Do you take your bcaa pre or post workout? or both?

[GottaGetLean]

Ive heard so many different things, just wanted some more opinions on it, ive heard people take it 10grams pre 15grams during and another 10grams of bcaa post workout. Then some people are telling me just post work out then others are only saying pre workout.. So I rather take my advice from muscle central, how do you take your bcaa?

[AVBG]

I do both

[troutman18]

I also do both. helps with muscle endurance during the workout and helps for quick recovery post. Try and get a good bcaa like xtend or chaind out that has citruline malate in it so it really absorbs fast.

[Jason Newman]

pre post intra, and 1hr before each meal brah! its the best way for a nattie to grow

[GottaGetLean]

pre post intra, and 1hr before each meal brah! its the best way for a nattie to grow

how many grams of bcaa do u normally do?

[Jason Newman]

how many grams of bcaa do u normally do?

2 scoops of chaind out each time! gotta love it bro

[spritz0]

I take 5 Six Star BCAA quick-dissolve tabs 1 hour pre-workout, a half hour later I take a mainly Creatine/Beta-Alanine pre-workout drink. Immediately AFTER 2 hour workout I pop another 5 quick-dissolve tabs as this helps recovery as I cannot eat regular food until about an hour or more after working out... I hope this helps!!

[tp_88]

Pre-wo is most efficient, and 1h after wo is more efficient then just after. Both pre and post is better then any single dose though, of course.

I do: 10g EAA -> workout -> 10g EAA/Whey/Food -> Food.

[Timbo89]

I take 5 Six Star BCAA quick-dissolve tabs 1 hour pre-workout, !

i find tabs suck.

[lilarnold]

total waste of money


eat a meal an hour and a half before training and you'll have all the aminos you need. even if its whey and oatmeal or something similar.


you guys should consider stopping this wasteful supplement using and invest in some grassfed beef and just better quality food which is generally more expensive.

i stopped using all these stupid supplements and just stick to creatine and whey isolate and use the money i save to get higher quaslity food and my gains have been better than any supplement i ever took.

if your truly eating all day the way you should be there is no reason to supplement with addistional aminos

[tp_88]

total waste of money


eat a meal an hour and a half before training and you'll have all the aminos you need. even if its whey and oatmeal or something similar.

False.

AAs and long protein chains doesn't have the same impact on protein synthesis. At all.

[MattPT88]

False.

AAs and long protein chains doesn't have the same impact on protein synthesis. At all.

Generally during exercise BCAAs are not used for protein synthesis. The are a preferred source, aside from glucose, of energy for the skeletal muscles. The point of BCAA supplementation during exercise is to decrease muscle catabolism not increase protein synthesis.

[tp_88]

Generally during exercise BCAAs are not used for protein synthesis. The are a preferred source, aside from glucose, of energy for the skeletal muscles. The point of BCAA supplementation during exercise is to decrease muscle catabolism not increase protein synthesis.

Even if they wouldn't be used in the protein synthesis (which I doubt, but I'm not sure) they still stimulate it way more then whey, tuna, beef or any other intact protein does.

[MattPT88]

Even if they wouldn't be used in the protein synthesis (which I doubt, but I'm not sure) they still stimulate it way more then whey, tuna, beef or any other intact protein does.

I dont think so. In order for protein synthesis to occur you need to have all the essential aminos present in the correct amounts. If one is limited or missing protein synthesis cannot occur. So BCAAs do not provide all the essentials for it to occur which would mean pro synthesis does not occur. Although BCAAs provide 3 of 9 EAAs the other 6 must come from sources like whey, tuna, beef, etc.

[lilarnold]

Even if they wouldn't be used in the protein synthesis (which I doubt, but I'm not sure) they still stimulate it way more then whey, tuna, beef or any other intact protein does.

uh........nope

real food is ALWAYS better