Time To Give Up Alcohol | Jon Del Arroz

I’ve been ignoring the truth for a long time, but I’m getting very into fitness as of late. I haven’t really discussed it on here much but I’m training 3x a week, then playing tennis 3x a week which has me in close to the best shape of my life in the last three weeks.

This summer, though, I want to push it from “being happy and not obese” like I’ve been these last couple of years to “being very athletic and fit” which is a different ballgame and level of commitment.

As I look into it, alcohol really makes that transition a problem and if you are familiar with me, you know I love to party as a hard as I work so I often indulge on the weekends.

Mike Cernovich posted, however, showing data on how these habits actually screw up my sleep and recovery patterns and therefore my workouts even up to 4-5 days after the fact:

“A decrease in heart rate variability, an increase in resting heart rate, an increase in disturbances, less time spent in the restorative stages of sleep. And you’ll build strain faster because you’re under-recovered.” https://t.co/sq0kViE4yG
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) April 25, 2021

The tweet thread goes on to detail how performance is negatively impacted. It’s a killer. I’ve been putting this off for awhile but I think it’s time to make the jump to quit. At least while I’m working hard on building here. We’ll see how it goes.