I blazed all the way through four years of high school football. It didn't make me the least bit slower and I was always rip roaring and ready to go for practice.

What you should avoid like the plague the night before practice or a game is booze. Even if I didn't get drunk, perhaps just a forty oz, got a full nights sleep, had school all day feeling fine, then as soon as I cranked it in practice afterward I would feel it in my muscles slowing me down.

And to be avoided even more vehemently is cigarettes, you'll be sitting on the bench in no time if you start smoking those everyday