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    Quote Originally Posted by Ericp
    Whey Protein, I haven't takin it in awhile but I'm about to start again. I would do one whey protein shake in the morning. Then another at night, or after you work out. It's important to get protein in your body as soon as possible after working out. To help your muscles absorb the protein even better, take some sort of supplement or pills that have amino acids in them.
    whey's not very good to take at night(absorbs too quickly), caesin works way better.

    as far as the thread, like others said, take noxplode ~20-30 mins before workout(personaly i hate the shit, but whatever works for you), and take the glutamine after your workout. mix like 5 grams with your protein shake. you can also take it with your nox if you want, i guess. i think if you're taking it you should take about 10-15grams a day

    as far as proteins go, optimum nutrition 100% whey is an amazing pure whey protein, tastes like you'd expect a protein shake to(bland), but in each 30g scoop you have 24g of protein, so the ratio is great(the rest is like 2g of fat and 4g carbs). plus you get 5lbs of the shit for like $35 so its pretty cheap. i used bsn syntha6 for a while too, and their chocolate milkshake shake is the best tasting protein i've ever had, and it had solid results, however it costs $40 for 3lbs, and only has 22g of protein per 44g scoop(the rest being 6g of fat and 15g of carbs).
    I've never used musclemilk, but i heard it tastes great and works very well too, but it's got a lot of fat and carbs, so i'm not sure if that's what you're looking for while trying to drop your weight fat wise. Evopro is cytosport's whey/glutamine mix, and i hear that stuff's great too. i'm probably going to buy that after my ON tub runs out

    personaly, i hate all supplements except straight protein, and flax oil if you count that(i also don't mind arginine and glutamine), so i avoid anything with nitric oxide or creatine, etc, but since you don't seem to mind them, maybe look into mixed proteins with creatine and glutamine(like cytogainer).

    one mistake you're making straight up is approaching this with the wrong mindset. dont worry about your weight, worry about your bodyfat %. if you're a lafitness member, drop by that personal trainer desk, and get your bodyfat percentage measured every week or two. it's not gonna drop very fast though..so be prepared for that. i've read plenty of articles that say stirring in 2 tablespoons of flax oil into your protein helps keep saturated fat from synthesizing into bodyfat, so you just shit it out, so you might wanna try that. it can't hurt to try, plus it's got tons of omega3, so in any case you're better off taking it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by disrupt
    whey's not very good to take at night(absorbs too quickly), caesin works way better.

    as far as the thread, like others said, take noxplode ~20-30 mins before workout(personaly i hate the shit, but whatever works for you), .
    Why do you hate it?
    And I'm an LA fitness member..I'm gon get my fat % check today.


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    i took some from a friend last year, and because i only had like 6% bodyfat at the time my veins seemed to stick out even more and i looked gross and veiny. i don't like looking like that, but some people do, so it's up to you.
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    Why do you hate it?
    And I'm an LA fitness member..I'm gon get my fat % check today.

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    Quote Originally Posted by disrupt
    i took some from a friend last year, and because i only had like 6% bodyfat at the time my veins seemed to stick out even more and i looked gross and veiny. i don't like looking like that, but some people do, so it's up to you.
    that's weird, never heard of that happening. I know steriods will make your veins pop out like crazy, not saying you were taking them. My neighbor in florida use to take steroids and we had a good time makin fun of him, due to all of his mood swings and hotflashes. We told him he sounded like a woman

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ericp
    that's weird, never heard of that happening. I know steriods will make your veins pop out like crazy, not saying you were taking them. My neighbor in florida use to take steroids and we had a good time makin fun of him, due to all of his mood swings and hotflashes. We told him he sounded like a woman
    haha, nah, my friend had just bought a tub at this place on johnson ferry before we went to the gym and i figured i'd take a scoop before working out. we did a couple sets of curls to warm up, and my vens just got huge. they'd never done that before, so i'm sure it was the nox.

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    Quote Originally Posted by disrupt
    i took some from a friend last year, and because i only had like 6% bodyfat at the time my veins seemed to stick out even more and i looked gross and veiny. i don't like looking like that, but some people do, so it's up to you.
    I don't have to worry abt that since my body fat is probably more than 10%..


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