Smoking weed in no way affects the amount of muscle you gain or lose, HOWEVER, that doesnt mean it cannot be used to help you get hungry and eat or be a lazy fattie. WARNING PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AHEAD: lol i smoke weed twice daily, run everyday, do mma, lift weights, and i work a job that requires alot of physical activity. Now that i juice in reasonable amounts, i find myself not wanting to eat or just plain not hungry. Marijuana helps me eat and helps take the edge off a long day of working and working out. When i wasnt eating particularly healthy or working out it made me a lazy fat ass who did nothing all day lol. Also there are many different types of marijuana including those rich in thca and cbn/cbd. So for them Step 1: find a strain that is how in healthy organic compounds and is grown organically step 2: watch what you consume on marijuana step 3: force yourself to workout unless injured. DO NOT let marijuana be a drug that controls your life, rather a tool you can use to make it better, just like Juicing. If youre interested i also have some good studies and links to forums about the positive aspects of using cbn/cbd spupplements and some of the positive aspects of using actual marijuana itself

On cycle now, getting good gains and I smoke alot. 3 plus times a day. I feel my biggest issue is motivation, it's hard to get baked all day then hit the gym hard. I would recommend trying to get these guys to workout in the morning and smoke as like a treat for when their done. I've been doing this and it's helped a great deal with beasting out in the gym.

I like smoking before I workout but only on the occasion... I also vaporize it. I particularly like smoking before LISS type cardio, keeps the mind distracted I guess so to speak and makes the music more enjoyable. I notice a slight strength decline when I lift afterwards but endurance usually goes up... unsure the reason. My favorite way to use it though is for post workout stertching

it reduces inflammation but also ups the risk for infection from what ive read about it. to each their own tho.

Nothing better than a j before the hot tub after a hard work out i dont think it affects it on cycle or not just kills motivation and maybe makes it a lil harder to wake up but physically It's fine I think

Arnolds puffin a joint at the end of pumping iron

Not before training

Make something up man. Your already setting a great example by getting them in the gym, there are undeniably positives and negatives to smoking but either way the bottom line is there cardiovascular system will simply preform better if they don't.

Didn't know that. Thought it would mess it up.

An your still seeing results. Smoking doesn't fuck u up when gearing? It would seem like it would.

Are any of you guys running a aas at all?

I just got really lazy I remember after working out it was fun to do once I'd made all my post workout meals cuz I was to lazy to make myself anything once I'd smoked lol:)(I found it really counterproductive for the most part and haven't done it in a year).

damn son, i aint never smoked no weed good enough that i smoke at night and am still high in the morning. I too have my medical card, and have had it for 4 years now. let me know where your gettin that killer killer from, bro. Also you breath better because marijuana is a bronchodilator, like clenbuterol, albuterol, and ephedra. you wouldnt think so, but it is, so it can have the same type of effects as these things.

i used to smoke sativa before my workouts and had some killer workouts. if they eat more and dont eat like shit, it could be beneficial, but its doesnt really have any effect in itself on gaining weight or muscle. also, depending on your brain chemistry weed can help you focus better, i used to get high as fuck and go do cardio for 3 hours straight until i wasnt high anymore and hungry as fuck

daily smoker here. Typically a before bed routine for me but have done it preworkout once and it was a damn good workout. I tend to hyper focus on the task at hand. That said don't blast a couple bowls of Indica and think you should work out. Just a lil bit to get the feeling and roll. Post workout smoke it up and get those cals. Prebed also works well if you are like me and some nights I work out late, had a preworkout stimulant and need to rest. Oh should we mention the importance of rest? Blast out and sleep like a rock and repair as needed.

There 2 diffrent kinds of weed that all the strains stem from. Indica and sativa. Indica will induce the sleepy, heavy, stoned feeling within the body. I would not recomend smoking these kinds of bud strains before a work out. Sativa on the other hand is more in the head and will give you an up n go type of high, and you also a lot more social. On really strong sativas it almost feels like your body is super light and buzzing. This would be a better choice if you were to smoke before the gym. They both give you the mad munchies though, and you will crash after you have destroyed your refrigerator. Id rather smoke sativas during the day, and indicas at night. Here in CALI were are truly blessed with the dankest bud on earth.

bro,i smoke everyday,all it does for me is make eating a whole lot easier,and more fun.i wouldnt be smoking before the workout.but after its on.

I've heard that weed increases estrogen, causes gyno, etc.

Can anyone validate this?

http://www.musculardevelopment.com/articles/chemical-enhancement/1501-an...

here is bill's 2 cents. read this today randomly and thought of this thread.. here ya go bud

Im also a daily smoker! Helps me eat more, and after work out nice muscle relaxant.........

I heard something about weed can increase estrogen levels, but it doesn't raise estrogen levels to a significant amount and there's not a lot of evidence to back that up so I'm not 100% sure on it.

sup massive hommie? I'm a daily smoker and still a part of this game. more bodybuilders than you would imagine are regular smokers... you just have to counteract the side's of smoking .

counteract lethargy = coffee/pre-workout drinks (i actually enjoy a good high with energy from caffeine... why do you think they sell weed and energy drinks in amsterdam "coffeeshops" lol)

counteract hunger = well, this is actually a good thing, i am just sure to make sure my calories are clean

other sides? oh wait, there are none... because weed is a harmless fucking "drug"

Ahhh I'm about 5 wks out from harvest!!!!! It's been a blessed year. I finally feel like I'm in full control of my craft. Gotta love being legal! I'll test out this theory and get back to u later:-)

Weed won't affect your gains if your diet is on point and youre training hard. What it might do tho is make you crave sugar and lack ambition to train, which will hurt you BF% in the long run, but as far as affecting gains, if you do everything else good, you'll be fine bro, I talked of experience here, lots ... ! ;)

It lowers testosterone levels and its estrogenic.
Smokers are not getting as much O2 as non smokers so that affects it too.