Is Exercising Post Alcohol Consumption Advisable?

Posted on Wed, 4 Jan 2017

Question: Is it better to workout or not workout the following day if you've had three glasses of wine with dinner the night before. I'm a 64 y/o make was successfully cardioinverted on XXXXXXX 3, 2016; have had no subsequent afib symptoms and I've taking Multaq, beta-blocker and Xyrelto.

Answered by Dr. Ilir Sharka (17 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
I would not recommend working out after alcohol intake.

Detailed Answer:
Hello!

Welcome and thank you for asking on HCM!

Regarding your concern, I would explain that alcohol intake can trigger cardiac arrhythmia. This is also called " Holiday heart syndrome".

From the other hand workout ( physical activity) can increase heart rate and even trigger cardiac arrhythmia in susceptible persons.

So I would not recommend working out the day after drinking alcohol, because you may trigger cardiac arrhythmia.

Hope to have been helpful!

Kind regards,

Dr.Iliri

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar