Pre/Intra/Post Workout Nutrition

[Admin]

Whats everyones breakdown?

I never noticed much difference in BCAAs and PeptoPro, apart from the price!

Pre-WO was solid food about 1 hour before.

Intra-WO was PeptoPro or BCAA, Creatine, Citrulline M, Beta Alanine.

PWO Whey Iso, 45 mins later, solid meal

[Bull]

Meal 2 hours prior to training
Pre workout (only if taking a pre supp): 5g glutamine, 5g leucine, preworkout supp
Intra: 10+g glutamine (more if I have lots), 10g leucine, Universal Storm
30 min post: 5-10g glutamine, 5g leucine, 5g creatine mono, 40g of simple sugars from hot chocolate mix
10 minutes after that, 1.5 scoops of whey and some oats.

[Dan C]

Nope, never felt any of that stuff was ever worth it. Wayyyyyyy back when I first started lifting, I remember going on the beginner frenzy phase where you're buying every supplement left, right, and center. Eventually after a couple of years of doing this, I eliminated them one by one (glutamine, EAAs, BCAAs, creatine, pre-workout stimulants, etc.) and found no difference and no drop in performance afterwards. Eventually I was left with the basics (whey protein, fish oils, vitamins/minerals) and still to this day just stick with that.

... except for BCAAs, and the ONLY reason why I use BCAAs is because I do intermittent fasting, and the only way to avoid muscle loss when training in a fasted state without consuming calories (which would break the fast) is to down some BCAAs about 15 mins prior to the workout. After my workout is my first meal. If I wasn't doing intermittent fasting, I wouldn't be spending any money on BCAAs.

Prior to switching to intermittent fasting (which would be about a year and a half now that I've been doing it), I was engaging in the typical 6 meals per day protocol. Under this, I would always eat a meal about 45 minutes to an hour prior to my workouts. Anyhow, I was in a supplement store once and the upon checkout, the cashier asks me "so do you take anything before your workouts?" and my response was simply "yeah, 5oz of chicken/beef and a bowl of oatmeal 45 minutes beforehand". He was expecting me to tell him about some pre-workout stack. You don't need any of that pre-workout stimulant nitric oxide BCAA/EAA crap, it's for the most part useless gimmicks.

[Admin]

Nope, never felt any of that stuff was ever worth it. Wayyyyyyy back when I first started lifting, I remember going on the beginner frenzy phase where you're buying every supplement left, right, and center. Eventually after a couple of years of doing this, I eliminated them one by one (glutamine, EAAs, BCAAs, creatine, pre-workout stimulants, etc.) and found no difference and no drop in performance afterwards. Eventually I was left with the basics (whey protein, fish oils, vitamins/minerals) and still to this day just stick with that.

... except for BCAAs, and the ONLY reason why I use BCAAs is because I do intermittent fasting, and the only way to avoid muscle loss when training in a fasted state without consuming calories (which would break the fast) is to down some BCAAs about 15 mins prior to the workout. After my workout is my first meal. If I wasn't doing intermittent fasting, I wouldn't be spending any money on BCAAs.

Prior to switching to intermittent fasting (which would be about a year and a half now that I've been doing it), I was engaging in the typical 6 meals per day protocol. Under this, I would always eat a meal about 45 minutes to an hour prior to my workouts. Anyhow, I was in a supplement store once and the upon checkout, the cashier asks me "so do you take anything before your workouts?" and my response was simply "yeah, 5oz of chicken/beef and a bowl of oatmeal 45 minutes beforehand". He was expecting me to tell him about some pre-workout stack. You don't need any of that pre-workout stimulant nitric oxide BCAA/EAA crap, it's for the most part useless gimmicks.

Agreed, I never felt good on pre-WO stuff anyway, most of them made me sick.