Muscle building money saving tips

mintster

What is your diet like? Make sure your money goes on food first. Supplements are not essential. Checkout local butchers and see if you can haggle. Find out what meat they have left before closing for the week and see if you can strike a deal. Get veg from markets and buy in bulk. Get a slow cooker and cook in bulk.

Danjames

If you want to bulk up cheaply, leave the supplements alone and just work out harder and with heavier weights. Eat foods that are high in protein, a great free nutritional guide can be found by typing in eating for England. Click on the doc which should be your second hit in google (taken from RFU website). It is the nutritional guidelines given to England rugby players in 2002. Whilst some of the info maybe slightly out of date 99% of it is still relevant‎ today. It includes shopping lists and recipes which are useful, obviously I wouldn't recommend printing it given it is 80 odd pages!

Funky_Monkey7

Another vote for myprotein. Also, bulkpowders. Monstersupplements sells brands at cheap prices - peak body pro 50 bars taste AWESLME and give 50g protein per bar. You can always have half a bar if you don't need the full 50.

~Chameleon~

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ETA: I am in no way related to the owners of the company but having recently been introduced to this product I have no problem with recommending it to others.

Carl31

Protein shakes aren't a magic formula that will turn you into arnie, a lot of your muscle growth will depend on your genetics, some people gain easily, others just never will

as said, eat a clean diet. Cut back on over priced processed foods and invest in lean meats and grains and you will be fine.

F_Bear

+1 for myprotein. dont overlook a recovery drink straight after training, and by recovery i mean 2:1 carb/protein. youve <20mins to get something into after training before ur wasting ur time.

as for bulking, oats, tuna, pasta are cheap. remember training is easy, its diet thats hard.

any idiot can throw iron around a gym for a hour. its the disicpline to eat in the other 23hr that counts

EmmyJane_3

I would say for now to forget the supplements and protein shakes. They're not essential. The protein isn't going to build the muscle for you, all it will do is to help your muscles recover more quickly.

You're better off investing the money in eating a healthy and balance diet. Clean eating works wonders. Just cut out all the processed foods.