All in one supplements

All in one Supplements – Everything you need to grow in one easy shake
Now these are my Favourite Supplements! I believe that the simpler you keep your nutrition the better because it’s so easy to get busy and forget to take a capsule here and a shake there and before you know it you’ve missed out on half of what you should have taken.

All in one supplements are Supplements designed around Protein as this is the main supplement you need when trying to build muscle and they also contain things such as Creatine, L-glutamine, HMB, Carbohydrates and usually a stack load of vitamins that you rarely get enough of that are essential for building muscle. As I've said in many other posts, you can pump yourself full of as much protein as you like but without having the right vitamins and minerals in the right quantities you’ll be wasting most of it, it’ll run through your body without being absorbed fully and you’ll end up with a terrible upset stomach and spend hours of the day visiting the little boys room, I’m sure we have all been there at some point when we have either over done it on the protein or under done it on the vitamins while using protein. If this sounds all too familiar and you regularly have this problem and your using a pure protein supplement and you feel that you’re not taking excessive amounts of it then I suggest you make the change to using an All-in-one as you may find that this stops all the stomach trouble and will get you back into the game of building muscle rather than going to the gym and achieving nothing.

The trouble I initially had with supplementing was similar to the above, I was taking loads of protein trying to get big working out 4-5 times a week after work but my struggle was that I wasn’t really eating enough of the right food to get the vitamins I needed or the carbs to actually build muscle. What many of you may not know is that if you supplement with to much protein your body will store some as fat and pass the rest of it through your system which causes the stomach trouble I mentioned earlier, however If you supplement with protein and you are not taking in enough carbohydrates or enough of the vitamins/minerals or amino acids used to process the protein into muscle tissue your body will store it as fat. This often is the reason why newbies to supplements will start using a protein without much research into why people supplement with it and what it does and all that hard work and energy they put into working out doesn’t seem to be paying off, their muscles aren’t really getting any bigger, they are getting a little stronger but no matter how much cardio they do they just feel bloated off the protein shakes and can’t seem to loose the body fat.

So rule of thumb for All in one supplements:

If you’re under 160-170lbs and train 3-4 times a week max. Your probably better off with an all-in-one supplement because it will give you enough of what you need to start getting decent gains and you will avoid a lot of the pitfalls that a lot of people end up experiencing when they start using protein.

If your over 170lbs and your training 4-5-6 times a week and you’ve got a lot of training experience and are already well into your bodybuilding you will probably have the knowledge of exactly how much of everything you need and you will probably benefit more from individual protein and creatine products and you will need to have a strict supplement plan along with a good training routine.

Most Popular All-in-one Supplements:

PHD Synergy ISO-7 - Real quality supplement again from PHD and really good value for money, £33.99 for a 2kg tub which means it’s cheaper than a lot of the others out there and is from our experience just as good as some that cost twice as much.

CNP Professional Pro Solo - Again quality supplement, More pricey than the likes of PHD and USN but you do get a good supplement for the money £31.49 for 1.2kg also contains beta-alanine which a few of the others don’t so it gives you something a little different however it doesn’t contain much in the way of added vitamins and minerals compared to the likes of USN Muscle Fuel Anabolic.

Maximuscle Cyclone - Now Here is a good All in one supplement! Cyclone is one of the most popular supplements in the industry, no matter which website you go on you will always see maximuscle cyclone in the top 10 best sellers and there is good reason for it, because it works and it works well. It is more expensive than others but that is generally the case with maximuscle across the board £31.99 for a 2lb tub is a good price though most stores sell cyclone anywhere between £36-£38 some even more. The only reason I would rate USN or Sci-mx's equivalent products over Cyclone is purely the price. Based on the fact you need to consume a lot of servings of protein each day when your training hard its over twice as expensive to use Cyclone than it is to use USN Muscle Fuel Anabolic.

Reflex One Stop - Is another good all in one, It gets good reviews and seems to do the job for a lot of people, I have tried it myself and wasn’t to keen but I always take my shakes in water rather than milk and Reflex supplements tend to be a little powdery and foamy for my liking, if you take your shakes in milk then I wouldn’t worry as the milk makes it that much thicker and better tasting but if you’re trying to dodge the fat and calories you might get a bit sick of the taste after a while, I only tried the strawberry so I can’t really say for the taste of the others plus I’m never to keen on Chocolate flavours.

Sci-MX Omni Mx - From my own experience this is one of the best All in one supplements out there, tastes great, really easy to stomach and mixes up really well in both water and milk and it’s the right texture for a milk shake even when you mix it up with water its not to thick and rarely do you get left with any bits in it all seems to absorb into the water really well. I had great gains on it for the whole time I’ve used it, I’m now switching to USN's Muscle fuel Anabolic which when you look at it are pretty much the same thing but we are having supply issues with Sci-mx products right now and hope to have them back for 2010 but USN real similar and are never hard for us to get hold of thanks to a really good supply.

USN Muscle Fuel Anabolic - Save the best till last as usual, Muscle Fuel anabolic is great if you mixed up a shake of this and a shake of Omni MX you would be hard pushed to tell the difference although I think the Omni MX has a little more flavour to it. The really good thing about Muscle Fuel anabolic is unlike Sci-MX where you can only get Omni Mx in 5lb tubs USN do a 4kg tub of Muscle Fuel Anabolic which inside is 3 sealed bags so it keeps it fresh for longer and you don’t have to keep ordering up more tubs because it lasts so much longer, it can be a bit of a pain if you get bored of the same flavour over and over again but it does save you a load of money, £47.49 buys you a 4kg tub right now which if you break it down is 1.1p per gram (there abouts) if you compare that to buying say Maximuscle Cyclone which works out to 2.7p per gram so it’s less than half the price which over time makes a big difference.

So to conclude The All in one section....

All in ones are great for beginners and the experienced trainers among us, they help you keep your Nutrition plan really simple and they can be the answer to a lot of the usual problems that people get when using supplements.

Hardcore Bodybuilders that weight more than around 170lbs should really be looking at breaking up their supplement plan into individual supplements because the amounts of certain nutrients you need will be far more than your average Joe.

And there is quite a bit of choice when it comes to All-in-ones and the above 6 are probably the most popular on the market.