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Vitamin C helps! This is a very brief, but factual article on vitamin C. I do recommend that you take a vitamin supplement to make sure you have no deficiences and not limiting your muscle growth and strength development. The benefits of this vitamin is so important that bodybuilding articles have been known to show entire paragraphs of info on this stuff. Vitamin C is very useful in weightlifting. Vitamin C can be obtained from many types of juices. Really the only juice I think that doesn't always have vitamin C is apple juice. Still, usually it is added to apple juice along with some calcium. Many juice boxes I see at stores now days have 100% daily value of vitamin C. Well, your probably wanting to know what this has to do with weightlifting. Vitamin C acts as a lubricant, and helps relieve stress on the joints, tendons, and muscles themselves. Now I'm not trying to say that after a hard workout that vitamin C will neutralize all muscle soreness. Definitely not! It will certainly help though, and decrease the chances of overtraining a muscle. It is also believed to aid in protein synthesis. This means it helps protein be transported to the muscles quicker and more efficently. Besides these great benefits, vitamin C also acts as a anitoxidant. A antitoxidant is a substance that eliminates free radicals in the body. Free radicals can damage muscle tissue. That would mean that a wise bodybuilder would make sure he has enough antitoxidants to reduce the amounts of free radicals in his or her body. As you can see, vitamin C is important to the bodybuilder along with the average person who wishes to improve their overall nutrition