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Amazing how food and supplement manufacturers could care less about releasing out onto the market products that actually work at enhancing your workout program and helping you build muscle mass and gain weight. Case in point: vitamin-enriched beverages.

In Men’s Health magazine they answered a question from reader in which he was asking if these types of drinks are worth buying and using. I have to truly applaud the answer given by the magazine in response. They wrote, “…save your money…..they generally cost a buck or so more than regular water…..You probably won’t need the boost. ‘It takes 4 to 6 hours to digest and break down your breakfast or lunch’, says Alan Aragon, M.S., a nutritionist based in Thousand Oaks, California, ‘and that provides you with nutrients the entire time’. Second problem: Even if you skip a meal - or compete a grueling workout - and end up shy a few vitamins, your body can’t process what’s in the bottle efficiently to give you instant anything…”.

Bravo, Men’s Health! The answer provided to this reader is very truth revealing. If you were to get caught up in all of the advertising hype bolstering these expensive workout drinks you would think that it’s a crucial weapon in your muscle building arsenal. However, when you learn how the body truly works and reacts, you’ll quickly come to see that these dietary / nutritional supplement manufacturers are fad-bandwagon jumpers and don’t really look into if something will actually help you gain muscular weight or not.

My recommendation to you would be that if you’re concerned with getting in enough vitamins to help your muscles recover, repair, and grow from the intense workout sessions, you can simply take a typical multi-vitamin, multi-mineral, anti-oxidant type of supplement, such as a Centrum. It’s a lot cheaper and just as effective (if not more) to take a pill and drink tap water than it is to go out and buy a bottle, or worse yet, a case of these nonsense “vitamin-enriched” drinks / beverages. I guarantee you that you won’t see any difference in your workout program performance if you don’t buy into these nutritional supplement claims.