{"id":8766,"date":"2019-04-30T12:16:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T12:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com?p=3441877&amp;preview_id=3441877"},"modified":"2019-04-30T12:16:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T12:16:54","slug":"cu-study-pushes-back-on-stoner-stereotype-suggests-80-mix-weed-with-workouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/cu-study-pushes-back-on-stoner-stereotype-suggests-80-mix-weed-with-workouts\/","title":{"rendered":"CU study pushes back on stoner stereotype, suggests 80% mix weed with workouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/cu-study-pushes-back-on-stoner-stereotype-suggests-80-mix-weed-with-workouts\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/cu-study-pushes-back-on-stoner-stereotype-suggests-80-mix-weed-with-workouts.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/04\/30\/marijuana-workouts-university-of-colorado-study\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dp-news-marijuana+%28Denver+Post%3A+News%3A+Marijuana%29&amp;utm_content=Google+UK#comments-anchor\"><span class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"3441877\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Long has the image of the weed smoker \u2014 one glued to the couch, Doritos bag in hand \u2014 sustained in popular culture. Rarely, if ever, does the stereotype include a pair of dumbbells.<\/p>\n<p>A new study to be published Tuesday by the University of Colorado Boulder in Frontiers in Public Health pushes back on that notion, signaling that 80% of weed smokers mix the drug with their workouts. The same study goes as far as suggesting the mixture may be beneficial for some.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a stereotype that cannabis use leads people to be lazy and couch-locked and not physically active, but these data suggest that this is not the case,\u201d said Angela Bryan, the study\u2019s senior author and a professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and the Institute for Cognitive Science.<\/p>\n<p>Of marijuana users surveyed in states where cannabis is legal, eight of 10 say they partake in the drug shortly before or after exercising, with most reporting that it either motivates them to work out or helps them enjoy it more, according to the study, titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fpubh.2019.00099\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Runner\u2019s High? Examining Relationships Between Cannabis Use and Exercise Behavior in States with Legalized Cannabis research<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among the 600 adult marijuana users across California, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon and Washington Bryan and her colleagues surveyed, 82% said they had used cannabis within an hour before or four hours after exercising.<\/p>\n<p>Among those who use cannabis with exercise, 70% said it increased their enjoyment, 78% said it boosted recovery and 52% said it gave them more motivation to work out in the first place. The study also notes that those who combine the two activities got about 43 more minutes of exercise per week than those who didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven that these are all recognized barriers to exercise, it is possible that cannabis might actually serve as a benefit to exercise engagement,\u201d the study reads.<\/p>\n<p>The World Anti-Doping Agency prohibits cannabis use in sporting competitions because of its potential to improve performance, according to a CU Boulder news release sent out in advance of the study\u2019s publication. The study also cites some anecdotal evidence of ultrarunners who sometimes use marijuana to \u201cbattle nausea and boredom on long runs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, according to the same study, only 38% of those who use the drug with exercise say it boosts performance, and some previous studies have suggested it may harm it.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related right\" \/>\n<p>The study also implies that certain cannabinoids can \u201cdampen pain perception\u201d and \u201cinduce an artificial \u2018runner\u2019s high.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Researchers also cite cannabis\u2019 anti-inflammatory properties, implying the drug could be used to aid recovery after workouts.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan stops short of endorsing the drug as a supplement to exercise, saying \u201cthe evidence is not there yet. But I am also not convinced it is harmful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The study has its limitations; researches concede they did not look at which kind of cannabis (edibles, smoked flower, etc.) people use alongside exercise, and the study only gauged those who use cannabis regularly and in states in which it is already legalized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>Long has the image of the weed smoker \u2013 one glued to the couch, Doritos bag in hand \u2013 sustained popular culture. Rarely, if ever, does the stereotype include a pair of dumbbells. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52,6811,6098,6813,77,5667,9,5019,1777,1778,1,3,881,61,1736],"tags":[2632,6816,6108,6818,2655,5673,5022,4345,4346,3454],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}