Marijuana and weightlifting

Is it true that marijuana effect the amount of muscle you build? I’m trying to gain some muscle and one of my friends told me that marijuana could help but I’m a skeptic. So, if anybody here knows if that is true or not, please let me know.

I really don’t know if it really can help you build some muscle, but stay away from the stuff!!! Even if it does, it ain’t worth it!! Studies have shown that marijuana lowers testosterone levels in men and lower sperm counts possibly resulting in difficulty in having children. It is a drug, you can become addicted, and it has ONLY BAD EFFECTS!!

Short term effects are: sleepiness and increased hunger; difficulty keeping track of time; reduced short-term memory; reduced ability to perform tasks requiring concentration and coordination (e.g. driving a car); increased heart rate; potential cardiac dangers for those with preexisting heart disease; bloodshot eyes; dry mouth and throat; paranoia; hallucinations
Long term effects are: enhanced cancer risk; decrease in testosterone levels in men
increase in testosterone levels in women; diminished or extinguished sexual pleasure; increased risk of infertility in both men and women; addiction; death;

dickinson wrote:

decrease in testosterone levels in men increase in testosterone levels in women

I find that kind of strange.............................Can you explain this to me? But isnt marijuana or "weed" only addicting because of the stuff you can add to it, some weed can have little crack rocks on them which can cause addiction.......

What are you talking about this stuff adding to weed? I have never heard about this before and I used to smoke quite a lot!!! Do you live in the USA? I line in Europe, and I don't know about it, only about different ways of smoking it? Who is putting crack in weed , the users or sellers? Have you ever tried it like that? What was it like?

Guys, these last two posts are a bit off this topic, which is marijuana and weightlifting, so I would kindly ask you to move your discussion into another forum with a different title. It could be something like marijuana use or abuse or something!

Thanks guys
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Ok, no worries! Bye

What does marijuana do? It rushes endorphans, similar to the way that food, sex, or running over an extended period of time does. If you have ever heard of runners high, it is an unusually high amount of endorphans that your brain is recieving at one time, which causes both a slight disorientation as well as a runners "second breath." A second breath is when a runner with an ample supply of endorphans at a given time get a rush of energy. This can be seen in runners who get a boost at the end of a race, as compared to say the middle of their race where they were tired and physically drained. So, when you smoke marijuana before you go lift you have dramatically increased the endorphans bieng recieved which gives you both an energy boost as well as a strength boost. It also increases your heart rate for a better aerobic lifting workout, as well as increasing you metabolism and therefore helping shed of unwanted fat.
I have only just recently smoked immediatly before my workout, and believe me when i say my normal weight for a straight bar bicep curl is about 110 lbs for 4 reps. When i did it high using 110 lbs i got 8 reps of isolated no swaying curl and 2 m ore forced reps. then i did much much more bicep work don that day, and my muscles swelled,(got a great pump), like never before. please post some comments b/c i honestly believe this, it works well for me!

Well, I don’t know if that is how marijuana works but I do remember that it had the same effect on me when I was smoking earlier.

I would get these crazy ideas on running and would actually enjoy it. I also went to my aerobic class once high on weed. It was great! I could do everything and it was fun!

Anyway, I don’t enjoy it anymore as it started to trip me and I even sometimes have those paranoid episodes, so I don’t use it any more.

I used to know a lot of guys that would smoke weed aftr they worked out to help calm themselves down. These people were real athletes and you never would have known that they did this drug.

Another reason was so that by the time they were home from the gym they were hungry and could eat more of all that bodybuilder meals.

Hmmm, I'm not sure it's a smart idea to smoke weed after hard work. Mainly because your lungs absorb as much oxygen they can and smoke generally destroys lungs.