Not All Weight Gain Supplements Are Created
Equal
I have heard people say recently that "protein
is protein", and that it doesn't matter where
you get your calories from as long as you get
your calories. Usually the people who i hear say
this are making sub-optimal gains in their muscle
building goals, and are wasting much more time
in the gym than they think.
Think Quality Weight Gain Supplements
Anyone serious about gaining lean muscle and
lifting heavier weights in the gym should have
a good and solid training plan that they adhere
to religiously. The same should also be true about
their nutrition plan. One critical component of
an athlete's nutrition plan is their supplement
plan, and it needs to be as comprehensive and
easy as follow as possible to help them produce
real gains.
If this is such an important aspect
of a gym rat's overall muscle building plan, why
is it not taken as seriously as it should be?
I know that when i was younger, I would buy what
was on sale, just to try and fill in some undefined
"holes" in my supplement program. I
also thought getting an extra value meal at McDonald's
was the best way to get extra calories when i
was trying to bulk up.
Most lifters are not educated on nutrition and
supplementation even though it arguably accounts
for 80% of your gains in and out of the gym. When
it comes to food, the better the quality of food
you can get, the healthier you will be. The same
rings true for your weight gain supplements, the
better the quality, the more muscle gains you
will make.
Don't Just Buy on Price
I used to be one of the cheapest supplement buyers
there was, and i thought that I didn't have an
option, because i was a poor high school or poor
college student, trying to stay fit and get the
supplements i needed to get bigger. Now i think
about things in a completely different way. After
finding out ways that i could get my supplements
for free, or even how to get paid from using and
recommending really high quality weight gain supplements,
my whole outlook on training and supplements changed.
I don't want to go off on a tangent on money here,
so I will just tell you that price should never
be the leading decision maker for what supplements
you take.
Some supplements are cheap for a reason, and
you get what you pay for. Most weight gain supplements
fall into the protein, amino acid, and naturally
occurring organic food derivative categories.
The way that these supplements are made and processed
can change the way that your body reacts or absorbs
them, so it is critically important that the supplements
you buy and consume are processed in a way that
doesn't degrade the product. If the product is
processed in a way that has degraded the muscle
supplement, then your body will absorb less of
it, and you will be flushing your money down the
drain... quite literally.
The saying in nutrition used to be "you
are what you eat", but now it's more accurately
"you are what you absorb". If you buy
a hydrolyzed or predigested protein, then you
should check to make sure it has undergone an
enzymatic pre-digestion process and not a heat
based process.
You can probably already imagine how difficult
it can be to pick out what the really high quality
products are that are out there on the market.
Don't worry though, by standing on the shoulders
of giants, well, looking over their shoulders
at least, we can learn what we need about our
weight gain supplements.
Trust the Experts With Nothing To Gain
If I were to tell you just to "trust the
experts" I may be leading you astray. The
reason for that would be that there are many experts
who have financial motives backing their "expert"
opinions. So the real advise I have to give you
is to listen to the experts who endorse a product
on it's merit, not on how much they get paid.
Look to any communities you can find of weight
training or athletic enthusiasts and find the
guys who really know there stuff.
For me, this
was my strength trainer in college, he was brilliant,
and now could probably get a lot of money to say
one product or another is good, but at the time
he just knew what worked and was happy to share.
You can also look for unpaid endorsers of a product
because that shows a certainty in a products quality
that is not motivated by money.
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