Fitness Training Supplementation: What works, What’s Healthy, and What’s Not

The fitness Industry lays saturated with sports supplement marketing and advertisement, promising each buyer guaranteed results with minimum effort for almost every thinkable result desired by the fitness enthusiast. The problem however, remains with the consumer knowing which products work, and which ones simply claim inaccurate results. Fitness supplements can be an excellent addition to a workout routine, speeding recovery, preventing injury, and increasing overall health, if used properly and responsibly. Below lists a variety of supplements I encourage to my customers, and continually endorse to those who desire the benefits they may bring.

Multivitamin-

A proper daily vitamin intake allows numerous benefits to the fitness enthusiasts, and should be considered by anyone who exercises frequently. Heavy exercise depletes the body of many of the nutrients and mineral ingested throughout the day, lengthening recovery time and decreasing the body’s ability to remove foreign toxins and bacteria. Supplementing with a multivitamin allows the restoration of these minerals, restoring a proper balance needed to encourage proper recovery and immune response.

Protein Powder

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Unknowledgeable individuals constantly discourage the use of protein powers, claiming a likeness to steroids and chemical enhancements. This belief is opposite from the truth. Protein powder can be an excellent addition to a beginning workout routine, increasing quality calorie consumption and reducing fat accumulation simultaneously.

Protein powder is in essence a dehydrated or powdered chicken, simply to encourage convenience when time is not available to eat a full meal. The use of protein powders ALONG with a full and proper diet increases the recovery rate and boosts immune system, allowing for greater results.

Creatine-

Clouted in controversy, creatine remains the most commonly misunderstood OTC supplement to date. With claims ranging from testicular atrophy, to rage, and further to liver and kidney failure, false representations appear to follow the name alone more than any other available supplement. Interestingly enough, creatine still remains the most research, studied, and developed sports supplement ever isolated.

Ignore what you may have heard, besides slight water retention, creatine proves to have no other side effects associated with short or long term use, and further consists of completely natural ingredients. The benefits of creatine are many, with the most noticeable surrounding the decrease of lactic acid (the chemical causing "the burn” associated with lifting weights), and a heavy decrease in recovery time.

The optimum daily intake is noted at 5 grams daily, of a standard Creatine Monohydrate, found in any grocery or nutrition store. For increased absorption in the muscles, ingest the creatine with a cub of grape juice, or any sugar containing fruit juice.

Proper supplementation continues to allow amazing benefits when used properly, and can allow your designated goals to appear much more obtainable. Of course there are more quality supplements than those listed above, yet the three I have noted come standard before considering further supplements in your fitness routine. Use them properly, and the results will continue to encourage hard work and persistence.