I actually take straight l-arginine everyday. The gnc one "arginine 5000". It worked for me just as good as the more expinsive stuff for soreness and what not. It funny you mention those gummy bears. I keep a bag of them in my back pack for post work out. I think 12 was the magic number. I can't eat alot of wheat. It gives me the shuts real bad. That's why I had my surgery lol. I didn't know I had a sensitivity to wheat and I was eating whole wheat everything. From noodles to breads. And I constantly had the shits. Well some how I managed to strain too bad and got a hernia. No not the asshole thing lol a hernia up front. How I'm not sure it's not like I was constipated. Anyway I had it fixed finally, doc told me to start slow and that squats would not be a good idea. Everything else would be ok but squats would put too much pressure.
When I first started lifting (27 first time ever) I pack on muscle fast and hit 300 on the bench in like 3 months. I'm already a big guy. But I was shoulder pressing 110lb dumb bells in 3-4 months. I grew fast but my elbows took a beating like you said. Well I found a cure. Nobody listen and they all had issues but I took osteobiflex. It's like old people meds (that's what everybody said). But it has tons of stuff made just for joints. And with in a week or two of taking it I was good. I was amazed and extremely happy. No more pops and crackles. Lol.
Where I'm going Ina few months I don't think I'll have the ability to have any sort of clean diet. Lol.
Yea man thats the way to do it. People get sold on $50 bottles of supplements just because of the marketing campaign. I used to also. Not gonna lie. Then I went to school for kines. And became more educated on the subject of sports med. And realized that wasn't the best route. Many of the products out there claim certain gains. Well you may get those gains, but could have gotten the same gains if you would have just did research and figured out the active ingredients and took just those ie.. 17-hd (just an example) the bottle is about $50 and claims huge gains in test. Well, that gain is from the tribulus testerus (I think that's spelled right) you can buy just the tribulus and get the exact same gains. But will coat 50% less.
As far as proteins go... When I was on a cutting cycle, I always used nitro tech. It's really low in fat and pretty low on carbs. I was eating a HUGE amount of protein every day. I found nitro tech to be a nice bridge between My 7 daily meals. Just because it was low in everything else other than protein.
On mass cycles, I'd just use weight gainers.
I got really into lifting on my first tour to Iraq. I had a very strict diet while I was there. I did a mass cycle for the first 4 months. Went from 210-255 with 13% BMI. then leaned down for the last 4 months (just for the girls back home
) and cut down to 240.
So I think you will be able to get back to were you want pretty quickly. I would wear a support belt for that hernia though. Just to be safe.
You say you can't have a clean diet were your going... Were you going to? Not jail right? Hahahahaha jk
