Post: #1

I've seen a lot of different supplements and multivitamins for weightlifters and guys trying to bulk up, and I was wondering if anyone knew of a multivitamin that was made specifically for boxers or explosive athletes in mind, or of a multivitamin/supplement that would help muscle recovery and efficiency for someone going through something as demanding as sparring, mitt work and heavy bag work five days a week.

The main thing I'm going for is a quick recovery and maximizing my performance gains (such as endurance, explosiveness, and speed, with a huge emphasis on the kind of endurance that lets someone go through quick, explosive spurts repetitively). I'm trying to maintain lean muscle, and I don't want to increase mass or get bulkier.

The assumption I have here is that because athletes in different sports demand different things of their bodies, they necessarily demand different things from their diet. Therefore, I want to find a multivitamin or supplement that best helps me replenish what my body loses when it goes through a serious boxing workout. If I'm wrong in that assumption and every multivitamin works the same for all athletes no matter what kind of workouts they do then please let me know.

Post: #2

Muscle recovery and efficiency is going to be more about your diet than supplements.

Multivitamins work the same for prettymuch everyone.
Endurance athletes, bodybuilders, couch potatoes.

Some vitamins are better than others, though. Prettymuch all store bought one-a-day vitamins are going to be crummy

What do you take now, and what is your budget?

Post: #3

Yeah that makes sense.

I take a store bought ultra-cheap one-a-day equate brand multivitamin, as I figured they were all more or less the same when I first got convinced to take a multivitamin regularly, but I can spend about $100-200 a month on them if I had to. Somewhere around $50 would be optimal, but if I can get even marginal extra benefits by spending more then I'm for it.

Post: #4

What I assume you don't want to hear:

( National Institute of Health About cumulative small head trauma effects. )
I'd worry a LOT more about this than about micronutrients, when you're making repeated smashing structures in the brain I imagine it's a lot harder to repair.

"Thus, degree of sparring exposure, rather than the number of actual competitions, appears to be associated with worse cognitive functioning in some boxers."

https://www.nanonline.org/docs/Researcha...0paper.pdf

Post: #5

I recommend this stuff.
http://www.lef.org/Vitamins-Supplements/...ix-Tablets

Prettymuch the best multi-nutrient supplement out there money can buy.
It's not just vitamins and minerals, but lots of plant extracts and things as well.
You have to take 9 a day divided between your meals (so if you eat the standard breakfast, lunch, and dinner, that's 3 with each meal, don't take them on an empty stomach) which is kind of a pain in the ass, but I consider it to be worth it.

If you get the $7 a month membership (you get cheaper prices, and magazines sent monthly, interesting toilet reading) and buy the vitamins in bulk the discounted price is pretty reasonable. For reference keep in mind even a shitty multivitamin like Centrum costs $30 a month.

A cheaper option would be their two-a-day vitamin.
http://www.lef.org/Vitamins-Supplements/...ay-Tablets

Similar vitamin and mineral content as the full Mix, but without the plant extracts and other doodads. Though not near as good as the Mix this is already way better than any store bought multi.

Do you take fish oil currently? Or eat tons of seafood?
I advise doing one or both.

*Edit* Oh, also. They don't put vitamin K in most multivitamins, because there's a huge liability issue of it interfering very badly with people who are on coumadin, very common blood thinning drug that lots of old people are on.
So you'd have to take it separately, any dirt cheap brand your grocery store or pharmacy has will do.

Post: #6

I'm on that Centrum Advance and Fish oil with Vitamin D.

Post: #7

(11-20-2014 03:46 PM)iknowexactly Wrote:  What I assume you don't want to hear:

( National Institute of Health About cumulative small head trauma effects. )
I'd worry a LOT more about this than about micronutrients, when you're making repeated smashing structures in the brain I imagine it's a lot harder to repair.

"Thus, degree of sparring exposure, rather than the number of actual competitions, appears to be associated with worse cognitive functioning in some boxers."

https://www.nanonline.org/docs/Researcha...0paper.pdf

This post has been in the back of my mind ever since you made it.

I already knew this, and I think it's every boxer/full contact athlete's responsibility to know this before they start getting hit, but that's still a sobering study you cited.

Post: #8

I recommend Fish Oil and Animal Pak.

Most any fish oil will do.