Multivitamin

Hi am am new to multivitamins. What are some good multivitamins to take for working out? I'm thinking about GNC's Mega Men, but its a little pricy so I might go with their Solotron instead, do you think Mega Men really worth the extra $$? The only thing Mega men really has over the Solotron is fruit/vegitable powder.  And when is the best time to take a multivitmin- in the morning or right after your workout? Any help/advice is greatly appreciated!

I take the GNC Multi, it does it's job. I take it with food 1 in the am with breakfast and one in the pm with dinner

IMO Centrum Performance looks good... I'm looking into
NOW Adam Superior Men's Multiple Vitamins! (It contains a lot of Vitamin A (not good) and it doesn’t contain Iron so I might just choose the Centrum over this!... We'll see!)
 
What do you guys think of these 2???
 
Thanks! :)

Hey who said you could hijack my thread? But seriosuly, what are some good multi's?

I just take Vitamineshoppes Ultimate Man....12$

ORIGINAL: Dude

Hey who said you could hijack my thread? But seriosuly, what are some good multi's?

When you hijack something you don't ask!...

I mentioned the two MV's I thought were good and asked what others thought of my choices!... That's not hijacking a thread!

Good Luck!

Hey Dude;
 
I've been taking MHP-Activite Multi's., for quite a while and IMO are great. They are geared for the sports minded individual. Have a great vitamin profile along with Anabolase, which optimizes the function of food for max performance and has a high ORAC for muscle recovery and antioxidant support. I paid 20 bucks for 120 tabs. I take 4 tabs per day, 2 with breakfast and 2 with dinner.
 

Personally, I like to use capsules better than caplets/tablets. But, for a multi-vitamin/multi-mineral supplement to be optimally effective it needs to be in a tablet form.
 

Peace
 

I've taken centrum for awhile now but before training days I just take the naimal pak.

ORIGINAL: jram
Personally, I like to use capsules better than caplets/tablets. But, for a multi-vitamin/multi-mineral supplement to be optimally effective it needs to be in a tablet form.

Why's that?
 
Thanks :)

ORIGINAL: wvubill22185

I've taken centrum for awhile now but before training days I just take the naimal pak.

You take 22 pills a day?

When one swallows a capsule it is dissolved in the stomach and the contents are released. The contents then travel to the small intestine and are absorbed. This is usually not a problem. A multi-vitamin however, contains many delicate compounds that can be easily destroyed by the stomach acids. If a multi-vitamin is in a capsule form, many of the nutrients will never make it to the small intestine for absorption and utilization.
 
Tablets incorporate a hard form (similar to MHP-Activite, et al.) and may also have a specialized coating so that it will pass through the stomach and be released in the small intestine unharmed and be able to formulate a fully functional and fully absorbable multi-vitamin/multi-mineral that supposedly is far superior to capsule formulae.

are multivitamin tablets really worth getting? never thaught about it till now whats the benifits to having them and would it b better to get all the vitamins etc frm fruits?
 

all animal paks.

At my signal, unleash hell.

Vitamin shoppe multi 2 a day for me

stack as of FEB 28, 2007:
optimen multi - 2 aday
NO shotgun - 1 scoop
Activate - 4 caps aday
Xgyience protein - 1 after workouts
Detour Oatmeal bars - 1 aday for breakfast
ZMA - 3 before bed
Rebound Reloaded XT - 1 in the am, 1 in the pm

ORIGINAL: jram

When one swallows a capsule it is dissolved in the stomach and the contents are released. The contents then travel to the small intestine and are absorbed. This is usually not a problem. A multi-vitamin however, contains many delicate compounds that can be easily destroyed by the stomach acids. If a multi-vitamin is in a capsule form, many of the nutrients will never make it to the small intestine for absorption and utilization.

Tablets incorporate a hard form (similar to MHP-Activite, et al.) and may also have a specialized coating so that it will pass through the stomach and be released in the small intestine unharmed and be able to formulate a fully functional and fully absorbable multi-vitamin/multi-mineral that supposedly is far superior to capsule formulae.

Hehe!... Damn Hydrochloric Acid!… Now I gotta choke on those huge NOW Adam tablets instead of taking the soft veg-caps... Life goes on!!!

Makes sense!... Thanks for the thorough explanation!

(PS. - I always thought the caps are better than the tabs since there were some posts in the bodybuilding.com forums about tabs not getting absorbed properly!... Information changes!... Once again thanks for your advice!... I'll continue searching and report back with results!)