Will recreational drugs effect my physical fitness?
If your intent is to gain a physically fit and healthy body, and you are using recreational drugs, whether they be marijuana, ecstasy or anything else, using those drugs will absolutely diminish the results that you get from your exercise program, there's no doubt. For one, introducing un-needed chemicals of any kind into your body that aren't needed toxifies your body, and it makes it work overtime to help process those chemicals. Therefore, if you only have so much energy in your body in 24 hours, and it has to expend a lot of its energy to process the drugs that you put into it, it's not going to expend its energy growing, developing muscles, and making you a better athlete; it just won't happen. Also, if it makes you tired, lazy, or incoherent and your balance is off, you're not going to be able to do the exercises appropriately, especially if you're doing, for example, speed, agility, and quickness drills for your athletic game of choice. You have to stay away from that stuff if you have any intent on getting very fit and healthy.
