Increase your energy, enhance muscle growth, improve performance, feel revitalized! These are all things I am sure you have heard about what multivitamins can do for you. They are all essentially correct. But before you take a multivitamin, it is important to know why you may need to take it. The most important reason someone may choose to supplement with a multi is because they may have nutritional deficiencies due to their diet. For example, someone who trains vigorously and is trying to lose weight may be on a specific, caloric restrictive diet. When dieting, you may not be having certain foods that contain certain vitamins and minerals that you need for optimal results. So in this example, you can have a multivitamin to fill in a lacking nutritional gap. It is not a standard replacement for vitamins and minerals, because your vitamins and minerals should be coming from a balanced diet from your “whole foods”. But it is important to have this supplement when you are purposely restricting yourself from extra calories you don’t need or want. Furthermore, someone who trains excessively will sweat, which means vitamins and minerals are being expended through perspiration and need to be replenished regularly. The supplementation of a multi will ensure you have the proper nutrients to execute a workout and receive results from it. Think about it for a moment, all those reps and sets of pumping blood into muscle tissue, but if you don’t have optimal levels of nutrients in your system, how is your body ever going to change? Your muscles need proper nutrients to grow and change. This may be the missing link to your maximum results!