10 beliefs to build a beautiful body

Reach your best with good supplements and good sense. Professional athletes are learning more about the targeted use of sports supplements and leaving steroids behind. So should you. You need to understand how the combination of diet, training and legal supplements can deliver results just as amazing as those achieved with banned substances.

Improve your physical performance responsibly and with discipline. Every athlete can noticeably improve their performance and attain their goals if they adhere to certain ideals. You must:

learn and optimise the basics of diet and nutrition,
incorporate numerical targeting in your training,
plan valuable rest periods, and
supplement with targeted additions to your diet.

Educate yourself with regards to diet and nutrition. Your results are fully dependent on the quality of your diet. You obtain the following nutritional foodstuffs from your diet:

carbohydrates for energy
protein for building muscles
fats and fatty acids for energy and for your immune system
essential nutrients and micronutrients for optimum body functioning

Optimise the nutrition in your diet. Find out the optimum quantities of nutrients your body requires and where it can obtain them with our Daily Basics chart. Supplement with high quality nutritional supplements where necessary, depending on your personal requirements, helping you to reach your goals and be your best.

Plan and take valuable rest periods. Not training is just as important as training. Sufficient rest enables the body to repair muscle cells and fibres. Without rest the body loses muscle density and the structure weakens. Rest allows cartilage in joints to be repaired. Without rest, joints can become weaker, and cause a loss of power. You can also use supplements to maintain healthy joints and help you achieve your best.

Supplement your diet with targeted additions. Without supplements it is difficult to gain enough of all of the right nutrients in your diet. Especially if your goals are to develop muscle or improve your physical performance. Food supplements aim to:

provide optimum levels of basic nutrients so you avoid illness caused by a poor diet,
prevent the unnecessary ‘catabolic’ loss of muscle tissue
promote and speed recovery from sickness and over-training

By targeting additions to your diet, measurable improvements in strength, muscle growth, stamina and speed are always achieved.

Choose the best products for you, for the goals you set for yourself. Now you know how to responsibly improve your physical performance, what supplements can you take to make this process more efficient and faster? Below is a schedule that will help you figure it out for yourself:

Product	Function
Power Creatine	promotes increased strength & quicker recovery
Hard Body	for increasing & maintaining muscle mass
Bodybuilding Aminos	supports muscle growth, prevents 'catabolic' loss of muscle tissue
Sports Chrome	helps intensify fat burning & improve stamina
Extra Strong HMB	enables quicker and easier muscle growth
TRIBEX	stimulates testosterone production & ability to burn fat
Fast Food	calorie rich energy source & weight gainer

These products contain only healthy nutrients and no unhealthy stimulants. They can be used safely for long periods. They work, but getting the body you want is still dependent on you eating and training in a targeted manner.

Avoid the temptation to take the "easy" way out. Something for nothing seems to be what anabolic steroids offer. Rapid, easy muscle growth, a great body, and minimal training... but the effects in the longer term can be devastating. Heart problems, prostate cancer, and extensive liver damage are just some of the potential complications. Prostate enlargement, difficulties with ejaculation and urinating, "bitch tits", baldness and semi-permanent erections can affect men. A permanent deeper voice, loss of high voice tones, menstruation problems, enlargement of the clitoris, undesirable hair growth (beard, back, breast), etc. can be suffered by women.
Natural food supplements offer a healthy alternative to anabolic steroids. When combined intelligently with a targeted, measured approach to your diet, training and rest periods the results can be staggeringly successful.

Anabolic steroids: The names to avoid: Anabolic steroids are sold under the following brand and chemical names: Androstanolon (dihydrotestosteron), Androsteendiol, Androsteendion, Bolasteron, Boldenon, Calusteron, Clostebol, Danazol, Dehydrochloremethyltestosteron, Drostanolon (dromostanolon), Ethylestrenol, Fluoxymesteron, Formebolon, Gestrinon, Mesterolon, Metandiënon (methandrostenolon), Metenolon, Methandriol, Methyltestosteron, Miboleron, Nandrolon, 19-norandrosteendiol, 19-norandrosteendion, Norethandrolon, Oxabolon, Oxandrolon, Oxymesteron, Oxymetholon, Quinobolon, Prasteron (DHEA dehydroepiandrosteron), Stanozolol, Stenbolon, Testosteron (1), Trenbolon and related substances.

Further reading and scientific support for building a beautiful body. If you want to know more, have a look at our list of scientific references