I am an amatuer MMA fighter and I am new to supplementation for workouts. I am looking for something to boost my strength and conditioning workouts which usually consist High Rep circuits and also a few days a week of heavy weight days a week. Aside from strength and conditioning, I am training at an anaerobic state for several hours a night and I have been told to stay away from creatine.
Alpha Male Biotest seems to be a good one to give a try. Feedback from the experts would be great!
Thanks!
told to stay away from creatine because of needing to make weight? other wise, you got bullshit advice.
as for Alpha Male, a ton of activity could lead to decreased T, but I would look more into proper workout/PWO nutrition for recovery, getting adequate sleep, optimizing your zinc levels for natural T production as well. A basic multi would suffice or perhaps ElitePro for you.
Without more detail on age and your lifestyle and/or blood work, Alpha Male recommendation would be tough to say
What does your diet look like?
As its been mentioned, take care of Training nutrition first and foremost before even looking at something like Alpha Male. If you are doing a lot of endurance type work, i would recommend Surge Workout Fuel. For your strength training sessions, look into Anaconda. Take care of that time of day and you should notice a boost in training capacity.
Also make sure the rest of your diet is not total crap but those are the areas you should focus on.
[quote]BrickHead wrote:
What does your diet look like? [/quote]
Really should be standard part of original post of most questions on this board.
Beta-alanine would be worth looking into, I read a decent study published recently that showed better power production in boxers after 3 3 minute rounds after a month of supplementation. There are other good studies on it too, but given focus that was a relevant one to you.
[quote]Eazy wrote:
As its been mentioned, take care of Training nutrition first and foremost before even looking at something like Alpha Male. If you are doing a lot of endurance type work, i would recommend Surge Workout Fuel. For your strength training sessions, look into Anaconda. Take care of that time of day and you should notice a boost in training capacity.[/quote]
While this is sound advice for almost all fighting athletes with what the OP posted I don’t even think you can give out these basic guidelines. If I was coaching a fatty I wouldn’t immediately recommend pre-workout feedings. If the guy is +25% body fat and not scheduled to fight for 6 months or more he can work on technique while cutting weight.
I only write this because I am picturing one of my heavy weight wrestlers telling me they need to drink big shakes before and after a workout because of some vague forum post.
[quote]Jaimetyler88 wrote:
I am looking for something to boost my strength and conditioning workouts which usually consist High Rep circuits and also a few days a week of heavy weight days a week. Aside from strength and conditioning, I am training at an anaerobic state for several hours a night[/quote]
Do you have any control over your training or can you only do whatever the coach says?
The more details we know about your training and current diet, the more help we can provide.
Also, what’s your current height, weight, and general fat level (not percentage, but pudgy, average, kinda lean, ripped, etc.)?
What does Alpha Male do and how will that give you what you’re looking for? (Please, nobody but Jamie answer this.)
Your profile says you’re 23, so I’m not sure that needs to be an option right now.
[quote]Chris Colucci wrote:
What does Alpha Male do and how will that give you what you’re looking for? (Please, nobody but Jamie answer this.)
Your profile says you’re 23, so I’m not sure that needs to be an option right now.[/quote]
Why you always got to come up in here with common sense advice, yo? Alpha Male’s got a picture of a goddamn gorilla on there so of course it will give him what he’s looking for----goddamn beast mode strength to pick up opponents and throw them over the cage and bring some goddamn Hulkamania back into fighting and wrassling…geeez seems apparent