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Universal Nutrition – Animal Flex
Animal Flex is one of the latest products to come out of the Animal line of supplements. This is an astonishingly powerful supplement that is designed to give your joints the ability to keep up with your intense workouts. This supplement is designed to take away all of the pain or discomfort that you experience in your joints during those heavy lifting sessions. Staying fit is important, but keeping your body healthy is even more important.
Your body can only take so much lifting before its joints begin to wear down. This wear and tear occurs even if you do not realize it. It is vitally important that you take care of your joints, because all of that damage can lead to some serious health problems. If you continue to let your joints suffer, your lifting and bodybuilding career will be over before it even started.
This supplement contains all of the nutrients you need to produce stronger, more flexible joints. The first thing you will notice is that your joints will become more lubricated, allowing you to have control over your usual mobility. Stiff joints make it more difficult to lift large amounts of weight. Some lubrication can make it feel like you are years younger, slamming the weights around like an all-star professional.
Animal Flex also repairs the damage already done to joints and tissue muscle. The nutrient complex in the formula is designed to get you back to your youthful stage of joint health. All you have to do is continue taking your Animal Flex formula and pump irons. Your body will start to regenerate all of the broken bits in your joints. Pump those irons without any worry about your joints’ health.
A serious problem after lifting weights is the soreness around the joints. That soreness is caused by your muscles tearing and your bone rubbing against each other. Animal Flex is designed to reduce that soreness, which can be a great help for anyone that just wants to relax after lifting weights. Think of Animal Flex as your recovery assistant, and it will also help to ensure your overall health continues to be positive.
If you are serious about lifting weights, you need to be serious about your physical health and condition. Damaging your system for too long can bring your whole weight lifting game down to nothing. Animal Flex is designed to keep you pumping weights for a long period of time during your life.
Best Muscle Supplements
So, you lift and you workout, yet you don’t see any real results, why? The problem may not lie in your workout routine. It may be an issue with your muscle supplements, or the lack thereof. The best muscle supplements greatly increase your muscular growth potential. They give you the nutrients you need to succeed. The combination of exercise and supplements creates the perfect internal environment for muscle growth.
One of the best muscle supplements you can provide your body is a pre-workout supplement like Jack3d. Jack3d gives you long-lasting energy effects, which can be utilized during intense workout sessions. Rather than quit early due to fatigue, you can continue pushing through your workouts to optimize muscle strength. Once the workout is over, Jack3d is there to help you feel some intense muscle pumps, so you know that your body is fueling your muscles with real nutrients. With Jack3d, you will never have a bad workout again.
For your body, there is absolutely nothing more important than protein. Whey protein hits your body fast and efficiently soaks into your muscles. Optimum Nutrition 100% Whey Gold Standard is one of the best muscle supplements you can give your body. It is scientifically designed to hit the areas that need the protein, and it contains loads of other nutrients that help to ensure overall health and well-being. This whey protein is also stuffed with very few carbohydrates, so you get nothing but pure protein. It is a workout supplement that needs to be used.
Syntha 6 is a different kind of protein supplement. Rather than having to choose which kind of protein you want to use, Syntha 6 combines six different kinds into one formula. This gives you the instantaneous effects of whey protein, the lasting effects of casein, and the digestible effects of egg. This is why it makes the best muscle supplements list, and you simply have to use it to see just how astonishing this protein can be for you.
Staying fit isn’t all about hitting the gym and pumping up your muscles. It is also about taking care of your body. By giving it the proper nutrients, you will see a long-term effect of physical improvement. This is the idea behind Universal Nutrition Animal Nitro. It is a multivitamin designed by bodybuilders, for builders, making it one of the best muscle supplements you can buy.
Universal Nutrition
Picking a good brand of athletic performance or nutritional supplements is a choice many people have to make. With so many good brands and different products available it can be quite a daunting task. Which brand makes the best products? Which brand is most affordable? Which brand has a combination of both quality products but won’t keep you living in you mom’s basement for the rest of your life?Having used nutritional supplements and performance enhancing supplements for nearly 30 years now, I have seen brands come and go. I have seen good products get taken off the market because they worked well and competed with pharmaceutical companies products so they put a few dollars in a few congressman’s pockets and get the product made illegal for no scientific reason. One way to choose a brand is to look at their history. Universal Nutrition has been around for 30 years and there is a reason for that. Quality, integrity, and attention to detail are only some of the reasons they have thrived for 3 decades. I have personally been using the Animal Vitamin Pakfor 10 years or more. As a 5 time bodybuilding champion I understood that muscle wasn’t built during the work out but it was built days after the workout and recovery was the key to muscle growth. Good nutrition and rest are 2 key components to recovery. The Animal Pak allowed me to recover from workouts by providing me with essential vitamins and minerals that get used and sweated out during and after a brutal weight lifting workout. Also endurance athletes drain themselves of critical nutrients and these must be replaced and the way food is grown currently you need to supplement your vitamins. Food is now mass produced in corporate farms where it is impossible to replace what decades of farming the same fields has removed.
So if history or a winning bodybuilders recommendation isn’t enough to convince you that a Universal Nutrition is a solid choice, then how about science. Science has proven that athletes that have better nutrition perform better than athletes that do not. Don’t take my word for it, look it up, the research is there. Once you have decided you want to be the best football player, soccer player, mma figther, wrestler, or whatever your sport is, then the choice to take a quality brand of supplements is a no brainer. I can personally recommend Universal Nutrition and especially suggest looking at the Animal Line of Supplements to help you be the best you can be.
WorldClassNutrition.com Launches New Mystery Project
WorldClassNutrition is launching a new project to offer consumers name brand supplement products for pennies on the dollar. The project offers consumers unspecified products in accordance with specific fitness goals. The process is much like popular travel websites where you bid on a city, score a great deal and afterwords have the hotel name revealed.
WorldClassNutrition has gone live with their Mystery Product service. Basically consumers purchase a Mystery Product in the fitness goal they are after (weight loss, pre-workout, post-workout, protein supplement) for a super low price. Then WorldClassNutrition sends a name brand, unopened, unaltered product that meets the fitness goal specified.
You may be wondering “What’s the catch?” There is no catch. When ordering products, there is often a surplus ordered and rather than having excess product on hand, WorldClassNutrition has decided to offer consumer’s extreme savings on the over stocked products they have on hand.
Among the manufactures in Mystery Product Project are:
- Universal Nutrition
- Sci-Fit
- Optimum Nutrition
- Muscle asylum
- American Sports Nutrition (ASN)
- MuscleTech, Myogenix
- Certified Naturals
- HiTech
- Star Chem Labs
- TwinLab
- Competitive Edge Labs
- Universal Nutrition
- Swedish Beauty
- Australian Gold
You are not able to choose the brand name you receive but, with prices like these, you’ll be getting a great value.
Hypertrophic Test Stack
The Animal line of products is a high quality, no BS** kind of product line. For me I am a huge fan of universal (the makers of Animal). They are known for the quality of products that they come out with. One newer product from Animal that hasn’t got much hype is the Animal Test. The Animal Test is a Hypertrophic test stack; meaning that it activates your muscle cells to increase in size, which allows for bigger muscles and a more rapid recovery. This stack is a safe and natural way to help build size and strength without having any side effects. One of the key ingredients that you find in this product is the Arachidonic Acid (ARA). ARA is an Omega-6 fatty acid and can be found in many red meats. Clinical studies at the Exercise & Sport Nutrition Lab at Baylor University have demonstrated remarkable increases in muscle strength (44% > placebo), peak muscle power (600% > placebo), average power (223% > placebo), and anaerobic endurance (250% > placebo) with 50 days of using a product that had ARA. I would recommend taking this for a safe, natural way for muscle growth or during/ after a PCT, to help maintain or increase size after doing a pro-hormone. Remember, the Animal line is a line that you can trust, it’s comes from a company that makes high quality products.
Hard Gainer Stack
This post is for the “Hard Gainers” who are looking for the stack that will help them put on the size quickly. If any of you have looked in a magazine you would had came across Animal advertisement. When I first laid my eyes upon one of these advertisement I was skeptical, I started doing some research and have come to appreciate the Animal line. I personally had taken the Animal Pak, Stak, and got some great results form it, adding the PM would make even better. Today I have combined three products that will helps those of you who are hard gainers push your body to its full muscle growth, without steroids.
The first step is getting your body loaded with everything it needs early in the morning. The Animal Pak has everything that a hard gainer needs! When trying to put on muscle you want to load your body with Amino Acids and Vitamin and Minerals. When loading Amino Acids early in the morning you will be able to help kick start your muscle. Take a second pack about an hour before you workout to help load your muscles with what they need to grow and heal. The Vitamins and Minerals will help you stay alert and keep yourself to break down all other nutrition that it needs.
After a hard days work, at the job, you need to regain focus for the gym. The Animal M-Stak helps you focus and build hard muscle. It does this by loading you body with the Amino Acids that help your muscle. It also contains an insulin complex. Insulin is a natural way to help produce testosterone and feed your muscles what they need to grow.
We often forget how important it is to feed our body at night time. We can’t keep getting up every two to three hours to feed our bodies what it needs to get optimal growth. That is why animal came out with Animal PM. Animal PM fills your body full of Amino Acids and has natural relaxants to help create a deeper. When you allow your body to get a deeper sleep, it will heal faster and grow more.
This is a great combo for all hard gainers. Make sure to eat a sufficient amount of protein while stacking these things. Another important thing is drinking a gallon of water that will help you metabolize all the nutrition that you’re putting in your body.
Universal Nutrition at the Arnold Classic
| The Cage 2010: Special Ops by G Diesel Special Ops. That was the theme for The Cage 2010 and the Animal Crew’s uniforms and banners were inspired by the olive drab watercolors of The Breach. The iconic chain link fence, black rubber mats and iron piles that characterize the legendary booth were all there as well. We’ve always prided ourselves in being above the fray but staying in the mix. Never getting too caught up in the bikini-clad dime parading, magic potion pimping, free t-shirt slinging whirlwind that can be a typical bodybuilding expo. At the Arnold Classic–our Super Bowl, we stay focused on bringing our “A” game, delivering knowledge and inspiration in its purest form to the legions of Animal devotees that make their yearly pilgrimage to Ohio. To us here is no line between the Animal Crew and those who lend us support. From fans, friends and consumers to interns, sponsored athletes and those at The U who cut the checks, we are one. A movement. A family. All of us brought together and unified by our common, unabashed love of the iron game. Such passion and zeal was on display from the moment the doors opened to the expo hall on Friday morning, releasing a wave of meatheads unmatched in years past. As that tidal surge approached The Cage, it was quickly apparent that this year would be bigger than ever. With The Cage “concert tee” once again available free to a limited number of FORVM members who came strapped with their filled-out form, the opening rush at The Shop was a crushing frenzy. The events inside The Cage were off the chain, though behind the fence, and were able to be followed around the world via a live stream with audio and video beaming straight from the heart of the action. Each day began and ended with a brave few grouped 20 at a time, stepping in to the arena to lay on the bench and give it their all. The best of the boys hitting 30+ with their bodyweight, the ladies mark being set with a whopping 60 reps at half bodyweight. Impressive.
When it comes to business, ours is education. At The Cage, knowledge is power and man was I ever able to cop a tip, theory or idea every five minutes all weekend long. Friday’s seminars included The House detailing the construction behind his massive edifice both offseason and pre-contest. This was followed by Big Ant and Big Al–iron veterans and training partners from the East Coast talking shop on all things related to injury maintenance, prevention and rehab. They both know their shit and are guys I rely upon heavily for wisdom and insight with regard to all aspects of this game. Later in the afternoon spectators at The Cage got a special treat in the form of Rage and Rev8Ball’s interactive seminar of “Hell Raiser Training” (HRT), illuminating why this new training style is gaining such a following. Hardcore as it comes, HRT is no doubt set to be “all the Rage”. In the first round of “Pros vs Bros” matchups, now pitting teams captained by myself and treetrunklegs, my squad, Team Yellow, got off to a slow start on Friday. In a curling half bodyweight showdown of IFBB pros, Ox got the best of Vinny, who took a break from the sensational job he did MCing the festivities, by only a couple of reps to put us in a 1-0 hole. Next up, I went against Big Al benching 315. Though I was giving up a few lbs to Large Allen, I hung tough setting a PR for myself at 20 reps, only to get edged out by the big fella who hit 23. Not yet satisfied, I will get my revenge. Ending the day, two interns and former training partners, B Con and LittleMan55, hit their bodyweight on the bench with B Con coming out on top and saving the Team Yellow pride to close out day one. That evening we adjourned to Metro Fitness with activities at The Cage carrying over to the “Train With The Animals” promo. All the boys got to mix it up with the winners from The FORVM. I was lucky enough to train chest with arsilva, The Anti-Asian and smith06–all serious, hungry dudes poised to do big things. Their fire and motivation was infectious and had me primed to hit it hard. Thanks for reminding me how it is done fellas. I felt like all of this happened over the course of a week, and this was only the end of day one. Crazy. Day two at The Cage took very little time to live up to the hype of Arnold Saturday, what we at Animal call primetime. This is our heavy hitter day, the day to bring out the big guns. Squats were most definitely on the menu, with a 4 man squat-off for Pros vs Bros, and the raw squat world record falling (twice). There were 3 killer seminars with the massive Steve Kuclo discussing his experience with various training styles, Ox talking shop like none other can on diet and Vinny and The Freak running an interactive personal training seminar that displayed some of their most innovative training tactics. Huge weights were hoisted, and they were lifted often. Tiny Meeker did double duty in The Cage benching 800 for 4 reps. Not being satisfied, Tiny came back an hour later to hit the rarified air of a grand on the bench. In between, my boy Big Byrd, fresh out of a semester of law school and training and eating hard for only about 6 weeks stepped up and did the unthinkable. With an air of casual, self-deprecating humility the Byrdman of Memphis, maybe the greatest squatter who has ever lived, set the raw world record in the squat at 730 lbs and then came back to reset that record at 765 five minutes later (see the vid here). I’m glad that I’ll be able to say that I was there to bear witness. In “Pros vs Bros” action, the 4 man squat-off stole the show with The Freak, Higa, Enforcer and Kuclo all doing work. Big Steve hung a big 30 rep total with 405 on the squat. It was ridiculous. Pitting last year’s curl champs against one another The House curled an unthinkable 50 reps with 120 lbs to edge Big C, the hometown hero. Ending the PvB2 was a matchup of two awesome strength athletes-my homeboy Tom “Tek” Kemble of Skiba’s Barbell in Carteret, NJ vs. the awesome Nick Winters coming back a day after a sick exhibition on Saturday to bench his bodyweight. Tek posted 28 at 225, only to be outdone by a crazy 40 reps by Nick at a svelte 325 lbs. Awesome. Day two had Team Yellow taking a lead they would not again relinquish to Team Red. Saturday night, as is the custom, is time for the National Animal Barbell Club event at our home away from home of Metro Fitness. This year was a blowout event with a packed house of 200+ ABC members and catered BBQ for all in attendance to enjoy. With the whole crew in the building as well as many ABC rookies, this was no doubt an event to remember and a testament to the consistent growth of our grassroots movement. The new goal? Top what we did this year in 2011. Never settle. In addition, one lucky fella and his pal attended the Men’s Finals, accompanied by none other than Ox and naturalguy as part of the “Show With A Pro” promo. Nothing like watching the cream of the crop in pro bodybuilding, sitting up front with insightful observations from Evan Centopani. Read the winner’s take on his experience at the show right here. Sunday, though delirious is also my day to speak. Without my partner in crime Raw McGraw, a.k.a. Wrath, I winged it, talking about every aspect of the iron lifestyle and involving some of my brethren in an impromptu roundtable. I spoke from the heart and talked my shit and had Rage, Enforcer, treetrunklegs, Big Byrd and The Freak all toss their weighty 2 cents into the pot. Scott “Hoss” Cartwright then closed The Cage down in terms of exhibitions with yet another mind-numbing display under the squat bar. Warming up with ungodly weight on the box squats, Hoss eventually worked his way up to a set of 900 for 3 reps. It was truly a sight to behold. Between Hoss, Kuclo and Byrd, the squatting at the ‘10 Cage was unparalleled. The last days of Pros vs Bros 2 had Team Red needing a valiant effort to stay in the game. Everybody finished strong and all who attended were witness to some very cool matchups. With some of our Bodybuilding.com brethren stepping into the line of fire, Sunday had a different flavor. RenegadeUR from Baltimore, MD stepped up to knock off dannynb of the FORVM in a 225 lb deadlift challenge. BB.com’s resident freak Big Spaz hit 220 for 35 reps besting a gallant Big Byrd who managed to navigate the foreign terrain of 30 reps with 225. Two of the best young iron athletes in the game performed a medley event with Hola Bola picking up Team Yellow by narrowly squatting more reps with 315 than treetrunklegs could deadlift with the same weight. Ending the drama was two of my homeboys, Aggression and Scals17, pulling 225 for 41 and 50 reps respectively, with Scals snagging a crisp c-note that Rage put on the line for whichever man that managed to pull 50. It was a true display of guts, stamina and fortitude. That is what Pros vs Bros and The Cage in general is all about. Stepping up to the personal challenge and going all out. In the end, Team Yellow beat Team Red 6 events to 4, but all who participated won and so did those who were inspired just by bearing witness. No joke. “Be Proud of Who You Are”. That is what the t-shirt read and the poster bore the same message. At the end of the weekend, that was something of the underlying theme. Composed of men and women, young, old and in between, pros and amateurs, strongmen, powerlifters, bodybuilders or mere iron enthusiasts in the middle-those of all walks of life came together under the water-colored Animal flag. To lift, to talk, to laugh, to share. Being who they are, making Animal what it is. A brand. An ethos. A rally cry. A movement. A family. From many, we are one. With love. With honor. With pride. We are Animal. |
Speaking of impressive, veteran of The Cage, big (but a new leaner and meaner) Nick Winters put on an otherworldly display of raw strength to set things off on Friday. In a single session, Nick incline benched 600 lbs and deadlifted 800 lbs. Raw. No doubt an amazing spectacle of pure, unadulterated, uncompromising strength. Nick set the tone, as there was more madness to follow. Just an hour or so later, Higa Monster (Grant Higa), rookie to The Cage and a ranked strongman from the Pacific Northwest would scoop up, clutch and carry around a 400+ lb smooth, awkward stone in an unparalleled display of real world strength in what was the first ever strongman exhibition at The Cage. Don’t let the warm smile fool you, Higa is a freak and when it is time to move heavy shit, the dude is all business.