Posted on 1st Mar 2011 @ 3:27 PM
The sports supplements market is one filled with hype and marketing to the highest order. Sometimes you read some articles or magazine adverts and expect PRODUCT X is going to turn you into Arnold literally over night. Well, the harsh reality, and total truth is that this is quite simply nonsense. However the category of pre workout supplements, is one of the most effective sports supplements there are, and the type of supplements that actually do have an immediate impact on your energy levels, your focus and your strength/endurance in the gym - making you work out harder, putting in more intensity of effort, and thus being rewarded with the maximal amount of muscle growth and adaptation that can be delivered in return.
What do you want from a good pre workout supplement product?
A quality pre workout supplement should deliver exactly the above - a combination of increase energy and stamina, improved strength and a decent mental focus, and here's the important bit, NO Crash and NO side effects from using the product before your workout. This is a sign of a superior, high quality, pre workout supplement. And if the product is a decent formula, it will achieve the above, whilst simultaneously increasing nitric oxide levels in the body - resulting in increased muscular pumps, vascularity and protein synthesis.
We have grouped together the most popular pre workout supplements, or which you will probably have heard, or at least SHOULD have heard of, all of them.
- BSN NO Xplode (or NO Explode as some people believe it is.)
- Gasapri SuperPump 250
- Applied Nutrition RAGE NO3
- USP Labs Jack3d
- Physical Edge RAMPAGE
- CEL Nox RUSH
When you compare all of the above supplements you can see why they each get rave reviews and why each pre workout supplement above has its own merits as a good pre workout supplement.
Out of the above, when you remove marketinng hype and company advertising budget, we can certainly break the category down a little further. If we follow the inital requirements to the final conclusion, where you are looking for the most effective pre workout supplement, with the LEAST negative side effects, then you need look no further than the following three products:-
RageNO3 by Applied Nutrition
Stampede by Anabolic Designs
Nox Rush by CEL
These three pre workout supplements are by far and away the very best at delivering maximum energy, total mental and physical stimulation and increased strength all at the same time, whilst avoidinng nasty and negative side effects associated with either cheaper pre workout supplements, or those that contain intense, potentially ilegal stimulant ingredients.