I usually notice that in multivitamins that aren’t gender specific… they still show the recommended intake for men and women in the back, and I have found that they would just decrease the dosage for women… but also, you should take into account that men and women suffer from certain ailments to, sometimes, a very different extent. As one example, women are more prone to osteoporosis (early post-menopausal) and so you might find that female-specific mulitvitamins may contain larger amounts of calcium than other multivitamins. You should definately look more into it, but I would take a men-specific supplement as it is usually more suited to the gender’s needs.
Also, different ethnic groups suffer from different ailments to various degrees… should they make racial-specific supplements?
The body is an amazing adaptive mechanism. If you’re mostly sedentary (office work, chill at home) your body doesn’t stock much energy and you’ll feel like you do. It can be hard to force yourself to start exercising, especially if you’re already tired, but you’ll find that if you do it’ll quickly become part of your routine and you’ll feel worse when you don’t do it than when you do. Also, as you begin to exercise more, your body will start to stock more energy in anticipation of it, and you’ll feel more energetic all the time. If you can bring yourself to exercise in the morning before work especially you’ll find that you have more energy for the whole day.
It’s a postive feedback loop in either direction. Just sitting around encourages more sitting around. Being active encourages more being active. It’s just making the change from one to the other that’s difficult. but then you’ll see results and start feeling great, especially if you’re starting from a skinny base. Like other dudes said, eat a lot more, eat 5-6 times a day every 3-4 hours, and read through this thread when you get the chance, it’s full of great info.
I plan on joining the Navy SEALs and I have been training a lot to get ready for BUD/S (basic underwater/SEAL). I’m in 10th grade, and I play lacrosse to stay in shape. I go to the gym almost everyday, and I run every night.
thanks for the tips guys, but anyone have an idea why those megamen vitamins from GNC turns my pee green? I only used it once and never tried it again.
I made one with milk and peanut butter last night and it was really good. before I was just spoon stirring the powder with water. My blender thing freaking blows though. I bought it for 20 bucks at target and it either doesn’t blend or splatters the contents eveywhere.
Also the container says to use 1 scoop powder but I see recipes online and they all say use two. Is there any other powders I should try mixing in as well?
Theres usually a 20-25 protein per scoop, which usually isn’t enough (for me atleast) as a decent PWO shake or quick meal replacement; so just drop 2 scoops and keep it moving.
I’ve heard that people on ketogenic diets drop extra virgin olive oil (2tbl spoons) in the shakes on bulks which is pretty redundant because bulking without carbs is strange.
Any reason why you don’t want a gym membership instead? You’ll eventually outgrow both the Total Gym and Bowflex if you keep at it.
Recently started lifting again, and I wonder: is it better to train specific parts of your body on certain days [i.e. biceps mondays, chest another day, etc], or since I’ve picked it up so recently, to train all sections I want to work on during the same day/session? I haven’t lifted for years, and even then it wasn’t that coordinated.
Hmm… I have a small gym at home, consists of a bench with spotters, a pulley, a barbell, barbell weights and dumbells…
Its true if you have it at home, at least in my case, I almost never miss a workout
With the set that I have, I can almost do every exercise I need to do, and definately work out every part of my body…
I would say it has advantages and disadvantages… Sometimes I wish I could just go out to work out, and sometimes I wish I had more equipment to perform certain exercises… but most of the time I am glad I have shit at home, so I can fit working out into my schedule easily… so its up to you
Oh and what is your purpose for working out?
If its stregnth, you should stick to buying/using free weights as oppose to machines or bowflex, but if its to get a good looking bod, then I guess they would all do fine…
adjustable bench with leg extensions and a power rack that has a lat pull/pull ups and dip extensions is all you need. and of course the olympic weights. no need for all the fancyness. with that setup you can do incline, decline, flat bench, row, squats, leg curls, power cleans/to press, military press, curls, reverse curls, dead lifts, hamstring curls, leg extensions, dips, pull ups, lat pulls, tri-extensions and more more more. seriously you can do it all. its always good to have an olympic setup because it allows more creativity (which most people people think otherwise)
when you’re first starting you should begin with compound full body work outs. (bench press, squats, dead lifts, ROW, power cleans, military press, dips)once you’ve gained decent mass, stronger core, and gotten back in the mood then you can start sculpting and working out the specific muscle groups you’d like.
