Don’t go get ripped before doing your reps

In the same mind-set of someone pausing for a cigarette between workout routines, some drinkers also like to mix their habits.

“You’d be surprised how many guys, after a night of drinking, want to come in and lift weights,” complained an instructor at a Chicago health facility.

Not a good idea, of course, because weights of any significance have a tendency to go downward very fast if not supported properly.

Someone gassed up on a 12-pack or a few martinis won’t have quite the steady hand you’d look for with heavy objects swaying perilously overhead.

The instructor said the receptionist tries to head off guys who come in blowing fumes. Otherwise, he said, security will be called.