The dangers of exercising after drinking

Although exercise is a very popular activity and is very helpful to physical health, exercise should be carried out in different occasions and conditions, especially people's own conditions are very important for exercise. Among them, many people like to exercise after meals, which can promote gastrointestinal motility, stimulate the gastrointestinal tract to secrete digestive juices, etc. Some people exercise after drinking, which is very detrimental to health. So, what are the dangers of exercising after drinking?

Exercising after drinking alcohol is more likely to cause injury

Even if you don't drink alcohol, you are at risk of injury when exercising. After drinking, the human body will become hot or drunk. If you exercise again at this time, it is easy to have an accident due to the double impact. In addition, excessive drinking may cause drowsiness, which makes it difficult to concentrate during exercise, thereby increasing the risk of injury.

Exercising after drinking alcohol can dehydrate the body

After drinking, the body needs to replenish water to dilute the alcohol in the blood. If you exercise at this time, your body will become dehydrated due to sweating. Dehydration can make people feel more tired and weak, and even cause other discomforts.

Alcohol can affect athletic performance

Nowadays, in some competitions, it is common to see athletes drinking alcohol to quench their thirst or even to boost their courage. Even in some long-distance marathons, beer is provided at some intermediate supply points. Although alcohol can make the human body enter a state of excitement, in fact, after a short period of emotional excitement, the human body will enter a longer period of inhibition, showing phenomena such as slow reaction. In other words, alcohol may affect your subsequent performance. But why is this?

After alcohol enters the human body, it needs to go through a series of metabolism to be consumed, and glucose is required as energy to complete this process. Coincidentally, most of the glucose in the human body is stored in the liver, where it is used to metabolize alcohol. That is to say, the metabolism of alcohol will directly consume glucose in the liver, thereby affecting glucose reserves. As a result, there will be less energy supply during exercise, and people will naturally not be full of energy and may even perform poorly.