In Part 1, the nature of supplement positioning for long-term gains was discussed. How to position the different creatine types was also illustrated. In reference to the prior posting on anti-catabolism (see prior post titled "The Natural Anabolic State: Anti-Catabolism"), proper supplement selection and positioning of anti-catabolics also applies to the training cycle, as well. In fact, it's more important to growth than the pre-workout category. Anti-catabolics depending on type and biochemical reaction are usually best positioned before and/or after training. The key objective is to protect the amino acid pool from the degradation effects of training. This concept has a number of implications upon further examination. The body's growth mechanism occurs from the position of its present state between anabolism and catabolism, and cannot factor out the anti-catabolic portion of the anabolic equation. This means that just by making a concerted effort to shield the amino acid pool from catabolism, anabolic effects can occur to a very significant degree, since the catabolic side of the equation will be substantially lower than its anabolic counterpart.
Growth is more about relative positioning of inherent biochemical directions, given the fact that the body has counterbalancing chemically sequenced traits for survival. Conceptually, what one should push for is a long-term sustained level of "asymmetry" between the two opposing processes, in favor of anabolism. This positive net difference between anabolism and catabolism, sustained over extended periods of time equals growth. The real problem is one of convention regarding the time line between product purchases and expected effects. The conventional method of thought states that you isolate each product's effects on training and nutrition and measure those effects on the body's composition and state of being. Although seemingly logical, this one-dimension pattern of analysis does not apply here. Such ad hoc experimentation is rarely effective.
True positioning suggests that each product under consideration be subjected to some of form hypothesis construction about its predictive direction, as denoted by the combination of ingredients within. In thesis creation, expected effects must be first identified using some sort of a predictive model (i.e., prior scientific information about ingredients). This illustrates a common critical error in judgment. Most supplement buyers who attempt to isolate for controlled effects fail to first correctly identity them: What cannot be identified, cannot be measured.
True positioning also suggests that supplement consideration and even applied isolation be viewed in a multi-variate complex. Many people attempt isolation to the extent of deliberately ignoring product effects on other systems in the body. Paying attention to how products can affect various systems in a simplified cost/benefit analysis can actually yield hidden benefits in addition to potentially higher margins of safety in decision-making. For example, I normally recommend the purchase of neurotransmitter precursors, such as choline bitartrate or cdp-choline for acetylcholine regeneration: Nervous system recovery is actually required for muscle growth and the ability to maintain output in subsequent training sessions, and lack of recovery in this area is in significant part due to the unnecessary of extension of post-training pain and soreness, as a result of neurotransmitter depletion. These precursors combined with anti-catabolics post-training are more likely to bring neurological recovery in line with that of skeletal muscle recovery and contribute to greater anabolic signals in subsequent training. In addition, I also tend to focus anti-catabolic supplement time coordinates close to training in the pre and post-workout phases, for the core reason that the highest intensity in cellular breakdown is instructed at that time to occur, as activated by training itself. One can hedge against continued post-training breakdown through similar practice(s) in product application. Using logical schemas of prediction also benefits the activity of product stacking for synergistic effects, while purposefully avoiding counteracting combinations.
Scientists are not needed at the retail level for people to make informed decisions about product purchase considerations in supplementation. A logical method of thinking focused on how products affect the body according to their ingredients in a multivariate contingent capacity is the real requirement to get started in proper nutrient positioning. Supplement positioning is more of a way of thinking about product selection, application, and program modification for long-term results than it is about product purchase and related effects causality.
Recommended Product(s):
HMB
Lecithin - Choline (neurotransmitter support)
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