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Title: How much have you spent in your lifetime on supplements?
Post by: 240 is Back on July 16, 2006, 12:37:05 PM: Estimate, please.
Title: Re: How much have you spent in your lifetime on supplements?
Post by: Bluto on July 16, 2006, 12:41:34 PM: lifetime? sounds like you think any of us been bodybuilding for more than a few weeks
Title: Re: How much have you spent in your lifetime on supplements?
Post by: Laura Lee on July 16, 2006, 12:43:10 PM: Mike here...................e asily in the ten thousand dollar range

(as a young lad i tried it all,Hot Stuff,Cybergenics,Lee Haneys Mass Kits,Gainers fuel 2500,
Smilax,Weiders multi vitamin packs,weight gainers,tons and tons cases even of protein bars
cases of Carbo Force,RTDS,MET-RX,f**k you name it i tried it)

"weiders anabolic mega-packs lol"
Title: Re: How much have you spent in your lifetime on supplements?
Post by: Mr. Intenseone on July 16, 2006, 12:43:39 PM: Hard to estimate. I never used many supplements most are crock of crap. BTW, define "suppliments"!!
Title: Re: How much have you spent in your lifetime on supplements?
Post by: G o a t b o y on July 16, 2006, 12:48:07 PM: Quote from: Mr. Intenseone on July 16, 2006, 12:43:39 PM
define "suppliments"!!

exactly.
Title: Re: How much have you spent in your lifetime on supplements?
Post by: The True Adonis on July 16, 2006, 01:09:27 PM: Hardly any. I buy whey protien and that it. I take about 2 servings a day. Usually they have 92 scoops.So it lasts about 46 days for me.

So I buy about 8 containers of the stuff. That comes to about 240 dollars a year, If that.
Title: Re: How much have you spent in your lifetime on supplements?
Post by: JKDMan on July 16, 2006, 01:14:06 PM: Quote from: G o a t b o y on July 16, 2006, 12:48:07 PM
exactly.
Not "those" supplements, juiceboy. :D

Me? Easy. Too freakin' much over the years. :-\ Damn this addictive hobby. >:(
Title: Re: How much have you spent in your lifetime on supplements?
Post by: Bluto on July 16, 2006, 01:27:56 PM: Quote from: The True Adonis on July 16, 2006, 01:09:27 PM
Hardly any. I buy whey protien and that it. I take about 2 servings a day. Usually they have 92 scoops.So it lasts about 46 days for me.

So I buy about 8 containers of the stuff. That comes to about 240 dollars a year, If that.

And you call yourself a natural >:(
Title: Re: How much have you spent in your lifetime on supplements?
Post by: G o a t b o y on July 16, 2006, 01:28:48 PM: Quote from: JKDMan on July 16, 2006, 01:14:06 PM
Not "those" supplements, juiceboy. :D

Me? Easy. Too freakin' much over the years. :-\ Damn this addictive hobby. >:(

Well, it's important to define what we're talking about.

The 'illegal' supplements are drugs not supplements, and they are the only substances that actually do anything useful.

I would define protein as a food, not a supplement, since how much you need to take (or if you need to take it at all) is really determined by how much protein you get from food.

Anything that does not fall into one of the above two categories (95% of what the companies that support IFBB bodybuilding sell) is useless, overhyped snake oil.

Using those definitions, anyone spending one dime on a bodybuilding supplement is being taken advantage of.
Title: Re: How much have you spent in your lifetime on supplements?
Post by: NeverTrustABlonde on July 16, 2006, 01:29:22 PM: ...... way too much
Title: Re: How much have you spent in your lifetime on supplements?
Post by: The True Adonis on July 16, 2006, 01:35:02 PM: Why are you guys wasting money on supplements that don`t work?
Title: Re: How much have you spent in your lifetime on supplements?
Post by: benchmstr on July 16, 2006, 01:40:13 PM: Quote from: The True Adonis on July 16, 2006, 01:35:02 PM
Why are you guys wasting money on supplements that don`t work?
since you take nothing but protein i can see why you think your a expert on this ::)
Title: Re: How much have you spent in your lifetime on supplements?
Post by: sarcasm on July 16, 2006, 01:41:15 PM: Quote from: benchmstr on July 16, 2006, 01:40:13 PM
since you take nothing but protein i can see why you think your a expert on this ::)
thrill us with your supplement acumen, "benchmstr". ::)
Title: Re: How much have you spent in your lifetime on supplements?
Post by: G o a t b o y on July 16, 2006, 01:43:23 PM: Quote from: benchmstr on July 16, 2006, 01:40:13 PM
since you take nothing but protein i can see why you think your a expert on this ::)

I'm guessing he doesn't take cyanide either, but that doesn't disqualify him from telling you why you shouldn't. ::)
Title: Re: How much have you spent in your lifetime on supplements?
Post by: Hugo Chavez on July 16, 2006, 01:43:49 PM: Quote from: FroZZoR on July 16, 2006, 01:41:27 PM
Alot.
You still post here??? Is this really you???

http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=29547.msg647101#msg647101
Title: Re: How much have you spent in your lifetime on supplements?
Post by: 250Ben250 on July 16, 2006, 01:54:09 PM: I'd probably put it around $4-5K in my 11 years, seems like a lot but I'v heard of much worse. My boss currently spends $1000 a month for her and her husband, and on Advocare to top it off :-\

In terms of effectiveness I'd say roughly half of it has been "worth" it for me.
Title: Re: How much have you spent in your lifetime on supplements?
Post by: benchmstr on July 16, 2006, 01:54:55 PM: Quote from: sarcasm on July 16, 2006, 01:41:15 PM
thrill us with your supplement acumen, "benchmstr". ::)
i don't take alot either(6 scoops of protein a day and some Kre-Alkalyn) but i don't go around telling people what works when i have no experience with it
Title: Re: How much have you spent in your lifetime on supplements?
Post by: Bluto on July 16, 2006, 02:02:00 PM: I buy anything with Joe Weider on the bottle
Title: Re: How much have you spent in your lifetime on supplements?
Post by: Bluto on July 16, 2006, 03:19:50 PM: I only buy what some would consider food, protein and multivitamins, and that's not necessarily more expensive than buying regular food... just more convenient. If one by "supplements" means those magic pills that suppose to do this and that, I don't buy any of that stuff... and that can become expensive, fast.
Title: Re: How much have you spent in your lifetime on supplements?
Post by: avesher on July 16, 2006, 04:07:30 PM: If Mcdonalds is a supplement, then there isnt a calculator that could add up what I have spent.
Title: Re: How much have you spent in your lifetime on supplements?
Post by: youandme on July 16, 2006, 04:10:54 PM: Thousands.
More of a placebo effect than anything else
Title: Re: How much have you spent in your lifetime on supplements?
Post by: Adam Empire on July 16, 2006, 04:43:07 PM: Well, what are the NO2 sales to date? That stuff is Myostatin 2.
Title: Re: How much have you spent in your lifetime on supplements?
Post by: torquemada on July 16, 2006, 04:49:21 PM: Quote from: JKDMan on July 16, 2006, 01:14:06 PM
Not "those" supplements, juiceboy. :D

When I read supplements, juice was the first thing I thought of, too. :-\

To answer the question, supplements like protein powder...15 years w/ very few breaks.

the other supplements, from '98-'02 on and off.
Title: Re: How much have you spent in your lifetime on supplements?
Post by: gtbro1 on July 16, 2006, 04:54:17 PM: Quote from: FroZZoR on July 16, 2006, 01:41:27 PM
Alot.

WHY? Just use someone elses,and claim they are yours.
Title: Re: How much have you spent in your lifetime on supplements?
Post by: Jr. Yates on July 16, 2006, 05:14:26 PM: I have no problem spending money on anything that has to do with improviing my gains. Its like buying food, you know you have to.
Title: Re: How much have you spent in your lifetime on supplements?
Post by: Hugo Chavez on July 16, 2006, 05:45:55 PM: Quote from: FroZZoR on July 16, 2006, 02:06:39 PM
::)
It is you it is you.... LOL...