Money for Muscle

Can you really turn this into Muscle?

If you walk into any health food store you’ll see a wall of supposed muscle building supplements. Each one with fantastic claims about protein synthesis, strength, power, weight gain, boosting hormons and enzymatic pathways and on and on.

There are muscle building supplements for pre workout, post workout, morning, night, morning AND night, testosterone boosters, nitric oxide stimulators, amino acid products of all kinds, plain creatine, mixed creatine, protein, meal replacements, weight gainers, GH boosters, prohormones etc.

With an unlimited supply of money it would appear that each one of these is worth taking (based on their claims). But most people have a limited supply of money.

If these things worked, even a bit, how much money would you realistically spend for a few extra pounds of muscle?

Leave you answer in the comments section.

note: I’m assuming no amount of supplements can produce steroid like gains

John

Posted by johnbarban in Muscle Building, supplements
Tags: creatine, Muscle Building, protein, supplements |5 Comments

5 Responses to “Money for Muscle”

  1. Al Says:
    May 20th, 2010 at 12:27 pm

    The same can go for fat loss as well. The last time I checked, I cannot turn my money into fat loss.

  2. MovieFX Says:
    May 20th, 2010 at 1:59 pm

    I pay for the ‘peace of mind’ that I wasn’t a freak, that what I was doing worked, and to provide me with a support group to evidence my ‘secret knowledge’ which made me different and elite.

    I’m not being sarky – I really mean what I’ve written. That’s why I was drawn to fitness in the first place – the super hero ‘secret identity’ becoming complex.

  3. usernametooshortnowitstoolon Says:
    May 20th, 2010 at 2:55 pm

    How much I would spend would also depend on how quickly it works and also how easy it is to use/maintain.

    So I don’t know – maybe $50 to help me gain a few extra pounds a muscle. I think a few extra pounds of muscle a month is actually really good. That’s 24 extra pounds of muscle a year! So scratch that – I would pay $100.

  4. Jason Says:
    May 20th, 2010 at 5:55 pm

    More than my gym membership. Maybe $100 a month if I got a guaranteed 2 pound dry muscle gain for a year.

    For fat loss, I think it’s more about buying time. Even in the most severe calorie deficit, you need the patience to wait it out for an extended period.

  5. biggahboy Says:
    May 21st, 2010 at 1:31 am

    Maybe $150 per month for 5-8lbs of pure muscle.

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