I'm really not understanding your argument. Drinking alcohol makes recovery slower. It impacts on conditioning.
But you're arguing for it?
I'm literally saying that if a professional footballer doesn't drink he or she will be physically better than if they did.
The point is that the positives and negatives of alcohol are clear. It’s not an argument.
But as I said, timing, moderation, type of alcohol will all be managed by the player and the clubs medical staff.
However, there are a lot of other variables that can also impact recovery which will also be individual to each player but can have as much or more of an impact on the individual.
A player that doesn’t drink but is also vegan will most certainly have to manage their recovery more, will either have to supplement their diet or they will accept that their recovery will be longer. I’ve seen if in triathlon.
Affecting recovery time is also very different to affecting performance. I’ve trained in the alps on training camps, done it some years with booze, some with no booze at nights. My performance each day was better when I was boozing at night (approx 5 pints per night, mix of lager or wine equivalent). The HR stats were higher, but effort and times were also higher. Again, positives and negatives of alcohol are clear. So I guess you understand that.
I’m not arguing, I’m filling some gaps which seem apparent and also asking some questions on the terminology used, which you didn’t clarify, but that’s ok.
I will dispute the statement that Hamer doesn’t contribute to late goals because he drinks alcohol or he would be a premier league player if he didn’t drink. That’s clearly impossible to measure and certainly needs a little more than baseless speculation because he drinks wine and buys shots. There are players at the top level that drink and drink regularly.
