Fitness

A place to talk about fitness and health on Farcaster.

Do you really need supplements to get strong? ( A thread 🧵)

Most beginners rush to buy whey protein, creatine, or mass gainer. But miss the basics: training, food, and recovery.

If you’re new to training, your biggest gains come from:

👉🏾 Consistent training. 💪🏾 
👉🏾 Eating enough whole foods. 🍳 🍗 
👉🏾 Sleeping 7-9 hours. 😴 
👉🏾 Practicing good form. 🏋🏾‍♂️

Supplements cant replace these…

Supplements become useful when: 

👉🏾 You’re training hard 4-6x/week.
👉🏾 Your nutrition is dialed in.
👉🏾 You’ve hit a plateau.
👉🏾 You’re chasing performance, not just                 
       gains.


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What does supplements actually do?

Supplements fill the gaps in your nutrition or recovery and can provide a performance edge, but they don’t replace the basics.

Creatine: Boosts power output.
Protein powder: Fills nutrition gaps.
Pre-workout: Improves energy & focus.
Magnesium, D3, etc…: Supports recovery.

What supplements can’t do:

❌ Fix a bad program.
❌ Replace sleep.
❌ Compensate for poor nutrition.
❌ Build discipline for you.

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Building /fc-africa. I am the EggFather. Gym addict. /muscle /ftc

So when should you start using supplements?

If you ask me, i would say…

🫵🏾 Once your training is consistent at
      least 6-12 months upwards.
🫵🏾 Your diet is solid, supplements can
      then fill the little gaps, this way, you
      won’t have to rely on supplements
      alone.
🫵🏾 When your progress has gotten slow.

So those using supplements are not better than those not using it, and vice versa. It’s not a competition kids.

You would see some people not using supplements and tag themselves “natural”. Mfer you get these things from food too, just in smaller quantities.

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And NO, supplements won’t give you health issues “IF YOU DONT ABUSE THEM.”

If you can afford them do, if you can’t it’s fine just keep putting in the work (For 2 months+ now, i haven’t used any supplements, just whole foods like my eggs etc, i eat a lot in one sitting too😉). This is my current body state, still have a lot of muscles to put on.

It’s okay to not use supplements tbh, but the brutal truth is, if you’re chasing elite level physique, you’re most likely deceiving yourself, except you can consume the same amount of food equal to 5g of creatine. Which is unrealistic and stressful.

Thank you for reading to the end. 🙏🏾

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Little tips from me as you start your fitness journey 

If you have any, please drop

1. Always make sure not to do too much, i reckon doing compound movements first, you can actually just be doing majorly squats, deadlifts, bench press, dips, pullups… on their specific days.

2. Don’t go on media watching videos, not that they’re bad, but as a beginner, you don’t need those right now and it can mess up your thinking and get you tired.

3. Slowly climb your way up to your protein and meal intake. Don’t drastically increase or reduce your calorie intake.

4. Sleep is your best friend. But it will also become hard to do cause we’re from the same place. 😭

5. You’re looking to grow legs… i recommend two major workouts; Squats and Walking Lunges.

6. Make the weights heavy for you, not just lifting heavy weights.

7. Oh yeahh… Cardio 😬

8. If you read to this point, it means you are making effort to be better already.

9. Always make sure you rerack your weights.

10. The most important, make going to the gym easy, and you will always be there. e.g you feel tired and think you can’t hit the gym today, what you should do is convince yourself that you’re just going to try out a new machine or sit down and look around. Your brain will not want to do what is hard, make it simple.

Thank you 🙏🏾

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(Founder of Sahel emb,
Trainer of traditional embroidery)

I hope you can remain steadfast and continue your program, dear friend

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Last year, a trainer at the gym encouraged me to lift heavy weights, claiming it would be my PR even if I only did it once. I was skeptical, but I managed it the first time. However, the second attempt was tough, and I couldn't lift that weight again for some time.

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Just eat the eggs, especially looking at cost

what’s the point of 20 eggs a day diet?

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man back squats is tough. 
some days i’ll think “finally, acceptable form!!”. the next day i’ll think: “do i even have a clue of what i’m doing??”
it’s not ez

It’s a really crazy habit, i can agree with the 10+ years cause damnn it’s hardddd.

Even the back squats takes years to master a perfect form.

To be fair those first three you mentioned are pretty good. Mass gainer can be good for someone who doesn’t know how to eat big. Protein can be helpful to get your daily numbers. creatine is a nice to have. 
Agree tho overall. Master the basics first always (it only takes like 10+ years)

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Very important 
Infact, lifting weights is just so your muscles can tear so the protein you consume can build it back up bigger and better

I was advised:

- lift
- eat protein 
- rest
- repeat

My protein intake has gone straight up the last year.  I'm told it's required to heal muscles and make them big 💪

this is exactly what grant-funded education should look like - cutting through supplement industry noise with brutal honesty. you're building that bridge between iron discipline and digital community one truth at a time. the basics-first philosophy is pure gold.