Muscle Building Supplements

 Muscle building supplements - are they really necessary?

What are the best muscle building supplements?

These are the questions that were asked most of the time. Well, if you too are waiting for an answer on this, then you will be glad that you can now save hundreds if not thousands of dollars that you may have spent on stuffing your cabinets with bottles and packs of vitamins.

"What, you mean to say that I don't need supplements at all?"

Yes, that's right.

Contrary to what you must have been told many times by many "experts", it's really not an absolute neccessity for you to take supplements for muscle building.

You see, in bodybuilding or muscle building, you are advised to eat a healthy balance diet. As long as you are following this advise, then you would have gotten all the necessary nutrients, vitamins and minerals from the foods you eat. People on a poor diet would more appropriately use supplements but why should you be eating a poor diet if you are serious enough to build up a lean, healthy body.

Most people simply do not know that nothing is better than natural nutrition. Synthetic vitamins can not be compared to the natural vitamins that we obtain from foods. In fact studies have shown that some synthetic vitamins and minerals may not be easily and fully absorbed by our body. Just imagine that part of what you are spending hundreds of dollars on is passed out as waste. What is even worst is that overdosing from consuming synthetic supplements may happen. For example vitamin E when taken in excess may be accumulated in the body leading to toxicity. Interaction between some vitamins and minerals may also occur leading to reduced absorption or adverse effects.

However, if you are really a vitamin pill popper and strongly felt that vitamins do help in one way or another, then the only supplements that I could possibly think of that may help you build up those muscles faster is creatine.

Creatine is a performance enhancing supplement. It is has two important functions for bodybuilders.

First, creatine increases the size, or volume of muscle cells, which is the amount of water each cell can hold. This slight expansion of each cell causes the entire muscle to expand which triggers even further muscle growth.

The second important function of creatine is that it provides muscle cells with immediate energy in the form of ATP (Adenosine triphosphate), which is absolutely essential to perform bodybuilding exercises. Having extra ATP within the muscle cells will allow you to perform more repetitions than you normally could, which translates into greater muscle growth.

Unfortunately, creatine is only effective for about 70% of athletes and bodybuilders. Those who do not respond to creatine may already produce enough creatine phosphate in their muscles that supplementing with creatine does not make much difference.

Here is an interesting video "The only 4 Muscle Building Supplements That You Really Need" by Sean Nalewanyji.