Archive: Sport's Supplements: Cut the CRAP! - Part III
Posted on Friday, November 01 @ 12:00:00 MST
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Written by: Andrew_Natale
In Part I we examined certain Supplements we consider a Bodybuilder's best
friend......Protein, creatine, glutamine and anti-oxidants.
Sport's Supplements: Cut the CRAP! - Part I
Part II examined several groups of supplements that work, as in they are
effective, but carry a cost and we are not talking about money.
Sport's Supplements: Cut the CRAP! - Part II
Now, here in Part III, we look at "Pure Crap", save your money! These are
only this author's opinions, I sell many of the supplements mentioned,
always informing the customer, but often time losing to the "power of
Advertising!" We have had many discussions with the companies themselves,
their distributors, scientists, research departments, etc, only to conclude
the consumers attention and dollar rule the marketing decision, not the
quality of the product. The result is too much crap!
Liquid Creatine: After lengthy conversations with SKW Laboratories
(Creapure), we were assured that creatine can only be stabilized in oil,
and if there were a way to make a "liquid creatine", SKW would be leading
the way. Creatine breaks down into it's component amino acids (arginine,
glycine, methionine) within two hours of being placed in liquid. Next came
the independent third party lab assays all saying there was NO CREATINE in
the products. Finally we called the companies involved, they explained "We
have changed the molecule, so you can not test for it." Unbelievable BS!
The recent "Class Action Suit" against this product hasn't detoured sales
either. Please look at a bottle. The leading product claims 75 grams of
creatine in their product. You can't even fit 75 grams in the little
bottle, let alone find the residue of the so called semi-dissolved creatine.
It kills me when I sell bottle after bottle of it and the person says, "I
love this, I don't get any of the side effects I do when I use powdered
Creatine". I reply, "That's because there is NO creatine in it!" They buy
it anyway.
Growth Hormone, Sprays, Analogs, Prologues: More hype and advertising goes
into these products than you can imagine. The only people getting any
results from these products are the ones selling them. Strange how those
buying them never get any results. The truth is, if it's not prescription
GH, a certain combination of 191 amino acids, refrigerated immediately once
it is reconstituted, then it is bunk! Exceptions would be that there is
some weak scientific evidence that homeopathic GH preparations, and some
amino acid combinations produce an "infinitesimal" release of GH within ones
body. If you want more GH, sleep deeper (REM stage 3 and 4 sleep aid in the
body's GH production)
5-methyl-7-methoxy-isoflavone, aka Methoxy-isoflavone, or Methoxy: Once
thought of as both an anabolic and anti-catabolic isoflavone, it was
recommended by a nationally renowned trainer that dosages be increased to
well over a gram a day in order to experience results. We called the
manufacturer on a leading product, named after the "key ingredient", when we
traced that ingredient down on the contents list as occurring right between
the 125 mgs of calcium and 100 mgs of sodium. What a joke.....you'd need 10
servings of the product to theoretically get anywhere...and their
explanation...."Well our research shows......." Having sold quite a bit
of this product, I can tell you my research shows "No Effects" even at 2
grams a day. Not to say that it doesn't work for some, just that it doesn't
work for most!
Ecdysterone, Plant Sterols, Sasprilla, Frac, Dibencozide, Gamma-Oryzanol,
Colostrum, Inosine, Ipriflavone, Wild Yam, and the list goes on and on!
It's not that all of the these products "don't work at all", some have
other uses. It's that they are simply not worth investing in.
Day after day, trainees come to me looking for that "Magic Pill", there
are no shortcuts to hard work, good nutrition, and proper recovery. With
supplements, nobody has reinvented the wheel, they have simply repackaged
it, hyped it up, and now charge an arm and a leg for it! Invest in
supplements that are safe, and proven to work, and give you good return for
your investment. Save the rest of your money, don't buy the highly
advertised "crap"
For Will Brink's Complete Guide to
Muscle Building Nutrition CLICK HERE!
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