Ingredients of Bodybuilding Supplements

With the number of discount bodybuilding supplements available to the public now, it can be confusing to know which supplements are the best for your particular goals. One way to help choose a supplement is by considering the ingredients.

Creatine is a common ingredient found in discount supplements. It exists naturally in your body and can be found in foods such as tuna and red meat. However, you can?t get the creatine amounts you need simply by eating more of these foods, because they are also high in saturated fats. Creatine based products help give your muscles energy. It is especially effective in providing energy for muscle movements that are quick, making it ideal to help increase the efficiency of your workouts. If you have just started taking creatine, you will notice that it helps you put on weight rapidly, especially during the first month.

L-Glutamine is another popular ingredient in bodybuilding supplements. Glutamine is a naturally occurring amino acid found in your muscles. During training, glutamine levels drop dramatically, and it can take almost a week for them to return to the levels that they were prior to the workout. L-Glutamine supplements work to stop this depletion. Glutamine also plays a role in maintaining the immune system and the health of the small intestine. Because it is so often depleted by bodybuilders, they are more susceptible to illness. Taking a glutamine supplement can not only help maintain muscle mass, but can also help to keep you healthy.

Ribose is another naturally occurring ingredient that helps with muscle energy. Supplementing with ribose will help you recover quicker from intense workouts, allowing you the opportunity to make rapid improvement. Ribose is taken in large doses initially in a process called ?loading.?

These are only a few of the active ingredients that you might find in supplements. Most supplements also have some sort of flavoring that makes them more pleasant to take. When selecting a supplement, you will need to do a careful evaluation of what you are hoping to gain by taking it. You should investigate whether the particular ingredients bring with them any side effects and determine whether the benefits outweigh any negatives. Many gyms or body building associations have trainers who can provide guidance on which are the best supplements to take. With a little bit of research, you should be on your way to increased muscle mass and optimal performance.

Natalie Aranda writes about health and fitness. With the number of discount bodybuilding supplements available to the public now, it can be confusing to know which supplements are the best for your particular goals. One way to help choose a supplement is by considering the ingredients. Creatine is a common ingredient found in discount supplements. It exists naturally in your body and can be found in foods such as tuna and red meat.

Natural Bodybuilding Get Big or Die Trying

The other day I received an email from an earnest young man named Dustin (name changed for identity purposes). Now Dustin, like most young men in their late teens and early twenties, was looking to put on an extra ten or twenty pounds of muscle to fill out his frame.

Dustin like many men his age felt that he was too skinny. He also told me that he had been training for 3 or 4 years with moderate results and that although he was relatively lean, his bodyweight had been stuck between 170-175 pounds at a height of 5?11. I have received hundreds if not thousands of letters from guys and girls all around the world just like Dustin who are desperate to put on more muscle.

Like so many others before him Dustin told me how he had religiously followed an endless array of training programs. Although he had experienced some gains when he first switched to a new training program usually after the first 2-3 weeks on a new program his gains stopped. The situation had gotten worse because at the time of his email he had been sitting at his current bodyweight for almost a year and couldn?t seem to gain a pound of muscle no matter what he did.

Dustin also shared with me that he had been consuming 250 -300 grams of protein per day and performing all his sets to failure including partials, forced reps, and even negatives. In fact, he felt that he has never trained harder in his life and his diet was the best it?s ever been.

He tried all the supplements advertised in the magazines including creatine, NO2, hormone precursors, testosterone boosters, and some products whose name neither him or I could pronounce let alone spell. He also poured out his heart as to how frustrated he was as he felt he was doing everything right.

Dustin emailed me because he was considering taking a cycle of steroids. He really didn?t want too start taking drugs but felt he had no choice but to give in too the pressure from his friends and fellow gym members.

Now before I go into the solution to Dustin?s problem let?s look first at the cold hard facts that every trainee who goes into a gym today will eventually be faced with. My goal here is to give you a heads up to: the who, what, when, where, and why and how many guys like Dustin get caught up in The Get Big or Die Trying program, which is running rampant in just about every single gym in the world.

This article promises to be a real eye-opener for some of you and it?s definitely a no holds barred look at what?s really going on in the Whacky World of Modern Day Muscle-Building Mania.

Too quote a line from the Matrix, ?Buckle your seat belts Dorothy because Kansas is going Bye-Bye!?

The Biggest Bodybuilding Lie EVER? ?Just One Cycle?

Dustin?s story is an all to familiar one. It all started when some of the ?Big Dudes? in the gym had told him that if he did a small cycle he would pack on another 20 pounds in a month or two. These guys definitely had impressive physiques and they certainly seem to know a lot about training, dieting and getting big.

The bottom line was Dustin was almost ready to say the ?Hell with It? pick up a syringe and join the members of the ?Drug Infused Testosterone Nation? who can usually be spotted parading around most gyms on the planet like a herd of over sized plate heads. To the innocent observer these guys seemed to be doing okay and they all assured him that a little bit of juice wouldn?t hurt anyone.

I really felt for Dustin?s situation as I reflected back on my own journey in the bodybuilding industry. I myself have been in Dustin?s situation, as have millions of young men and women around the world.

Unfortunately business these days is booming thanks to the ?Drug dealers? around the world who have used this one cycle pitch since drug dealing began. It?s no secret that this pitch is convincing and bodybuilders have been falling for this line since the invention of the barbell.

Lets? face it the bodybuilding industry has taken a major nosedive ever since Dorian Yates ushered in the era of ?Chemical Warfare?. While drug use was prevalent amongst the top pros and amateurs in the 70?s and 80?s, the 90?s began the era where you simply take as many chemicals as you can afford, lift as heavy as you can, and hope like hell you don?t get sick, busted, or completely destroy your health.

Unfortunately, this insane quest for size has extreme costs as evidence by the rash of professional and amateur bodybuilders who have died, messed up their health permanently, or ended up in prison. The reality is few individuals consider the Big Picture when it comes to their training programs, diet, health or the real costs of ?juicing? even if it?s for ?just one cycle?.

The facts are one cycle leads to another, and another, and another because drugs cannot replace real training science, quality nutrition, the drive, focus, time and commitment it takes to build a truly awesome physique. Although drugs might seem like a quick fix to the Dustin?s current weight gain challenges. There not! In fact the first cycle is usually the first step into the underground steroid subculture. Let?s have a look at the players in this deadly game but be forewarned this could get messy before I?m done talking!

Wade McNutt is a Natural National Bodybuilding Champion and an IFBB Mr. Universe World Champion. He combined the secrets of Eastern Yoga Masters with, scientific, muscle building to produce a revolutionary new health system, called Freaky Big Naturally, find out more at http://www.freakybignatural.com