weight lifting supplements, what do you take? Options

[Seeker]

What do you take? How much and when?

I take:

1. Ultimate Nutrition's whey isolate protein powder.
2. Some BCAAs (branched chain amino acids) from Optimum Nutrition pre/post workout for muscle recovery.
3. L-Glutamine for muscle recovery.

I've seen some amazing gains in the past few weeks just using these plain jane supplements. I try to avoid all the fancy flavored shit with additives like no-xplode, xceed, etc.

I might however try out some creatine in a few weeks.

[Dogmeat]

The only "suppliments" I take are nutritional ones. ... Multivitamin, flax seed pills, psyllium seed husk (fiber) and this shit called Ginko Biloba which is supposed to increase blood flow to your brain ...

I don't take, nor have I ever taken anything that is supposed to aid in muscle building or muscle recovery or anything like that, other than I eat a metrx protein bar immediatley after I get done lifting.

I used to take this stuff called "GNC Thermo Burst" ... it was one of those so-called 'thermogenic weight loss pills', but really all it was was an expensive caffine pill....but I stopped taking those altogether a few months ago. I tried Hydroxy cut like 5 years ago when it still had ephedra in it and it made me feel like I was gonna have a heart attack whenever I'd owrk out ....

I dunno, the problem with the thermo weight loss pills or whatever is that now that you can't get ephedra in them they are just overglamorized caffine pills, and caffine is addicting ... so once you go on them for a couple months, you literally have withdrawls when you go off them and have ZERO energy at all ...

I dunno .... I have kinda a mixed feeling about them because they do give you more energy but only if you like go a month on and a month off otherwise your body just gets used to it (addicted) and they don't do much for you after that ....