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Title: BCAA's
Post by: kicker on June 04, 2006, 06:54:26 PM
Are branch chain amino acids necessary when you're dieting to get lean?  Supposedly they provide anticatabolic effects on muscle on a reduced caloric intake...and I assumed you got enough of these from whey protein powder.

Can someone provide more info on this?



Title: Re: BCAA's
Post by: kicker on June 04, 2006, 06:55:54 PM
Whoops, wrong board.  ;D
Title: Re: BCAA's
Post by: Jr. Yates on June 04, 2006, 07:34:44 PM
Quote from: kicker on June 04, 2006, 06:54:26 PM
Are branch chain amino acids necessary when you're dieting to get lean?  Supposedly they provide anticatabolic effects on muscle on a reduced caloric intake...and I assumed you got enough of these from whey protein powder.

Can someone provide more info on this?




I would say that there isn't a time when you CAN"T take them. its always fine to take your BCAAs but they aren't something that I always have.
Title: Re: BCAA's
Post by: kicker on June 04, 2006, 09:37:46 PM
Quote from: Jr. Yates on June 04, 2006, 07:34:44 PM
I would say that there isn't a time when you CAN"T take them. its always fine to take your BCAAs but they aren't something that I always have.

Ya, I too had the impression that BCAA's were always good to have...but it is worthwhile to invest in a free-form supplement?  You get them (iso-leucine, leucine, valine) in whey supplements in varying proportions, no?

Maybe someone can post some scientific literature about the purported benefits of BCAA supplementation.
Title: Re: BCAA's
Post by: WOOO on June 05, 2006, 02:36:58 AM
Quote from: kicker on June 04, 2006, 06:54:26 PM
Are branch chain amino acids necessary when you're dieting to get lean?  Supposedly they provide anticatabolic effects on muscle on a reduced caloric intake...and I assumed you got enough of these from whey protein powder.

Can someone provide more info on this?






Dear Kicker.

You posted this on the wrong board, a mod will get around to moving it soon.

In the future, please search existing threads before posting about an existing supplement... in all likelyhood, someone has already posted about it...

Please read:

http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=71241.0

http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=52451.0

http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=68716.0

http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=49556.0

http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=49037.0
Title: Re: BCAA's
Post by: kicker on June 07, 2006, 04:44:08 PM
Thanks for those links.  :D
Title: Re: BCAA's
Post by: WOOO on June 08, 2006, 02:14:31 AM
not a problem dude