Supplements

Now unlike Captain America, we can't all use a fictional muscle building serum and gain 20kg of muscle in 10 minutes. However what we can do is aid our muscle gains by the use of legal supplements and as you can see from the pictures below, similar results can be achieved!

I will keep it very simple, the things that have worked for me are as follows:

First year - Maximuscle Cyclone before and after workouts. This product is the market leading all in 1 supplement (for which you will have to pay the price) it was the driving force behind my early gains.

Second year - as I got more seriously into gaining weight I moved to a cheaper option which was Matrix Mass, this provided me with 1,000 calories per serving including 50g of protein, during my 3 months taking 3 shakes a day ad well as a protein and calorie high diet, I gained 6-7kg and only a slight increase in body fat. I also take the Matrix Creatine and strongly believe that Creatine is one of the products out there that really does lead to visible increases in size and strength.

Current - whilst I am still looking to gain size, I am now happy to do it at a more natural pace so as to keep my abs in tact. For this reason I have switched to Matrix Anabolic Whey, which still had a high protein content of 40g amongst various amino acids, but is more in the region of 300cals per serving. I am also continuing to use Creatine.

Captain America's comic book transformation and my off the shelf version.