I found these free supplements online to help get ripped, should I use them? look below?
Friday, November 13th, 2009 at
3:39 pm
They are Acai Force Max and Colon Cleanse Extreme. I am 15 years old and weigh 130 lbs. I’d say I’m in great shape, but I want to gain muscle and look strong and good, abs, arms and all that. I do not want to lose weight, if anything I want to gain it. Should I use these?
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I once studied biochemistry and I used to work out quite a bit.
You really have to understand how food works. Chemically, sugar, starch, protein and fat are pretty much the same molecule. They just differ in how your body processes what you eat. Sugars are instant energy, starches are longer term energy and fats are the hardest to break down but the easiest to convert to fat on YOU. Protein is easily converted to muscle, if your working hard enough that you body needs protein.
Supplements in general are like snake oil. Everyone is selling the idea that by taking their special sugar-vitamin water of the month, you can gain pounds faster and build muscle. Every year, millions of dollars are spent on the newest fad product. This year is Acai products.
Most bodybuilders agree (from interviews I have read with Olympic athletes, pro bodybuilders and etc.) that the staple supplements are creatine, glutamine, and Protein.
Creatine allegedly makes your body absorb water so the wastes generated by working out are more diluted in your system. This means you get less tired, less quickly and less sore after working out which would mean that you could work out harder and more frequently.
Glutamine is part of Testosterone. It’s allegedly the part that your most frequently short of, when your body tries to build its own testosterone. By taking Glutamine, you produce as much Testosterone as your body can, without steroids. Testosterone is produced by using your muscles, but that’s another question with another long answer. Its not the working out that makes your muscles, it’s the testosterone. Working out is just a way to force your system to produce more.
As a growing athletic person, you should be eating around 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight. At 150 pounds, that like, half a steak. Excess protein does not make you gain muscle faster. Lifting progressively heavier weights (You should be lifting 3 sets for 5-10 reps and ending with muscle failure, to gain mass.) makes you bigger. Lifting lower weights for more reps, trains for endurance.
You should probably take a multivitamin like Centrum. You really don’t need to spend a bucket of money at some holistic medicine shop, to have them sell you triple or quadruple the recommended dosage of vitamins at an inflated price. Vitamins’ can KILL YOU if you overtake them.
Eat a balanced diet heavy in fruits and vegetables. Eat protein (Eggs, meat, soy, fish, etc…) in smallish amounts throughout the day. Overeating makes you fat, not buff.
One theory is that while body building, you need to keep snacking on healthy sources in between meals. Drink enough water, until you’re pee is nearly clear. You should be drinking at least a liter a day. Minimum. At your size, weight and age, just lifting progressively heavier weights and eating three meals a day should be sufficient.
Colon Cleanse? It’s to make your bowels more regular? Why would that have anything to do with building muscle? What are they supposed to be cleansing from your system? If they say "toxins" ask "What toxins specifically does it remove?" It sounds like something my grandfather would be taking.
Worst thing is that these are illegal steroids with fancy names you get huge muscles but you overall health goes down