A year in - What supplements? - Page 2 - Saxperience

skids_vts · 31st January 2012, 19:30

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Originally Posted by McGuire86

Wrong. There are 3 branched chain amino acids, Valine, Leucine, and Iso-leucine.

Protein is made up of 22 not 20, amino acids iirc, 8 being essential as the body cannot produce them, 12 not essential.

Taking them as a supplement is a much more practical way to get the best out of them unless you are eating stupid amounts of protein.
When you train your muscles are depleted of BCAA's so by taking them before and after training will only help your performance, recovery and muscle gain..

I wish you would stop givin the op bad advice. Its not wrong. There are 20 amino acids, where does the 3 come from??!!! You cannot produce the 8 essential in your body(as i said) the 12 non essential can be produced in the body but are not needed for protein synthesis. This is fact!!Also 12 + 8 = 20 not 22

There are 5 other essential amino acids you failed to mention

DusheR · 31st January 2012, 20:02

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Originally Posted by skids_vts

I wish you would stop givin the op bad advice. Its not wrong. There are 20 amino acids, where does the 3 come from??!!! You cannot produce the 8 essential in your body(as i said) the 12 non essential can be produced in the body but are not needed for protein synthesis. This is fact!!Also 12 + 8 = 20 not 22

There are 5 other essential amino acids you failed to mention

No they are 3. They are called 'branch chain' because of there molecular structures. And theres 9 essiantial, if I remember correctly.

McGuire86 · 31st January 2012, 20:21

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Originally Posted by skids_vts

I wish you would stop givin the op bad advice. Its not wrong. There are 20 amino acids, where does the 3 come from??!!! You cannot produce the 8 essential in your body(as i said) the 12 non essential can be produced in the body but are not needed for protein synthesis. This is fact!!Also 12 + 8 = 20 not 22

There are 5 other essential amino acids you failed to mention

If you bothered to read instead of just copying from google and then making out that it's you own knowledge, you would see there are 3 BRANCHED CHAIN AMINO ACIDS not 20... We are not talking about amino acids in general within protein. We are talking about BCAA that make up 30% of amino acids in any protein.

Simon0014 · 1st February 2012, 02:59

In terms of taking these bcaa's they recommend 3-5 tablets 2-4 times a day...so thats upto 20 in a day.....seems excessive. How many would you recommend taking per day?

McGuire86 · 1st February 2012, 07:08

I take 3 before training, 3 after

666saxo666 · 1st February 2012, 10:44

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Originally Posted by McGuire86

I take 3 before training, 3 after

What other supplements do you use?

DusheR · 1st February 2012, 11:17

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Originally Posted by Simon0014

In terms of taking these bcaa's they recommend 3-5 tablets 2-4 times a day...so thats upto 20 in a day.....seems excessive. How many would you recommend taking per day?

If you eat enough quality protein you wont need to suppliment BCAA's throughout the day. Just in and around your workout. I have 20g each workout, so thats why I use the powder.

Giraffe · 1st February 2012, 13:24

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Originally Posted by DusheR

If you eat enough quality protein you wont need to suppliment BCAA's throughout the day. Just in and around your workout. I have 20g each workout, so thats why I use the powder.

What do you mix the powder with mate?

When I was taking it, it literally mixed with nothing I tried, and tasted like shit with everything... Only way I could manage it was spooning it in my mouth then drinking, but the taste was soooooo bad

DusheR · 1st February 2012, 14:48

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Originally Posted by Dave_E30

What do you mix the powder with mate?

When I was taking it, it literally mixed with nothing I tried, and tasted like shit with everything... Only way I could manage it was spooning it in my mouth then drinking, but the taste was soooooo bad

Yup I have this very problem. The batch I had from MP before seemed to mix much better. Most of this just sits on the top now.

I just mix it with my pre workout before (jack3d etc with water), workout drink (water, vit c, l glut, waxy maize) and pwo (whey protein, l glut, waxy maize)

Find myself chewing on little lumps of the stuff ha.

Simon0014 · 1st February 2012, 15:21

Cheers boys, I may invest in some to try out in the next week or so!

Giraffe · 1st February 2012, 15:26

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Originally Posted by DusheR

Yup I have this very problem. The batch I had from MP before seemed to mix much better. Most of this just sits on the top now.

I just mix it with my pre workout before (jack3d etc with water), workout drink (water, vit c, l glut, waxy maize) and pwo (whey protein, l glut, waxy maize)

Find myself chewing on little lumps of the stuff ha.

Blerghhhhhhhhh. I actually found it seemed OK with milk, I just remembered, but still not great.

DusheR · 1st February 2012, 19:37

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Originally Posted by Dave_E30

Blerghhhhhhhhh. I actually found it seemed OK with milk, I just remembered, but still not great.

Only advice I can give it try leaving it for 20mins before drinking. It does absorb into the water, just takes forever. Might try a diff BCAA from MP next.