How much do legal supplements really help?

[mb23100]

Anyone who trains have any insight? I always thought supplements were pretty much broscience. Any of the good stuff is probably outlawed. Why do fighters continue to use them and risk having their careers/reputations ruined? Do they make that much of a difference?

 

[Bubzeh]

 

[revoltub]

They work as well as you know how to use them.

 

[kiley_sean]

It depends entirely on if they're "tainted" or not.

 

[LouisBolanos]

The make all the difference. If you don't drink legal H2O you basically die after 3 days.

 

[yeguiza]

TS

100% natural here

supplements are great

when trying to eat protein without supplements, you also eat fat (meat, cheese, egg, etc)

supplements (pure aminoacids, etc) go straight to the point



for years i reached my top in bobybuilding (amateur), until i started eating properly. i used to eat like a teenager (hot dogs, pizza every day)

now i take soy protein every day, avoid sugar, etc, and have a balanced diet that keeps me in my fittest state in life at 38YO (9% bodyfat and 21% body mass)


certified by your sherbro yeguiza

 

[mb23100]

TS

100% natural here

supplements are great

when trying to eat protein without supplements, you also eat fat (meat, cheese, egg, etc)

supplements (pure aminoacids, etc) go straight to the point



for years i reached my top in bobybuilding (amateur), until i started eating properly. i used to eat like a teenager (hot dogs, pizza every day)

now i take soy protein every day, avoid sugar, etc, and have a balanced diet that keeps me in my fittest state in life at 38YO (9% bodyfat and 21% body mass)


certified by your sherbro yeguiza

Thanks for the serious answer

 

[Mebetter]

TS

100% natural here

supplements are great

when trying to eat protein without supplements, you also eat fat (meat, cheese, egg, etc)

supplements (pure aminoacids, etc) go straight to the point



for years i reached my top in bobybuilding (amateur), until i started eating properly. i used to eat like a teenager (hot dogs, pizza every day)

now i take soy protein every day, avoid sugar, etc, and have a balanced diet that keeps me in my fittest state in life at 38YO (9% bodyfat and 21% body mass)


certified by your sherbro yeguiza

Pics or stfu

 

[rurouni]

 

[tehMoose]

Supplements help but you need alot of $ for very little gains.

 

[fartsniffer]

Protein powders and creatine helps, that's about it.

 

[yeguiza]

Pics or stfu

sorry brah,

i´m happily married

 

[tenniswhiz]

They work as well as you know how to use them.

Nah, they work as well as you think they work.

 

[Archleone]

Thanks for the serious answer

TS

100% au naturel here

supplements are dogshit

this goddamn cake isn't doing shit for my fucking gains

they tell me I'm going it wrong, I tell them to wipe their mom's lipstick off their dicks

bodybuilding is
for pussies and soy sucks goats
I am maximum

I wrote you a haiku bitch

 

[Vil7]

So if you take PED's you get to kiss Rockhold?

 

[TallGHunter]

If you just think they work, they work.

 

[yeguiza]

Nah, they work as well as you think they work.

they obviously work very little in comparison to peds

but they work no doubt

 

[rurouni]

So if you take PED's you get to kiss Rockhold?

legal perf enhancing supplements

 

[dim_]

Anyone who trains have any insight? I always thought supplements were pretty much broscience. Any of the good stuff is probably outlawed. Why do fighters continue to use them and risk having their careers/reputations ruined? Do they make that much of a difference?

there are two kinds of supplement...

type 1 - the creatine, the pre workout drinks, the electrolytes, the protein shake

they do exactly what they are intended to do, give you a bit of protein boost, boost your carbs, hydrate you during workout etc.

(and there are virtually no incidents of these kind of supplements causing positive tests)





then there is

type 2 - the "natural testosterone booster", the growth hormone stimulator, the muscle gainer, the water shedder, etc etc

some of these do nothing at all, some of them work..

the ones that work are the ones with prohibited substances in them (either listed or unlisted)




MMA fighters testing positive are taking "type 2"..

 

[mb23100]

there are two kinds of supplement...

type 1 - the creatine, the pre workout drinks, the electrolytes, the protein shake

they do exactly what they are intended to do, give you a bit of protein boost, boost your carbs, hydrate you during workout etc.

(and there are virtually no incidents of these kind of supplements causing positive tests)





then there is

type 2 - the "natural testosterone booster", the growth hormone stimulator, the muscle gainer, the water shedder, etc etc

some of these do nothing at all, some of them work..

the ones that work are the ones with prohibited substances in them (either listed or unlisted)




MMA fighters testing positive are taking "type 2"..

This is kinda what I figured. I didn't really think protein powders really counted as supplements. More of the type 2s is what they're getting in trouble with