I live a dual life, a story to be told over a few whiskey shots
, I spend half of my life in US, and the other half in Turkey. (Soon to be changed for better or worse
)
In US, I don’t drink at all. In Turkey, I binge drink with my friends twice or even trice a week.
My personal experience shows that, if you drink an amount that do not impact your workout capacity severely for the following day, then you are good. If you can’t work out properly the following day due to hangover, and if you repeat this scheme a few times a week, then your gains are impacted.
My solution is to drink “high quality” alcohol as much as possible (Scotch or Russian, Polish vodka or British Gin, sorry for all other folks
) limit the quantity if you can, if not have two Alka-Seltzers and hope not to have a hangover. Repeat this as few days as possible in any given week. And don’t binge drink one night and the following night since my body can’t handle two consecutive binging as it used to handle 30 years ago.