In this post we will share our views on sports nutrition and supplements and try to explain why you do not need them if you are not a professional athele and do not have any plans to make a career out of being fit. The only room we are ready to make for you it is that if you are prescribed to a supplement by your physician or a doctor.
This post is indeed about the supplements that are often advertised on the Internet or in glossy magazines as a means to look better. The most popular are protein shakes, gainers and fat burners. We have not performed any market research but we think that with these three the industry makes the largest profit.
We will not look into how supplements can reflect on your health in the long term. This question is hardly researched at the time therefore we cannot draw any conclusions on that. As well we cannot trust the information provided by the makers of supplements since its reputation is undermined by bad science or even by clearly misleading so called 'research'. For instance, the tobacco industry in the 1950-s funded research that was poised to prove that smoking has positive effects on your health. The link between lung cancer and smoking was not yet established then. That is why we are so sceptical on supplements but we cannot stop you from using them and everyone has to decide fom themselves. What we want to tell you that the advertised supplements cannot solve your issues and to make it clearer we advise you to look again into our post on calorie balance.
Let's assume there is a hypothetical aspiring workouter who wants to gain mass but he always comes short of his goal although he is training twice a day and eats like a 150 kg bodybuilder. Honestly, that is seen quite often among young guys. We know that there is no miracle and there are not enough calories to build mass. Either he trains too much or he eats not enough. But he hardly understands and thinks that he achieved his genetic limits and starts to think that sports nutrition might help him out since it promises to solve his issue in shortest time possible.
Eventually he gives up and buys protein or, what is even worse, gainer. What does he profit from that? His energy balance finally shifts into calorie proficit and he starts gaining mass. That is a success but it is not as clear as it seems.
The results he has gained will stay as long as he takes in the sports nutrition!
[Что на самом деле является некоторым обманом населения. Положительный баланс нужен для того чтобы получить положительную динамику, а чтобы поддерживать достигнутое, такого большого профицита уже не нужно. К примеру (из личного опыта): для ощутимого роста мне было надо ~1.5 гр белка на кило массы, а для поддержания набранной массы достаточно ~1 гр, give or take, на кило. Это мои личные цифры, у кого-то может быть иначе]
Если вы относитесь к тем, кто сомневается, стоит ли принимать спортивное питание или нет, то рекомендую еще раз внимательно прочитать выделенное предложение.
If you are doubtful about taking in sports nutrition then I recommend to read the phrase about once again.
While the positive balance is sustained only with taking in additional supplements then after he drops it he will return to the results prior to the moment when he started on the supplements. That is inevitable as the sun going up in the east. If you know stories when this is not true then look into the other factors.
Our hypothetical workouter has little choice, either he gets hooked on sports proteins while he wants to look better or he falls back to where he started after he stops taking in additional supplements. The industry will be happy if he makes the first choice!
Do you remember a great post from @yerofea, which says that our looks is reflection of our lifestyle? That is indeed true! (НЕТ ССЫЛКИ НА ПОСТ!)
Our hypothetical workouter does not have a clue about proper nutrition, what constitutes different types of food, how many calories are in there and so on.
It does not matter how hard you train, without proper nutrition you are hardly, or probably never, able to achieve any reasonable results. That is why our hypothetical workouter after weeks, months or years of training can come to a conclusion that it is all pointless and leaves his attempt to reach his goal. That is often seen in fitness club visitors who may train for months without any visible return. They have not done any effort to understand how their bodies work and being frustrated with the lack of results they drop off from training and clubs.
We can understand why professional athletes take in supplements since their results are directly linked with their income.
This is the peculiarity of their trade, a rule of the game they have to play to if they want to do what they love and get paid for this. But even they cannot achieve what you see on photoes and on the internet. To make a really successful shot hunderds of shots are made and the best one is later brushed up on the computer. That is the nature of fitness industry to sell you a picture that does not even exist. These are the words of Gregg Plitt, fitness model #1 in the world, 125 front pages for the last 4 years and he knows what he is talking about.
[все это так, но какое это имеет отношение, к (нелюбимому) примеру, к соревнующимся кроссфиттерам, которых можно наблюдать безо всякой ретуши, а в совершенно неприглядном потном виде, прямо в процессе соревнований? Да и полно таких фитнесс-тренеров и атлетов на youtube на которых можно ориентироваться, тоже безо всякой ретуши. Зачем вообще ориентироваться на МОДЕЛЕЙ, вместо живых людей которые могут сделать что-то кроме позы? Тем более на такого идиота как Плитт, который погиб как полный м....к во время съемки очередной рекламы. ]
Кстати, вот все фотографии с одной из фотосессий с ним, вроде как для обложки журнала - http://lianasaadi.zenfolio.com/plitt/h1B0D4594#h1b0d4594 (линк уже битый, к сожалению но суть в том, что там было около 700 почти одинаковых фотографий, из которых затем выбирается всего пара тройка лучших). Как вы понимаете, кадр, который попадает на обложку, всего лишь один из нескольких сотен!!!
[ нет смысла показывать фото, которое уже удалено
=> нет смысла переводить ]If you want to dedicate your effort to improve youself then I am asking you to think it over if you really need any supplements. Are you trying to solve a quick solution to a long-standing problem? I do not want to disappoint you but there are no quick solutions and that means if you want results then you have to change your lifestyle. That gets us back to @yerofea's post. (ЭТОТ ТЕКСТ ЛИШЕН СМЫСЛА БЕЗ ССЫЛКИ НА ПОСТ, повторно)
Can you achieve great results without any supplements, only with training and proper diet?
Indeed you can. I know a great number of real life guys who succeeded in that. Was it hard? It was! If you want to look better, if you want to be stronger then you have to spend more time training and take care of your diet. At least workout allows to make it versatile and not boring.
An worthwhile interjection from ogrudko:
I want to emphasise that in the former Soviet Union countries controls over sports nutrition and supplements are quite laxed and there is no guarantee that the inside concur with the outside.
[Линк удален, т.к. он на русском. Смысл постить его в английский текст?]
все это так, но какое это имеет отношение, к (нелюбимому) примеру, к соревнующимся кроссфиттерам, которых можно наблюдать безо всякой ретуши, а в совершенно неприглядном потном виде, прямо в процессе соревнований? Да и полно таких фитнесс-тренеров и атлетов на youtube на которых можно ориентироваться, тоже безо всякой ретуши. Зачем вообще ориентироваться на МОДЕЛЕЙ, вместо живых людей которые могут сделать что-то кроме позы? Тем более на такого идиота как Плитт, который погиб как полный м....к во время съемки очередной рекламы.</quote>
Фотки/видео с тренировок - это уже не в чистую, потому что пампинг, мышцы налиты кровью и все дела. Саня 1drag1 может так запампиться, что на фотках будет дикий кач
Но такая форма будет в 100500 раз хуже топовой формы, которую видно в журналах и на фотках, можешь сам сравнить кто не сворачивает тот дойдет (c) DoXoD
