Tuesday 18 October 2011

Supplements- a definition

A regular question people pose to me is-'what supplements do you take?'  Why do they ask this?

I have had success in changing my physique and as a fitness professional people come to me for expertise and advice in order that they can learn something to better help them achieve their goals.

Many people are looking for a 'magic' pill or shake that will give them their dream physic in a 'Just add water' format-sorry it's not out their yet.

How to achieve your own magic pill

Firstly what does supplement mean?


The Oxford Dictionary (online) tells us,
a thing added to something else in order to complete or enhance it

Supplements come in many different forms and provide for different requirements;
Multivitamins-improve health and boy function
Proteins-enhance the bodies ability to recover and build muscle for those who regularly train
Fat burners- improve the bodies ability to burn and or use fat at fuel source amongst others.
(please be advised this is a very basic breakdown, many more products/functions are offered)

If we look again at the definition of supplement, my response to the original question 

'what supplements do you take?'

my response is 'what are you trying to achieve?'

and that is followed by 'what is in your diet to suit this?'

As supplements are designed to enhance your diet, if you are not eating a fat burning diet, or training in a manner for fat burning, your fat burner supplement has nothing to enhance, and surely therefore it won't work?

So to achieve your magic pill, Train and eat appropriately and consistently to suit your goals.  Now when you add supplements on top they become highly effective and YOU can achieve magic.


A final thought,  would it suit you to change your language.  Instead of using supplements, you use...
dietary enhancers?


Train well, Eat well, Live well.


Darren.

 



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