Since we’re all a bunch of active tankies over here, I wanted to discuss the usage of supplements.
In Belgium/The Netherlands the majority of the fitfluencers have convinced their young audience that you won’t be able to get ripped if you don’t take their 40 euro pre workout filled with near lethal amounts of caffeine.
Of course, you don’t need to take all these things in order to improve your physical health. I myself, for example, quit using supplements apart from some vitamin B and calcium supplements (mainly because I eat plant based food and you tend to get shortages of these two things faster). I used to take (vegan) protein shakes for a while but they always upset my stomach and I figured I might as well get my nutrients from food alone.
What kind of, if any, supplements do you take? And how does it benefit you?
I use creatine as it had the best scientific evidence for actually doing something. Except that it doesn’t do something for everyone, and it doesn’t seem to affect my performance much. I suppose that means I’m actually kind of lucky, it meant I didn’t have a deficit of nutrients when working out at least.
I’m term of steroids, Renaissance periodization is a neolib asshole, but he has done the best science based steroid use ive seen, and his videos don’t have neolib shit in them. Actually he seems like a decent guy for the most part, it’s just that fuxkin ->all<- the jocks seem to be fascist (btw: thanks swoleteriat for exiting! I’m so happy I found a community with 2 big cultural things I have in common.)