshit aside it's likely you've just plateaued and you need to switch it up.

 

Am I to understand that you ate nothing but beef for 4 months? Or did you mean, no other meat but beef?

 

I hate when people say weed makes you unmotivated. Perhaps you have grown dependent on bud for motivation for working out, I was dependent on cigs for a while weightlifting. Weed makes me just want to chill out though haha.

 

ahaha, my thoughts exactly!

 

So if you've had steroid like results you would have needed to bulk, then cut. Nobody gains muscle and loses fat at the same time, you can do one of the two.
You gain muscle = you gain fat. You lose fat = you lose muscle.

Which is where cardio comes in, which you said you don't do. This means you would have never attempted to cut fat, you could be strong, but you'd still be kind of fat. I mean the whole "steroid look" is subjective but I really don't buy it if you aren't doing any cardio.

 

Looks good except for your eating habits, terrible. You need to have variety, more vegetables, fruits.

I can exercise more when I'm high. I can hike while high for hours and cross 6 to 8 miles easily.

 

Nah, not seriously enough to really confirm anything. But I do feel like weed makes workouts less painful, not to mention it's easier to zone out on the treadmill or whatever if you're high.

 

lolol


So that this isn't a pointless post, I also work out, smoke, and keep a fairly strict diet. I've lifted for a few years, and have stopped/started smoking several times. But I haven't noticed a difference in my workouts just because of whether or not I was smoking.

 

the best thing is toke AFTER a good work out

 

Doesn't weed lower you heart rate? So your heart rate doesn't sky rocket because the reefer is holding it down.

Is that right?

 

its all mental man. for a while, i would smoke every time before the gym. it lets me just put my mind out of the exercise and just lift. when i stopped smoking beforehand, i was consistantly lifting ~5lbs less. just give it time, youll be back to where you were

 

i workout 6 days a week and smoke every day all day, but have never really not had weed since i started working out 3 years ago. How long did you realize it after you stopped smoking, immediately?

 

Weed and working out don't mix for me. I workout at least 5 days a week, usually for about an hour and 15 minutes. In the summer, I up my workout regimen and add more cardio. I maintain a mostly vegetarian diet, drink ONLY water and fat-free organic milk, and supplement with pure Whey Isolate protein, and cycle with Creatine. Point is, I take my exercise somewhat seriously.

Except when I'm high. When I'm high, I can barely muster the motivation to get up off the couch. When I do, it's usually to walk to 7 Eleven to get some total crap food, which totally offsets all the hard work I put in when I'm not high. I have the feeling that I would have the body of a god if I didn't smoke weed.

EDIT: I'm not sure if my response was clearly an answer to your question. The actual act of smoking makes it hard, if not impossible, to workout. But my general ability to lift and exercise has not decreased or increased since I've started smoking.

 

My friend has been doing almost what your doing. He goes to the gym every other day and smokes before and after he goes. He claims it really does help as well so you might be on to something!