What's up, guys?
Jeff Cavaliere, ATHLEANX.COM.
I'm going to take you behind the scenes today.
We've done it a few times before.
One of the questions is, 'Jeff, what do you
take for your supplementation?
What are you exactly taking from morning until
night?'
Well, I figured, I'll open up my cabinets
for you, and I'm going to show you why that's
important in just a second.
We'll come back and point to that.
But I actually take my vitamins and i'm going
to tell you where I take them throughout the
day and why.
And then I have my workout supplementation
as well.
A lot of you guys will probably have something
that looks somewhat similar to this, and that's
a lot of bottles.
Now, I take a lot of these things for a lot
of different reasons some of which are insurance
policy because I can tell you guys that
even though I eat extremely healthy and admittedly,
I am one of the healthiest eaters out there,
I still feel there's certain things that I'm
not getting enough of,
and if I can take them in supplemental form,
they act as an insurance policy for me.
Now that being said, there's certain things
that I don't think,
especially when it comes to workout nutrition,
that you're going to get the workout benefits
from them unless you're supplementing.
You're simply not going to get enough creatine
in your diet from eating foods alone especially
not on a consistent basis.
So, there's certainly some workout ingredients
that will be much more beneficial to you in
supplemental form.
But let's start off on this end over here.
I kind of have my fatty acids.
And again, I take omega-6 fatty acids in the
form of evening primrose oil.
And I take my high grade omega-3 fatty acids.
Now, the omega-6, some guys would say, Jeff
why would you even bother taking omega-6?
We know that in large amounts, omega-6's can
actually be inflammatory as opposed to anti-inflammatory.
Well, if you had a diet that was the typical
diet based on high sources of vegetable oil
or from highly processed foods using vegetable
oil, that might be the case.
I don't eat any of that crap.
I eat such a low processed-food diet that
I don't really have a high amount of omega-6's
floating around.
And also, omega-6's are highly stored in body
fat.
Again, I don't have a lot of body fat as we
speak.
So, I tend to need a little bit of supplemental
omega-6's, and of course I balance that out,
because the ratio is very important, with
my omega-3's.
And I take 3 a day of the omega-3's and this
is a pharmaceutical grade omega-3.
This is my father's own Dr. C's omega-3's
fatty acid.
These are the ones that we sell at ATHLEANX.COM.
I sell these because I have more experience
with this, as you can imagine, than any in
my life.
I've taken this for the last 20 years.
My father is a physician for those of you
guys that don't know.
He produced a pharmaceutical grade EPA/DHA
concentration of omega-3 fatty acids and this
is exactly what I take.
I believe in it so much obviously that I actually
even give it to my dogs.
I have it lined up usually right over there
next to their food which by the way anybody,
since this is behind the scenes video, who's
always asked about what that vegan formula
is there, that is my dog, Darla's.
She's a vegan.
Go figure.
Well, that's the idea.
Again, I recommend to you and my family only
the things that I would take myself.
So we take the omega-3's.
Then I have this sort of array of antioxidants
for a lot of different purposes.
I have vitamin C, 1500 milligrams that I take
once a day.
Now, I'm not so concerned again as an antioxidant
of taking vitamin C of having too much because
it's a water soluble vitamin.
You know, whatever I'm not going to use, I'm
actually going to eliminate and pee out.
So I'm not so concerned here, but again, insurance
policy.
Vitamin E, same thing.
A lot of the guys out there who are watching
probably take vitamin C, vitamin E, but again,
this is a fat soluble vitamin,
so you have to be careful that you're not
just taking mega dosages.
For me, it's one time a day, 1000 iu's of
vitamin E.
CoQ10, another naturally occurring substance
in every cell of our body.
I take it as insurance policy.
It has shown good protective health benefits
for men, especially cardiac.
And then we have my green tea extract which
is again kind of a tweener.
It serves as both an antioxidant, but it also
has been shown to have an effect on blood
sugar stability.
And you guys know that even my eating plan
really revolves around the importance of blood
sugar stability We've talked about it even
from intermittent fasting.
It's not so much that I don't think that that
pattern of eating can help you in losing fat,
but it's not the healthiest eating pattern
if you want to stabilize our blood sugars
which I think over the course of the day,
and especially over the long run, is a very
important thing to do.
So I take that in addition to eating the way
I do.
And of course the ultimate in the back-up
plan, a multivitamin.
You know, I think it's good to take a multivitamin
for
a lot of the micronutrients that maybe if
you have some sort of extremism to your diet,
you might be missing.
Finally, from the joint recovery side of things,
I developed the Mechan-X, and this is our
first NSF Approved for Sport supplement that
we have
now being used by MLB this upcoming season
because joint recover I think is THE most
overlooked element of recovery when it comes
to training that there is.
We worry about our muscles, and again, from
Dr. C's, this is the muscle side of recovery.
I've done a whole blog on it.
I'll link it in the video below, ah, in the
description below,
that you'll want to read over on our blog,
about the benefits of omega-3's as a muscle-recovery
agent.
But from the joint side of things, we have
to make sure that we have that covered too.
And this is my absolute best effort to do
that.
And myself, I can totally vouch for it.
Anybody that knows my history knows I've had
bad shoulder pain as I addressed in the video
I think last week, and I had bad knee pains.
My leg workout suffered for a long period
of time.
But as you saw, even the last leg workout
that I did, I can substantially lift a lot
more weight now.
My knees have never felt better.
And I can totally pin that to me beginning
my ATHLEANRX.
So, anybody out there that's having joint
issues,
stop thinking about the fact that it's normal.
No pain equals more gain, in my opinion.
You can get much more benefits if you're training
without pain.
And then it comes to workout nutrition.
And when it comes to workout nutrition, guys,
it's really, really simple.
I think you need to keep it simple in that
a lot of times you'll see the same sort of
array of 100 bottles when it comes to workout
nutrition.
Creatine, glutamine, branch-chain amino acids,
protein powder, whey protein, casein protein,
it doesn't have to be that crazy, guys.
When we created the ATHLEAN RX Supplement
** which again the exact same supplements
that I take, everything here is exactly what
I take.
This is my Pre-Workout.
I take it 30 minutes before I work out.
This is ATHLEANRx 1.
The important thing about it is, no crash,
no dangerous ingredients,
none of the artificial highs that you get
by taking some of those ingredients that have
since A. Been banned.
or B. Are simply not the right amounts to
be dosing people with.
We get the sustained energy without all the
extreme highs and lows.
This is what makes it so effective and anybody
that has taken RX 1 can vouch for that.
For me, muscle recovery starts right after
you train and we have an ATHLEAN-Rx2 which
is ATHLEAN X-LR8.
This is our kickstart to the muscle recovery
process.
We get the right nutrition in.
We deliver creatin in the form of creapoline
into your body at the time it needs it most
which I feel is right after you train.
And we do so in a complete form.
Our branch amino acids are in here.
Our whey protein is in here.
Everything is in the one formula.
It just makes it a lot simpler I think.
And then finally probably the most overlooked
of all elements is muscle recovery right before
you go to bed.
If you think that you can just go to bed and
a lot of times having the last time ou ate
around 6 or 7 o'clock at night,
you're missing such an opportunity to provide
your body with the nutrition it needs while
it needs it the most which is when you're
recovering and repairing muscle.
All of your muscle recovery, guys, repairs,
90 percent of it occurs while you're sleeping.
It's when your muscle regenerates.
It's when your muscle restructures itself
from the damage that you did and hopefully
the good damage that you did in your workout
earlier that day,
if you're not providing it with the nutrition
it needs, then you're missing out on a great
opportunity.
That's what ATHLEAN-Rx3.
And I never go to bed a single night without
taking Rx3.
So, the idea here guys is giving you a peek
into exactly what I take.
This is it.
Now again it might be a little bit daunting
to some of you guys, or you might have a lot
of it covered yourself, but for me it works.
And this is the exact sort of step-by-step
approach that i take and i will tell you one
big step.
Consistency.
If you want to get the most out of your supplementation,
be consistent above all else.
These vitamins that I order here, these vitamins,
this brand,
this particular brand was introduced to me
by my Grandmother 25 years ago and I've been
ordering the same kind for 25 years and I
like how I feel.
I can just base it on that.
I like how I feel.
I think I look the way I want to look.
I feel good every day.
So, I keep taking it.
And I stay very, very consistent.
Like I said, this cabinet up here.
These are back ups so that when I run out
of these, I can stay consistent.
I prepare.
So if you want to make sure that you really
have your supplementations down, be prepared.
Get your supplements ahead of time.
And make sure you have a steady stock of them
so that you are able to keep your results
coming and
to keep your consistent approach not just
in the gym but obviously here in the kitchen
as well.
Guys, if you found this video helpful, which
I hope you have again you've been asking for
it for a long time, make sure you leave your
comments and your thumb's up below
What are you guys thinking?
Fill in the blanks.
What else do you like to take in addition
to what I've got here.
Tell me what you think.
Why you take it, why you think it works for
you, and that'll be a great discussion we
can start below.
But in the meantime guys hopefully you found
this helpful.
Any of these, again, Dr.C's Mechan-X, the
Rx Supplements, they're all available over
at ATHLEANX.COM.
It's exactly what I take.
I'll see you guys back here again real soon.
