Let's Talk Supplements, Fitness, Weight loss, and muscle building related Options

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So let's share supplement knowledge for a bit.

I take a multivitamin, 1 gram of fish oil, and 1 gram of vit C spread out over the day every day.

I also obviously use whey protein and all that jazz, but that's not very interesting but I really enjoy AES but love the flavor of muscle milk

I hit a creatine cycle every few months, most recently I did MetRx Amped and loved it, but i've also done NOxplode and Cytosport Fast twitch, with varied results.

I am going to try a few samples of Black Powder by MRI for my next 3 weight work outs, and looking forward to the experiment.

What do you take?

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I just started working out again recently, but I'm not sure if the goals that you have in mind are what my goals are. 5'8", 150lb. I'm not looking to get jacked and bench 1.5x my body weight or anything like that, just put on a little bit more muscle and get my body fat down to 10%. That said, I take a multi, some fish oil, and glucosamine. I do whey protein, drinking the Optimum Nutrition 100% whey in the mornings. When first I started to work out, I was terribly sore and drank it every morning, and now I've gotten used to the workout routine and drink it when I feel like I need it, so maybe a couple times a week. Also when I picked up the exercise again, I was drinking the Optimum Nutrition casein protein before bed, but now it's only a couple times a week after a hard workout. Started to take creatine again, 5g a day, didn't do loading or anything. Only been exercising regularly for a month now, and don't know anything about cycling or what not.

As far as L-Glutamine, my friend takes it and says it works, but I've never taken it alone. Those Optimum Nutrition proteins have X grams of BCAA's and X grams of Glutamine and precursors, so I guess I get it that way, sparingly.

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I just started working out again recently, but I'm not sure if the goals that you have in mind are what my goals are. 5'8", 150lb. I'm not looking to get jacked and bench 1.5x my body weight or anything like that, just put on a little bit more muscle and get my body fat down to 10%. That said, I take a multi, some fish oil, and glucosamine. I do whey protein, drinking the Optimum Nutrition 100% whey in the mornings. When first I started to work out, I was terribly sore and drank it every morning, and now I've gotten used to the workout routine and drink it when I feel like I need it, so maybe a couple times a week. Also when I picked up the exercise again, I was drinking the Optimum Nutrition casein protein before bed, but now it's only a couple times a week after a hard workout. Started to take creatine again, 5g a day, didn't do loading or anything. Only been exercising regularly for a month now, and don't know anything about cycling or what not.

As far as L-Glutamine, my friend takes it and says it works, but I've never taken it alone. Those Optimum Nutrition proteins have X grams of BCAA's and X grams of Glutamine and precursors, so I guess I get it that way, sparingly.

I've had some experience with different kinds of creatine, which you might want to give a shot to. Apparently all creatines aren't created equal, but you would have to do some research to find out what the good ones are.

My basis for this statement is that for awhile when I stopped drinking NOXplode, I was taking a nitrix oxide accelerator (I think that's the correct term?) by itself and creatine monohydrate by itself, both generic GNC brand. I was trying to avoid the caffine.

Anyways, the result was I gained _WAY_ more water weight with the plain-jane creatine monohydrate than I ever did whilst on the NOXplode. I never did any BMI's while swapping around, but it sure didn't feel like any weight gain I had on NOXplode was water weight. It didn't look like it either.

I started talking to some of the other guys at the gym, and based on what some of these guys (some of whom have been lifting for years and years, and they are all natural lifters) said, they pretty well have a supplement routine that is exactly what NOXplode, black powder, etc are but minus the caffine.

Every one of these guys said that the regular generic brands of creatine monohydrate made them bloaty, even though their recovery time was way way way way less (as is the whole point of creatine)

My point is, you might try finding a brand of creatine that isn't known to make you "bloaty" I'll do some research on it and let you know what I find as I'm interested in this too