cormerdamus wrote:Long time sludger, first time locker room visiter/poster.
Ok, so I'm now half way through 23 and I think it's about fucking time I did something about my state so a few months ago started doing the gym thing with some friends.
I've been taking no explode and stacking it as advised with cell mass. The Cell Mass container says you need to make sure you drink plenty of water because it sends more body water to your muscles, and if you don't drink enough to replenish the rest of your body, it will dehydrate you and eat away at your muscles, but doesn't go into detail about water amount.
I normally take 2 glasses right after, bring a bottle with me to the gym, drink atleast another 2 glasses that day, and drink atleast 3 glasses on my off days/cardio days. I still find this is making me nautious a few hours after taking it, is it because I'm not drinking enough and becoming dehydrated or is my body just not liking the cell mass? Searched online, couldn't find the answer.
The reason you're feeling nauseous is because that shit is just LOADED
with sugars and food coloring and all sorts of other crap. Stay away from it and any of the other garbage like it. All you really need for supplements, (and I don't really recommend taking any supplements, I'll explain why later) is creatine, a simple nitric oxide stimulator (pills, not in a drink mix), amino acid pills, protein shakes and a testoterone booster. For the creatine...use whatever brand just as long as its a really fine grind. I mixed it just with water, stir it into a normal drinking glass of water and down it in one go like you would antacid powder. When training I would drink 1 teaspoon in the morning/early afternoon, 1 teaspoon while I was lifting, in the water bottle, and 1 teaspoon after...about 15 grams a day.
Amino acid tablets...same thing whatever brand and just take a few with each meal. For NO2..just use something like NITRIX caps or Muscletech NANO caps, again stay away from the drink mixes. The best testosterone booster I used was Testostrogain. And of course, protein shakes, whenever you can and however many you can stomach, especially right after a workout. When I used this combo and trained hard and ate well and ate a lot, I went from about 175 lbs to 210 pounds in about a year, so I believe that supplementing does work, but I have my doubts now that it is very beneficial, now that I have the perspective of being a few years older and not having used any supplements for the last 5 years or so. My body weight has now seemed to settle in about the 185-190 lb range and I look and feel much better than when I was a 210lb brute. I still work out a lot I might add.
First off, you said you're 23...how much do you weigh?, how tall are you?,
how serious are you about this?, how often do you work out?, what kind of poundage are you lifting, say on a bench press or squat? What is your goal? To be as big as possible or just to be lean and fit and muscular?
Because they're two different things. If you just want to be lean and muscular, I wouldn't use any supplements. Just eat clean and healthy, do tons of cardio, and lift heavy weights. But no matter what you do, you have to really kill yourself in the gym, lift as heavy as you possibly can, and increase the poundage as soon as you can lift it. Focus on and stick to heavy, mass building lifts like military shoulder presses, bench presses, squats, deadlifts and barbell curls. The way I did it was too do a couple of weeks of really heavy lifting, where I would use a poundage I could only lift for 2 or 3 reps, and do about 4 sets of that with long rests in between. I would do about 4 sets of 4 different exercises...so 16 sets total and about 32-48 lifts in total. So say for chest day...4 sets of flat bench press, 4 sets of pec-deck, 4 sets of flyes, and 4 sets of incline dumbell presses, 2 or 3 reps per set. Quick and simple. One body part per workout. And as soon as you are able to do more than 3 reps of anything...increase the weight, every time. It's the only way to gain and improve.
I would alternate that with two weeks of a little less weight, but more reps, about 6 or 8 reps per set, still 4 sets of 4 exercises...so 16 sets, but 96-128 reps total. Again one body part per workout, and again increase the weight as soon as you can do more than 6 or 8 reps.
I would always lift 2 days in a row, maybe 3 then take a day off, more if I needed it and a couple of days off after two weeks. Man I could go on and on, but the bottom line is, if you want to see results, you just have to train hard, and it will happen. If you don't, it won't. My personal experience with supplements is that I think they work to some degree, but not in a beneficial way. I wouldn't waste my money on them again, because I can lift nearly as much now as I ever did, and I look more defined and muscular than when I was bloated and beefy.