Musashi!
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Anyone tried this?
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Naughty Thoughts
Musashi do a variety of different products, their supposed to be one of the better manufacturers. There's lots of companies that sell protein powders and other "build super muscles" products - many of them are scary when you read the ingredients list.
These types of products all "work" to greater or lesser degree but are heavily dependent on what else you do. The usual - exercise, remove junk food, eat the right kinds of food - in conjuction with the products can help.
But it's the "can" part which catches people out. If you have two people with the same starting physique, both do the same level of exercise and both consume exactly the same diet but one also has the supplement - it'd be interesting to see if there was a measurable difference between the two.
Though the muscle-bags they put on the posters / packaging are the types of people that spend 8 hours at the gym and weigh all their food anyway. So in that context you probably could end up looking like them - if you spend all day at the gym and obsess about your food. The product itself is incidental if your diet includes lots of protein from other sources.
These types of products all "work" to greater or lesser degree but are heavily dependent on what else you do. The usual - exercise, remove junk food, eat the right kinds of food - in conjuction with the products can help.
But it's the "can" part which catches people out. If you have two people with the same starting physique, both do the same level of exercise and both consume exactly the same diet but one also has the supplement - it'd be interesting to see if there was a measurable difference between the two.
Though the muscle-bags they put on the posters / packaging are the types of people that spend 8 hours at the gym and weigh all their food anyway. So in that context you probably could end up looking like them - if you spend all day at the gym and obsess about your food. The product itself is incidental if your diet includes lots of protein from other sources.
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teddEbear
There's heaps of different products out there and they all do different things for different people. All you really need is quality protein. You can get carbs cheaply and easily enough from other sources. I would go gold standard 100% whey which is a simple protein. 24g per serve without all that other stuff that can damage your body. Beware of preworkouts such as jacked and 1mr. They're getting taken off the shelves because people have died from brain damage! I think the ingredient to watch out for is 1,3-dimethylamlamine.
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WRXXXR
I asked my PT this today and he thinks you'd notice a difference. I do 2, sometimes 3 weight sessions a week, and I recover perfectly fine drinking water and eating proper stuff. He wants me to drink protein shakes but most of this manufactured food and drink can't be that good.
I'll leave it to the beefcakes suffering small man syndrome who spend half the session admiring theselves in the mirror.
Mind you, I believe muscle worx are very good for this sort of stuff.
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Naughty Thoughts
I suppose the difference would be how much extra protein the protein-taker was ingesting compared to the control person. Even finding twins would make it a little hard to get a good baseline.
I suppose if we managed to find identical triplets, and had them all do the same level of exercise and ingest the same types of food but gave one a placebo, one a milkshake with just milk and the third a milkshake with the extra protein, then we'd get a bit more of an indication as to the actual benefit. But getting a large enough sample size would be difficult. I'm of the mind that the people who take basic supplements (as opposed to steroids or banned stuff) are more likely to see good results because they push themselves harder in the workout.
Totally agreeing with teddEbear - a lot of these products have weird stuff in them.
I suppose if we managed to find identical triplets, and had them all do the same level of exercise and ingest the same types of food but gave one a placebo, one a milkshake with just milk and the third a milkshake with the extra protein, then we'd get a bit more of an indication as to the actual benefit. But getting a large enough sample size would be difficult. I'm of the mind that the people who take basic supplements (as opposed to steroids or banned stuff) are more likely to see good results because they push themselves harder in the workout.
Totally agreeing with teddEbear - a lot of these products have weird stuff in them.