Working out 3 times a week is all that you need, if you go for 4 your really just pushing it. If you really want to work out 4 days just make sure that you are taking AT LEST one day of rest in between your workouts or else your muscles will not have enough time to recover.
The way I have it is I lift Monday and Tuesday, Wednesday is a break, lift again on Thursday and Friday then Saturday and Sunday is a break.
This will be my second week doin it and I'm really liking it, I enjoy being in the gym.
With a good diet you shouldn't have to worry about taking that much protein even if your looking to bulk not to mention, it will save you money on your protein. For post workout I usually take 2 scoops of Muscle milk which I've been using for ever and has never done me wrong.
Yea a good chunk of your daily protein should come from your diet but the supplements do help me out in hitting me 1.5-2 grams of protein per pound of weight.
Recently I've been taking from GNC Mass XX which is great for bulking... I fucking hate the store because they are overpriced and sell crappy ass products. Not to mention the people that work there don't know shit for shit, and the ones that do buy all their products from different shops or online. They're Amplified Creatine 189 passed right through me without dissolving(serves me right for buying anything from GNC) , but the prices they have on their GNC brand proteins(Which I figured out our manufactured by ON Nutrition who make way high quality protein) are hard to beat on gold card days :p.
Yea GNC stuff is pretty overpriced and all that, most of the stuff I buy came from either Vitamine Shop or my Gym itself. I now plan on buying all of my supps online tho from bodybuilding.com, a site I'm sure you guys know of :P
No-Explode (trying it out, pretty good pre workout pump)-Pre workout.
This right here, is the one thing that I can really say that you are doing wrong. I don't mean to make you feel like an idiot or anything but listen closely.
NO-EXPLODE IS FUCKING SHIT.
It is probably THE worst pre-workout supplement that I have ever touched in my life and probably one of the worst on the market. It gave me horrible jitters, stomach problems after using it for awhile, it tasted like rotting asshole, and compared to many others that I have tried- barely any if at all a pump.
Not to mention that I almost guarantee you that by the end of the tub your going to be need to be taking around 4 scoops to get any effect from it at all which is what I had to do and I don't even weight that much. So when you figure it that way, this shit is fucking expensive.
Right now I'm taking NO-Shotgun which I have been receiving GREAT results from. Though it does taste pretty rank it gets the job done and then some.
After that is out I'm definitely going to buy myself some White Flood OR what my friend swears by and many many people highly recommend Ragnarok. They say it's an amazing product and the taste is suppose to be amazing too. He's also 230 pounds and he's never had to take more than one scoop to get the energy that he needs.
Yea, no offense taken, it hasn't been too good of a pump. As soon as the tub is done I'm most likely gonna try out White Flood, heard some really good things.
Optimum Nitro Core (many amino acids, good mix of whey and casein)- my bedtime protein, after this tub I may just stick with a more tradition casein supplement however.
Like I said, one scoop of Mass XXX after you work out if your looking to bulk is all your ever going to need. That's just my opinion of course, your diet might be different than mine and you might need to be drinking more shakes for extra protein.
The only reason I take that protein is because of the slow released/digesting proteins in it, I really can't stand cottage cheese at all so I needed a shake to keep me good throughout the night :P
I feel that is all I need so far but it doesn't include one thing I really feel I need: Creatine.
I've done alot of research on how it works, what it is, etc. and feel that creatine is a powerful tool for muscle gain that would be foolish to pass up.
Your totally right, creatine is great, me personally I would suggest from what I have experienced myself, heard from reviews, friends who have taken it along with me- No contest, the winner is Green Mag
Yea I heard great things about Green Mag as well, I got Optimum Micronized Creatine instead because I wanted a Creatine Monohydrate so I could mix it with my post workout Protein shake.
If I were to use Green Mag in the future how would I take it? Drink that first then the post workout protein after?
