First supplent you ever bought/tried ?

[Wolfinator]

Wayyyy back in the late1980s, my brother and I invested in some cement - filled plastic weider weights and a bench. When we didn't get huge within a few weeks, we decided it was time to buy some supplements! Our local health food store had a small supplement section and I remember buying a jar of the original Animal Paks thinking they were pretty much magic pills that would add several pounds of muscle (They didn't) My brother invested in a can of chewable protien tablets. I also recall buying some smylax and inosine there with pretty much the same results...expensive piss...haha

What were YOUR first experiences with supplements?

 

[Beothuk]

Same Weider weight set and bench.
Then Weider protein powders which tasted like chalk Lol

 

[Wolfinator]

Same Weider weight set and bench.
Then Weider protein powders which tasted like chalk Lol

Yes!!! We bought into the Weider propaganda in the pages of Muscle & Fitness 100%

 

[Beothuk]

Yes!!! We bought into the Weider propaganda in the pages of Muscle & Fitness 100%

Yes sir and read the mags religiously Lol.
I started weight training in about 1988 with my older brother in the basement

 

[Beothuk]

Still have a piece of vintage equipment I use now and again which was bought in late 80’s....the York 2001 from Canada Tire Lol

 

[Wolfinator]

Still have a piece of vintage equipment I use now and again which was bought in late 80’s....the York 2001 from Canada Tire Lol View attachment 5818

Haha nice!!!!

 

[Beothuk]

Haha nice!!!!

Only 140lbs stack, but feels like 200lbs with the rough and worn out pulleys Lol

 

[Cumminstech2]

Purple K creatine probably

 

[OntarioMuscle101]

I had Creatine Ethyl Ester. I forgot the brand. From GNC of course.

 

[Bagua]

Ginseng in the early 70s if it counts.

 

[Goldenrod]

Still have a piece of vintage equipment I use now and again which was bought in late 80’s....the York 2001 from Canada Tire Lol View attachment 5818

Love it - vintage and still useful!

 

[Goldenrod]

Cybergentics kits from New York when I was visiting family in the early 90's.

 

[The Old Guy]

Cybergentics kits from New York when I was visiting family in the early 90's.

Did you buy the protein Pasta as well ? I actually put on a fair bit of muscle using this programs.

 

[PGM]

I worked at a bakery back in the late 70's early 80's and they had this whey milk powder. I tried to mix that stuff up and it didn't miix well so I drank chewed it down lol. We were desperate for stuff back then ... never heard of gear... lol. The first protein powder I bought was casein .. it was chocolate and it was a Frank Zane product ... tasted like shit ... drank it anyway

 

[musclememory]

Weider 90% protein pills. It had a picture of Larry Scott on the can. Kept the can for years afterwords. Not sure whatever happened to it. Next was their protein powder which was absolutely discusting and would not mix with a spoon. ,you had to drink it and stir it at the same time or it was a lumpy mess. Most proteins from the 80's were trash.

 

[musclememory]

Actually that first protein would have been the summer of '78. That is the summer I picked up the weights for the first time. That would have been after 4 or 5 months of using a weider chest expander spring set....anyone remember that?

 

[Wolfinator]

Weider 90% protein pills. It had a picture of Larry Scott on the can.

That's what my little brother bought! I was trying to Google a picture of the can, but couldn't find one!

 

[Wolfinator]

Cybergentics kits from New York when I was visiting family in the early 90's.

I used that stuff too! The supplements were lame, but the workouts were pretty good...

 

[rated_rko]

creatine mono hydrate lol

 

[Goldenrod]

Did you buy the protein Pasta as well ? I actually put on a fair bit of muscle using this programs.

No, I didn't but the workouts were insane and the US supplements worked. I gained 10 lbs in 2 months - all muscle as I was much younger and very lean. Took a few months off an bought the Canadian version which did not have the same ingredients and got F all from it.