+ 1 Supplementation during a bulk cycle
Do any of you take those mass gainer powdered shake supplements, or are they a waste of money? I'm not referring to supplementing with whey protein to help hit a protein macro, rather the real high cal, high carb stuff for putting on mass. I am not a hard gainer in the least, just wanting to know if this kind of thing might benefit me and take some of the burden off needing to eat 100% real food all the time. I know real food is critical, but it would really make it easier to hit my macros if I had a little help.
I'm also curious to know about branch chain amino acids. In addition to hitting my protein macro from mostly animal protein, and 30% whey powder, should I also be supplementing with BCAA's to maximize muscle growth during my bulk cycles?
Thank you.
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For my current ebc bulker, I use: Mass gainer-preferably the 125g carb to 50g protein ratio. Powder glutamine/creatine/bcaas amongst others, but those are what I would consider mandatory.
You'll definitely need to drink around 1-1500calories if your trying to achieve a 6000calorie+ diet. Theirs no way I can possibly consume/eat 7000c/day.
Okay.
without mass gainers after my later meals i dont think i would be able to hit those high macros for bulking that i need. pretty easy to add 1000 calories by drinking it after a meal:) but you will want a nap afterwards and probably be a gas machine lol. i use serious mass and nick named it serious gass
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I mix my gainers for myself:
Wake up shake and pre workout shake are whey 50g with instant oats 150g.
Post workout 50g whey with maltodextrin 80g and dextrose 20g.
Before sleep 50g casein with 100g instant oats.
Think its works better than the finished gainers you can buy.
Great!
xmanmusclei always use bcaas there anticatabolic and help push more protein into your muscles....i always drink a bcaa drink mixed w creatine glutamine and karbolyn durin my wrkout....right now my intra wrkout drink is 1 scoop glutamine plus from betancourt 1 scoop beast creatine 1 scoop 50g karbolyn and 1 scoop xtend bcaas.....i wrk at supplement store so i hav acess to all this u dnt hav to make somethin like this but some bcaas and creatine w carbs r perfect for u tryin to put on muscle especially around wrkout time your body jus soaks that stuff up especially those carbs try it out...hope all this ramblin kinda helped
Thanks!
Weight Gainer
personally I use weight gainer shakes on occasion. I usually have a tub at home and in the event something comes up or I forgot to prep food I can throw down a shake that's more than a measly 120 cals from whey protein. its not a daily supplement, however.
BCAA
if you are using a majority of meat protein you should have enough BCAA in your diet.
I typically use BCAA in times where id feel low energy for example:
1- when training on low carb day
2- when doing fasted cardio
Thanks for taking the time to help. I appreciate it.