Which supplements?

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        • Participant
          QUIKAZHELL on May 2, 2003 at 10:59 am #8373

          What supplements does everybody on here use or have there athletes use.

          I am presently using Glutamine and ZMA. Id like to get a multi vitamin but i dont think those cheap ones that you get at the grocery store will cut it.. what multi vitamins are good and worth the money?

        • Keymaster
          Mike Young on May 2, 2003 at 10:06 pm #20094

          Top 5 in no particular order:
          1. Glutamine
          2. Creatine
          3. Multi-vitamin
          4. ZMA or some non-commercially formultated blend of zinc and magnesium
          5. EFA

          The effacacy of all of these are well supported by research. This list was also made on the assumption that none of the macronutrients (esp. protein) are deficient in any way.

          ELITETRACK Founder

        • Participant
          QUIKAZHELL on May 2, 2003 at 10:13 pm #20095

          What is EFA? and what multi vitamin do you recomend?

        • Keymaster
          Mike Young on May 2, 2003 at 10:42 pm #20096

          EFA = essential fatty acids

          When I take them at all I either take a twinlab or GNC multi but I often don’t take them as I get more than enough in minerals and vitamins from my 1-2 meal replacement bars / shakes a day. Also, I’m not training for the Olympics so lesser brands are fine for me, especially since I already eat very well. I have however heard excellent things about Usana and some of the liquid multi vitamins.

          ELITETRACK Founder

        • Participant
          QUIKAZHELL on May 2, 2003 at 10:49 pm #20097

          that is exaclty what i was getting at.. liquid multi’s… anyone got anything to say about them? i heard there relativley expensive..

        • Participant
          pete on May 3, 2003 at 7:12 am #20098

          I just finished my first bottle of High Performance Fitness multi (15 days worth). I probably can’t be a fair judge after this much time, but I think I like Usana a lot better which I tried last month for a whole month. This might have to do with the fact I don’t take ZMA I don’t know.

        • Participant
          nightmare4d on May 4, 2003 at 3:13 am #20099

          top 5 for me in no real order:

          surge
          zma
          1 step multi
          power drive
          gpush G1

          i also take udo’s and proscore 100 (a whey powder from champion) but i dont look at protein powders or efas supplements, i see them more as regular grocerys.

        • Participant
          flight05 on May 4, 2003 at 6:38 am #20100

          nightmare, could you get me some supplements discounted through your supplement store? that would be nice

          [email=hello0505@hotmail.com]email me[/email]

        • Participant
          Carl Valle on May 5, 2003 at 3:58 am #20101

          Mike,

          Your right. USANA and HPF are great products. I like HPF liquid vitamin over USANA currently because my athletes take ZMA, bromelain, jointfuel, ect. Too many pills…a shot of cranberry flavored vitamin is a nice change from the pill swallowing.

        • Participant
          mikhail on May 5, 2003 at 4:07 am #20102

          heh, guys, did everyone forgot about lotsa water and sleep? I’d say those two are pretty GEART!!!!!!!!!

        • Participant
          Carl Valle on May 5, 2003 at 4:15 am #20103

          Mikhail,

          Shhhh. That stuff is free….we can’t bottle that stuff. Wait a minute they bottle water now! I should get on the oxygen bandwagon like the air bars in LA but start bottling Air. Soon I will by Airafina and Sleep Springs at vending machines.

        • Participant
          mikhail on May 5, 2003 at 8:32 am #20104

          I was trying to figure out what you are trying to say by that for about 2 hours. plzzzzzzzzzz simplify

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          pool-shark on May 5, 2003 at 5:32 pm #20105

          I think what coach Valle is saying is that we tend to focus on ways that can come in a bottle or pill. Simple ways like getting enough sleep and eating a balanced diet is not marketable since it isn’t radical.

        • Participant
          mikhail on May 5, 2003 at 10:53 pm #20106

          ok, i c thx, its just that some people focus more on things like suplements and forget about getting enough sleep and H2O, which is really hard on your body.

        • Participant
          justdoit on May 20, 2004 at 10:56 am #20107

          I wonna buy this bottle of EFA's, its a herbal product, but it contains about 3.5 gramms of cholesterol. Should I use it?

        • Member
          Carson Boddicker on June 17, 2004 at 11:12 pm #20108

          i've used glutamine, creatine, and zma in the past in order of effectiveness
          1. cyclo-z-mass by cytodyne
          2. glutamine
          3. now zma
          4. creatine monohydrate(i dont respond well to creatine, its ineffective when i use it)

        • Participant
          justdoit on February 15, 2005 at 9:00 am #20109

          Which period of track season is best to use these suplements at?
          Creatine (off-season or competition-season or both)
          Powerdrive ”
          ZMA ”
          Glutamine ”

          Any others to add exept protein and multies?

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