 First question is from Zach D. P. How detrimental is alcohol to weight training? How much is too much? You know, this is a Very common question as a trainer that we get all the time Right you guys you guys remember getting this all the time from clients like, you know, I have this goal But how do I how do I look at what I can't get past this point? I'm sorry I have to point out the help in the room Zach D. P. Come on guy probably not what it means, but it's fine. Let's let's move on Yeah, no all the time I would get clients and people asking me about I used to get this one a lot like, you know Oh, you know, I definitely want to lose weight this and that but make sure that you know I have five glasses one a week. No, I used to how many less clients that would say that was there That was their thing was like listen, I'll do whatever you tell me to but I'm not but the wine Yeah, I'm not giving up my wine at night, or I'm not giving up my my scotch or whatever it is And it's like, you know, uh I don't know if I I don't know if I've even figured out or the best way to answer this to clients but I do know this like if you have that attitude of You know that you need to be drinking or you have to be drinking Normally that person is not very successful at Achieving their fitness goals. Yeah, it's not to say that there are not people that have found ways to integrate Alcohol into their lifestyle and still maintain it. It's I'm not saying that what I'm saying is the people that come in that attitude That exactly that have that attitude from the gates that say I'm not willing to give X up or I'm not giving these days up And how do I figure out a plan to integrate that if you come in with that? 99% of those people failed at getting to their goal now if you were Open to hey, I can totally get rid of it Whatever it takes to figure out or get to my goal and then hopefully one day I can start to integrate it into my lifestyle Those people have some success. Oh, it's always yeah It's I mean it may not have that big of an effect overall, but like I've noticed the training people It's always like one thing it's it's that one thing that is on that list of like untouchables We yeah everything but this and I'm not gonna I'm not gonna You know give up that those snacks because I live and die for those every day when in fact like That was the one key that if we finally addressed that like a couple years later Like they're finally okay to do that and then they had like this crazy transformation It's not even it's not even necessarily the alcohol itself I think it's the attitude because I will say that look for the most part for the most part alcohol consumption is going to reduce Your body's ability to build muscle burn body fat adapt all that other stuff now. There are small There's a small percentage of times when some alcohol is going to actually be better for your health Now I'm not talking about the physical physiological health benefits of alcohol there's some studies that suggest Maybe there's some of that I don't believe that what I think what I think is If you use alcohol occasionally because you're connecting with friends and family It's part of a religious ceremony It's something that you're doing with your spouse and you're enjoying You know, it's your it's your anniversary That is good for a segment of your health, which then can contribute to general overall health, but that being said Physically speaking There's no benefit from alcohol and when it comes to building muscle. It's mostly Detriment well, I look at that there's a there's a few reasons for this and one of the reasons is It's completely empty calories. It's just it's not there's no benefit There is no benefit for it towards you burning more body fat or building more muscle And the reality is that most people don't get enough of what they need as it is Right. How often did you guys ever evaluate a diet and go man, you hit all your macro targets? That's great Never yeah, you never did in fact We always we always advocate for before you take anything away from anybody's diet No matter how shitty their diet is is to start to add things into the diet that they need So if you already are lacking in nutrients and then you're adding something that's taking up potentially 200 to 500 calories depending on how much Alcohol you're drinking you make it really really difficult to get what your body needs and then You add in the behavioral things that happen with it Normally when you drink you have a tendency to want to eat foods that are also not As advantageous for your goals and then the after effect of the next day the next day a lot of times I feel like trash because of how because I drank and I was Ingesting something that didn't serve my body and then the motivation that I lacked to exercise the next day You know, it's funny too. The more the harder you have challenges with food the more you have to willingly Prevent yourself from binging or overeating the more likely you are to do those things when you drink alcohol because alcohol is a classic Classically reduces inhibitions This is why the jokes about sleeping with people, you know that you normally wouldn't when you're drunk or oh I did that crazy thing or I I did karaoke when normally I wouldn't go up and sing on stage It lowers your inhibitions. And so if you have this Relatively if you don't have a great relationship with food and if it's always kind of a struggle You're probably more likely to eat really crappy food When you drink alcohol because it lowers inhibitions and now you feel like hey, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna stop myself anymore. I'm gonna do whatever I want or whatever So it tends to do that. I'll tell you this. Okay, that all being said, okay If you have a healthy relationship with alcohol, you're using it appropriately. It's not an abuse or whatever One thing you could do is you can you can really mitigate A lot of the negative effects from it by chain bite by kind of manipulating how you use it And one of the biggest things you could do one of the most important things you could do Is not drink late at night That is a big one because what you're doing by drinking late at night is not only are you drinking alcohol But now you're interfering with sleep. So now you've just doubled All the damage I learned this as an adult And I was like when I was younger and we'd go out drinking to be at night And then I come home and you have crappy sleep and whatever and then you wake up and you feel like And I remember as an adult, you know when you're an adult You kind of be like, hey, let's go. Uh, let's go hang out, you know, it's noon Let's go to a bar or whatever and then you drink during the day and then you you know Five six o'clock rolls around you stop drinking you sober up a little bit and then your sleep is a little bit better That's one thing. Yeah. No sleep. It's terrible for sleep And I and I think um, there there's a high majority of people that use alcohol after work as a way to cut the edge off And to kind of relax and it's sort of like it becomes a bit of a ritual Even if it's just one or two glasses, you know, which then can kind of uh, you know Compile later like you could start, you know that that could be the start to that Um, but you know like looking at that as like a potential This could become a habit that you form like this is my go-to to relax And so that's the behavior side of that Uh, you know that I always like try to pay attention to and it's not it's not benefiting you Uh in terms of anything else like it's gonna take away from your sleep It's gonna take away from your performance in the gym So I I try to look at alcohol as something that I use as a treat So it's like a like I'm looking forward to it, you know, I'm gonna go and I'm gonna hang out my friends I'm gonna celebrate something like like that's where I want to use alcohol No, we we all openly admit to to having an occasional drink In fact, we we partnered with a company like zbiotic Do you think Sal that the what is what makes the zbiotic so impactful Is the fact that it helps with the sleep. Do you think that's what a majority because I that's what I notice when I use that Right, I don't drink that. It's not a sleep aid. Uh, so it's not that it makes you sleep better It's a it's a it's a genetically engineered bacteria that produces an enzyme That breaks down a a negative byproduct or build-up that's caused from alcohol metabolism called Acetyl aldehyde and what this stuff does is it builds up and typically your liver Creates the enzyme that can destroy it or can break it down But what happens when you drink alcohol is you build up more than you can break down So you get this over you get this build-up of this byproduct of alcohol And what are the symptoms of acetyl aldehyde build-up? inflammation Headaches, you know terrible sleep bad gut your gut is throwing all this stuff that we would Classically label as a a hangover So ziba and look I'll tell you what right now when I when this company We I initially heard about this company through an article that I read about this product And how the author tested it and other people tested it and thought it was amazing I talked about on the podcast the company heard that we had talked about it and contacted us and sent us some samples And I was extremely skeptical. I'm like, okay, whatever. Let's see if this actually works It is eerie. It is eerie how well that it works I mean, we even did a video where adam justin Myself and dug played a drinking game and like idiots we modified the rules thinking it would be better In reality what we went to the absolute extreme. We yeah, we was done. It was very what we did was irresponsible We went way too far. I had never been that drunk. I don't think I've been that drunk in 10 years or longer And we did but we did the zbiotics and the next day Normally the way I would feel would be like I need to stay home from work sick like really really bad Instead I felt like a little tired I didn't I noticed I didn't feel and it had to be because and I've used ever since then I've used zbiotics a few other times. So, you know, I'd said drinking during the day instead of at night Zbiotics is the first product. I would say is one way you can mitigate some of the negatives Especially if fitness and health is a priority for you know, drink that Then have your drinks and you're probably you're gonna notice a difference But to Justin's point that the thing that you have to be and this just takes self-awareness On you if you are the person who it's become a behavior or a habit Or you if it triggers you to say you can't have it or you shouldn't have it And you have a problem with saying, hey, you know, I can go You know weeks or months without having alcohol in my life. There's an issue there And I mean, I don't care if it's we're talking about alcohol right now, but it could be talking about anything We've talked about this before if you have a problem. It has control over you. You don't have control over it. Yeah