Beer Post-Work-Out

After 35 years of ALWAYS drinking a beer or two when I'm done working out.......I really don't care if it's good for me or not.  I like it, it tastes good, and I'm not stopping.

I too have been conducting a very long term study on the matter and have experienced no ill affects.

Coffee until noon, water until end of workout, beer until bed...............sleep, repeat.

I've been doing that for as long as I remember.  It's funny, because I get a complete physical every year, and I have for 25 years.  The doctor always asks if I smoke, and then much coffee I drink, how much alcohol I drink, and how much I exercise.  I usually say something like 5-10 cups of coffee a day and 3-5 beers per day, on average. I exercise in some fashion every day, and I like to smoke a good cigar with my buddies every now and then....actually seldom anymore since they've mostly all quit.  Then he will ask if I drink anything else, or smoke anything else.....and I tell him I probably drink a half gallon to a gallon of water per day and won't be able to smoke any weed until I retire, but I look forward to it.  Then my bood pressure is 120/70, my cholesterol is low as hell, my triglycerides are in the 50's, my BMI and body fat are always low for my age, and I take no meds at 55 years old.  He always ends with, "keep doing what you're doing".

I think that how much you exercise and how well you eat will always trump everything else.

No, no, no......beer is food.

Hops are vegetables.....it's in the Irish menu, look it up.

I think enjoying the beer afterwards is the only true reason for running 8 miles.....otherwise, who would do that??