Why are BCAA so expensive??

[JimmyF]

How much a day do you think is good?

not 15mg lol

I use 10g pre morning cardio, 10g before training and 10g after, and 10g before bed. I also use 5g glutamine with it on 3 occaisons.

 

[Hampy71]

not 15mg lol

I use 10g pre morning cardio, 10g before training and 10g after, and 10g before bed. I also use 5g glutamine with it on 3 occaisons.

That's pretty much the same as me then but I take 15g 3x a day. Never used glutamine. So a 1kg tub would only last about 3 weeks!! That is expensive sh1t!!!

 

[JimmyF]

That's pretty much the same as me then but I take 15g 3x a day. Never used glutamine. So a 1kg tub would only last about 3 weeks!! That is expensive sh1t!!!

You could just use 20g per day mate, before training and before bed to prolong it, I get the flavoured stuff too, can't hack the plain powdered crap, got 1kg sat in the kitchen that Ive had 10g out of and ditched!

 

[xpower]

BCAA 1000 grams - Pharmaceutical grade on eBay (end time 07-Apr-11 13:03:20 BST)
Best price I know of for bulk powder

 

[Hampy71]

You could just use 20g per day mate, before training and before bed to prolong it, I get the flavoured stuff too, can't hack the plain powdered crap, got 1kg sat in the kitchen that Ive had 10g out of and ditched!

Hey I'll take that unwanted kilo off your hands if you are gonna dump it!

 

[Hampy71]

BCAA 1000 grams - Pharmaceutical grade on eBay (end time 07-Apr-11 13:03:20 BST)
Best price I know of for bulk powder

Yeah that's more like my kind of price range!!

 

[xpower]

Yeah that's more like my kind of price range!!

Used them a few times without any issue.
Very reliable in my experience

 

[Hampy71]

Used them a few times without any issue.
Very reliable in my experience

I'll get some of that and I may try the mp flavouring system too. Cheers mate

 

[blackbeard]

Yeah that's more like my kind of price range!!

BCAAs Branched Chain Amino Acids

Muscleform have 1 kilo £29.95 at the moment including free delivery,myprotein won't acknowledge this on their pricematcher guarantee for some reason!!

 

[fitdog]

BCAAs Branched Chain Amino Acids

Muscleform have 1 kilo £29.95 at the moment including free delivery,myprotein won't acknowledge this on their pricematcher guarantee for some reason!!

Some very well priced products on that site, what is the service like? the creatine prices look good also!

 

[CJ]

not suprised at 15mg per day pmsl....1 kilo should last you until 2020 most likely

Keep in mind that my Protein is loaded with BCAA's as well so there is no need to go silly

 

[fitdog]

Cj surely you mean 15g not 15mg

 

[CJ]

PMSL, oh yeah 15g

What a bloody plonker :-)

 

[blackbeard]

Some very well priced products on that site, what is the service like? the creatine prices look good also!

Items always arrive 2-3 days after ordering,quality of products is up there with myprotein,bulkpowders etc

 

[Dtlv]

The BCAAs are vitally important as anabolic signaling nutrients, but be cautious that the super high doses that show very significant effects in studies are only that effective because they are given to semi protein starved individuals (as part of the control) and this greatly exaggerates the effect compared to a well fed individual.

If not on a cut, and already eating a decent amoutn of protein, I'd not concern myself with high doses of things like BCAAs at any time other than the workout when they will still help significantly. At that time doses of 3-6g are already effective. Maximum dosing, around 0.3g per kg, is what Poliquin recommends, with half taken pre workout and half immediately afterwards.

At this level though (or any other high dosing protocol) it's fine to add extra Leucine to BCAAs to make it cheaper by weight. Go for a blend, or mix one up yourself, that is 4.1.1 leucine/isoleucine/serine overall, as with high doses if you increase leucine massively without the other two BCAAs increasing too you actually create a catabolic chain of events as serine and isoleucine become leached from the muscle to rebalance intracellular proportions of all three BCAAs.