pleased, but after some time you read somewhere that it's been proved that this exact supplement doesn't work? How come you got positive results from it, if it doesn't work?
The fitness industry nowadays is flooded with thousands of different products, there is so much variety to choose from. We can roughly categorize most of them - protein powders, weight-gainers, fat burners, pre-workout supplements, recovery supps and a few more.
Some supplements are sold as standalone products, while others are a mix of certain ingredients with a labeled or hidden profile of the mixture. In both cases many users err what is effective and what is not. Sometimes though, supplements that are proven to be ineffective...are actually effective.In this article we will talk about why that happens.
What could be the reasons?
Always, as it is with most things in life, even sports, a result is a mix of different reasons. In training rarely only one thing is responsible for a certain result. Sometimes the reasons overlap with one another, sometimes some of them "synergies" with others. Here are a few situations that often lead to delusions.Spending money leads to more effort
Almost everyone had this happen at some point : You buy a certain product, or several at once. Consciously (at least partly) you decide that since you've actually spend money, this time you must get serious. It is past time for me to clean up my diet. This time I will train hard, no more skipping workouts, I'll train at 100% . No pain no gain right? Is this familiar to you? There is no need for further explanation, I'm sure you get already get it. Naturally if you're more serious, you will train harder and actually keep your diet in check and the result will of course be better. This doesn't necessarily mean that the new supplements are responsible, right?Starting to use a new supplement is often accompanied by a change in your routine
This situation is almost the same as the one above, but it's completely intentional. You start to use a new product/stack and with it you also want another change. You change your workout routine, add a few new exercises, change some other parameters. Naturally, the new exercises will stimulate your muscles in a different way, which will cause growth and nervous adaptation. Increasing volume will also contribute to a new result. Separate exercises which haven't been done in a long time, allow for a very quick strength progress(at first) because of the nervous adaptation.Placebo
This is one of the most important factors. It should always be taken into account. It can create a completely new effect and it can also enhance/worsen an already existing one. The way you think of something can actually impact it's actual effectiveness, just by thinking you can cause certain physiological reactions.Simply put: If you really believe that a supplement will give you more energy, you will feel more energetic after taking it.
I've seen how a person with no knowledge of supplements, takes a multivitamin and begins to jump and run around like crazy, because it gave him a huge amount of energy. I'm sure everyone has experienced/seen a similar thing. This effect can persist in the long run, if you genuinely believe that something will help your muscles grow faster, it has a real chance to actually help you grow muscles faster.
Stacks with effective and ineffective supplements
In this group, except stacks we can include individual products with several ingredients and blends with hidden profiles. Some of the things inside those supps are effective, other aren't. Especially when the quantity of certain ingredients isn't listed on the label, the consumers are often mislead that some(or all) of the ingredients will have an effect, when in reality, just one or two of the them are responsible for 100% of the results.Natural strength progression
This most often occurs with people that try to justify their poor choice of creatine. Sometimes perseverance pays off. Each of us (perhaps excluding the complete beginners) has had a plateau on an exercise or even on general progress. Sometimes all you need is a little perseverance and things start to work again. But... if this point in time coincides with the addition of a new supplement, it doesn't necessarily mean that one is a consequence of the other. Even without a plateau, especially in people that have less than a year or two of experience in the gym, it is completely normal to progress every month. With or without supplements.Caffeine and fat-burners
Fat burners (or at least the legal ones) are the group of supplements with the most questionable effectiveness on the market. How to convince users that they actually work? It's simple, make them feel something right after usage. This is the main reason that fat burners are filled with caffeine, 1-3 dimetilamilamin and others. Even with a poor diet, if the fat burner gives a lot of energy, then all the reviews on it will be positive.Effective only in a deficit
This is a weird group of supplements. In most cases they aren't effective and are useless to most people. But at a certain deficit of something in the organism, they become effective. We aren't talking about a placebo effect, there's actually a real result. For example if you're not getting enough L-glutamine in your diet, such a supplement would be conditionally effective.Conclusion
Ultimately, a certain supplement, which you've taken and think that it has contributed to your results, might actually have been useless. Of course the opposite can also be true. You can buy something that is proven towork, and still not get a positive result.
I'm in no way denying the effectiveness of supplements in general. They have their place in our workout routines, health and sports and can certainly help.
Always read the label before purchasing a product and do not believe/dispute automatically what you read about a particular product. Collect information, focusing on scientific sources and don't ignore the users reviews, they too can help out.
Good luck!
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