How To Offset The Negative Effects Of A Stag Weekend
I’m off on a friend’s stag weekend this weekend, something that I am both looking forward to immensely, but am also a little anxious about as well. Although I’m not the stag, so should have no reason to feel anxious, I am still feeling anxious, though this is because I am slightly worried about how drunk we will all get over the course of the weekend. Clearly going to gym and eating well in an attempt to build a strong, lean physique is somewhat juxtaposed to going on an all-weekend long bender with 20 of your friends, who will no doubt all regress back to their university behaviour – childish, immature, but hilarious – despite all of us pushing 30 years of age!
So this is what’s causing my angst – do I just say to hell with it and have a good time, or should I practice some restraint and accept that I will most likely not do to much harm if I limit myself to “just a few pints” each night? The sensible part of my brain, the part that pays bills on time, makes the bed and checks the oil in my car once in a while says that I should practice restraint. The slightly immature, not wanting to grow up and be responsible part says that I should just have a big blowout, forget about the diet and training for the weekend and just relax with my old friends, as it’s not that often that we get together as a big group anymore.
Through all of this, I can’t help but think there must be a way to have your cake and eat it, although in this case, it’s more have a skinful and not ruin your body and put on any weight! Perhaps I can do a bunch of exercise on the Saturday and Sunday morning to offset the effects of tonight and Saturday? Maybe a high intensity interval training session, followed by some weight training and some sit ups will do the trick as far as exercise goes, but then to offset the calories from the booze, maybe I’ll just have a few protein shakes for my food all day. I know we’re going for a game of five-a-side football so that should help to burn off the previous nights’ excesses!
3 Responses to “How To Offset The Negative Effects Of A Stag Weekend”
June 15th, 2009 saat: 9:34 pm
I couldn’t agree more! I have just returned from a stag weekend and we are all in our 30’s. We were I have to say, Pathetic! Moaning about hangovers and being tired!
I run a Personal Trainer business which will give me a head start just by working out a bit with clients but working off this stag will take a great deal more. Thanks for the post.
June 16th, 2009 saat: 9:04 am
Ha ha ha ha - what a load of codswallop!! I didn’t see you doing any press ups or hiit on Saturday or Sunday?! I think for these kind of events the only thing to do is go with the flow and accept that you’re going to eat rubbish and drink tonnes of empty calories. One bad weekend won’t hurt you too much - although I still feel not quite right two days on. The one saving grace is these kind of nights are rare, whereas they used to be a few times a week at uni.
June 16th, 2009 saat: 10:33 am
Unfortunately I had a stomach bug or food poisoning on the Friday night which meant I ended up waking up in the middle of the night and puking up everywhere! This meant I felt a bit too rough on the Saturday to do any exercise, except for the footy though I wasn’t exactly that spritely during that!
Being a PT will help as you’ll run off lots of the excesses with your clients. I found the gym yesterday very useful, though I couldn’t stomach doing any cardio, so will have to go for some interval training tonight!
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