Friday, June 28, 2013

What Should You Take Alongside Whey Protein To Build More Muscle?

By Howe Russ


If you don't know how to build muscle but you'd like to learn the basics, the world of supplements is one area which should be tackled quite early in your fitness journey. That's because learning which supplements to take is an often expensive habit which most people put down to little more than trial and error.

If you don't want to be wasting your hard earned money on items with a silly trial and error approach, you need to take a little bit of time to learn the basics of supplementation and nutrition. What works well with a whey protein? If you are to believe everything you read on the new products you'll see in stores each day you'd be taking countless pills and powders.

Today you are going to discover which products work well alongside whey in a good muscle building diet.

While every new item to go on sale in the health and fitness or nutrition industry will happily tell you that it is the greatest invention since the gym itself, the fact is more and more products are being released which have no actual scientific proof behind them to back up their claims. The things on today's list are established and proven.

1. The Monohydrate form of Creatine.

2. Glutamine, one of the amino acids, to increase recovery.

3. Branched Chain Amino Acids.

If you were able to increase your body's ability to perform high intensity, explosive activities would you do it? That's exactly what products such as Creatine are designed to help you do. That's right, despite the huge hype and many myths surrounding this substance, that is literally the bottom line of what it is designed to help you achieve.

Sprinters were the first athletes to use this product and if you think about it, it's quite easy to see why this is the case. If you were able to run faster for slightly longer period there is a good chance you will be able to achieve a new personal best time in a big race. Now put this into a gym context. What would be the possibilities if you were able to perform an explosive moving, such as lifting a weight on a bench press, for slightly longer?

That basically sums up the effects this product is designed to have, but the tough part for most people is separating the many different forms and deciding which one is the best. The easy way to do this is to look at the science. While newer formulas such as ethyl-ester and kre-alkalyn certainly have positive advantages to them, the oldest form of creatine remains the king when it comes to concrete proof. Monohydrate is not only the most scientifically backed but it is also the cheapest due to the fact that it has now been on the market for over twenty years. Take advantage of this rather than seeing it as a negative.

While there are many products out there which claim to help you gain more size and get you pumped up more than ever before, you should also pay particular attention to those which are built upon enhancing your post-workout nutrition. Glutamine is perfect during this recovery phase.

Most people know this product for it's benefits to the immune system but there are also other notable gains to be made. By improving your resistance to minor colds, which you will be susceptible to if you are training hard on a regular basis anyway, will mean you miss fewer sessions and you hit each workout with maximum potential. However, it will also work behind the scenes to ramp up your production of growth hormone which, naturally, will help you to increase results even further.

You may be wondering why BCAA's are considered to be one of the most important aspects of a bodybuilding routine. After all, your whey protein shake already provides you with a good amount of these. However, studies show that by complimenting your current intake with a dedicated BCAA product you can turn up protein synthesis to another level.

For most people the gym is the easy part and they find the scientific nutritional information far more difficult to navigate through. If this was previously you, you're now in a far more comfortable position from which to decide which supplements to take in order to build a more muscular body.




About the Author:



No comments:

Post a Comment