Open any bodybuilding magazine and you will see it littered with page after page of supplement adds which claim to be on the cutting edge of giving you huge biceps and a thick chiseled chest. Heck, those adds usually out number the articles (which are absurd themselves). For many years I bought into the marketing hype. I truly believed that a certain supplement was what was holding me back from my goals. It was not uncommon for me to spend $200+ a month on supplements. This went on for about 4-5 years. For the sake of putting it into perspective, that would mean I spent somewhere around $9,600-$12,000 during that time. I'm not going to lie, when I punched the numbers in my calculator, I got sick to my stomach. I often wonder how things would be now had I saved all of that money?
I am here today to tell you not to buy into all of the marketing that is thrown at you everyday. Learn from my experience and save yourself the trouble and money. Most people don't even need any form of supplementation what-so-ever. Focusing on eating a lot of clean food and choosing raw whenever you can, is all you need to gain incredible amounts of strength and build an awe inspiring physique.
To go along with the financial side of my point-of-view is the health concern. The supplement industry is unregulated by the FDA. Here is an excerpt from the FDA website about the supplement regulation process:
"the dietary supplement manufacturer is responsible for ensuring that a dietary supplement is safe before it is marketed. FDA is responsible for taking action against any unsafe dietary supplement product after it reaches the market. Generally, manufacturers do not need to register their products with FDA nor get FDA approval before producing or selling dietary supplements.* Manufacturers must make sure that product label information is truthful and not misleading." http://www.fda.gov/food/dietarysupplements/default.htm 12/16/10
So all of the supplements out there are put on the market with ZERO inspection by any overseeing body. We are left at the mercy of the manufacture's goodwill and conscious. Needless to say, that is something I don't have much faith in. Are you OK with ingesting something that you are not exactly sure what exactly you are ingesting? I'm not!
Sure I sometimes recommend supplements to some of my clients, but even then, I make sure they know that they are far from a necessity. Whole food is always the way to go. I have been training for a little over a year now with zero supplements and have had the best gains of my life. Take after me and stop wasting your money!
No Nonsense Conservatism,
Kyle Bohannon, Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist
Owner/Head Trainer
Strive Training
kyle@trainstrive.com
513-571-2950
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