Product Review: BSN NO-Xplode

Ah... the one and only, NO-Xplode. Revered as the best nitric oxide booster for your car body by professionals, amateurs and recreational users alike, this product has been the top seller worldwide for as long as I can remember. Almost every year since its debut, NO-Xplode has been seated #2 in Bodybuilding.com's Top 50 Bestsellers. And their list (which by the way, is not category based) is updated monthly.

I've had my first taste of this stuff years ago back when there were only two flavours and I had a go at the Blue Raspberry. I won't say it tastes great as there's a bitter aftertaste but all that is now history with this new flavour: Orange.

I was thinking, 'Heh, not gonna be easy to pull this one off.' I mean, orange juice is a common drink in most places. BSN might get away with blue raspberry cos we've got no benchmark against that (blue raspberry juice?) so we'll either go 'mmm good' or 'bleargh..'

Anyway, it's good to say that their Orange flavour tastes great. I just wanna suck it up when I'm at it. What could be better than having the same crazy pumps and no bitter aftertaste?

Product Review: Axis Labs Creatine Ethyl Ester

Creatine. Defined as a nitrogenous organic acid that occurs naturally in vertebrates and helps to supply energy to muscle and nerve cells; it was discovered in 1832 by Derek Edward Bye who later named it after the Greek work for flesh: kreas. Amazingly enough, it was till about a century later in 1900s that creatine was popularized as a sport supplement during the Barcelona Olympics. I have read somewhere though, that the earliest use of creatine was during World War 2 by soldiers but I'm not gonna bother validating that.

The first creatine product is a simple monohydrate - creatine complexed with a molecule of water. Then came the glamour versions of malates, dicreatines, esters and whatnot following the immense hype the compound received in less than 2 decades. Difference? Absorption rate, serum half-life and potential side effects such as cramping, bloating and water retention.

hmm... my watermark seems too small...

I had my experience with the plain ol' creatine monohydrate some years back. And I've also had the more glamourous dicreatines, krealkalyns and malates. What I've not tried is the ethyl esters... hence the bottle in my hand above. This creatine is in capsules and dosing is about 3 caps a serve. Not very large caps at so I'm not complaining after having to take M-Stak.

I guess it's more convenient not having to drink liquid all the time. Just pop 3 caps and rest easy in the thought of getting creatine in the blood.

Product Review: UN M-Stak

I wanted to try UN's Isostak for my choice of methoxyisoflavone... But at the last minute I flipped out and decided to go for broke with UN Animal M-Stak.

Mother*#($&%@-Stak

The 'M' of course can stand for many things. Mass-stak, Methoxy-stak, Meta-stak, Mother-of-all-staks, etc. But whatever it is, this will get the job done. While not as punishing to take as the Animal Pak, (note: I'm not the crazy Spanish dude) the M-Stak comes in 21 packets meant for a 21-day cycle. Each pack has 4 tabs and 4 caps. These components which are coloured blue and red for the caps and varied shades of brown for the tabs all have their own functions such as to potentiate androgen activity, regulate insulin, boost energy, prevent muscle breakdown (anti-catabolic) and inhibit estrogen. Sounds scary? Well it's not really.

might take awhile getting used to to these...

Taking a pack sort of puts my body in overdrive. I just gotta eat everything and anything under the sun to keep fuelled and always anabolic. No point fussing too much about the quality of food, just keep the pangs of hunger away. Let's see the difference in 21 days. Rage on.