I am NEW!!! And i am the Nutrition GURU!!!

[ensconce07]

Ask away!!??! Come on, i get asked questions all day every day at work and i am hear now to answer your questions and learn. Because there is always things to learn in this game.

Lemme introduce myself.

My name is Albert, i am 23, 5'11 170 pounds.

[Spinman]

at least youre modest.

haha I hope its true though, I look forward to your posts to see if youre legitimate

[wnxmaximus]

Originally Posted by ensconce07

Ask away!!??! Come on, i get asked questions all day every day at work and i am hear now to answer your questions and learn. Because there is always things to learn in this game.

Lemme introduce myself.

My name is Albert, i am 23, 5'11 170 pounds.

lol......thank you for coming to answer our questions. I have been on this site for 3 years and I have so many questions just built up. I have been writing them down in a word document. Maybe I should just attach that, you can download it and answer each question individually. I have learned absolutely nothing in the last year or so because NO ONE can answer my numerous questions about nutrition. None of these guys who have been training for many years know a lick. The degree I am working on in Foods and Nutrition has left me feeling hopeless and has provided me no new knowledge.

Sorry for all of the sarcasm, but seriously my man. How is that going to be your first post.

[ambientdeath]

Maybe he's just super stoked?

Welcome aboard!

Btw you are the manager of a GNC?

[mitchcumstein]

Id bet my left nut you dont know sh!t about nutrition. Pull up a chair and pay attention, you might learn something here.

[Gill]

You're quickly becoming an idol of mine, Maximus. Haha.

[narcsarge]

Originally Posted by mitchcumstein

Id bet my left nut you dont know sh!t about nutrition. Pull up a chair and pay attention, you might learn something here.

Dang Mitch!

Tell us how you really feel brother!

[mitchcumstein]

Originally Posted by narcsarge

Dang Mitch!

Tell us how you really feel brother!

Gotta put these newbs in their place.

[narcsarge]

Apparently.


I always thought that you were full of "warm fuzzies" though....

[dannyboy9]

O.K.

What certifications do you have ensonce?
How much money a year do you make?
How do you know if any product in your GNC store is going to be bioavailable to everyone walking the planet?
What makes one brand of vitamin C, for example, better than the next?
How old are you anyhow? (not that age is a determining factor of knowledge or experience but I'm curious)

Choose your answers wisely grasshopper, or you shall be negged.

[narcsarge]

Originally Posted by dannyboy9

O.K.

What certifications do you have ensonce?
How much money a year do you make?
How do you know if any product in your GNC store is going to be bioavailable to everyone walking the planet?
What makes one brand of vitamin C, for example, better than the next?
How old are you anyhow? (not that age is a determining factor of knowledge or experience but I'm curious)

Choose your answers wisely grasshopper, or you shall be negged.

I can answer that one....

My name is Albert, i am 23, 5'11 170 pounds.

I am not so sure coming on a BB'ing forum and espousing that one is a Manager of a GNC is going to win too many friends. Most of us have had the wonderful experience of a pimpley faced 18yr old try and sell the "latest and greatest" and yet he looks like a twig and swears by Weider Weight Gainer!

No thanks kid! I'll just plod through life reading, lifting, and learning from guys that have made the mistakes (as I have), are big as a house, and learned what works and what doesn't...

[amped805]

(Twilight zone theme plays)

I'm part owner of a GNC and I manage my establishment as well. You're located in VA and I'm on the other side of the US. I'm 23 too. I have a Bachelors of Science in Dietetics and Food and Nutritional Science and a R.D.

Originally Posted by narcsarge

I am not so sure coming on a BB'ing forum and espousing that one is a Manager of a GNC is going to win too many friends. Most of us have had the wonderful experience of a pimpley faced 18yr old try and sell the "latest and greatest" and yet he looks like a twig and swears by Weider Weight Gainer!

No thanks kid! I'll just plod through life reading, lifting, and learning from guys that have made the mistakes (as I have), are big as a house, and learned what works and what doesn't...

I'm going to have to side with narcsarge here. I don't have any of the younger ones in my store giving out advice except myself and my asst. manager. The other three employees I have are a young lady and two fellas who are 20, 21 and 22. I tend to let the older one do his own thing more ofte because he's been with us for a longer period of time and he's very advanced in his studies. He's doing a double major so it's taken him a bit longer to finish but he's well on his way to becoming a very successful member of society with the fields he's going into.

The other two I tend to encourage them to listen more often than advise. The girl understands better and explains herself better than the younger fella but I don't treat either of them differently. I try to get them to stick with the more commonly recommended brands unless a customer comes in knowing what he wants to buy. At the end of the month, our stock is pretty evened out.

I'm going to be honest with you all here right about now. As a manager, I try to do my best to give solid advice based on research but also throwing in some of my own opinions based on experience too. There are many products in my store that are completely bogus and make absurd claims that are minimally backed up by research. What I always suggest is whey protein isolate. No concentrate needed, just good ol' isolate and a multivitamin with 100% of every vitamin and mineral. If you want to supplement with herbs, get them seperately. When you pack too much in one or even two pills, you're bound to be pissing out a lot of it. I'm also a big advocate in fish oil and I prefer the liquid kind. I began supplementing with 3 grams and have moved my way up to 20, even 30 grams at times. It all comes down to your budget but those are definitely the big 3 essentials I advise everyone who comes into my store. That and creatine once the individual has gotten the hang of things and seen results, usually6 months into training depending on consistency and things like that.

The GNC brand weight gainers are an extreme marketing ploy and quite frankly, an abuse of the lack of education of those who come into my store to buy things like that. It is not feasible to assume that someone who is 5'10 and weighing 120, is going to be able to able to efficiently utilize 1000 calories (whether it be in powder or wh ole food) in one sitting. I let my customers make their initial choices and I sort of give them some rope to work with. Most of them wise up and begin asking more questions and that's where I step in and say, "Well, here's where you royally messed up...".

What I know, I contribute to my lifting, listening, and reading as well. I like to read on-line articles a lot but I also like to read books and the more logic-based magazines. Even then, I carefully filter out all that information. There's nothing wrong with giving advice when you know something, but it never hurt anyone to sit back and listen. Even the wise men weren't born wise or became wise by constantly talking.

[dannyboy9]

Originally Posted by narcsarge

I am not so sure coming on a BB'ing forum and espousing that one is a Manager of a GNC is going to win too many friends. Most of us have had the wonderful experience of a pimpley faced 18yr old try and sell the "latest and greatest" and yet he looks like a twig and swears by Weider Weight Gainer!

No thanks kid! I'll just plod through life reading, lifting, and learning from guys that have made the mistakes (as I have), are big as a house, and learned what works and what doesn't...

Can't argue with that. Your approach is way off OP but I'm going to warn you of this right now. People are going to be very critical about your posts so like I said: "Choose your answers wisely grasshopper!" The way to the people on this board's heart is being humble. Hope you can find it in ya to start getting some of that in ya!

Mega bump to the highlighted part btw.

[Gill]

Props to Amped for a very honest and down-to-earth post.

[schmichael]

hmmm, i wonder if this guy actually lives in texas??!!!

welcome back **cough** i mean welcome to the board.

[ensconce07]

I am the manager of GNC and i can tell you the hype products and the real products. I could also tell you what every single damn ingredient does on the back of w/e your supplements you are taking are. THink i am playing?? Think about how many times a day i get asked questions about nutrition/ingredients. COme on, lemme prove myself. Test me babies.

[lostboyrufio]

This kid has been ripped apart, he's gonna have to make another account lol

[Spinman]

Originally Posted by schmichael

hmmm, i wonder if this guy actually lives in texas??!!!

welcome back **cough** i mean welcome to the board.

what do youmean michael

[jennyd]

I think this thread is funny.
wnxmaximus' and mitchcumstein's posts cracked me up.

BTW...Albert...welcome aboard.
I'm glad that someone has finally come in here with some knowledge.
These dummys don't know anything around here.
LMAO.