[quote]chrisrodx wrote:
Unless you?re eating very little protein, I doubt you would see a difference with BCAA.
Sure is a good way for a supplement company to make a killing though!
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You dumbass. Biotest has been in business since 1998. They could sell any crap they wanted to. The products they produce aren’t scams. (Not every product is right for everyone, of course.)
You clearly have no perspective and have not been in the iron game for long. Please go away or STFU.
Anyone have experience using these while trying to lose fat? Do they help with recovery? Help prevent muscle loss? CW recommends them in his new book, but I just want to hear some war stories if there are any.
[quote]CaliforniaLaw wrote:
chrisrodx wrote:
Unless you?re eating very little protein, I doubt you would see a difference with BCAA.
Sure is a good way for a supplement company to make a killing though!
You dumbass. Biotest has been in business since 1998. They could sell any crap they wanted to. The products they produce aren’t scams. (Not every product is right for everyone, of course.)
You clearly have no perspective and have not been in the iron game for long. Please go away or STFU.[/quote]
Maybe your right. Yet there is no need to be a total jerk man.
[quote]David Barr wrote:
jsbrook wrote:
David Barr wrote:
0.2g/kilo bodyweight is a good place to start, and work up from there.’
jsbrook wrote:
Wow, that’s a helluva a lot of BCAAs! Higher even than CT’s recommendations, no?
Naw, that’s only 20g for a 220lb guy. This is on the lowest end.
Americans. ;)[/quote]
Sorry. You’re right. It was my American inability to do math. Haha. I failed to note the decimal point and was thinking, “2g per kilo of bodyweight?! Holy shit!” This makes much more sense.
[quote]David Barr wrote:
0.2g/kilo bodyweight is a good place to start, and work up from there.'[/quote]
David, do you count Biotest BCAA’s as roughly one gram per pill? And if so, then a serving of Surge would have roughly 5-6 grams?
[quote]eengrms76 wrote:
jarvis wrote:
[i]5g[/i] with breakfast and [i]5g[/i] with my bedtime shake.
On workout days I also have [i]5g[/i] immediately pre and post-workout along with a pint of chocolate milk.
Whenever I can afford to, I get in as much as [i]10g[/i] in each of my BCAA ‘feedings’.
Not to purposely be nitpicky… but 5 isn’t 10.[/quote]
I think he meant that he bumps all those fives up to tens when he has the cash, not that five equalled ten.
[quote]JWJordan wrote:
eengrms76 wrote:
jarvis wrote:
[i]5g[/i] with breakfast and [i]5g[/i] with my bedtime shake.
On workout days I also have [i]5g[/i] immediately pre and post-workout along with a pint of chocolate milk.
Whenever I can afford to, I get in as much as [i]10g[/i] in each of my BCAA ‘feedings’.
Not to purposely be nitpicky… but 5 isn’t 10.
I think he meant that he bumps all those fives up to tens when he has the cash, not that five equalled ten.[/quote]
Really? You think that’s a possibility?
[quote]chrisrodx wrote:
CaliforniaLaw wrote:
chrisrodx wrote:
Unless you?re eating very little protein, I doubt you would see a difference with BCAA.
Sure is a good way for a supplement company to make a killing though!
You dumbass. Biotest has been in business since 1998. They could sell any crap they wanted to. The products they produce aren’t scams. (Not every product is right for everyone, of course.)
You clearly have no perspective and have not been in the iron game for long. Please go away or STFU.
Maybe your right. Yet there is no need to be a total jerk man. [/quote]
I don’t tolerate slander. While I’m far from a Biotest fanboy, it is a company with high ethics in a disreputable business. When you slander a person or a company, you deserve the jerk treatment.
[quote]PGJ wrote:
Back in College (1988) I used to take handfull’s of these big-ass horse pill BCAA’s. I made pretty good progress, but then I was new to weightlifting. I haven’t taken BCAA’s in years. It seems like there is a bit of a resurgence of this supplement lately.
I don’t like most supps, but I’m thinking about trying BCAA’s again. All I take now is protein powder and eat lean. Would it be worth it to use BCAA again?[/quote]
I recently started taking BCAA’s and think that they’re fantastic.
My standard post workout shake is 30g Protein, 30g of Dextrose, 30g of Maltodextrin, 15g L-Glutamine, 15g BCAA powder & 10g Creatine. As long as you have the sweetness of something like the Dextrose and Maltodextrin (D & M) you can get away the BCAA powder it’s much cheaper than the capsules, otherwise I wouldn’t recommend taking the powder (I threw up on both attempts of BCAA powder comsumption without the D & M).
When I dropped the carbs I started taking capsules, each 1 gave me 1000mg of BCAA and I took around 15 on non-training days and 20 on training days.
I believe this helped me to retain my muscle whilst cutting but can’t really comment on how it would work for bulking, I was considering dropping the BCAA’s except for the post workout shake when I start eating again but after reading this thread I might continue to use them for a few months at least.