For over fifteen years, I have strongly recommended branch chain amino acids
(leucine, isoleucine, and valine) for use while you train. These supplements can
increase your lean body mass. I learned this trick a while ago from Drs.
Serrano and Di Pasquale. I have used it with athletes who have difficulty
increasing their mass.
How does it work? There could be a variety of reasons, namely:
• Leucine is an important regulator of protein synthesis through reducing
protein degradation in humans. Leucine is also very at sparing glucose as
a fuel.
• BCAAs promote protein synthesis in the fat-free body mass.
• BCAA consumed during training raise both growth hormone and insulin at
the same time, hence the increased anti-catabolism and anabolism.
• The BCAAs, unlike the other amino acids, are used as a form of energy by
muscle cells.
• The study by Carli et al. (1992) showed that supplementing with
branched chain amino acids prior to a workout not only prevents a
decrease in post-workout testosterone levels, but actually allowed
testosterone levels to increase following exercise.
• BCAAs administration has an anti-catabolic effect by favoring a better
testosterone/cortisol ratio.
• BCAAs administration also reduces the exercise induced increase in the
muscle concentration of tyrosine and phenylalanine, therefore indicating a
decreased net rate of protein degradation during exercise.
• There is a serious decrement in post workout soreness when you use
BCAA during the training unit.
• An Italian study on natural bodybuilders showed that 0.2 g of BCAA per
kg of bodyweight 30 minutes before workout and 30 minutes after
workouts lead to greater increases in lean body mass and strength in the
bench press and squat.
• BCAA decrease body fat (especially visceral fat, the fat that accumulates
inside the abdomen and results in that beer gut look.
• A group of researchers through three different studies demonstrated that
BCAA supplementation might also improve exercise-induced declines in
some aspects of mental functioning.
• Prolonging endurance performance in the heat.
• The prevention of muscle loss at high altitudes.
• One of the causes of fatigue during exercise is the enhanced conversion
of the amino acid tryptophan in to 5-HTP, which makes you drowsy, and
fatigues. As you may be aware, 5 HTP is sold a supplement to enhance
sleep, particularly for the fibromyalgia market.
How much BCAA should you take?
I recommend taking 0.44 g per Kg of bodyweight. Take half of this dosage
within 30 minutes before training. Take the other half right after training.
For example, if you weigh 90 kilograms (198 lbs), take 40 grams of branch
chain amino acids If you are on a restricted budget, use at least 20 grams.
Otherwise, don’t bother. Using this type of dosage, it is not uncommon for
some of my clients to gain 9 lbs of lean body mass in just 3 weeks using this
protocol.
Some people have recommend taking BCAA during traditional sleeping hours,
waking during the night to take some tablets. In this case, the rationale is that
a greater anabolic state will be created. That idea is completely worthless.
Sleep should not be interrupted no matter what! As soon as you wake up for
more than three seconds, you suppress completely the production of melatonin,
the restorative, anti-aging hormone.
40 grams of BCAAs regardless of Daily Protein Consumption
By Charles Poliquin
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12-23-2020, 07:39 PM #1
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40 Grams of BCAAs Per Day Could Lead to 9lbs of Lean Mass
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Your body mass is made up of two components: body fat and lean body mass.
People often use the terms “lean body mass” and “muscle mass” interchangeably, but they're not the same.
Lean body mass includes muscle mass, as well as bones and bodily fluid. Muscle mass is the size of your muscles.alienshave.com - Shave Smarter
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Who's doing 40 grams a day for three weeks? I'd do it but it would only make Lucia's crush 100 times stronger
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12-27-2020, 01:13 AM #10
any studies more recent than 1992?
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12-27-2020, 06:46 AM #11
This is interesting. You would have to find a bulk product to consider it be worth it. That’s about 1 tub a week. Otherwise and at 30 dollars wew lad
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Charles Poliquin been dead for 2-3 years now (died pretty young too), BCAA overdose perhaps?
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Xtend proved 9 lbs of lean muscle back in 2010
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Fugitive would have more than 90 pounds of muscle by now if he had been taking Xtend all this time. Sad!
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I have some concerns here,
How can consuming powder form bcaas benefit you when you have a protein shake hi in leucine and egg whites too for example, and you’re saying after 10-15 minutes you can take bcaas again in addition by itself and it’ll benefit you?
I love supplements and do take bcaas every day to just sip on but I am skeptical if I am over board on bcaas from all the protein I eatEating "clean" doesn't mean eating "healthy"
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