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Adionik 
Anyone have any reccomendations? What tastes decent, price?
Also, exactly how do these things work?
Take a glass in the morning and one after working out...loads of water inbetween and work out regularly?
depends on what you are trying to do...
if you are trying to get bigger(bulk) then as mentioned is a good way. alittle exsessive in my opinion, as whey is ..once again mention what builds muscle but like food whey must be broken down into amino acids, and those are what actually feed and help the muscle grow.
if you are looking to gain size i would get a good amino drink with a good delivery system (what i use is bcaa blast , made by sni.)
you can take this a few dif ways....
let me first start off by saying that there are three critical periods at which you body needs or will take in most/all supps.
A.. when you wake up
B.. before/during wk out
C.. up to an hr after a wk out.
when you wake up your body starts to gather and take in nutriants that are gonna get you going through the day, so a good protien drink is good, but like i said before your body still needs to break it down into aminos so it can be absorbed.(isnt gonna take long, like a meal . but still not emediat) a amino drink will be taken in imediatly due to the fact that theres no digestion process.
before a work out is also good to take in a protien drink as, as you are working out your body will hit fatige and start to repleish itself to keep going and the protien is there so it wont need to canobolize its own muscles to keep going.(if you take a protien drink before a wk out ...i suggest you do so about an hr before so your belly isnt full and you have already digested it.
after a work out up to an hr your body is taking in everything it can get its hands on as you have just used up all the energy you have stored up throught the day (ie food,) so you want to get a good amount of protien in your system so that you dont go into a catabolic state( feeding on your own muscle mass)
what id recomend is that you get a good whey protien(remember this...whey is whey) there isnt anything diferant between whey protien from the next. what makes a difrant whey protien is how its absorbed(ie delivery system.)
sorry back to my recomendation...
get a whey protine mix, also get yourself a good bcaa drink mix.
when you wake up, take the bcaa's and any other supps you are taking(creatine, pro hormones vitamines ect ect)
before a work out take (one or the other) protin drink or bcaa drink. i take my bcaa with my creatine 30 min before a wk out.( if you take the whey, take it about an hr before wk out.
after wk out up to an hr after protien drink. and dinner.
also after a work out its a good idea to get your isulin back up . you can do this by drinking some gatorade,red bull, or nything with some sugar.
the reason is after a work out you glucose/insulin has droped do to being depleted from physicle exurtion and isulin plays a key factor in muscle growth along with other important digestion/intake of supps.
as for taking a protien drink on off days ..i dont.(not to say that you shouldnt) (but supps arnt cheap, and youll find that there are more important time you can use your supps)and i eat 6k calories and on an off day im taking in enough protien to cover my intake .
remember this as well.....
what the drinks are desined for are for quick absorbtion. like i mention and was mentioned prev,. after or before a wk out are some key times when you will need to have imediate absorbtion, which reg food cannot give you. it takes your food anywere from an 1hr to three hrs to digest and sometimes longer. and after a wk out you only have a linited time that your body will take in anything and everything you give it.
hope this helps.
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