Can beer help you keep your muscles? :D

littleburgy

So I was reading that having too much calorie deficit too quickly and rapid weight loss can make you lose muscle. I was just thinking today that I am enjoying some deficit calories with a nice Hobgoblin ale.

Hence by upping my calorie intake some....does this help me keep my muscles?

Can beer help you keep your muscles?

:drinker:

Okay I'm really just kidding. Just wanted to post a beer lover's thread.

norcalskater

One beer isn't really going to help you but I don't think it will hurt you either. If you're going to up your calories do it with calories that have more nutrients in them. It's okay to have beer just don't do it everyday it hopes of preserving muscle. You have to be in a pretty big deficit to lose noticeable muscle. When your body doesn't have fat to grab as energy it starts to go for muscle.

Leonidas_meets_Spartacus

It does help me in keeping my belly.

littleburgy

One beer isn't really going to help you but I don't think it will hurt you either. If you're going to up your calories do it with calories that have more nutrients in them. It's okay to have beer just don't do it everyday it hopes of preserving muscle. You have to be in a pretty big deficit to lose noticeable muscle. When your body doesn't have fat to grab as energy it starts to go for muscle.

Oh darn. I'll have to try something else, then.

Please keep in mind that tongue is planted firmly in cheek, here. I am actually a pretty light drinker. :drinker:

http://health.yahoo.net/experts/dayinhealth/10-surprising-health-benefits-beer

brewji

As a person who's personally reviewed Hobgoblin, kudos on the choice, but don't expect it to be a nutritious bout of calories.

There are also quite a few benefits to beer, more than listed in that article.

Brazilll

Perhaps if you bench press a keg, and do tricep dibs with a box of PBR on your lap.

littleburgy

There are also quite a few benefits to beer, more than listed in that article.

Do tell!

norcalskater

By all means enjoy beer but it's not something that should be used to keep muscle. Beer is also a diuretic which makes you pee. That's not good because your muscle need water.

brewji

There are also quite a few benefits to beer, more than listed in that article.

Do tell!

Well, I'm at work right now, but the biggest one I've seen research on is the presence of digested fiber in dark brews. IPAs and Stouts have a considerable amount. Ever noticed a good trip to the washroom the day after 3-4 dark beers? There is science behind it. I have Crohn's so I am bound to do research on these things :P

Perplexities

ITT we pretend beer has benefits that are actually relevant and specific only to beer, to feel more okay with drinking beer.

In.

tigersword

By all means enjoy beer but it's not something that should be used to keep muscle. Beer is also a diuretic which makes you pee. That's not good because your muscle need water.

Beer is a diuretic because it's full of water. Beer is actually hydrating, not much different than drinking water. In fact, in the 1700s people lived off beer, not water, because the water was unsafe to drink.


Beer is actually pretty nutritious, generally speaking. Human civilization was essentially built on bread and beer, and beer is essentially liquid bread. :drinker:

wannaBrunnner81

Perhaps if you bench press a keg, and do tricep dibs with a box of PBR on your lap.

unfortunately as you work harder....and i would assume drink the beer, the weights get lighter....so aside from getting wasted, you would be decreasing your weights...

tulip_in_a_cup

count me in on the beer lovers thread. Love me a tasty IPA or a nice dark oatmeal stout :P makes it easier to "eat" back my calories, anyway

norcalskater

My favorite IPA recently is Racer 5.

tyrsnbdr

My favorite IPA recently is Racer 5.

Lots of Racer 5 and stone IPA to help me get over my sorrows... Beer makes you feel better about yourself and your team

RockWarrior84

in for Beer!! Its how i get a 6 pack

RockWarrior84

Perhaps if you bench press a keg, and do tricep dibs with a box of PBR on your lap.

I just prefer to keg stand.

Sinisterly

in for Beer!! Its how i get a 6 pack

Buahahahahha <3333
YUSSS!!! :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker:

cwolfman13

Arnie used to eat a whole chicken and wash it down with a pitcher of beer for post workout recovery...

tulip_in_a_cup

favorite IPA? Hmm that's a tough one since New Belgium did away with Belgo. And Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale only comes once a year... There's a local microbrewery in my town that does some nice ones though

victal

I'm sure hoping so!!!:drinker: :drinker:

DjinnMarie

If it did, I would be 200 lbs of solid muscle.

littleburgy

in for Beer!! Its how i get a 6 pack

AWESOME!

brewji

count me in on the beer lovers thread. Love me a tasty IPA or a nice dark oatmeal stout :P makes it easier to "eat" back my calories, anyway

This. :drinker:

DjinnMarie

I'm on the west coast. If anybody is feels like shipping me some yuengling, I wouldn't turn it down.

RockWarrior84

microbrews all the way. So many local breweries around that I am always changing up. Lately a lot of stouts and porters though. Kona brewing makes a mean coffee porter.

HungryasFuark

lol alcohol raises the estrogen level in men

Val_67

ITT we pretend beer has benefits that are actually relevant and specific only to beer, to feel more okay with drinking beer.

In.

In too. I do love me some beer. :drinker:

mantium999

I hear there is beer chat here. Homebrew IPA in hand. Cheers all!

Kenazwa

There's an Imperial stout with my name on it in my kitchen right now!

Wifey7891

I'm on the west coast. If anybody is feels like shipping me some yuengling, I wouldn't turn it down.

Woot woot! Reppin the Pottstown brewery!