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One of the most
commonly asked questions I get
on a weekly basis is whatsupplements should I be taking?
Not only that, but whatsupplements should I be taking
if I want to lose weight?
What supplements should I betaking if I want to maximize
muscle gain?
And even just yesterday, doingclient check-ins, I had a client
ask me hey, I really want tomaximize my muscle gain, what
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supplements should I be taking?
Now, I hate to break it to you,but you do not I repeat, you do
not need supplements on yourweight loss journey, your muscle
building journey or any fitnessjourney in general.
What you need to do is focus onthe main pillars of what
creates a healthy and fitlifestyle and then, once you
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have those in place, then thatis when you can start to look at
supplements.
But until then, supplementsshould not even be on your mind.
And real quick, before I diveinto the things that you should
focus on and then, whatsupplements you can or should be
taking once you get there, whatI want you to know is my name
is Coach Tyler.
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I've been an online coach andpersonal trainer for the past
six years.
I've been on my own fitnessjourney for the past 11 years,
so you could say I have quite abit of experience of helping
other people and myself, and 99%of which do not take any
supplements except one, but I'llget into that in just a minute
here.
So before you start evenconsidering taking supplements,
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the most important things is tocover the main habits and
essentials that you need to eventell your body to move in the
right direction.
So, no matter if your goal isweight loss, muscle gain, body
composition change, just feelingmore energized, looking better
in the mirror, feeling better inyour own skin, looking better
naked, whatever your goal may be, these are the pillars you need
to pay attention to.
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Are you ready?
Number one do you work out andor lift weights consistently?
You need to send a signal toyour body to build muscle.
I don't care what kind ofjourney you're on.
If you are not focused onbuilding muscle, you are not
going to put yourself in a greatplace to sustain your results.
So if you want sustainability,building muscle is the number
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one way to get there.
So make sure you're liftingweight.
If you're not lifting weight,don't take supplements.
Got it Cool?
Let's move on to number two.
Number two do you drink enoughwater daily?
Now, this one might sound sillyand, by the way, these are in
no particular order.
These are just the order Iwrote them down in.
But do you drink enough waterevery day?
Everyone wants to tell youdrink a gallon of water a day.
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Really, you don't need to drinkthat much.
I always like to tell peopledrink at least half your body
weight in ounces, but in anideal world, yes, you should aim
for at least a half gallon, upto a gallon of water.
Now, the reason I say this isbecause when you are drinking
more water, you're less likelyto consume food, and what this
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does is it helps you stay in acaloric deficit.
So if your goal is weight loss,drinking more water is probably
a good idea.
Also, one lesser known factabout drinking a lot of water
you're going to get up to go peemore often, which, by the way,
is going to help you get moresteps on a daily basis, which is
also one of the other pointsthat I'll get to Cool.
Let's move on to number three.
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Number three is getting enoughsleep.
Well, what is enough sleep?
Getting enough sleep is definedas at least seven hours every
night.
Ideally, aim between seven andnine hours of sleep a night.
Some people can get away with alittle bit less, some people
need a little bit more.
So, when it comes to sleep, mygeneral rule of thumb is to be
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in bed for at least eight hours.
That way, you're going to getseven hours.
A lot of the times, peopledon't realize, but it takes some
time to fall asleep, toactually get in bed.
So plan to be in bed for eightand typically you'll get at
least seven, and if you can domore, that is fantastic.
I guarantee it will help yourresults even more.
By the way, I do have a full,in-depth video on sleep and if
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you want me to send it to youcomment below or if you want the
link to it, just shoot me amessage on Instagram.
Message me the word sleep andI'll send it over to you.
The fourth habit that you needto have in place is getting
enough steps on a daily basis.
Now, ideally, we like to haveall of our clients aim to get at
least 7,000 steps on a dailybasis.
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Now, I really would love to geteveryone towards 10,000, but
that's not always realistic formost people.
So getting seven's a nicemiddle ground, in my opinion,
and then slowly over time,working your way up is most
ideal.
So if you can't get at least7,000 steps on top of the other
three I already named Again, youdon't need supplements.
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Now for number five.
This one's a little more tricky,but it's something that you
just need to be conscious of,and that is your food choices.
This doesn't mean you can't goout.
This doesn't mean you can't eatout with your friends and
family.
This doesn't mean you can'thave pizza and ice cream
occasionally.
This just means that you'remindful of the things you put in
your body.
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I always like to remind peoplewe have control over two things
every day, and that is what youput in your body and how much
you move your body.
There's a lot of things thathappen on a daily basis that we
have zero control over.
So if you can't control thosetwo things that we have absolute
control over how much we moveand what we put in our body then
you have no place in trying totake supplements.
So again, these things need tobe in line, need to be in order.
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You need to have control andgood, consistent habits with
these things if you want to takesupplements or you want to
enhance your results, but takingsupplements without having
these things in order is likeputting a band-aid on a gaping
wound that's gushing blood.
Just putting a little band-aid,it's not going to do anything.
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These are the things that'sgoing to hold it together.
These are going to be thestitches and staples that hold
that big wound together.
And then the little piece ofband-aid that you put on top.
That's going to be thesupplements.
That little cherry on top.
It's not going to be gamechanger.
It's not going to be lifechanging.
To take supplements they mayadd a little bit of an
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enhancement, they may add alittle fine tuning, but it's not
going to be the end all be allfor the most amazing results.
And I felt and changed my bodylike never before.
Absolute bullshit.
I call 100% bullshit.
They're just trying to make youuse their codes, then collect
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their 10% commission from somebogus supplement company that
doesn't really matter.
If you couldn't tell already, Ifell for a lot of this bullshit
when I started my journey.
This is something that I fellfor and the reason I'm telling
you this with so much convictionand confidence is that I don't
want you to make the samemistakes I did when I started my
journey, relying and spendingso much money on these silly
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BCAAs, the protein powders andall of these silly things.
That really did nothing for meexcept to waste my money, and I
don't want you to do the samething.
And that's not even it.
I have two more things that Ineed you to focus on before you
can start taking supplements.
The sixth one on the list is canyou manage your stress levels?
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Can you manage the stresslevels you have on a daily basis
?
Are you able to be mindful andrelieve your stress in a healthy
way without relying onsupplements?
And lastly, the most importantone in my opinion, is can you be
consistent?
Supplements will not make yoube consistent, and if you are
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going to take supplements, youneed to be consistent.
So if you can't be consistentwith the other things, you're
probably not going to beconsistent with the supplements.
So it's probably not going toeven matter that you spend the
money on the supplements, oreven buy the supplements to take
the supplements, if you can'teven be consistent.
And, by the way, I've beenthinking about making a video on
how to be consistent.
So if you're interested in that, I would love if you dropped a
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like on this video and thatwould tell me that you want a
video on how to be consistent,because most people are like, oh
, you need to be consistent, youneed to be consistent, but they
don't tell you actually how tobe consistent.
So if you want to learn how tobe consistent, let me know by
liking this, because that willtell me that's exactly what you
want.
Now that we got the basicscovered, now you know what needs
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to be in place before you takesupplements.
Now I can dive into the funstuff.
If you are going to takesupplements, there is one
supplement I think everyoneshould take, no matter what.
If you're just starting and youare going to be consistent, the
one supplement I think everyoneshould take that's the most
highly studied supplement in theentire market that has the most
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amount of science and researchbacking the results that it
gives you is creatine.
Creatine is the one supplementthat has the most amount of
science and research backing theresults that it gives you is
creatine.
Creatine is the one supplementthat has zero negative side
effects.
A lot of people will say, oh,it can cause your hair to thin
or it's going to make youbloated.
Well, there is like a fractionof a fraction of a percent of
people that could potentiallyhave negative side effects,
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which is extremely unlikely.
But if that is you, thenobviously don't take creatine.
But you don't know until youtry.
And ultimately, what creatinedoes is it helps your muscles
hold more water, more H2O, morehydrogen and oxygen in your
muscle cells, which means thatyou are actually going to have
more oxygen, which is gonna helpwith your recovery, which is
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gonna help with your muscleendurance.
Ultimately, it's been a littlewhile since I've looked over the
actual studies, but there islike literally an 18 page paper
I found on a conclusive study ofall of the things that creatine
can help with.
So if you want me to share thatwith you again, just shoot me
an Instagram.
I love sharing this kind ofstuff with people.
I maybe actually you know.
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I'll throw a link to that inthe description below.
But, moving forward fromcreatine, the only other
supplements aside from creatineis protein powder.
Now, protein powder is notsomething you should or want to
take every single day, but it issomething to have on deck that
could be extremely helpful forthose days where you are pretty
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good with everythingnutritionally speaking, but at
the end of the day, you're likeman, I just tracked on my food
I'm 20 grams short of my proteinintake, that is the time to
take a protein shake.
It is not something you shouldtake every single day into
something that you should relyon in order to get your protein
intake in day, into somethingthat you should rely on in order
to get your protein intake in.
It's a supplement to supplementyour nutrition, not something
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that is your nutrition.
So, use it like a supplementand take it when needed, not
every day.
Then, on a completely differentnote, if, for whatever reason,
you're doing all of these things, you're dialed in with
everything from the nutritionperspective the sleep, the
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stress, the hydration, you'redoing everything right inside
the gym and outside the gym, butyou're still not seeing results
.
Well, there's probably twofactors involved.
Number one, you're probablyeating more than you think you
are, or there could be somethingelse going on and that could be
really related to yourmicronutrient levels or your
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hormones.
So one thing I suggest forclients that have been working
with me for about six months andthey've been really consistent,
but yet they're still notseeing results, which is, by the
way, very rare, but usuallythis tells me something is off
with either micronutrients ortheir hormones, and so in that
case, I will highly suggest yougo get a blood panel done with a
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professional, with a doctor,and most often what we'll see is
that you're lacking some sortof nutrient, and one of those
nutrients is what you should besupplementing with.
So maybe for you that could bevitamin D, or maybe you have an
iron deficiency.
So these are some common thingsI've seen personally, but again
, that is so individually based,and so what you'd want to do to
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optimize that end of things isto get blood work.
But again, more often than not,doing all of these other things
first will solve a lot of thoseissues.
Getting a lot of variety ofdifferent foods in your diet,
having a variety of those issues, getting a lot of variety of
different foods in your diet,having a variety of vegetables
in your diet.
Have a variety of differentfiber sources in your diet, a
variety of movement and exerciseto promote muscle gain in your
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lifestyle will promote themuscle gain you need to speed up
your metabolism to put yourselfin a great place to sustain
results.
Those are the things that aregoing to move the mountains, the
things that are going to moveyou forward and continue seeing
progress on your journey withoutsupplements, and this is going
to be the two to 3% of extraresults if you're doing those
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things.
So, like I said, if you don'tdo the other things first,
supplements will do absolutelyjack shit for your results.
But if you have everythingdialed in, you want to take
things up a small level, see alittle bit better results.
Creatine's the one thing Havingsupplement in your pantry just
in case you need it but asidefrom that, you do not I repeat,
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you do not need supplements tosee results.
Now, I know I talked shit oninfluencers just a minute ago
that share these supplementcompanies and I will say I've
done my homework.
I do not like endorsing orpromoting supplements.
However, I have to be verytransparent and honest.
I did just partner with asupplement company very recently
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.
It's the one company I've beenusing for the past six years
because they're the one companyI trust.
They're the one company I trulybelieve has science and they
use clinically effective dosesin their supplements.
They have third-party testingto make sure there's no fillers
or no bullshit in any of theirsupplements.
They actually have the highestquality supplements on the
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market and this company iscalled Legion, so if you want to
try some of their products, usethe code TNT for 20% off your
first order, and if you don'twant to buy from them, that's
totally fine.
I just wanted you to be awarethat I do have a partnership
with them, but again, I'm nothere to push supplements because
you don't need them.
But if you are going to getthem, make sure you spend the
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money on the good ones.
What you don't wanna do is be acheap ass and buy the cheap
supplement you can find onAmazon just to find out it has
some sort of heavy metals orsome extra filler bullshit that
you don't want inside your body.
So if you're going to buysupplements which you don't need
, buy the good ones.
Buy the quality supplementsthat are going to make you feel
good and digest well in yourbody, not the ones that are
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cheap on Amazon.
I promise you it's going tosave you if you're actually
going to take supplements.
So, all that being said, I hopeyou got a ton of value out of
today's video.
I hope you learned theimportance of supplements, which
is not very much at all, but ifyou do have any other questions
, please feel free to shoot me amessage on Instagram or drop a
question below.
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I get back to all my commentson my YouTube channel.
So, aside from that, thank youso much for watching.
I hope you have the best day ofyour entire life and I'll catch
you on the next one.
Peace.