First of all, I didn't use the "Search" function on the forum, so if anyone else has posted on this, my apoligies (and bite me!). Also I have a feeling this thread is gonna be moved, but this is the only really active part of this forum so I'm posting it here.
Anyways, onwards. Although I've recently started PE, the topic of hitting plateaus really interests me. I was in a biochemistry lecture yesterday where the professor lectured on obesity. Apperently little changes in your nutrition intake each day can lead to a big change down the road. Its like banking interest. For example, if you eat slightly more than the average, this small change can lead to obesity when you hit your 50s and so on. This is why a lot of Americans around that age are plump.
I also read this from a description of a product at bodybuilding.com (highly recommend this site to bodybuilders btw), its for muscle building, but its very interesting nonetheless:
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In every pak, you're blasted with a dizzying array of over 55 key ingredients which are delivered in the right amounts at the right time, every time. Each of the 11 tablets included in each pak has been specifically formulated to deliver the goods. By taking the Animal Pak, you prevent the formation of nutritional gaps.
Why should you care? The greater your training intensity, the faster and larger these gaps grow over time. When this happens you eventually hit a plateau. You stop growing. Maybe you've already hit this wall. To make matters worse, if you take other supplements, these same gaps begin to render those expensive supplements useless. |
Suppose you start out gaining at a good rate, then you bottom out and hit a plateau, could that plateau be caused by your nutritional intake? Is it possible that your cells aren't able to repair and expand as well as they did when you began PE due to lack of various nutritions?
Or it could be nothing related to this at all, lol. Interesting to think about though.