I've read some recent articles talking
about some new research saying glutamine doesn't work...
Well, if you ask me, glutamine works, and there's no doubt
about it. Your skeletal muscles are 61% glutamine, and glutamine
is 19% nitrogen, so you tell me whether glutamine works
or not.
Glutamine helps with recovery, it's anti-catabolic
(means prevents muscle loss), helps increase growth hormone
levels, and it even helps with the immune system. This is
just listing a few of its benefits. I won't go into too
much detail about glutamine, since you can read these following
articles for alot more detailed information on L-glutamine:
Glutamine
information
Glutamine
benefits and side effects
When it comes to buying glutamine, there
really isn't too much difference between the many brands
out there, unlike protein, or creatine. Glutamine is simply
glutamine, a pure powder. Glutamine is mostly tasteless,
with maybe a very slight taste to it, but barely noticeable.
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Heavy Weight Gainer: Prolab N-Large 2
If you wanna put on a few quick pounds,
then weight gainers is your answer. Especially for hard
gainers like myself. So how do you gain weight? There's
a simple formula, the amount of calories you take in must
be greater than the amount of calories you burn in a day,
and that's where weight gainers like Prolab N Large 2 come
in.
Weight gainers has one purpose, and only
one purpose, to fill you up with calories, calories, and
more calories. Of course, all weight gainers has a standard
lineup of ingredients like proteins, and alot of carbohydrates.
One thing to watch out for though, when
buying weight gainers, you wanna check to see how big each
serving is and how much calories, proteins, and carbs each
serving has. For example, if you look at a weight gainer
like Twinlab's Gainers Fuel 2500, each serving has 2150
calories, where as if you look at Prolab's N Large 2, each
serving has only 600 calories. This, really doesn't tell
you much at all, you gotta look at the serving size.
Twinlab gainers fuel serving size is 584
grams! That's over a pound of powder! A 9lb tub has only
7 servings. Prolab N Large 2 on the other hand, has 600
calories per serving, but the serving size is only 152 grams.
So really, they all workout to be about the same amount
of calories, its just that N Large 2 has a much smaller
serving.
Of all the weight gainers out there, Prolab
N Large 2 is on the top of my list. It tastes great (vanilla
and chocolate), and it mixes easily unlike alot of other
weight gainers. I use a turbo
shaker, and I rarely get any clumps with N Large.
(Mixing tip: to prevent powder sticking
and clump at the bottom of your cup, put some milk in the
cup first, then put in your powder, then put in the rest
of the milk. Then shake.)
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Part
1: Beginner's guide to the basic supplements
Part
2: Understanding the basic supplements
Part
3: Selecting the right supplements - creatine and whey
Part
4: Selecting the right supplements - glutamine and weight
gainers
Part
5: Developing a supplementation plan
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