to supplement or not to supplement

Warning: another can of worms opening

1. Sensible diet, including good carbs and plenty of protein

2. Daily multivitamin (cause we all screw up #1)

3. and the only other clinically-proven supplement for endurance athletes: DHMO.

Quality, quantity and timing of #1 being most important.

All the rest is psuedo science.

Just a multivitamin for me

I tried glucosamine, but I didn't notice any difference in the way my body felt after taking it for about a year.  I know some vball players that say it makes their knees feel better though.

Daily:
Multivitamin
Fish Oil
Glucosamine/Chondroitin

I swear by glucosamine.  Used to have pains in my knees and hip flexors.  Since taking glucosamine those pains are gone.  Not sure if it's the glucosamine or more/better training, but I'm not going to stop taking it to find out.  My wife also started taking glucosamine for an ankle problem.  It helped her also.

TJ

Quoted directly from the DHMO website:

Is it true that using DHMO improves athletic performance?

Absolutely.  With the numerous allegations of amateur and professional athletes using anabolic steroids and/or blood doping to enhance performance, virtually no attention has been paid to the performance enhancing properties of Dihydrogen Monoxide. It is perhaps the sporting world's dirtiest of dirty little secrets that athletes regularly ingest large quantities of DHMO in an effort to gain a competitive edge over an opponent.

One technique commonly used by endurance athletes in sports such as distance running and cycling is to take a large amount of DHMO immediately prior to a race. This is known within racing circles to dramatically improve performance.

Sports-medicine physicians warn that ingesting too much Dihydrogen Monoxide can lead to complications and unwanted side-effects, but do acknowledge the link to improved performance.

DHMO is not currently considered a banned substance, so post-race urine tests do not detect elevated or abnormal levels of DHMO.

 

Same here ...... more for added measure of security than anything else.

Unless you are really meticulous about what you eat, and stick to all fresh stuff you basically don't get enough of what you need in food anymore.  The crap is so processed and treated that it often lacks nutritional value even though it seems like it should have it in it.  So for me it just makes sense to add in another safety net to cover any holes in my not-so-great diet.

I take a multi - not necessarily every day but attempt....

to aid recovery:

I take antioxidants: tomato based lycopene (also has data on sun protection showed best data when on board at least 12 weeks prior to exposure - with season coming...),
astraxanthin - also has sun protection data, grape seed extract

glutamine