[itsagavin]

Marijuana was pivotal to me being able to live a life of daily exercise. I dropped 140lbs and run a daily 8k on trails from being extremely obese in the span of 2 years. If it is legal for you to try it I highly recommend it for its ability to help you push through mental blocks and it's appreciable aid in recovery.

[pengaru]

Hilarious, marijuana is the one thing that reliably disrupts my otherwise quite consistent and healthy daily routine.

It is my motivation's kryptonite, and has basically zero place in my life as a result.

[BobbyJo]

Alcohol is my kryptonite. Even as little as one or two beers the night before and I find my performance suffers horribly. Marijuana not so much. A few puffs before dinner and I wake up feeling great.

[majkinetor]

This is hardly something you recommend to anybody. If it works for you great, but for most people it could even be dangerous:

1. Marijuana promotes appetite (munchees is the name). Canabinoid receptor antagonist promotes anorexy. This might depend greatly on the marijuana strain (CBD vs THC vs ...)

2. Your state of the mind is different, you might even got hit by the car.

If you talk about doing it after exercise, then its a different thing.

[3131s]

You have no clue how many professional athletes use marijuana! It is not dangerous in the slightest. I would go as far as saying it is performance enhancing even.

I am injured at the moment, but I can go run a sub 11s 100m for you right now, right after smoking.

[majkinetor]

Interestimg. Thx for sharing.

Dangerous not for health but due to less noticing environment, probably something irrelevant for pro atlets which have dedicated working spaces

[zaptheimpaler]

He didn’t recommend it, just talked about his own experience. i’d rather hear openly from personal experiences and make up my own mind rather than policing speech because it could be “dangerous”

[GreenWatermelon]

GP explicitly recommended it. I quote: "If it's legal for you to try it I highly recommended it..."

[klyrs]

This is a fairly unpopular opinion but I've experienced some benefit from smoking weed before a run, too. I find running to be extremely tedious, but if I'm stoned, it's fine. Kinda helped that my running partner had a low alcohol tolerance and would slug a beer before our runs.

A couple of points to consider. First, CBD and alcohol are painkillers -- I don't like using anti-inflammatories during exercise for fear of overdoing it -- that's an issue here. Second, drugs make you stupid -- don't be a stupid in traffic, y'all.

[bonestamp2]

What was your cannabis regimen? Smoke, edibles, what strain, how much, how often?

[mckirk]

Honestly, I love the fact that we live in an age where this is simultaneously a very good question and also quite hilarious.

[adwi]

Very interesting.

I’ve dabbled pre-workout, and while it does help empty out my brain while I’m there, it also zaps my motivation and I end up quitting early or missing a few of the harder reps. And if I wasn’t already laced up and out the door for the gym, no way I’d still follow through after I vaped.

Recovery makes a lot of sense and that was part of the routine for later workouts, but didn’t exactly do wonders for my nutritional choices ;)

Btw, anyone who is considering dabbling, I’d, uh, highly recommend looking into the Pax Era cartridge system. No mess, gross paraphernalia, smell, safe high quality product, etc.

[disposekinetics]

Could you elaborate on how it helps? This is so far outside what I know I don't even know what to ask more specifically.

[itsagavin]

By far the biggest help is how much easier it is to reach the zone. It is crazy how easy exercise is when you are lost in deep thought.

[dilyevsky]

Don’t do this - it will trash your sleep and consequently recovery as well motivation to get out of bed the next morning.

[JPKab]

How do you consume the weed for your runs and exercise in general? Edibles, smoke, or vaping?

Just wondering.

[itsagavin]

To clarify preworkout I use .15-.2 of a gram of extract smoked out of a quartz nail and water pipe. I use a similar amount in the evening. I no longer combust any flower and breath much easier because of it. I did use RSO an edible concentrate on the begining to get through the pain in the evening I was eating 150mg-200mg thc in a gelcap in the evening. Vape cartridges are an option but I've never found one I liked. It's fair to not I have a very high tolerance and most people would not know I was under the influence, most people could use far less.

[rriepe]

For the uninitiated: .2g of extract has as much THC as a typical full-sized 1g joint.

[JPKab]

Yeah dude knows how to party.

[pbrb]

150mg-200mg thc would put me in the hospital. 20mg is my max, don't get off the couch and play video games for 4hrs dose. Dude has insane tolerance.

[JPKab]

Okay that's actually a pretty large quantity compared to what I consume and I don't want to imply any form of judgment.

I found that a vape pen with oil is okay but my favorite form is 10 mg edible before a workout. I particularly love it for trail runs and for weight lifting.

When I try the concentrate I found that it tended to irritate my lungs. Plus the additional potency of the edibles due to how THC breaks down in the digestive system is nice.

[rangibaby]

Arnold Schwarzenegger smoked weed for recovery in “Pumping Iron”