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The right
bodybuilding supplements -
when taken at the right times and in the right amounts - can help you
attain your bodybuilding goals by doing 3 things: increasing your
anabolic drive, improving your workload capacity, and decreasing your
recovery time.
Anabolic Drive.
By "anabolic" we mean your body's ability to produce more muscle tissue.
Anabolic drive involves the natural production of testosterone, growth
hormone (GH), insulin like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), insulin, thyroid,
cortisol and other hormones and growth factors involved in muscle
growth. For athletes, it refers to the body's ability to increase its
anabolic (or muscle-producing) response to exercise, nutrition,
supplements and other factors.
In the case of
supplements, those targeted toward increasing the production of
testosterone, growth hormone and insulin, and decreasing cortisol, will
result in both anabolic and anticatabolic effects and will maximize
anabolic drive.
Workload Capacity.
Endurance or workload capacity involves your ability to maintain
high-quality bodybuilding training throughout a workout. If your capacity is limited
and you don't have the energy, endurance or concentration necessary to
train hard from the beginning of your bodybuilding workout to the end, it won't
matter how well you manage the other components of the model. Your diet
may be excellent. You may even be training properly six days a week, but
if you don't have the overall energy and muscle endurance for a
productive workout, you aren't going to experience maximal progress or
muscle growth.
Recovery. This involves your ability to recover properly between
sets as well as workouts. The goal is to ensure that the body recovers
fully from the stimulus of exercise and to reduce the amount of time
necessary for it to take place. Recovery is critical to muscle growth;
your body must recuperate from the catabolic process before productive
protein synthesis can occur. The sooner you recover from a bodybuilding workout, the
sooner your body can begin to respond to it and adapt by adding muscle.
When you don't recover from your
bodybuilding workouts, you can go
into a state of chronic overtraining. You'll actually begin to lose
muscle instead of gaining it. In the gym, you will find yourself lacking
the energy to do further sets at maximum ability. Even if you do retain
the energy to get through a workout without loosing effort, your body
still won't respond with the kind of adaptation you want: gain more muscle.
Certain supplements can have a strong effect on
lowering recovery time and increasing muscle growth. Bodybuilding supplements
targeting recovery can also help you handle additional stress in your
training. If you want to extend workouts from four to six days a week,
supplements can help you accelerate recovery to make those workouts
productive. Similarly, if you're training for another sport in addition
to bodybuilding, supplements might spell the difference between being
able to train for both effectively and having the dual training sabotage
your progress in both areas.
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