body building supplements MetrX etc

Its been afew years since I seriously was working out and I am back in the gym for the past few weeks and have made great gains, a few years ago MetrX was the hot supplement which I have been taking with creatine powder along with another brand EAS Edge Whey protein powder.

So whats hot now and works is their something better?

I basically want to substitute a quality protein supplement for 2 meals a day and have a high protein dinner such as fish or chicken along with peanut butter sandwiches which has worked well for me for gains in the past.

Thanks

 

most important thing to getting in shape is to eat.... and eat clean

get rid of the junk food, sugars, excess carbs...

for the most part supplements won't do much for you unless your diet is in check... again you must eat, and eat clean...

protein shakes are OK, but they are by no means better than real food...


did i mention eat alot, and eat clean?

 

I've done all that, I have a female friend who was a semi pro body builder she was trained by a pro and taught me for years so I am somewhat advanced.

Its so much easier to eat a good supplement like MetrX in place of a meal, its a full time job to shop and cook the right foods vs eating a few packets of powder each day and you get nil fat and pure protein, many just live on it alone and it works great for big gains.

 

You can get the MET-Rx "Big 100" meal replacement bars. They have 27g of protein and are only 360 calories. Honestly, the taste is horrible and that's pretty much the only downside. Just replace one meal with one of the bars, I don't know about replacing 2 meals a day though, if you can handle the taste then go for it.

Don't forget the Protein-Plus protein bars for after your workout, they have 32g of protein.

 

I have bought some protein bars as well and agree most of this stuff tastes like hell, MET-Rx is a little better tasting than the rest but still bad, it goes with the rest of the program though no pain-no gain

 

Exactly!

 

if you are over 35 try HGH. I did it for 3 months & dropped almost 30 #. Getting back on it now to finally get back down to 180 #

I love the stuff but get it from a legit source so you get the good stuff

 

I drink Metrx meal replacement shakes at night for dinner. 37 gram protein with whey casein mix so absorbs at different rates. Lots of vitamins, and amino acids. Tastes good. Only like 280 cal if with water, like 500 cal with milk.

Remember bulk first, cut later. BUT: bulk with quality food, not sugar and carbs.

 

I have heard many times over that you are supposed to eat the same # of grams of protein as the number of pounds that you weigh. I would like to know how to eat 185 grams of protein a day? Is a protein shake or protein bar that has 30 grams of protein the same as getting 30 g from chicken? If not for supplements, I don't know how the hell I would ever be able to consume 185 g. Side note, I bought a Powertec WB-MS-S leverage machine on line for $995 (delivered) and it is the best piece of exercise equipment I have!

 

www.trueprotein.com

 

Check out www.nutritionexpress.com for some great deals on top supplements. There is some new stuff out there since MET-Rx. How old are you? You might need to cut down on those peanut butter sandwiches to gain lean muscle.

 

agreed!


just got 50lbs via UPS today


mmmmmmmmmmmm chocolate

 

I am 40, peanut butter just seems to make me grow muscle for some reason, if I go too lean such as tuna sandwiches I'll lose muscle, I weigh 208 lbs now and am 5'11", at my leanest when I was working out hard I weighed around 197. I still have most of my old muscle but just not as big as I once was.

 

There it is!!!!

Our bodies actually require far less protein then today's fads push. The real reason they push protein is because it's a pathetic source of energy, so if you're gonna tank-up, may as well eat low-energy in order to promote leaning-out. A stomach-full of 800 calories is better then a stomach-full of 1,700 calories. WE JUST DON'T NEED THAT MUCH PROTEIN!!!!

I've met MANY body-builders who aren't really that big in the muscles...what they are is lean...so little body-fat that you just see all the muscle tissue. And another thing to consider is that almost all the older former body-builders are in terrible shape, some can barely walk/move. What they gained in their day they are paying for the rest of their life.

Everything you need is in natural food...something the supplement industry can't sell & compete with....so they play their ingredients and continue to evolve the junk. All these "Fat-burners" and "Fat-metabolizers" are nothing more then stimulants, usually caffience based, the fad of the day is the heart-valve damage of tomorrow.

Then you have the protein drinks that have isolated & boosted the key elements that will help you get ripped....problem is, many & most of these key essential ingredients can't be assimilated without the presence of other key nutrients. Nature packages it all perfectly for us....but there again, industry can't sell it.

That said, if you must....(and I do cause it's cheap).....go to the vitamin store and buy a large tub of your favorite flavor protein powder, a good multi-vitamin and maybe some BCAA's (Branch Chain Amino Acids), have this shake just after you workout. Otherwise fruit, vegetables, lean meats and non-processed foods will more then do it for ya.

If you really need more, then you're obviously a competing pro-builder and then just forget all this stuff and just go to a local vet and buy some sterioids, that's what my HUGE buddy Brian did....he was ripped, built, huge and 32. We buried him up last year after he died in his sleep.

 

you can do what i do...


be a vegetarian


it works wonder (and no i am not joking)

 

I eat a pound of chicken a day, about 105 grams of protein. For breakfast, I have 6 egg whites and 3 slices of wheat bread (45 grams of protein). Then a lot of brown rice throughout the day (about 18 grams of protein, but more importantly slow burning carbs). I have a banana and veges, which add maybe 5 grams of protein. That's about 173 grams of protein and I weigh about 157 lbs.

Egg whites are probably the cheapest to get your protein from. You could make a dozen a day for breakfast and not really get full. I get my chicken from Sam's club. It's frozen Tyson brand and $2.08/lb. I used to get ripped off at publix at $4/lb!

 

What he said. Scarfing down shytloads of protein is only going to beat on your kidneys. Good balanced diet and hard lifting with PLENTY of rest time will build you as fast as your NATURAL potential will allow.

Of course all the huge dudes are anything but natural. So if you want to look like one of those freaks, save yourself the money and put on a body suit like that guy barker did for the commercial.

 

The extreme bodybuilders are the most unhealthy as well, I was never that extreme just wanted to be in top shape as you can sculpt your body the way you want for that V look with wide shoulders which I have already done.

Met-rx is an enginneered food as a full meal replacement, the first of its kind I believe when it came out but that was over 10 years ago and technology has advanced so their should be something better as its the same formulation now as then, that combined with veges, fruits and fish or chicken is a good combo, most foods are processed today unless you get them at an organic store, meats especially are full of homones and steriods to help the animals grow and we eat that.

 

As you train hard in bodybuilding you will find you instinctively crave a certain diet. In my competition years it was rice, potatoes, chicken, turkey, lean beef, & most definitely fresh fish. I would devour a huge striped bass like a starving dog. If you listen, your body will tell you what you need. Then go to the Outback & try the blackened salmon... mmmmm.