No this video is not about my dog
And it is not about how to go to sleep
But it is about how to have more productive sleep when it comes to building muscle.
I am going to show how with the right supplement
You can build maximum muscle while you are actually away from the gym and resting.
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Hey guys- Jeff Cavaliere AthleanX.com.
Here we are wrapping up our series here.
I hope you have enjoyed it so far.
We are in Part Three.
We are at the part where a lot of people will probably give up on supplementation
Which is right here at nighttime.
Because they figure, let's focus here only on what we do before our workout and after
our workout.
I can tell you right now
That it is actually probably the most important time that you can actually supplement the
right way.
Because this is actually the time when the body repairs itself and recovers and grows.
And that is resting at night.
Now if you are a fan of the ATHLEAN-X program, I have said it many, many times.
Rest and recovery is key to the success of the program.
Well on this program we also know that taking the time to rest and recover with the right
supplementation is going to help you immensely.
So we have ATHLEAN-Rx 3.
You can see it right here.
What I do is just take it before bed.
Again, we are going to show you why it important.
And what is so different about it from most post-workout supplements.
Well, most recovery supplements.
If you look at these ingredients, it is very bare.
And that is the way it should be.
It has no fillers, it has no unhealthy ingredients here.
I will go through a little bit on each one.
Especially if you can't read it through the camera there.
We have got HICA, which is something brand new and exciting: leucic acid.
Glutamine, we are all familiar with that.
ALA, Zinc, Melatonin, and Casein.
As far as the HICA stuff goes-I don't know if you are a fan of Labrada at all, but they
actually put out a HICA product.
It is really an interesting compund.
It is brand new.
It has the ability to tell your body, when it is starting to use amino acids, in burning
them for fuel-
Instead of constructing them for muscle.
It gives one line of direct communication with your body's amino acid storage.
So that it can direct it more in an anabolic way than being burned for energy.
So it is almost like being able to flip the switch on what path the metabolic usage of
that amino acid is taking.
Whether it is going to be productive and help build muscle, or whether it is just going
to be used.
We always want it to be used for-in this case at night-for rebuilding and regenerating muscle.
So very exciting supplement.
Glutamine: we all know about glutamine, the most abundant amino acid in the body.
You want to be able to take about 120 grams a day.
If you remember back in Part 2 we talked about there is 5 grams in the post-workout supplement?
Now we put an additional 5 grams here right at night.
We know that we utilize glutamine.
We burn it up as we train.
So we want to be able to preserve those stores so that we can maintain those glutamine levels
while we work out.
And utilize them there.
So we can replenish them at night.
And keep those body storage levels, muscle storage topped off.
we are going to be doing a good thing for us.
There is 5 grams of glutamine in there.
ALA is primarily used as an absorption device.
A compound that actually helps us absorb what we put in our bodies.
It is like without ALA, the majority of vitamins and majority of things that you take into
your body.
If you don't utilize them, what are you going to be doing?
We are going to wind up pe--ing them out, right?
So ALA helps us to keep most of that stuff.
I like to think of it as the compound and ingredient that keeps the money in your pocket.
So if your spending so much on supplements per month.
You might only be utilizing about 20 bucks worth of that.
The rest of it is going down the drain.
Not with ALA: it actually helps to preserve all of that.
We put it here, also in the post-workout as well, but now here at night.
Zinc: zinc is an important, naturally-occurring compounds that we have active really in almost
every single metabolic reaction.
It participates in almost every single enzymatic reaction as a substrate.
And what that does, is it helps our hormones actually function the way that they are supposed
to.
If you have disturbances in enzymes, it doesn't matter what your goal is--I don't want to
get too too crazy--but whatever the goal of that reaction is, if you don't have the enzyme,
it actually can't occur.
Well if you don't have zinc, you can't really preserve the enzymes.
So it is sort of this cascading effect.
You want to start with the main ingredient here, the main substrate.
And that would be zinc.
So you want to take that.
It has also been shown to boost immunity as well.
So a great supplement you can take at night.
Leading right into that-nightime-melatonin.
Guys, stress, working out extremely hard, which you should be with the Athlean-X program.
Many many things can disturb your natural sleep patterns.
What they call the circadian rhythms.
We have all seen that.
You have been stressed out about an exam.
Or you have been stressed out about something at work.
And you can't sleep.
All those things will disturb your natural sleep pattern.
But supplementation with melatonin is a natural sleep aid.
So very very levels here, but just enough to reestablish the right rhythm, the right
sleep patterns for you.
So you can actually get back and maximize the amount of hours that you are actually
in deep sleep at night.
As opposed to up and down, up and down, very shallow sleep.
You are not really recovering really well.
You are not feeling rested the next day.
Then finally, the main ingredient here: casein protein.
More than 20 grams of casein protein.
What does it do?
Well we know that there are different types of protein.
We discussed that in Part 2.
The fact of the matter is, you want to take the right protein at the right time.
Casein protein that you find in Reconstruction, is there because it is a slow-digesting protein.
As we discussed in Part 2, you don't want to take a slow-digesting protein right after
your workout-
When your muscles are craving that replenishment.
You want to take a slow-digesting protein when you are going to go long stretches without
eating something.
So if you look at that situation, that is exactly what your post-workout is, right?
Nightime recovery is a time when you are going to go through 7 hours, 8 hours of sleep without
eating anything.
You want to have a protein that can actually slowly, slowly break down and provide that
sustained release throughout the night.
This is when you want to take casein protein.
This is why it is in Rx 3.
Guys, as I said, this whole series here: Athlean Rx 1,2, and 3.
It is everything you need, exactly when you need it without a lot of that other garbage.
And you can go out there guys.
There are other reputable brands.
I am not the only reputable brand.
But I hope that I am a brand that you do trust.
I hope you understand that.
At Athlean-RX, at Athlean-X everything I do, is to try to create a program and a supplementation
system
That you can rely on to get results and to get them safely.
This is what I do at Athlean-RX.
Again, you can go out there and buy glutamine separately.
You can go out there and buy creatine separately.
You can go out and buy whey protein, your casein protein.
Your bill is going to run you $400.00 a month, $500.00 a month.
You might as well have a car payment, for crying out loud.
With Athlean-RX for just a little over $100.00,-
I kept it actually as bare bones as I could in terms of the price-
Affordable for everybody.
This is what we came up with, with a 3-step system, 1,2, and 3.
Everything that you need.
The only other thing that you could possibly need-
We talked about this before - is high grade Omega-3s.
Very, very important in aiding in muscle recovery.
And a multivitamin.
So I hope you enjoyed this series.
Again, it might be a little on the long side
But I know you guys like me to actually explain things.
To break it down for you.
I wanted you to have as much education to make an informed decision when it comes to
buying your supplements.
Guys I will be back here again next week.
Get on your way and make it the whole week.
We will be back in the gym with a whole new workout video for you.
So guys, in the meantime head over to Athleanrx.com, grab your whole 3-step program for the best
supplementation that you can invest in.
RX 1,2,3: I promise you, you are going to love the results.