Best Supplements for Building Muscle

We only recommend a handful of supplements which we think are some of the best supplements for building muscle. We believe food is basically the best supplement you can buy, therefore just about everything we recommend here is some sort of food.  Having a great diet is essential to making solid gains with your weight lifting, but a few of the best supplements for building muscle can give you that extra boost to make gains even faster.

Best Supplements for Building Muscle #1 – Recovery Shake

Recovery shakes are one of the best supplements for building muscle. By now you’ve probably read the research about how recovery shakes can flip the switch from catabolic muscle breakdown after you lift, to anabolic muscle building. Progenex has a great recovery shake. Watch the videos below of professional and college athletes swearing by Progenex’s shakes, then read our take about why these are so great below.

What makes Progenex different? Simple: The ingredients. If you look at most recovery shake ingredients, they have a ton of crap in them, plus some cheap whey protein like whey isolate. The problem with whey isolate is that it doesn’t absorb into the bloodstream fast enough. So instead of recovering, you’re just waiting. Progenex put hydrolyzed whey protein in their shake, which is the fastest absorbing protein you can buy. This stuff gets digested and into your bloodstream in a matter of minutes. If you want a true recovery shake, this is they only way to go. Look up anything about hydrolyzed whey and you’ll see what I mean. That’s why this is one of the best supplements for building muscle.

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Best Supplements for Building Muscle #2 Essential Vitamins, Oils, & Minerals

There is extensive research showing the benefits of Vitamin D, fish oil, and probiotics not only as some of the best supplements for building muscle, but overall health as well. One of the reasons we like The Primal Blueprint brand is because of the quality of products they provide.  Many companies ship their products from extremely questionable over seas sources, so this could be potentially dangerous. We pay a bit more, but we like Primal because of the trusted sources they get their products from.  These vitamins and oils are some of the best supplements for building muscle and have TONS of positive benefits beside muscle building as well.

Vitamin D – Best Supplements for Building MuscleSupports the immune system and strong bones.  We simply don’t get enough sunlight, especially if you live anywhere besides California, Colorado, and Florida.  This supplement helps keep your immune system strong during the months where the sun seems to disappear for weeks at a time.  Not getting sick = more training.  I like that deal.  Almost every woman should be taking vitamin D to fight osteoporosis.  Also there is evidence to support it raising testosterone levels, great for both guys and girls who want to add or tone muscle.  Vitamin D helps fight depression, especially seasonal depression when the sun isn’t out, and also may help fight cancer. Basically it’s an easy pick as one of the best supplements for building muscle.

Fish Oil – Best Supplements for Building MuscleRx grade, not the crap you find in most stores.  Out of all the best supplements for building muscle, this is perhaps the one that has been most documented to have all sorts of other positive health benefits. We have heard friends say it helps their skin, their hair, and on and on.  What we do know is it helps with inflammation which is a cause of hundreds of ailments,  not limited to, heart disease, fatigue, arthritis, headaches, muscle stiffness, on and on.  Fish Oil should be a staple in your weightlifting supplements arsenal for all these reasons and more.

Probiotics – Best Supplements for Building MuscleYou may be eating the right foods, but are you getting all the nutrition you can from them?  Probiotics nourish healthy intestinal bacteria, and Primal contains the top 3 probiotic strains.  It enhances nutrient absorption and digestion.  Go ahead and take advantage.

We try to eat as good as we can but more often than not, this falls short.  The Damage Control Master formula covers a ton of bases in the weightlifting supplements arsenal.  Damage Control Master Formula works synergistically with the Primal Blueprint eating and exercise strategies to support your immune system, maximize your own natural hormone production and balance, support normal blood sugar levels, lower stress hormone production, support the healthy structure and function of your brain and nerve cells and, most importantly, help combat oxidative damage in every cell of your body.  Everything weightlifting supplements should provide.

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If you would like to read more, here is a public post from Mark about his Primal Fuel. We think that a meal replacement makes a good weightlifting supplement in many ways.  First, weightlifting supplements should help you reach your goals.  Second, weightlifting supplements should be convenient because it isn’t “real food”.  Thirdly, weightlifting supplements should be high quality.

“While this is somewhat unorthodox, I think it’s important that the facts are made clear and you understand how I originally arrived at the $99 price point.

The product is made in an ISO 9001 GMP-certified manufacturing facility. Raw materials are required to have a certificate of assay when delivered and are still tested for microbial or heavy metals before they are released to manufacturing. The product is tested again before I can sell it. The ingredients are all the best of the best. The flavoring and sweetening systems were intended to assist people in weaning themselves off the typical cravings for sweet drinks and represent a unique combination of some very expensive ingredients – no cheap, artificial sweeteners in sight. Ultimately, the retail price has to be based on the cost-to-manufacture, which I do with all my products. This costs a lot to make.

The price point also compares favorably to other products I have seen in the marketplace, most notably Shakeology® which sells for $119 for 30 servings and offers 17 grams of protein per serving. Primal Fuel offers 20 grams of protein, healthy fats and far fewer carbs. I think it tastes better, too.

I came to the final price point of $99 based on a few other factors:

It was designed to be an autoship-based product; hence the larger tub size and 30-servings designed to last a month. I could have introduced a smaller container and fewer servings for under $50, but shipping is expensive and I pay for shipping on all my autoship products. For this product (which weighs over 3 lbs when shipped) the cost of USPS Priority shipping averages around $12.
I believe maintaining gut health is critical for good health, so I designed Primal Fuel to work synergistically with Primal Flora. The prebiotics in the Fuel coupled with the probiotic blend in the Flora can help support a healthy digestive tract. A full bottle of Primal Flora (retail value – $26.95) shipped each month was built into the $99 autoship price tag. The early feedback I have received suggests that you guys are more interested in a reduced price on Primal Fuel than receiving a discount on Primal Flora when purchasing the product. It appears the value of the Primal Flora is not fully appreciated. This doesn’t fall on deaf ears. See what I have in mind below.
Autoship customers also get a free Blender Bottle (retail value – $8.95).
That’s nearly $40-50 in value built into the total price of Primal Fuel when purchased on autoship.

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