Believe it or not, advanced trainees, competitive bodybuilders or athletes will probably benefit more from using supplements than beginners. High-level athletes are more likely to have “maxed-out” their training and nutrition programs. Their diets are impeccable. Their training is intense. Their discipline is unwavering.

Once you’ve reached a high level of development from intelligent, intense, methodical training and quality nutrition, and the closer you get to your ultimate genetic potential, the slower your progress will become. Progress can and will continue indefinitely, but as you reach higher levels of achievement, this is when supplements and other “minor” details make the most difference.

In world-class athletics, competitions can be won or lost by hundredths of a second, a tenth of a point, a fraction of a pound, or a single judge’s opinion. The extra 3% that supplements might provide could be the difference between winning and losing.

Now look at the average beginner or intermediate: They’re still eating junk foods and skipping meals. They’re not even working out consistently. And what do they do FIRST? You guessed it; they immediately run out searching for a “shortcut” in the form of a pill or powder.

It’s a shame that so many people look for easy ways instead of making the effort to learn how to eat and train better.

NO YOU DON’T! Exercise, nutrition and the proper mental attitude (positive self-image) are the only things you need to lose fat permanently. Supplements are not a requirement. Some basic supplements are helpful for “nutritional insurance,” and some supplements can help speed up the fat loss process a little, but not nearly as much as the advertising leads you to believe.

Even supplements that have been proven effective are only responsible for a small fraction of the results you achieve. Based on 20 years of experience in bodybuilding and fitness, I believe that at least 97% of your results will come from good training and good nutrition.

If most of your results come from nutrition and training, then why would you chase after that last 3% “edge” if you haven’t even maximized the first 97%? Isn’t that approach completely backwards?

Next post will be about ways you can get started with your program corrently.

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There are three reasons why it’s so hard to find truthful information today:

1. Money (Greed). Weight loss is a 30 billion-dollar a year industry. With this kind of money at stake, unscrupulous marketers will tell you anything – even outright lies – to get you to buy their products and to further their financial interests.
2. Information overload. Now that we’re in the information age, lack of information is not a problem anymore. The problem these days is too much information. Fitness and diet “guru’s” preach about their “latest breakthroughs” on TV infomercials 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Hundreds, even thousands of diet and exercise books fill bookstore shelves. Dozens of magazines clutter the newsstands every month. And to top it all off, the explosion of the Internet is adding to this “info-quagmire” at an exponential rate.
3. Conflicting advice. Even industry professionals such as registered dieticians, research scientists, MD’s, PhD’s, and certified trainers, give a tremendous amount of contradictory advice. There are a lot of opinions out there and everyone seems to tell us something different.

This has left a lot of people frustrated, disillusioned, and thoroughly confused. It’s hard to know whom or what to believe anymore.