Best Muscle Supplements To Make Your Muscles Bigger And Life Easier
Whilst I’m a big believer in trying things for oneself, I do believe the best muscle supplements are the ones which are universally proven to enhance performance, results, and take the burden off the trainee when it comes to the diet.
You train hard, and you need the energy to help you train harder. A certain supplement I’m going to talk about can do that. You want the best strength and muscle size you can get, and certain supplements can ensure you get just that. You also want to make your life easier, so you don’t have to prepare half a dozen meals and actually eat every 3 hours. There are also great supplements for that.
Let’s take a look at some of the best muscle supplements, and what they can do for you:
Creatine
Creatine is a substance which occurs naturally in the body, although it is estimated up to fifty percent of our bodies creatine stores comes from foods such as fish and meat (particularly beef.)
What creatine does, is supply the muscles with energy. Creatine isn’t energy, but merely the transporter, if you like. People who take creatine often report a pump prior to training, and feel more energised. Both are the direct result of the creatine-enhanced transportation of larger amounts of glycogen (energy) into the muscles, making them not only bigger in appearance, but also providing them with much more energy to work harder as a result.
Over a short period of time, creatine can also help the body to retain water, which also gives temporary size and weight to a lifter – which should not be confused with rapid and legit muscle gains.
There are literally hundreds of creatine supplements. Some have all the bells and whistles and other ingredients, but surprisingly, contain very little creatine. Others are more simple, purer varieties.
Creatine is usually run in cycles of daily usage (yes, even on off days) for a few months, and then stopped, and is particularly useful for getting you through lifting plateaus.
If you really want to test out creatine and see if it is for you, I suggest you buy the simplest creatine monohydrate you can find and try that. That way, you’ll not be sidetracked or experience any effects from any other ingredients.
Protein Supplements
Where would we be without protein supplements?
Protein is, they say, the build block of life. And, it’s proven beyond doubt that an increased intake of protein helps to keep a persons body in a positive nitrogen balance, which in turns increases muscle mass.
Whey protein is the king of the hill when it comes to protein supplements, because not only is it very easily processed by the body and used for building muscles, but it also contains essential amino acids that other proteins lack.
In ideal circumstances, protein should be eaten every 3 hours to maintain the nitrogen balance, and keep the muscles growing and repairing, and not atrophying. Sometimes, however, it’s not convenient to prepare food and ‘eat’ the protein, but, it may be convenient to mix a quick protein shake and drink that.
Again, there are literally hundreds of these supplements to choose from. Try to find ones which don’t contain much sugar, because the last thing you need when trying to gain lean body mass is a constant supply of sugar.
Meal Replacements
Meal replacements generally come in the form of snack bars and powders to be mixed with water or milk. You could, I suppose, class protein supplements as a meal replacement, although the typical meal replacement is somewhat heftier in calories.
Myoplex is often touted as one of the best meal replacements and widely used by many who’ve successfully transformed their physiques.
You should always look for a meal replacement which has good levels of protein and is fairly balanced in fats and carbs. One thing you must be very aware of with meal replacements is, some are absolutely loaded with sugar to boost the calorie number.
Despite what you may have read, not all calories are created equal: calories from sugar, unless burned off quickly, will do absolutely nothing for you other than put fat on you quicker than your wildest nightmare.
Conclusion
Make no mistake, you may balk at the cost of some of these supplements initially, but think about it for a moment. What you are paying for, in many cases, is maybe a months daily supply, and, if you consider the cost and hassle of buying and preparing meals from traditional foods for an entire month, sometimes, supplementing really does make sound sense.
