Running is gaining popularity now. But how can you run if bad habits, such as smoking or beer in the evenings with friends, are considered the opposite of sports. Let's try to understand this issue.
Can I jog and smoke?
Of course, running is associated with active lung function. And smoking will undoubtedly interfere with running well. However, if your goal is to fulfill a simple TRP standard or just periodically make light jogging to maintain tone, then smoking will not be the stumbling block that will put you before a choice - either smoking or sports. Feel free to do both if it suits you.
On the other hand, smoking in this case is an additional obstacle, therefore, if you want to achieve higher results in running than the usual standards, then you will have to give up cigarettes. Sooner or later, you will still grow to a level where your lungs will resist the introduction of acrid smoke into them. But I repeat, if your goal is to do light jogging once a week or two, and you don’t want to give up smoking, then feel free to combine both.
Alcohol and running
The saying “everything is good in moderation” is appropriate here. As you know, alcohol has a rather detrimental effect on the body. Especially in large quantities. Therefore, you are unlikely to succeed in jogging after a "stormy" night, since the body cannot combine the work of cleansing itself from the effects of drunkenness and running. Without going into the terms, we can safely say that running after drinking alcohol will be very difficult, although it is useful, since the body will then get rid of unnecessary substances even faster.
It's another matter if you rarely drink, as they say, only on holidays. Then you have nothing to fear, since small doses of alcohol are even considered beneficial for the body, especially low alcohol ones. Therefore, they will not create any problems for running.
If you drink regularly, more often than even once a week, then be prepared for the fact that at each run the body will intensively cleanse itself of the effects of alcohol. Therefore, it turns out that you will saw the branch on which you are sitting. That is, first drink, then run from alcohol, and then drink again.
In terms of performance, alcohol in moderation will not make any problems for the bottom line in running. But in large quantities it will harm the body so that it will be much more difficult for you to run.
As a result, we can conclude that running and bad habits can be combined. But you can also safely say that at some point you will still make a choice in favor of one thing. And not the fact that smoking or alcohol will win, since running is even more addictive if you get involved in it.
