The word supplement means to "complete something or make up
for a deficiency."  I want you to go back and read that again -
and again, and then I want you to remember it.

The problem with supplements today is that a lot of people have
come to think of them as a primary source for vitamins and
nutrients and even go so far as to believe the claims that they
are going to be a magic bullet that helps them reach their muscle
and strength goals.

What's much more important than supplements is eating whole
foods, your workouts, how you help your body recover. 

Supplements aren't going to be effective until you're already 90%
of the way there.  Bottom line without proper foundation supplements
won't help you much.

For those that are looking for that edge, here's what I recommend.

1-     Protein:  This is the staple of the muscle building diet and is
the only source of nutrition that has the building blocks - amino acids
- to actually build muscle.  The more intensely you train, and the
more you weigh, the more protein you'll need to maintain your muscle
mass or add to it.

2-    Multi-Vitamins:  Just make sure they come from whole foods
and aren't synthetic.

3-    Kre-Alkayn Creatine:  Creatine Monohydrate has been proven
through a decade of research to enahance strength, endurance, and
subsequent athletic performance.  The only disadvantage of traditional
creatine is the short-term stability and the rapid conversion into the
bi-product Creatinine when exposed to liquid.

Kre-Alkalyn which is buffered for maximum absorption and stability
allowing the athlete to take far less of the product while experiencing
greater results.  Kre-Alkalyn is a great pick for strength and muscle.

This list may not be super sexy but it gets the job done if you're on a
tight budget or only want a bare boned supplement shopping list.

 

Keep training hard,

 

Mike Westerdal

CriticalBench.com

 

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