Supplements

[cthulhu]

I've been doing my own thing in the gym for awhile and now I'm ready to get serious. I've got a 6 week program I'm going to follow. It uses HIT, nutrition, and supplements to build lean muscle. I'm going to use this to jump start me into taking a serious approach to improving my health.

I was looking online at bodybuilding.com and was overwhelmed at the number of brands of supplements. I would appreciate if someone could recommend some trustworthy brand names and retailers for the following: creatine monohydrate, whey protein, L-glutamine, maltodextrin, and a multivitamin.

 

[SociallyChallenged]

Originally posted by: cthulhu
I've been doing my own thing in the gym for awhile and now I'm ready to get serious. I've got a 6 week program I'm going to follow. It uses HIT, nutrition, and supplements to build lean muscle. I'm going to use this to jump start me into taking a serious approach to improving my health.

I was looking online at bodybuilding.com and was overwhelmed at the number of brands of supplements. I would appreciate if someone could recommend some trustworthy brand names and retailers for the following: creatine monohydrate, whey protein, L-glutamine, maltodextrin, and a multivitamin.

Optimum Nutrition is a very popular whey brand. It's a bit more expensive, but it has a ton of flavors and has pretty much all the proteins your body could need in it. Also EAS is pretty good and if you have a Sam's Club anywhere near you, it's like $20 for 6 pounds. For creatine, I have PrimaForce Creaform. It's pretty good. It's not anything but the creatine. Many times some brands with have an NO blast or other stuff, but this is just pure creatine mono. It's best if you warm the liquid you're putting it in because then it will dissolve. I just use a general multivitamin, but some people may suggest Animal Pak. *Shrugs* I think it's useless (animal pak, not the multivitamin). I don't use the other's so I can say anything about them. Good luck, and remember you don't NEED supps to get where you want to.

 

[RaiderJ]

I think decent whey protein is easy enough to come by. I've been using Isopure, but will try Optimum Nutrition next to see what I think. Taste is probably the biggest factor. Supplement-wise I just started using Animal Pak and Animal Pump (creatine). Seems to be working well so far. I've also had to start eating a LOT more since I started regular weight lifting.

 

[tHa ShIzNiT]

Anyone know of a brand of whey protein that doesn't use artificial flavoring? I have ON's strawberry flavor and the fake flavoring is pretty terrible...why cant they use natural flavoring? I may have to go for the "unflavored" variety next time.

 

[SociallyChallenged]

Originally posted by: tHa ShIzNiT
Anyone know of a brand of whey protein that doesn't use artificial flavoring? I have ON's strawberry flavor and the fake flavoring is pretty terrible...why cant they use natural flavoring? I may have to go for the "unflavored" variety next time.

Yeah, actually. I have a naturally flavored whey protein right now. I got it on accident 'cause it was the cheapest and tastes fine - link through VitaCost. Weird how that works.

 

[cthulhu]

Originally posted by: SociallyChallenged
Optimum Nutrition is a very popular whey brand. It's a bit more expensive, but it has a ton of flavors and has pretty much all the proteins your body could need in it. Also EAS is pretty good and if you have a Sam's Club anywhere near you, it's like $20 for 6 pounds. For creatine, I have PrimaForce Creaform. It's pretty good. It's not anything but the creatine. Many times some brands with have an NO blast or other stuff, but this is just pure creatine mono. It's best if you warm the liquid you're putting it in because then it will dissolve. I just use a general multivitamin, but some people may suggest Animal Pak. *Shrugs* I think it's useless (animal pak, not the multivitamin). I don't use the other's so I can say anything about them. Good luck, and remember you don't NEED supps to get where you want to.

Thanks for the info SC. I ran by sams and got some eac whey protein. Now just for the others.