N.O. Xplode

[Raptor]

Isn't "NO explode" an antagonist of "YES explode"? If so, then you should aim for YES explode since that's better for jumping.

[Sean0013]

These things are a bad, bad, bad idea....and a waste of money...

[mj]

These things are a bad, bad, bad idea....and a waste of money...

Care to suggest why??? Your reasoning is a little thin so far.

No doubt overuse = health issues. But overuse of anything is dangerous.

[horton]

i recently bough Cellucor C4 extreme pre-work. Its great. 60 servings for $35, and I'll only use a serving probably once a week on my really heaving lifting days. So this could last me close to a year when you add in weeks of rest/missed workouts.

Took it today for the first time. Within 15 minutes I felt like an animal. Bench felt really strong, got a 5lb PR with ease. Now, im not going to credit that all to the C4 but I deffinetly got amped up and had a great amount of energy, thats for sure. After working out I had a crazy pump. Chest, tris and bis were pumped like crazy. I'll continue to use this I loved. Great thing is, I feel great right now. I dont feel all amped up and energetic and I didnt crash either.

[John Stamos]

NO Xplode sucks, bsn got sued a few years back because they claimed ingredients were in it that werent and didnt exist


Im pretty tolerant to stims but i found hemavol and Maximize V2 to be a great stack for pre-workout.  Also i heard about another one that i gotta check out later.  Plus i heard that Amino energy by optimum nutrition and white flood by controlled labs are good as well.  Companies that are known for their advertising (bsn and ronnie, muscle tech and jay cutler) tend to be all bull shit supplements

[JackW]

I was recently wandering around a supplement store and was blown away by the huge amount of pre-workout options available. I started talking to the guy who runs the shop (a competitive bodybuilder) and he said nearly every second purchase these days are pre-workout supplements.

From a bodybuilding perspective he thought it was funny that all these skinny guys were coming in and buying pre-workout supps but then failing to eat anywhere near enough food to see any real gains. There is, in his mind anyway, a prevailing mindset that if you just train HARDER you will see more gains.

It would appear that some things never change. The hardest part about gaining a lot of muscle is the eating. Unlike a workout that pretty much takes an hour 4x per week, food intake is a constant test of discipline (whether you are trying to gain muscle or lose weight).

I am not anti pre-workout supps either though. My training goal this year is to get my safety bar box squat up to 180kg for 5 reps. I do other things in my training but come Saturday Squat day I am happy to take a pre-workout supplement to boost my concentration and intensity, but even then I only take it if I am not already feeling pretty pumped about the workout. This amounts to a serving once every three weeks or so.

The fact is, I have days when I train really hard and get great workouts without supplementation, and then there are some days when i do take a supplement and my workouts still aren't that great. I definitely think they do what they say they do but as always, if you haven't got the essentials of good diet, plenty of sleep and recovery, and your training program having an appropriate volume of load and intensity, then no matter what your goal is, a supplement isn't going to make that much of a difference.

For the record I like USP Labs (I think) Jacked as my pre-workout booster of choice. It has a really, really, really cool name   And it seems to work well and not taste like sh#t.

I have a small tub that has probably lasted me 6 months and at my current rate of consumption will probably go off before I finish it.

Jack

[TKXII]

I was recently wandering around a supplement store and was blown away by the huge amount of pre-workout options available. I started talking to the guy who runs the shop (a competitive bodybuilder) and he said nearly every second purchase these days are pre-workout supplements.

From a bodybuilding perspective he thought it was funny that all these skinny guys were coming in and buying pre-workout supps but then failing to eat anywhere near enough food to see any real gains. There is, in his mind anyway, a prevailing mindset that if you just train HARDER you will see more gains.

Yeah those supplements just give you more energy, like creatine does.

I'm interested in health and natural stuff, and a common way to burn out is from too much adrenaline. Excessive dieting, or low carbing, fasting, and taking stimulants can deplete the body. If you're healthy though, all that adrenaline can be healthy, so it actually is best to save it, but not for days you 'need' it. If you feel like you need stimulation, your body may be telling you to chill from the workout anyway, so aggravating it by taking such powerful adrenergic agonists can be harmful.

So I prefer taking stimulants when I'm already stimulated. It sounds crazy but it may be healthier because it means my body is in a ripe state to be high on adrenaline.

Again since i'm interested in natural things, coca leaves yes are good, but you'd need to eta a lot. The best I can offer is cacao beans though, which should be taken fasted. So you can eat breakfast, but for lunch/2hrs preworkouts, munch on 15-20 cacao beans (nibs aren't as effective they are processed further than beans), and wait for the spike. If you don't feel anything you are probably insensitive to adrenaline and this sually means you need to take a break from stimulation.

[TKXII]

Isn't "NO explode" an antagonist of "YES explode"? If so, then you should aim for YES explode since that's better for jumping.

Haha, hahahaha. Someone who doesn't like this product should write an article with this type of thinking for lolz