What's everyone take for supplements? Vitamins, Pre-workout, Recovery, Protein?

mandykent111 wrote: »

Must all protein powders taste terrible? I have tried mixing with water, almond milk, regular milk and still tastes bad. Any recommendations on a protein powder. I am tired of wasting all my money on junk.

When I got back into lifting I dug out some protein powder from 20 years ago (still fine) and remember how chalky and horrible it tasted. I got a few samples of Quest vanilla and love it. If the taste still bothers you add some fruit and flavoring as needed.

I'm heavily biased working in pharma, but note that most supplements are not FDA regulated (considering the lack of potential harm to individuals), but many pharma companies operate a "nutritional" side of the company, which utilizes many of the same structured and regulated environments, so they still go through a good deal of testing prior to release - despite lack of regulation.

Has anyone tried the muscle pharm cookies and cream protein, is it too sweet? I would like something that I can mix in with my recovery, but not sure how that one would taste.

I take nothing. Seriously, I'd go broke if I took as many supplements as some of y'all do.

whmscll wrote: »

I take nothing. Seriously, I'd go broke if I took as many supplements as some of y'all do.

Buying this stuff has left me short on cash on more than one occasion..

skiclimbdive wrote: »

To quote the editors of the Annals of Internal Medicine,

"Although available evidence does not rule out small benefits or harms or large benefits or harms in a small subgroup of the population, we believe that the case is closed— supplementing the diet of well-nourished adults with (most) mineral or vitamin supplements has no clear benefit and might even be harmful. These vitamins should not be used for chronic disease prevention. Enough is enough."

http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1789253
https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/more-evidence-that-routine-multivitamin-use-should-be-avoided/

The bolded part of that statement is completely false (barring multivitamin abuse by a consumer). A quality, well-sourced multivitamin with adequate vitamins & minerals can help to cover gaps in nutrition.

There can be issues with dosage in some cases. For instance, I make sure to watch my intake (in supplement form) of Vit A, E, Folic Acid, Selenium, etc. which can be harmful if you take too much.

http://www.aor.ca/assets/Research/pdf/fall_2005_article1.pdf

Quadralean. It works great for me.

martyqueen52 wrote: »

You really don't NEED anything.

If I were to reccommend you anything, it would be'

-Multivitamin
-green tea pills (doctor recommended to me after I had mono, I never get sick anymore)
-Fish oil
-Pre-workout with creatine in it, such as Citadel Nutrition Tier 1

Anything else is not needed unless under instruction of a doctor. You really don't even need what I listed, but, it helps.

My brother ruptured his achilles last year. Hi orthopod blamed it on on his creatine use. He later got diagnosed with CKD as well, guess what - they blamed it on creatine use as well!

I've gotten hooked on working out in the last year. It started with losing 25 pounds with the help of Liporidex MAX which I learned about here. I followed one of their diet/exercise plans and got bit by the workout bug. A little update to my regimen, I've added fish oil, Vit D, Astaxanthin, Vit C and brewers yeast (during flu season).

One thing is for certain, we all respond to things differently. I'm going to try GT in addition to Vit C. and brewers yeast for cold prevention/abatement of symptoms.

ninerbuff wrote: »

mandykent111 wrote: »

martyqueen52 wrote: »

You really don't NEED anything.

If I were to reccommend you anything, it would be'

-Multivitamin
-green tea pills (doctor recommended to me after I had mono, I never get sick anymore)
-Fish oil
-Pre-workout with creatine in it, such as Citadel Nutrition Tier 1

Anything else is not needed unless under instruction of a doctor. You really don't even need what I listed, but, it helps.

My brother ruptured his achilles last year. Hi orthopod blamed it on on his creatine use. He later got diagnosed with CKD as well, guess what - they blamed it on creatine use as well!

I've gotten hooked on working out in the last year. It started with losing 25 pounds with the help of Liporidex MAX which I learned about here. I followed one of their diet/exercise plans and got bit by the workout bug. A little update to my regimen, I've added fish oil, Vit D, Astaxanthin, Vit C and brewers yeast (during flu season).

One thing is for certain, we all respond to things differently. I'm going to try GT in addition to Vit C. and brewers yeast for cold prevention/abatement of symptoms.

Zombie resurrection thread. But if you just did the diet plan alone, you probably would have lost the 25lbs without Liporidex. Supplements seem to create a good placebo effect on many, especially those who need to believe that it's the supplements and not their actions that are cause of their weight loss/health increase.

A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
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Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

Perhaps. However, I've tried to lose weight many times before, and have been unable to keep it off. I think a big part of it is that I'm exercising regularly now. Fitness has become a part of my lifestyle now. I'm grateful to have many friends to exercise with. We motivate and inspire each other daily. Again, you may say its just placebo, but when I use their PRE/T preworkout, I'm able to have a much better workout than without. It's not just caffeine either - I stopped drinking caffeine actually after starting using my favorite supplements. I would get neck spasms, headaches and blepharospasms when I drank caffeine (even though I needed the energy). On 2 caps of MAX or 1.5 scoops of PRE, I juts have energy and focus and a desire to complete my sets. Maybe its in my head, but when I used C4, I just had itchy skin. I even tried one of the fitmiss PREs and felt nothing beyond a bit of caffeine bump.

I agree there's a lot of BS in the fitness world, but I'm happy I found something that works for me. On a side note, I'm surprised that you say that supplements dont work - maybe not for you, but pretty much every single person I know who has or is training to compete in NPC or even WBFF uses at least a fat burner, preworkout, BCAAs, protein and creatine. Way too much for me, but certainly they must know something? Many of them use cellucor products. Maybe you have as well, which is why you think supps are placebos.

I make sure I'm hitting my micronutrients through food but I like to take a few things here and there in small amounts as insurance.

B-Complex (I use the MegaFood brand and cut the tablets into thirds)
Vitamin C (1-2,000mg daily)
Vitamin E (Toco-Sorb by Jarrow Formulas)
Zinc (10mg)
Vitamin D3 (2,000 IU in the winter)
Selenium (a few times a week)
Magnesium (100-200mg topically)

Sometimes I'll take a cycle of funky stuff like Pycnogenol, Astaxanthin, Borage Oil, Ubiquinol.

Onnit supplements are great. Check them out. Pretty pricey but they have everything you need and you can get them sent out in daily vitamin packs along with the rest of the supplements you require