Weight Lifting Supplements

Comparing Weight Lifting Supplements...

Note: Weight Lifting Supplements are also classed as dietary supplements, and according to the Food & Drug Administration, analyses suggest, a substantial number of supplements may not contain the amounts of ingredients that would be expected to be found based on their product labels ? (verification of the above can be found at dietary supplements risks )

Competitive Weight Lifting Athletes must also be extremely careful about the supplements they consume as some ingredients can result in disqualification from competitions, etc. And, as this is
such an impotent issue for Competitive Weight Lifting Athletes - we are left to wonder why - only two companies at the present time - have enough confidence in their own products to have them Certified by ConsumerLab's Athletic Banned Substances Screening Program?

Vitamins & Minerals in Weight Lifting Supplements: you can check out the top 25 brands of multi vitamins an independent qualified health authority have already chosen from over a 1,000 different products at  vitamin brand ratings  knowing - the Brand Ranked #1 on the chart also had enough confidence in their own products to have them independently Certified by ConsumerLab's Athletic Banned Substances Screening Program, and also carries a Product Potency & Purity Guarantee.

Another great weight lifting source of knowledge is  " The Book of Muscle: the World's Most Authoritative Guide to Building Your Body " , written by former Power Lifting Champion Ian King. Ian has trained world class athletes - is a certified strength and conditioning specialist - has
a bachelor's degree in movement science - a postgraduate diploma in education, and has been
asked to train elite athletes and entire teams around the world.

PubMed  is also a great resource for checking out weightlifting supplements ingredient claims - you can find actual Independent Scientific Clinical Trials done on a particular ingredient used in weight lifting supplements by typing the name of the ingredient into the search box. Type " weight lifting supplements " in the PubMed search box and you'll come up with 80 papers on weight lifting supplements at the present time.

Some examples of interesting scientific papers found on weight lifting in PubMed...

"American College of Sports Medicine roundtable. The physiological and health effects
  of oral creatine supplementation."

"Creatine loading, resistance exercise performance, and muscle mechanics."

"Does oral creatine supplementation improve strength? A meta-analysis."

"Carbohydrate supplementation and resistance training."

"Treatment and prevention of delayed onset muscle soreness."

"Effects of arginine and ornithine on strength, lean body mass and urinary hydroxyproline
  in adult males."

"Dietary supplements affect the anabolic hormones after weight-training exercise."

"Effects of high-calorie supplements on body composition and muscular strength
  following resistance training."

"The effects of high-dose glutamine ingestion on weightlifting performance."

"The effects of amino acid supplementation on muscular performance during
  resistance training overreaching."

Finding the weight lifting papers above quickly in PubMed: Select, "Single Citation Matcher" from the PubMed Services menu, then enter the text in the "Title words: box", and click on search. And,
if somebody sites an Authoritative Article on weight lifting supplements - you can enter their name
in the box provided and check to see if there really are any weight lifting papers on the subject.