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The Best Supplements For The Gym

When it comes to the gym, everyone has different routines and different goals that they are hoping to achieve. Therefore, it can be difficult to generalise the supplements recommended for each gym workout. However, there are a variety of different vitamins that can benefit your gym workout.

Any gym goer should know that supplements are not a substitute for a healthy, well-balanced diet. You should be able to get all the nutrients you need from fruits and vegetables, and ensure that you remain hydrated. For extra support, however, here are some supplements that are great for workouts at the gym.

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Do supplements help in the gym? 

Dietary supplements marketed for exercise and performance can’t take the place of a healthy diet. However, supplementing your diet can help to support your body to perform and recover during certain types of activity, such as gym workouts.

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What are the best supplements for the gym?

Here are our recommendations for the best supplements for the gym:

Fish oils

Fish oils like Omega-3 are anti-inflammatory, and this can make the difference between a good workout and a great one. They can be found naturally in oily fish, like salmon or mackerel, or via a supplement. It’s great for everyone, not just people who work out at the gym, and supports brain and heart health, and your vision. If you are vegetarian/vegan, never fret – these come in vegan supplements, too.

Vitamin D

It can be difficult, particularly in the winter months, to absorb your daily requirement of vitamin D from exposure to sunlight. Vitamin D is vital in the absorption of calcium, and so it is crucial to ensure you supplement if you think you might be deficient.

Creatine

Creatine is one of the most effective supplements you can take to increase physical performance during high-intensity exercise. Creatine is a chemical protein found naturally in muscle cells, and within the brain. It helps to produce energy for everyday tasks, as well as exercise. Featured here alongside magnesium, creatine can provide your muscles with more energy, helping you to exercise for longer.

Multivitamins

You certainly can’t make up for a lack of fruit and veg in your diet with a multivitamin, so ensure to take these alongside a balanced diet. Having a supplementation of all the necessary vitamins you should be getting from your diet will ensure that you replace what you lose throughout your gym workouts, via sweat or exertion.

Vitamin K2

Vitamin K2 primarily comes from animal sources,and is particularly found in liver and other organ meats. It can help to support bone health and decrease calcium build-up in your blood vessels. This can be a difficult vitamin to source, particularly for vegetarians and vegans, so it can be worth supplementing to ensure you meet your daily requirements.

FAQ

Our R&D process usually takes around 12-18 months, but can take up to 2 years with lots of to-ing- and fro-ing to get the formula just right.

Our formulas are created based on the latest research and scientific understanding. Only those ingredients known to be safe through historical use and clinical research are selected for use in our products.

Many of our formulas contain natural extracts from food or plant sources, such as curcumin, ginger, artichoke, berberbine, ashwagandha, milk thistle and broccoli to name just a few. Other examples include calcium from algae and vitamin K2 from chickpeas. Many of our supplements also contain nutrients known as “nature-identical” – manufactured to be a perfect replica of the same nutrient found in food, an identical structure with optimal purity and absorption. Unlike “food grown” supplements, our formulas are backed by real science, allowing us to include higher, more therapeutic levels of nutrients, as well as botanicals, in the forms known to be better assimilated by the body, and are standardised for consistency across our range.

Often it’s necessary to include additional ingredients in our products to make them effective. These are also known as excipients, and include ingredients such as anti-caking agents which stop lumps from forming in powders, flow agents which help with the manufacturing process, or coating ingredients used to help make the tablet easy to swallow. Whatever the product, we aim to use as few excipients as possible, from the safest, most natural sources available. Over the last few months we have been busy working through our entire product range to see where we can make changes to the additional ingredients we use, reducing the number of excipients or even switching to “pure-fill” capsules (where no excipients are used at all), and you will see these changes filtering through over the next year. With complex formulations containing lots of ingredients, this process is a tricky one, but we are committed to making improvements to our products where we can. For more information on the excipients we use, click here

Products are sent to us with Certificates of Analysis or Certificates of Compliance which we hold on file here at Nutri Advanced. We also hold extensive information on the ingredients and allergen status of our products – so if you have a question about our products, please do call our customer service team. We are always happy to help!

GMP means “Good Manufacturing Practice”. GMP describes the minimum standard that a medicines manufacturer must meet in their production processes, and ensures that products are of a consistently high quality, are appropriate for their intended use and meet any authorisation requirements. Food supplements are not medicines, and so are not required to be manufactured in GMP-certified facilities, but by using suppliers who are manufacturing to GMP standards, we are happy that our products are being made to the highest quality. We ourselves at Nutri Advanced hold a Wholesale Dealers Authorisation, meaning we are certified to GDP – “Good Distribution Practice”. GDP ensures that the quality and integrity of products are maintained throughout the supply chain.

Products are sent to us with Certificates of Analysis or Certificates of Compliance which we hold on file here at Nutri Advanced. We also hold extensive information on the ingredients and allergen status of our products – so if you have a question about our products, please do call our customer service team. We are always happy to help!