What's up guys?
Jeff Cavaliere, ATHLEANX.COM.
Today we're going to cover one of those topics that seems to never go away, it comes up each
and every day here,
and it's one that I know very well having lived through it, painfully lived through
it myself back in my teenage years
and that is the subject of mass gainers and weight gainers.
Is there any value to these things in helping guys, painfully skinny guys, to build muscle,
put on mass and so on and so forth.
I can tell you this, first and foremost we should not even begin this discussion if there's
a reluctance on your part to commit to a solid nutrition program.
I've said this before in all my videos regarding supplementation.
And I'll say it again for those that this might be the first time that you've seen me.
If you have a reluctance to commit to a solid nutrition plan, then don't talk to me about
supplementation.
Or anybody for that matter.
And certainly don't buy anybody else's supplements and don't buy ours.
And I'm telling you this guys as straight out as I possibly can.
Yet realizing that that will cost sales.
There's no need to talk about supplementation if you have a reluctance to have a solid nutrition
program
and commit to eating the right foods.
High quality nutrient dense foods.
Does that mean that it has to be boring foods?
No.
There's plenty of ways to have a meal plan that actually tastes good.
And there's a lot of guys obviously watching this channel who are already at that point.
Their nutrition is better than most.
And they're committed to making it better and better as they can.
Those guys can start to investigate supplementation to supplement their nutrition regimen.
However if you're a guy, and again, I was there, I was totally there.
I ate the worst diet as I possibly could as a teenage kid and guess what I looked for?
I looked for the solution in a bottle.
The first gym I ever stepped into the guy told me, 'God, you're skinny and you need
to take a weight gainer'.
So the first thing I did was, I grabbed my grandmother and we went to the store and I
went out and I bought a weight gainer.
And my problem was I didn't stop at the the 1800, whatever it was, Weider 1800, thinking
that that was going to do something for me because it didn't so what did I do?
I went back and I bought the Weider 2700, I'm taking 2700 calories.
Now why didn't it work?
Here's the short answer to the question.
Because there's an old age old adage that says, Horse Shit in equals Horse Shit out.
And what I was putting in my body was 100% pure Horse Shit.
And anybody out there that sells a weight gainer and advocates a weight gainer, and
I'm talking Mega Calorie Weight Gainers,
that that's the thing that a skinny guy needs to put on weight and size, is flat out delivering
nothing but Horse Shit to you.
So what do we do about it?
I think the first thing we have to do is we have to realize that it's not about the calories.
It's not about the calories.
Ultimately the calories will matter.
But it's not about the calories and stuffing in as many calories as you can.
Because if you stuff in as many calories as you can but you're not getting high quality
calories then you'll get what I just said.
That whole equation of Horse Shit in equals Horse Shit out.
You need to give your body high quality calories if you expect it to help you to build high
quality muscle, high quality metabolically demanding lean muscle tissue.
It's going to cost your body to help you add lean muscle.
That muscle has to be sustained.
There's a place to pay for that muscle.
It's not going to let you just add it whenever you want by taking in subpar nutrition and
slamming down thousands and thousands of calories of subpar crap.
What you're getting in these weight gainers guys, is you're getting loads of two things,
sub quality protein and tons of sugar.
And in both of those guys you don't have the makings of the essential nutrition that you
need to help build new lean muscle.
Here's one of the tip offs that you should know.
If you can go through the aisles of Walmart and find your weight gainer that you're going
to take,
and think that that is going to give you the muscles that you need to take, and be able
to get it at an affordable price,
and find it on the label, not only are they giving you all these carbohydrates, "sugar",
but they're giving you the protein in mass amounts as well, 40 grams, 50 grams,
but it costs 20, 30 bucks, 40 bucks.
I can tell you right now, you are getting nothing but crap.
You can't find protein that's cheap.
Cheap protein doesn't exist.
It does, if it's cheap protein, low quality protein.
The high quality protein doesn't come at cheap prices.
You can even think about your solid food options.
Steaks are not cheap.
Fish is not cheap.
Even cheese and milk on a per weight basis is not cheap.
So high quality proteins are not inexpensive.
However, these weight gainers, these mass gainers are filled with low quality proteins
that come at a cheap price.
I think that's doing a bigger disservice than anything else.
Because what happens is the guy, the painfully skinny guy who's looking for the fast answer,
goes to the weight gainer,
takes in 2500 calories, is told he should have 3500, 4500 calories in a day.
He thinks, he'll take it twice, he'll think he's met all of his caloric requirements,
meanwhile he's provided no real solid nutrition to back it up.
Meanwhile he thinks he's there, because he's at a number, he's hit the number, 2500, 2700,
3500, 4000, whatever that number may be,
he's gotten it in a shake, he's good to go.
Wrong!
That's the last thing that you want to do.
That's the last way you want to think.
It has to start with your solid nutrition and then again supplement.
And if you're looking to supplement guys, again high quality is the only way to go.
I have my ATHLEAN-RX line of supplements.
You guys know, I talk about the quality of our supplementation.
Does it come cheap?
NO it does not.
It never will.
I can't bring you the quality nutrition that we do at a cheap price because it doesn't
exist.
This type of protein doesn't exist at a cheap price.
Now is it for everybody?
No.
We cater to professional athletes guys, our supplements are used by professional athletes.
It's not a budget that every single guy can have but does it mean that you're screwed
and you're out of luck?
No.
Start with a solid nutrition plan.
I ate Peanut Butter and Banana sandwiches for the longest time,
again after I already realized that the weight gainers were doing nothing for me, and I started
to actually see some benefits.
Is that the perfect sandwich?
No, but at least it's Peanut Butter, I get some high quality protein, some high quality
fats, unsaturated fats,
I get some carbohydrates, at least not from pure sugar but from a Banana, right.
And I was on my way.
And I made some adjustments along the way and I kind of continued to fine tune my nutrition
and my diet plan.
I got more and more committed.
And then of course when I got to that point where I really was locked in on my nutrition,
then I looked for supplementation and I got that extra edge.
Like I said, a lot of guys watching this channel are already at that point.
They know, they're already locked in on a nutrition, looking for that extra edge, that's
where supplementation can come.
But do not make the mistake by thinking that, your answers are in a bottle, number 1,
especially if you can't commit to a good nutrition plan and 2,
don't think that it always revolves around calories.
Calories alone, low quality calories won't cut it.
They won't help you to jump that important gap to building new muscle.
All they're going to do is just provide you with a bunch of useless calories that your
body can't do anything with.
And if you're lucky to have that fast metabolism to burn through it, you may not get fat.
If you're unlucky, your mass gainer is going to become a fat gainer.
So guys, hopefully this will shed a little bit of light on an important topic again,
I'm passionate about it because I lived it and I made the mistake myself.
I took all of them and every single one of them did nothing for me.
But when I made my commitment to stop eating a bunch of shit and take that one step at
a time.
Improve my breakfast, start to improve my lunch, start to improve my dinner.
I couldn't even eat that many calories at every meal, I just wasn't that hungry, I started
to eat more frequently.
Not only does that help you with stabilizing your blood sugar but allows you to get in
some additional calories as you go.
But only if you're worried about getting the high quality calories.
If it's not high quality, forget it all entirely.
So guys, if you found this video helpful, make sure you leave your comments and thumbs
up below.
In the meantime, if you're looking for that high quality protein, if it's in your budget,
then I would strongly recommend it to you to, head to ATHLEAN-RX.COM and check out our
ATHLEAN-RX Supplement line,
again used by top professional athletes worldwide.
In the meantime guys, I will be back here in just a couple days to bring you back some
other videos.
We've got another Washboard Wednesday coming up this week.
And then whatever else it is that you want to see, make sure you leave it down below
and I'll make sure I cover it.
Alright guys, I'll see you back here again soon.