What is the one best supplement for muscle growth

[Luigi]

FOOD

[HumanPerformance]

L-Glutamine, Creatine, and adaptagenic herbs like Eleutherococcus, and Muira Puama for testosterone production

[Lifeguard]

I've been using Balance's creatine and thats worked well for me as a triathlete. How does it rate for bodybuilding?

[orange]

It's the same creatine powder as most of the creatine products packaged in New Zealand. Horelys, Balance etc probably come from the same factory in China via a single distrbutor here.

[Hennie]

Creatine Monohydrate

- Suits any budget

- Easy just to add carbs with it

- Lot of research suggest you don't need to load Mono anyway

- From what I know only Kre-Alkalyn has some research behind it apart form MONO

- Creatine Ethyl ester started when the Prohormone era died, it started together with AAKG as the new hype to "replace" the banned prohormones. ..obviously never did

- the next creatine bandwagon will be "Creatine Cypionate"

- Handle the water retention and fill out your shirt quicker :grin: , unless you're preparing for comp.

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Creatine Monohydrate

[Jonny]

L-Glutamine, Creatine, and adaptagenic herbs like Eleutherococcus, and Muira Puama for testosterone production

What are those herbs and what form can you get them in ie pills?

Where from?

[Android]

In a year I might do creatine twice, and just for a month each time. Not something I consider to be a muscle growing supplement, more like a really good workout enhancer otherwise I'd be on it all year round in some form or another.

I'd say BCAAs for Muscle Growth, they actually do go towards building your muscle whereas creatine and other such supps just help you or your muscles work harder...which yes can lead to muscle growth, but only indirectly because if you don't have sufficient nutrients creatine won't do much for your muscle growth at all.

[Hennie]

In a year I might do creatine twice, and just for a month each time. Not something I consider to be a muscle growing supplement, more like a really good workout enhancer otherwise I'd be on it all year round in some form or another.

I'd say BCAAs for Muscle Growth, they actually do go towards building your muscle whereas creatine and other such supps just help you or your muscles work harder...which yes can lead to muscle growth, but only indirectly because if you don't have sufficient nutrients creatine won't do much for your muscle growth at all.

Looking at it that way BCAA definitely the best.

Whats your favorite? Free Form as a standalone or just as part of your whey/protein intake, probably both?

[Android]

In a year I might do creatine twice, and just for a month each time. Not something I consider to be a muscle growing supplement, more like a really good workout enhancer otherwise I'd be on it all year round in some form or another.

I'd say BCAAs for Muscle Growth, they actually do go towards building your muscle whereas creatine and other such supps just help you or your muscles work harder...which yes can lead to muscle growth, but only indirectly because if you don't have sufficient nutrients creatine won't do much for your muscle growth at all.

Looking at it that way BCAA definitely the best.

Whats your favorite? Free Form as a standalone or just as part of your whey/protein intake, probably both?

My fav is BCAA powder.

During pre-comp (final 2 weeks) it's powder-only as I don't do any shakes to try and get that really dry meat-only look.

I will have up to 50gms a day (30gms BCAA + 10gms Glutamine for my post-workout 'substitute shake', and 5gms about 4 times during the day).

From 6wks out to 2wks out I supplement 30gms from BCAA powder a day, don't wanna pop 30 pills a day to get that :-)

Off-season it comes from lots of food and workout drinks so I skip the powder and go for what most others use, something with BCAAs in it.

[lazyeye]

BEST (in order)

1. calories

2. protein

3. the rest

[Android]

BEST (in order)

1. calories

2. protein

3. the rest

What is the one best supplement for muscle growth?

where's the supplement in that list? ... 3?

[1day]

BEST (in order)

1. calories

2. protein

3. the rest

What is the one best supplement for muscle growth?

where's the supplement in that list? ... 3?

ahahaha :pfft: :clap:

[Small]

BEST (in order)

1. calories

2. protein

3. the rest

What is the one best supplement for muscle growth?

where's the supplement in that list? ... 3?

esp as there is calories gained from protien...

[lazyeye]

if your eating 200g of protein a day...and your total calories are below what you need to grow

nothing will happen

thus calories more important than protein

the best legal supplement for growth is creatine, but once again, calories and protein need to be sorted or your not going to see a great deal

[Lamborghinilova]

if your eating 200g of protein a day...and your total calories are below what you need to grow

nothing will happen

thus calories more important than protein

the best legal supplement for growth is creatine, but once again, calories and protein need to be sorted or your not going to see a great deal

wikipedia defines a supplement as: "Something added, especially to make up for a deficiency"

so based on this you would be correct...

However, it is accepted in the body Building community that supplements are products you add to a healthy diet, and we don't tend to count food as a supplement, more a requirement. the only time you would get calories from a supplement is when you take a mass gainer protein.

I Agree with Android, BCAA's, but as i get plenty of BCAA's in my protein powder (ICE Whey (8.9g a serve)) i don't have to take a seperate BCAA supplement, as ICE Whey is very low in carbs and fats.

[Lamborghinilova]

Have found it never dissolves in water, just a method of getting it down.

Know a guy that pops a teaspoon full straight into his mouth then takes a gulp of water to swallow it.

Thats what I've started doing, teasoon full and a drink of water, much easier

Creatine & Solubility

If you've taken creatine, you are probably well aware of the fact that trying to dissolve creatine in regular fluid is useless. You'd be more likely to fit an elephant through a key hole. It's just not going to happen. As a result of this poor solubility, when the creatine gets to your gastrointestinal tract, the body tries to solubilize it. Why? Because nutrients cannot be absorbed if not solubilized or dissolved in a solution.

They will just sit around in the pit of your stomach in powder form and eventually pass right out of you. So what the body does to remedy this is to suck fluids out of the cells of the digestive organs in order to provide enough fluid to dissolve the creatine. But what then happens is that all this fluid that's sucked into the GI tract needs to quickly be eliminated and this leads to diarrhea. So in solubilizing your creatine, the GI causes some nasty bathroom situations. Not to mention the fact that a lot of the creatine is lost during such porcelain episodes.

So what are some solutions? The first is to dissolve your creatine in a warm beverage. By doing so, due to the laws of thermodynamics, the creatine is solubilized. And when consumed, it can be absorbed much more effectively without all the GI distress. This is where the creatine coffee debate started as most guys just dumped the creatine into the coffee for convenience sake. Warm coffee, tea, or even just warm water will do just fine.

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/berardi5.htm

The article also look at the link between caffeine and creatine.

Also, sorry for double posting, but my 2 posts are unrelated...