Money is tight for a lot of us right now and if you watch the nightly news report, it’s not going to get better in the near future. If you’re like me, you don’t have as much extra cash right now to spend on bodybuilding supplements. So I’ve written this quick guide up that will show you the best value for money (in my opinion & research) in all the popular bodybuilding supplement categories. The idea is that if you’re open to switching brands and maybe switching types of products, you might be able to save some extra cash in these times.

The supplements below are the cheapest or best value for money in their category! If you build your supplement stack from the list below you could save quite a bit of cash on what you’re using now.

Whey Protein Powders:

1. All The Whey Whey Protein Blend - exactly the same quality as ON whey, just $10 bucks cheaper.
2. Elite Gourmet Whey Protein - not as good quality as the supp above, but great value at under $30.
3. All The Whey Fat Free Whey Protein Isolate - the cheapest whey isolate on the market
4. NOW Foods Whey Protein - another great value product from NOW
5. Elite Whey - one of the first high quality economic wheys to hit the market

Creatine:

1. Dymatize Creatine Monohydrate
2. NOW Foods Micronized Creatine
3. Universal Creatine Monohydrate Powder
4. Optimum Nutrition CGT-10
5. Axis Labs Creatine Ethyl Ester

Testosterone Boosters:

1. Gaspari Novedex XT - not the cheapest products, but it works, so it should get a mention
2. Dymatize Z-Force
3. Universal ZMA Pro
4. Dymatize Trib-650
5. Optimum Nutrition ZMA

Weight Gainers:

1. Dymatize High Protein Mega Gainer
2. MHP Up Your Mass
3. ON Natural Oats & Whey
4. Prolab N-Large 2
5. Gain Fast 3100

Fat Burners:

Technically, you don’t need fat burners to lose fat. But if you need something f or extra energy and to speed up the process I recommend considering a thermogenic fat burner.

1. ON Mega Fat Burner
2. Ultimate Nutrition Fat Bloc
3. Twinlab Ripped Fuel Extreme
4. MHP Dren
5. Nutrex Lipo-6

Nitric Oxide:

1. ON Vassive-NO
2. SciVation VasoCharge
3. MRI Black Powder
4. CytoSport fast Twitch
5. Controlled Labs White Flood

Amino Acids:

1. Twinlab L-Arginine
2. Amino Liquid Fuel
3. Dymatize BCAA Complex 2200
4. ON BCAA 1000 Caps
5. Prolab Amino 2000

Are you using any of these brands? If not, you might wanna check them out becuase you might be able to get something similar for a cheaper price!

When you’re new to weight training you pretty much follow workout routines straight out of the book and don’t have the knowledge to put your own spin on them, and generally don’t know enough about how your individual body works and how it reacts to different types of training. Weight training and muscle building is a constant learning curve. You speak to the most experienced bodybuilders, athletes and coaches and they all say (well, the good ones do) that you should never stop learning.

That being being said, there are some rules that apply to weight training. Rules that you need to know in order to understand training, and tailoring your training program to your needs. Here at what I consider, the rules of weight training…

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