If I used muscle building supplements, without training, would I gain muscle.?

Answer 1

No... muscle building supplements are usually either proteins which help build/repair muscle during and after exercise, or energy replacement formula's (like creatine) which just give you a boost during exercise...

I'm afraid there's only one way to actually build muscle... and that is lifting weights and doing training... but it doesn't have to be a chore.

Start cycling to and from work... do it everyday and in six months your legs will start to show definition without you really noticing what you doing. I've always cycled, plus go on rides on the weekend... great fun and builds various muscles, not just your legs.

Try doing a few bench presses each evening as well... not too many, that's how you get bored of it. Just get into the habit of doing them regularly... for say 5 nights per week and then have weekends off...

I started doing just 2 or 3 sets of reps (repetitions of lifts) with just 25 kilos on the bar... Over the last 7 months, as it's gotten easier, I've built up a little routine of 6 x 10 reps gradually increasing the weight over the months (up to 45 kilo now, my target is 50).

Because I've gotten into the habit I tend to spend just 40 mins or so getting these done each week night... and the effects are starting to show...

hope this helps...

Answer 2

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Answer 3

No.
You only need between 40 and 55 grams/day according to the Vegetarian Society (see reference).
Amino acids from protein in excess of requirements are metabolised; deamination (second reference) produces an amine group which enters the urea cycle and an oxoacid group which enters the TCA cycle so generates ATP.
Overall then, there is no point in eating too much expensive protein, nor bodybuilders and the like consuming protein shakes, since the excess is converted into urea (lost in urine) and into energy (ATP). Further, if the energy is not needed at that time then instead of being respired (to ATP) it is converted into adipose tissue - fat. You could get fat if you eat too much protein.

http://www.vegsoc.org/info/protein.html
http://www.learning-is-fun.co.uk/kidney1.html

Your body does not care where the protein comes from - entrecot steak, earthworm omelette, smoked salmon, nuts, or even a protein shake or a supplement.
Your body does care that you get a complete range of amino acids (the components of proteins) - especially the 8 called essential amino acids which your body must get from food (the others can be made by altering those you have eaten).
The essential Amino Acids are: lsoleucine, Leucine, Lysine, Methionine, Phenylaianine, Threonine, Tryptophan and Valine.
The non-essential Amino Acids are: Alanine, Arginine, Asparagine, Aspartic acid, Cysteine, Glutamic acid, Glutamine, Glycine, Histidine*, Proline, Serine and Tyrosine.
* Histidine is essential for babies but not for adults.

The best source of a full range of all the amino acids is meat.
Look on the container of a protein shake or supplement - do you really want those additives? Does it contain all the amino acids you need?
Your muscles will only increase in size and strength in response to exercise.

Answer 4

Oh no! Without working out you those supplements will pass out of your body as wate or be stored and converted to fat. Train... if you dont have time to go to gym and you insist on taking the supplements then do push ups and other free weight exercises.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

No, supplements are only use full to an individual who trains hard and needs to supplement his/her body because they have exhausted all of their natural resources.
If you take supplements when not training you are adding to what you already have and will waste your money.

Answer 7

They are designed to help you build muscle faster while training. They will do very little if you don't train.

Answer 8

Are you just sick of the typical diet plans had been following the diet regime finish the extra lbs are just coming and coming after finish the diet regime? Are you encounter the truth that once your body gets utilized to a diet regime then this diet gets significantly less efficient above time simply because your physique adjusts to compensate?

Answer 9

No, you'd have to life weights to gain muscle.

Answer 10

nope you'd just get fat, you build muscle by breaking it down through exercise, when it repairs itself it grows back stronger and bigger - supplements help with this repair