Steming off from the sex thread, what real effects does alcohol have on your performance leading up to a fight? Apart from giving you a mad hangover and possibly making you skip training the next day, does it have a great effect on your overall training?
Is it ok to drink 6 weeks. 4 weeks or even 2 weeks out? When should you stop drinking all together? Just wondering how if it affects fitness and if so just how bad.

A warrior's life (to a realistic degree) is training everyday fight or no fight.

Every cell in your body is replaced and built by what you eat (drink, smoke, breath,absorb through skin etc)...

A continuous overall life style that is healthy and moving towards healthier constantly builds the body to run more efficiently, be stronger, react faster, repair more quickly etc

A warrior is ever seeking to gain new heights and levels and every day, fight scheduled or not, takes him closer to his potential or farther away.

You "shouldn't" (I don't believe in shoulding on people) drink as far away from a fight as you can without the not drinking being really stressful being.

Booze (usually drunk more in evening) will work to spike insulin like sugar (better to drink earlier and eat lots of fat and protein with it). This keeps day time stress hormones (like cortisol) high and makes the transition into night time (recovery) hormones (like melatonin) slow and poorly done. Basically that means even IF you feel like you sleep well you are not getting much recovery and repair.

That is just one aspect...

Better of smoking a joint from a health perspective...

Course that just my opinion...too much money and politics for it to be a clear cut issue... booze is huge coin, as is fighting the drug war... with big bad bud at the top of the list... but if your immune system is fucked and your health is bad it can help you... if your healthy its really bad though. lol