There are enough muscle building supplements on the market to make your head spin. Unfortunately, not all of them are made for you and many of them are quite frankly, unnecessary.

So, to keep you from wasting your time and cash on supplements you don’t need, and to make sure you get top results from supplements you do decide to take, we’ve put together this list of the Top 10 best bodybuilding supplements that you can incorporate into your daily muscle building diet.

But before we get started, let’s clear out a misunderstanding about supplements in general that is popular with many bodybuilders, particularly beginners.

Many people believe that taking a certain product will give you some kind of insane edge; all you have to do is just add that one supplement to your bodybuilding workout and BOOM! Results will just come pouring in.

This is the perfect opportunity for supplement companies to pitch you one product after another as that elusive magical supplement which in reality you don’t need.

If you are someone who follows their bodybuilding workout, weight training, and weight lifting program religiously, you should know that you can never take a supplement once in your life and still gain muscle mass far more efficiently than someone who takes supplements all the time.

It is because building muscle and burning fat is all about the intensity of your workouts and a proper nutrition strategy.

Supplements account for only a small percentage of your progress. That said, they are useful in giving you that extra push.

Problem is, out of tons of supplements out there only a few have been proven to work and are actually effective.

That’s precisely why we came up with this list of Top 10 best supplements to take to get ripped and gain muscle mass.

Let’s first figure out the basics, though.

The first useful supplement and probably the most popular among bodybuilding enthusiasts is the protein powder.

It can be hard for you to get enough protein from your diet, and supplementation with protein powder can definitely help.

Protein powder is also great to take after a bodybuilding workout and when you’re on the move.

Whey protein is cheap, tastes good and is very efficiently absorbed into your body. For those of you who are lactose intolerant, egg-based protein powders are also widely available on the market today.

The second supplement in our little overview is creatine. People can experience different results with different varieties of creatine.

And there are a lot of them.

Monohydrate is the most basic form of creatine. It’s also the cheapest and is probably the most studied, so we can rest assured creatine monohydrate is pretty safe.

There are also other types of creatinine available that claim to reduce bloating. However, the functionality of these kinds of creatine lacks the scientific backing, unlike monohydrate.

At number three are stimulants and supplements that give you energy. And again, despite what the market offers, beta alanine, vitamin B, nitric oxide, and caffeine are probably all you’ll ever need.

Nitric oxide will get you pumped up during your workouts and can give you that extra energy to squeeze out those last couple of reps.

Beta alanine is said to decrease lactic acid build-up in your muscles, allowing for your body to recover faster between sets.

And perhaps the best part is Beta alanine decreases fatigue, so it’s another great tool to get you pushing out extra reps.

First-time users of beta alanine might feel pins and needles but the prickly sensation is not painful and becomes less of a bother over time.

Caffeine and vitamin B are both supplements you can take for boosting energy before you work out as well. Most good pre-workout supplements will include a combination of these in one supplement.

The trick here is to make sure your pre-workout supplement stays effective, and it continues giving you energy without overusing it. It is a common mistake among newbies to become dependent on the pre-workout supplement just to even get a regular workout in.

Of course, supplement companies want you to believe you should take their product before every one of your workouts, but experienced bodybuilders know that’s the least effective way to use them.

To get the best impact from your pre-workout supplements you should only take them once, maybe twice a week, and only during a workout when you really want to work on increasing your workload, intensity levels and breaking some personal records.

Make a point of really going hard when you decide to take your pre-workouts. Coffee and vitamin B on the other hand, are safe to take pretty much every day.

The last two bodybuilding supplements we should mention before we get to our Top 10 list are perhaps important like no other when you’re on a cut and you’re trying to burn fat while minimizing muscle loss.

BCAA‘s or Branch Chained Amino Acids and L-Glutamine will help spare muscle tissue during a calorie deficit. Everyone who has lowered their body fat percentage to pretty low levels has run into the problem of losing at least a little bit of muscle mass in the process. This is inevitable, but we can do our best to prevent it as much as possible.

If you’re already taking protein powder then BCAA’s and L-glutamine are most likely already included in that powder. For that reason, the only time you really need more is when you’re cutting calories.

That’s pretty much it. Those are the only supplements you really need.

That’s pretty much it! Those are the only muscle building supplements you really need.

You may be wondering why we didn’t mention fat burners. The answer to that is because we consider them, for the most part, to be very unhealthy which are known to cause a whole bunch of different problems.

In our humble opinion, the only fat burning supplements you should take are Green Tea and EGCg, which is actually derived from green tea itself.

It is sometimes really surprising how many knowledgeable, well-intentioned fitness professionals recommend fat burners to their clients. Focus on creating a substantial calorie deficit and you won’t need to take any unhealthy fat burning pills.

Okay, enough said. Let’s get right into our list.

Below is a list of the top 10 bodybuilding supplements freely available on the Internet.

The rankings have been determined by product reviews, customer comments and overall performance as reported by participants in bodybuilding and fitness forums.

We have also taken every care to be as accurate as possible but please note we did not test every one of these products on ourselves. That said, we believe all the information provided in this article is based on facts, honest opinions, and good old-fashioned trust.