Can beer help you keep your muscles? :D

littleburgy
littleburgy Posts: 570 Member
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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: :tongue:

Okay I'm really just kidding. Just wanted to post a beer lover's thread.
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  • norcalskater
    norcalskater Posts: 194 Member
    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
    Leonidas_meets_Spartacus Posts: 6,198 Member
    It does help me in keeping my belly.
  • littleburgy
    littleburgy Posts: 570 Member
    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
    brewji Posts: 752 Member
    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
    Brazilll Posts: 503
    Perhaps if you bench press a keg, and do tricep dibs with a box of PBR on your lap.
  • littleburgy
    littleburgy Posts: 570 Member
    There are also quite a few benefits to beer, more than listed in that article.

    Do tell!
  • norcalskater
    norcalskater Posts: 194 Member
    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
    brewji Posts: 752 Member
    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
    Perplexities Posts: 612 Member
    ITT we pretend beer has benefits that are actually relevant and specific only to beer, to feel more okay with drinking beer.

    In.
  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
    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
    wannaBrunnner81 Posts: 107 Member
    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
    tulip_in_a_cup Posts: 117 Member
    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
    norcalskater Posts: 194 Member
    My favorite IPA recently is Racer 5.
  • tyrsnbdr
    tyrsnbdr Posts: 234 Member
    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
    RockWarrior84 Posts: 840 Member
    in for Beer!! Its how i get a 6 pack

    six_pack_beer_bellyy.jpg
  • RockWarrior84
    RockWarrior84 Posts: 840 Member
    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
    Sinisterly Posts: 10,913 Member
    in for Beer!! Its how i get a 6 pack

    six_pack_beer_bellyy.jpg
    Buahahahahha <3333
    YUSSS!!! :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker:
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Arnie used to eat a whole chicken and wash it down with a pitcher of beer for post workout recovery...
  • tulip_in_a_cup
    tulip_in_a_cup Posts: 117 Member
    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
    victal Posts: 1,375 Member
    I'm sure hoping so!!!:drinker: :drinker:
  • DjinnMarie
    DjinnMarie Posts: 1,297 Member
    If it did, I would be 200 lbs of solid muscle.
  • littleburgy
    littleburgy Posts: 570 Member
    in for Beer!! Its how i get a 6 pack

    six_pack_beer_bellyy.jpg

    AWESOME!

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  • brewji
    brewji Posts: 752 Member
    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
    DjinnMarie Posts: 1,297 Member
    I'm on the west coast. If anybody is feels like shipping me some yuengling, I wouldn't turn it down.
  • RockWarrior84
    RockWarrior84 Posts: 840 Member
    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
    HungryasFuark Posts: 463 Member
    lol alcohol raises the estrogen level in men
  • Val_67
    Val_67 Posts: 23
    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
    mantium999 Posts: 1,490 Member
    I hear there is beer chat here. Homebrew IPA in hand. Cheers all!
  • Kenazwa
    Kenazwa Posts: 278 Member
    There's an Imperial stout with my name on it in my kitchen right now!
  • Wifey7891
    Wifey7891 Posts: 91
    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!

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