Just started lifting and taking box lessons this week. I'm very lightweight (~55kg). Is it a good idea to start taking some multivitamin pills?

throw_em_all · 2016-01-07T17:37:31+00:00

55kg? Forget vitamins and start supersetting chicken breast and beef with some sort of carb.

Rasalom72 · 2016-01-07T17:12:44+00:00

multivitamins are a waste of money for the most part. You get almost 100% of what you need from eating real foods.

A nutritionist will (should) tell you this as well, unless they are trying to "supplement" their income by selling you vitamins...(see what I did there?)

RWheels · 2016-01-07T19:56:48+00:00

eat everything in sight. Protein shakes breakfast lunch and dinner. lift heavy, get a good night's sleep every night.

To answer your main question about vitamins, it wouldn't hurt, but you will see little to no benefit or improvement in any aspect of your life by taking them

RPshade · 2016-01-07T20:59:36+00:00

Fuck Vitamins,

EAT.

Are you full? Good. EAT MORE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlE3QQrhz1A

DrakeSaint · 2016-01-07T17:17:42+00:00

It's a good supplement, but it's not going to help you gain muscle or body weight.

Ditch salad. Eat meat, preferably lean. Drink tons of milk, preferably skim. Take weightgain supplements that have tons of calories. Lift and religiously take your whey protein (disregard optimal time of consumption bullcrap; as long as you take within 30 minutes pre or post workout, it's going to do it's job). Take casein/albumin before sleep.

Prefer eating shit calorie junk food than skipping a meal (studies showed eating fast food after workout has better results in muscle gain than not eating anything at all).

Get ready to become fatter. When you do, that's a good sign, if in conjunction with fat you gained muscles. No one at your weight gains mass optimally without gaining fat in the process.

I don't know how high you are, nor your bodyfat percentage (i'm just going to assume you're a skinny guy). But if you're in the 1.65-1.75m range, doing everything I just said for a few months can give you a good dozen kilos or so. After you reach ~75kg, it's a good idea to start worrying about fat.

Last, but not least, do visit the nutritionist, preferrably someone who has worked with athletes before.

niczar · 2016-01-07T22:12:04+00:00

Multivitamins are completely fucking useless, and I'm at a loss as to why you think they would help you in any way.

Most, if not all people in the North need to take vitamin D supplements, at the very least in the winter, and some other vitamins might be useful. Vitamin C is useless, you get plenty of it unless you only eat process carbs, and you don't need to supplement it on a low carb diet for a rather complicated but well established reason (hint: Masais and Inuits don't get scorbut).

Title	Just started lifting and taking box lessons this week. I'm very lightweight (~55kg). Is it a good idea to start taking some multivitamin pills?
Author	Krainz
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Date	January 7, 2016 5:06 PM UTC (10 years ago)
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