Products for Beginners in the Gym

Javier Colomer 7 min. of reading Fitness Leave a comment

This article is aimed at those who have recently started training and practising an intense activity, such as bodybuilding or weightlifting, and are looking for information about what are the best options when starting to take nutritional products and how they can benefit them.

Index

1 HSN Starter Pack
2 What are the Recommended Nutritional Supplements for Beginners?
3 FAQ on Food Supplements
4 Related Entries

HSN Starter Pack

From HSNstore, we have put together a series of Sports Nutrition packs for beginners intending to provide information and show the recommended products. If you don’t want to keep searching indefinitely in any catalogue, save that time and let us help you.

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What are the Recommended Nutritional Supplements for Beginners?

Protein

Protein is the best-selling product due to its special function as a food for athletes

The main interest among this audience is due to the ease with which it can provide nutrients that are truly beneficial for muscle recovery and development.

A protein shake as a post-workout meal would be one of the best nutritional options available, although not the only one, but certainly the quickest and most convenient.

Do you have any doubts about when to take the Protein Shake?

Evowhey Protein by SportSeries

Whey protein is one of the most widely consumed proteins in the world, although we can also find others of plant-based origin (soy, rice or pea).

Creatine

Creatine is perhaps the next best-selling product, and for good reason, as it is a performance enhancer. In particular, for those activities of high intensity and of short duration, such as sprints, weight lifting, etc. In other words, its major influence is on the phosphagen system, so that it will keep the ATP stores full, which serves as an energy substrate mainly in this energy pathway.

Creatine is a supplement that can be taken all year round, both in periods of weight gain, definition and fat loss.

Creatine Monohydrate Powder by RawSeries

Multivitamin

Its function is to meet a possible deficit of micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) in addition to incorporating some ingredients that act as antioxidants.

They also tend to be quite interesting during seasonal changes, especially at the onset of the worst weather.

Evovits by SportSeries

These substances are essential to maintain an optimal level of health, even more so when our diet is not usually “perfect”. Another important point is to assess the training period, i.e. if it coincides with the course of some mishap in our lives that causes us greater stress, or directly, if we have a high workload.

Do you know why Multivitamins are beneficial for Athletes?

FAQ on Food Supplements

Nutritional supplements aim to make up for the nutritional deficiencies that a person may require. On the other hand, they also help and facilitate the maintenance of nutritional requirements in terms of both macro (proteins, carbohydrates) and micronutrients (essential fatty acids, vitamins, and minerals).

And why do these deficiencies arise? Basically for two reasons:

Diet
Training

Why is it important to maintain a Diet?

Diet is our fundamental pillar, and only after we have established dietary guidelines that we can maintain, and that are in accordance with our individual needs depending on the goal we want to achieve, is it advisable to consider taking these products. Under certain circumstances, such as a hectic lifestyle, work, schedules to keep, lack of time… it is not possible to complete this monitoring, and it is when including a product that solves this lack of nutrients can be very interesting as well as recommendable.

If you are interested in learning more about the diet, click here to see the Nutrition Guide.

Do I need to take supplements?

The main reason is to contribute to complete the nutritional requirements that we have established in our diet, and that as sportspeople and/or athletes, will be higher than the rest of the population. Of these, protein tends to be the most important, as it tends to be the food within a diet that is allocated the largest budget. On the other hand, the source of protein from powdered shakes is usually much cheaper in most cases, and they fulfil their purpose perfectly: the supply of amino acids, such as BCAAs or branched-chain amino acids.

If you want to know which are the Foods Richest in Amino Acids, click here.

What result will I get if I take them?

The quick answer: the same as taking food. This is precisely why using nutritional supplements is not some kind of action with a negative connotation, as some would have you believe or misinformation would have you believe. On the contrary, they are nutrients, but they are arranged more conveniently and effectively for their administration.

A clear example of this is creatine.

We know that this supplement has an impact on strength gain and physical endurance as well as being related to the maintenance and increase of muscle mass. We can obtain it from food. In this sense, the studied doses of creatine that produce the greatest effect are around 5-10g depending on the individual. Do you know how much meat you would have to ingest to reach the lower limit of 5g? About 1kg. On the other hand, with a dose provided by the scoop of this supplement, we would obtain the same benefits.

Perhaps the turning point would be Efficiency 😉

When should I Start Taking Food Supplements?

We recommend that after an initial period of adaptation, where you adapt to these new healthy habits and, of course, become aware of the importance of maintaining a healthy diet, you can incorporate these products to benefit from them.

Start your weight training routine, and get used to the training methodology.

If you want to avoid the same mistakes that are often made when you start training, take a look at the Beginner’s Guide to Bodybuilding, by clicking here.