Supplements?

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  1. AK-47

    AK-47 Shoot 'em up Full Member

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    How important are supplements in youre diet?
    Ive never really taken them seriosuly just the odd vitamin or omega 3 tablet but i see people on here take it real serious.
    Should i consider taking them daily?

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  2. joekirkbycobra

    joekirkbycobra King Of The Ring Full Member

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    if you box yes becaus to keep in your weight class and get all the correct vitamens you would be shipping just too many calories
     
  3. bestdefense117

    bestdefense117 Young Gun Full Member

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    If you eat right than you shouldn't need supplements.
     
  4. Punisher33

    Punisher33 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Supplements are optional, I myself take two omega-3 pills for my heart and studies show they help with inflamation caused by lifting or heavy pounding of the body like boxing. I have tried at least half of the GNC products out there today and learned only very few have any effect at all on my lifting or sporting event. The 3 best supplements I ever took were Meta-cell, which they took off the market in 05 for undisclosed reasons, it helped to me to gain 7 pounds of fat/muscle in one month, and 10 pounds in two. Another is a newer product thats very expensive ANATOR, it's made by muscle-tech, and runs about 80 bucs for a month supply, it really helped to put muscle on pretty fast. The last is Nitro-tech, it also helped to me to gain muscle weight.

    All in all, your mind is the biggest factor in how much you want do physically with your body, most supplements promise alot and deliver very little. The only reason I got most of the supplements I did, was to get myself motivated into lifting and break new barriers. Supplements are there to help assist you, but it's hard out there to find the supplement thats right and works for you.
     
  5. joekirkbycobra

    joekirkbycobra King Of The Ring Full Member

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    if you box though do to the making weight you might end up deficient in vital nutrients
     
  6. Koa

    Koa Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Multivitamin is bare minimum imo. You can eat right and still come up short due to any number of things, but it really depends on you as an individual.

    Some people have a hard time absorbing certain forms of nutrients, and so other versions of the same nutrient are more absorbable, or bio available.

    There is also the big deal about the condition of the soil from which your crops come.. Likely they arent vitamin and mineral packed like they were during the days of our grandparents.

    Other aspects have to do with nutrients not working well with one another, like zinc and calcium.. You ingest calcium with your zinc, you likely wont absorb the zinc.. Or, if you drink loads of water, sometimes you are just flushing your system of certain nutrients, depending on when you take them.. Timing of when you take nutrients is another secret.
     
  7. scurlaruntings

    scurlaruntings ESB 2002 Club Full Member

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    Agreed. All i take is cod liver oil and glucosamine daily and that is all. Im not a believer in supplments. Its false economy.
     
  8. ralphc

    ralphc Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Jack Dempsey didn't use supplements yet he seemed to do alright.
     
  9. Relentless

    Relentless VIP Member banned

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    jack dempsey didn't have supplements to take.
     
  10. Jazzo

    Jazzo Non-Facebook Fag Full Member

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    I am in agreement with Scurla here, but must you go on about the ancients in every post?

    You sound like Bert Sugar.

    You know, back in the day, people didn't have computers.

    Perhaps you should log off for good.
     
  11. scurlaruntings

    scurlaruntings ESB 2002 Club Full Member

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    :lol:
     
  12. joekirkbycobra

    joekirkbycobra King Of The Ring Full Member

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    i think yur better with than without
     
  13. Jnes

    Jnes Member Full Member

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    I take celltech, nitrotech, cellmass, nitromass, muscletech, truemass, muscletech-nitrotech hardcore, muscletech-celltech hardcore, no-explode, cytosport, explodetech, cytotech, and nutritech.

    The "tech" means it works better than steroids.
     
  14. cheech

    cheech Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Lately I have been taking so much of that stuff I **** earlier today which looked like a mint chocolate chip shake made by cytosport.

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  15. joekirkbycobra

    joekirkbycobra King Of The Ring Full Member

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    bloody hell thats a lot of protein
    seing any difference