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A pre workout supplement is not just for an energy rush or to wake you up, it can also aid with endurance during strenuous activity. AKA working out. The main ingredient you find in a lot of pre workouts is beta Alanine. Beta Alanine is a non essential amino acid your body naturally produces which can raise carnosine in your body. So taking the supplement will help with raising your carnosine levels even more. Carnosine helps with your endurance during workouts and will make you perform for longer periods of time and be able to gain more out of your...

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A lot of people ask the question, “Am I over training?” As an athlete, especially a college athlete, you need to get used to working out multiple times per day. Athletes in college have morning lifts, school all day, practice in the evening and then have to do it again. So there really is no excuse if you are a regular athlete in high school or even just a regular person who likes to workout to skip a ton of days in the gym. However the main difference between collegiate and professional athletes and the regular ones is that the...

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Protein is one of the foundational substances for muscle gain and recovery. Protein can be found in food but if you weigh a decent amount and/or do not have time to constantly meal prep/ map out everything you eat/ eat 6 times per day, protein powder is a great source to get the protein you need to build muscle. Science states that you need .8-1G of protein per pound of body weight to gain muscle consistently. So if you weigh over 160lbs this is a pretty challenging task. Having a protein shake after you workout is a great way to...

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If you are trying to add muscle and gain weight there are a few things that you can work into your routine that we are going to discuss today. 1) Lifting correctly. When you are in the gym so many guys lift incorrectly, they are lifting for high reps which won’t help you gain muscle mass or they are lifting solely for strength. These are two things that won’t help you add muscle. Lifting high reps helps you burn fat and put on LEAN muscle but it won’t help you out on muscle mass. You should be lifting in the...

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So this is kind of a trick question, we believe not one ingredient is most important in a pre workout, but a blend of ingredients that is properly dosed is most important. You see a lot of brands have these fancy marketing terms for their ingredients like “ultimate strength blend” or “super Creatine blend” when really there is nothing super or ultimate about it. More often than not, the blends are marketed that way because it’s a lot of ingredients. Not because it is going to help you with any kind of gains. For example take Creatine, some brands put...

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