Best Advice I can Give

You know, the fastest gains I have ever made in my entire life wasn't made with a fancy supplement, Special weight machine, or some secret weight routine. In fact it was made with hard work and forcing food into my body. I think that the biggest limiting factor in any weight routine is your diet. I mean when I first started lifting I really had no idea what I was doing, I used horrible form, over-trained, and didn't change my diet at all, yet I still made decent gains in strength and size. Eventually I reached a point where that wouldn't work for me anymore and so I decided to get serious.
I went out and bought a bunch of protein shakes and bars, as well as about 40 cans of tuna. I started eating about 250 grams of protein a day along with working my ass off at the gym five days a week. The hardest part was eating so much and so often, I was eating between six and seven times a day, and finding it to be practically punishment. But it seemed that every Monday, when I went to do bench press, the weight felt lighter. For about six weeks straight my bench press was going up ten pounds a week. My strength was going through the roof, and I had gained ten pounds of muscle.
My point in writing this, inst to say that supplements don't work, or to say diet is the only thing that's important. I am merely trying to point out that diet is much more important than many people believe. Eating enough protein to repair your muscles everyday is hard, and without the help of protein supplementation it can be almost impossible, This is why I recommend everyone should make the small investment in protein shakes and/or bars to squeeze in some extra protein while your in class, at work, or in transit. In the end it will pay off big time.