Product Review: ABB GlutaForce

Glutamine is the most abundant amino acid in the body and is the first to be exhausted within the hour of strenuous activity. Supplementing a daily diet with glutamine has various benefits apart from promoting recovery and muscle growth, so I've given this a shot.

ABB's GlutaForce. Good ol' L-glutamine in powder form to be mixed with my protein shakes. It's quite fine and smooth and mixes easily. Doesn't affect the overall taste of the protein and isn't gritty like creatine monohydrate.

Overall, a simple product. Get's the job done any way you look at it. Just gotta get the hang of mixing it it with regular protein shakes. A 500g tub goes a long way with 100 servings, so it'll be a while before I'll be needing to restock on glutamine.

Supplement Guide: Alpha Lipoic Acid

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Supplement Guide: Alpha-GPC

This one got me stumped. Nobody really goes around saying, "I need more Alpha-GPC..." but I guess knowing whether or not your supps have it helps. Seems to promote acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter that works on the nervous system and muscles... hmm

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Product Review: Muscletech Nitrotech

Ah... nostalgia. Nitrotech was the first protein supplement I took years back. Back when it looked like this,

Yeah... kinda like first love it was. Sweet, heavenly and made me a better person... but then it got too much to upkeep so I chucked it. Lol.

Anyway, enough bullshit metaphor.. it's good to revisit supps after awhile. At least that's what I think. Gives the body a little variation. Here I have the new and improved Nitrotech in Chocolate flavour. Let's see what difference a few years can make.

It's still as fine as ever, mixes real quick and easy. Taste is as I remember it but having now tasted the magnificent Muscle Milk, I can't say this tastes as good. It's more of like a souped up version of ON 100% Whey Gold Standard. In any case, a quality product all round... spiked with creatine and carbs for "instant" growth. Now I just wonder, how does the newer HardCore version stack up with the competition?

Beijing Olympic Games 2008

I just watched the opening for the 29th Games and man is it spectacular! I think the Chinese have really set the bar and London's really gonna have to break a leg in the next four years.

Its just crazy... the amount of money they must've dumped... Costumes, lighting, pyrotechnics, just building the stadiums... and not to mention a lighted floor that would make John Travolta go psycho on a Friday night.

I wonder how they choreographed and practiced the sequences. I thought I'd only see stuff like that in video games like Final Fantasy.. lol. I'm not particularly pro-Chinese but this event is a true testament to their capability as an emerging world superpower.

Official Beijing Olympics Youtube

Supplement Awards 2008

Nominations have been cast and voting is now open at bodybuilding.com. Although not a body of authority of any sort, the website has grown to become a trusted resource for anything to do with bodybuilding and fitness. You can bet your top dollar that the supplements that win their respective category is worth every buck. I'll just wait and see.