Alcohol Awareness

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Alcohol Awareness

• How it affects you

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What is alcohol?

• Ethyl alcohol or ethanol
• Psychoactive drug
• Fermented yeast, sugar, and starches

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What does it do to you?

• CNS depressant
• Effects directly related to consumption (DUI,
  Underage)
• Impair judgment, lengthens reaction time, slur
  speech, unsteady walking
• Large amounts coma or death
• Interacts with prescription drugs

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What is a standard drink?

• 1 12 oz beer
• 1 5 oz glass of wine
• 1 1.5 oz shot
• Each contain ½ ounce of alcohol

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Is beer/wine safer?

• None are safer than the other
• All contain the same amount of alcohol

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What is moderate drinking?

• Women 1 drink per day
• Men 2 drinks per day

What is heavy drinking?

• Women more than 1 drink per day
• Men more than 2 drinks per day

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What is binge drinking?

• Usually 5 or more drinks in a row or in a short
  time
• Solo cup 20 oz. (more than 1.5 beers)

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The Legal Limit

• Against the law if under 21
• In CT 0.08 legal limit
• Equal to approx. 4 drinks in an hour
• Each serving is approx. 0.02
• Metabolize at approx. 0.015/hour

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Performance Consequences

• When consumed during a training period
• - Full recovery is compromised
• - Training optimal performance
• hindered

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Injuries

• Lengthens recovery time due to vasodilation
  impairs recovery
• Counterproductive to reducing inflammation
• Should avoid for 24-36 hours

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Reaction Time

• Hangovers reduce performance by 11
• Reaction time reduced for up to 72 hrs
• Alcohol reduces performance

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Hydration

• Increases urine loss
• Reduces endurance capacity
• Within 4 hrs fluid loss is up to 3 BW
• A 2 decrease in BW 22 decrease in endurance
  performance

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Recovery

• Interferes with muscle recovery
• Diminishes glycogen stores
• Glycogen is body/brain primary fuel
• Carb based sports drink
• (Powerade/Gatorade) used to refuel

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Nutrition

• Alcohol compromises Carbohydrate metabolism
  glycogen storage
• Chronic glycogen depletion is worst enemy
• Drinking hinders proper nutrition
• Alcohol NOT ideal for rehydration
• Training/Competition SHOULD NOT
• consume alcoholic beverages

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Questions?