To Your Health: Exercise Supplements

Apr 25, 2023 | 9:57 AM

PRINCE GEORGE — During exercise, supplements can be taken to help improve performance throughout a workout. We look at a few different exercise supplements in this week’s to your health.

You may have seen a whole plethora of different types of exercise supplements on a store shelf, but what are they and what do they do? We will take a look at a few different types of exercise supplements today and first off is a pre-workout and there a few components to a pre-workout.

First and foremost, I need to know if someone has caffeine in their day because if you don’t have any, then you don’t want to have a stimulant. We’re going to make sure we get you something that doesn’t have caffeine in it, which is the first major component of energy. So there are different energy sources as well, but that’s going to be the key is knowing if someone wants a stimulant. – Cara Roberts, Owner, Active Body Nutrition

Another popular supplement out there is creatine.

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The main use for creatine would be strength. So a lot of people want to get better in the gym. So that would be the main function. There’s a couple of different ways to go about it. One would be creatine monohydrate that actually causes a little bit more cell volumization, which is going to actually give you some water retention. So if someone’s looking to be a little bit fuller and bigger and have water retention at the time, then they would run a creatine monohydrate. – Cara Roberts

Intra-workout supplements, like BCAA’s or EAA’s are used during workouts.

So an intras are something you use during your workout, the most common being branch chain amino acids, essential amino acids. What we have is a huge selection of different like calorie free, delicious Kool-Aid tasting drinks that you’re going to put in your cup while you’re exercising. And it’s going to be an it’s going to be an insurance policy on your muscles … What that consists of is essential amino acids are are the amino acids your body doesn’t produce. So we need to ingest them. No one eats a diverse enough diet. No one has enough food in their day to actually get the requirements of what those amino acids are. So we supplement them during workouts. – Cara Roberts

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