Feb 13 2015, 12:21 AM
QUOTE(bloodchow2 @ Feb 12 2015, 07:16 PM)
one of the supplement store recommend me to take mass gainer to bulk up, so do they worth it? 1900 calorie for dymatize super mass gainer for RM 140-170. They contain loads of maltodextrin, they are basically carbohydrate but the huge differences compare this to traditional rice/oats is rate of digestion. Maltodextrin is a cheap source of carbohydrate that digest as fast as sugar according to wikipedia and it costs only $1 USD/lb while rice digest slowly, but I dont like to eat rice anyway
if I were to take mass gainers I would be taking half of the serving size of mass gainer just before weight lifting (900), breakfast (200), lunch+dinner (1400) total 2500 calorie, just above my tdee 2000 calorie to achieve calorie surplus for bulking
another more expensive alternative way is to buy 100% low carb whey protein, huge bags of oats, glucolin glucose (dextrose), full fat powdered milk and add them all together like this :
2 cups milk
0.5 cup oat
2 scoops whey protein
3 tablespoon glucose
around 1000 calorie for this shake to substitute mass gainer
glucose and table sugar is different, glucose is simple carbohydrate but the sugar that you always consume in mamak store, whatever sweet product out there is made up of table sugar thats contain basically 50% glucose and 50% fructose, fructose flood your liver so much until it develop fat
I would suggest you to restrain from taking them mass gainers for these reasons:if I were to take mass gainers I would be taking half of the serving size of mass gainer just before weight lifting (900), breakfast (200), lunch+dinner (1400) total 2500 calorie, just above my tdee 2000 calorie to achieve calorie surplus for bulking
another more expensive alternative way is to buy 100% low carb whey protein, huge bags of oats, glucolin glucose (dextrose), full fat powdered milk and add them all together like this :
2 cups milk
0.5 cup oat
2 scoops whey protein
3 tablespoon glucose
around 1000 calorie for this shake to substitute mass gainer
glucose and table sugar is different, glucose is simple carbohydrate but the sugar that you always consume in mamak store, whatever sweet product out there is made up of table sugar thats contain basically 50% glucose and 50% fructose, fructose flood your liver so much until it develop fat
1. Quality of ingredients (which you already covered and suggest an alternative, props to that).
2. Dependency issue. When you managed to gain more muscle mass, your TDEE will increase thus your caloric requirement will increase too. Do you want to consume more mass gainers?
3. Eating capability. Mass gainers does not train nor increase your eating capability which will make your dependency issue worsen and may hinder your progress.
My suggestion would be to consume whole food and eat them. If you can't consume all in your standard meal, split them into 4/5/6 meals (which almost all bodybuilders do this).
You don't like rice? There are plenty of rice substitute. You can eat spaghetti, potatoes, brown rice, bread and so on so forth. try to avoid mass gainers if you will.
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oat is quite expensive sometimes thou, the high quality oats in my home using bg22 cost like RM 60+ per bottle 400g, i think the cheap 1 will do, anyway thanks for your reply 
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