According to the Muscle and Strength Blog Cyto Sport have just released some new products to compliment Monster Mass and Monster Milk. The new products include a waxy maize starch powder, amino acid blend and pre-workout supp.

Here are the three new one’s I’m talking about:

• Monster Pump
• Monster Amino
• Monster Maize

I have tried Monster Milk and Monster Mass and love them both and this new line of Monster supplements looks pretty promising too. As was said on the M&S blog, this “Monster Family” would make an excellent stack. I’d definitely recommend it for those loking to gain size and muscle, it would be a good stack for ectomorphs.

If you have tried Monster Pump, Monster Amino or Monster Maize please leave your feedback in the comments. I’d like to know how they taste and especially how the Monster pump is as a pre-workout supplement (it’s $10 cheaper than SuperPump, Black Powder and No-Xplode)

Update: I noticed they have an Monster Pump Reviews page over at 4SR, no reviews posted as yet. I’ll be keeping an eye on that one.

OK, we’ll it seems I have been spending a bit to much time looking at weight training and bodybuilding videos on YouTube! Check these 2 videos out, I’ve selected 2 of the most impressive abs videos from You Tube.

Impressive Male Abs:

Impressive Female Abs:

And A Bonus One For The guys

Well, usually I like to feature natural bodybuilding here on Real Weight Training but every now and then I come across a video that’s really worth the post! Check this one out, it’s called “Bodybuilding Yesterday and Today”. You should recognize these faces! Personally, I like the look of the older shots over today’s. Today’s bodybuilders often look bloated and have thick mid sections and waists. Arnold still has one of the best physiques I have ever seen.

Muscle and Strength is selling the Muscle Gauge Protein Blend and Muscle Gauge Pure Protein Isolate at very very low prices and with free shipping. This is an awesome deal. Check out the Muscle and Strength Store or click the banner below for more details. It’s time to stock up I reckon!

If you’re like a growing amount of lifters you will suffer tendonitis pain at some point in your lifting career. Unfortunately while weight training has countless benefits to the human body, not training properly can put strain on joints and this often leads to tendonitis. Personally, I have now got tendonitis in my right elbow that is a constant problem after doing skullcrushers (a tricep exercise) with bad form and much too heavy weight back in the day when I was young and inexperienced!

Trust me, you don’t want to get tendonitis. And if you do, you need to deal with it right away otherwise (like me) you could end up having it be a constant problem in the background. When I had my tendonitis problems, the internet was still young and there was not a lot of good information around about tendonitis. The other day while surfing around looking for tendonitis info I came across this site. It’s called iTendonitis and is an absolutely awesome resource for tendonitis. I suggest you check this out, even if you don’t have tendonitis now. There are some great guides on how to prevent it occurring.

As always, you can reduce the likihood of getting tendonitis by training properly. This means less weight and strict form — all the time! Train smarter not harder, and you’ll train longer!

Have you ever heard of protein sludge? You might have heard of it, or heard bodybuilders talk about making it. A good friend of mine recently sent me the following video. It’s SciVation’s president Marc Lobliner showing you how to easily make protein sludge! Of course there are tons of ways you can make protein sludge, I’ve probably heard at least a dozen different ways!

Here’s a video to get you started! It might get your mind thinking of ways you can mix things up and invent your own protein sludge! Actually, if you have any sludge recipes of your own please share them in the comments at the bottom of this time. I’d love to hear them!

Following BSN’s lead with Volumaize, MuscleTech has just released their new “intra-workout” supplement called IntraVol. Taking a look at the ingredients quickly (I have no idea what a lot of these ingredients do - the list is longer than my forearm!), it looks like the main thing to look out for here is Waxy Maize Starch, Amino Acids and Creatine. There’s tons more in there, but MuscleTech likes to do this, from what I can see the main ingredients are those three.

I was lucky enough to grab a couple of promo samples of IntraVol a week ago, and decided to use them on my leg and back days. I was pretty impressed all round, definitely helped on the energy side of things during training. Pumps, I didn’t notice a difference. Recovery was definitely a huge difference there. I felt less fatigued. It tastes pretty good to, there was only one flavor available when I tried it, fruit punch

It’s a bit pricey for my liking, so I won’t be buying any. I already spend enough on my current stack. I reckon it’s one to keep an eye on though, it’s going to be very popular. You can read more IntraVol Reviews here.

Have you tried IntraVol? If you have, leave your experiences in the comments - I’d love to hear them!

Dave Goodin is a lifetime natural bodybuilder who’s in his 50s, and still shredded to the bone! He’s one of my person heroes and I’ve looked up to him for years. He’s a great example of how you can be a bodybuilder FOR LIFE if you stay natural. Check out the vid:

Money is tight for a lot of us right now and if you watch the nightly news report, it’s not going to get better in the near future. If you’re like me, you don’t have as much extra cash right now to spend on bodybuilding supplements. So I’ve written this quick guide up that will show you the best value for money (in my opinion & research) in all the popular bodybuilding supplement categories. The idea is that if you’re open to switching brands and maybe switching types of products, you might be able to save some extra cash in these times.

The supplements below are the cheapest or best value for money in their category! If you build your supplement stack from the list below you could save quite a bit of cash on what you’re using now.

Whey Protein Powders:

1. All The Whey Whey Protein Blend - exactly the same quality as ON whey, just $10 bucks cheaper.
2. Elite Gourmet Whey Protein - not as good quality as the supp above, but great value at under $30.
3. All The Whey Fat Free Whey Protein Isolate - the cheapest whey isolate on the market
4. NOW Foods Whey Protein - another great value product from NOW
5. Elite Whey - one of the first high quality economic wheys to hit the market

Creatine:

1. Dymatize Creatine Monohydrate
2. NOW Foods Micronized Creatine
3. Universal Creatine Monohydrate Powder
4. Optimum Nutrition CGT-10
5. Axis Labs Creatine Ethyl Ester

Testosterone Boosters:

1. Gaspari Novedex XT - not the cheapest products, but it works, so it should get a mention
2. Dymatize Z-Force
3. Universal ZMA Pro
4. Dymatize Trib-650
5. Optimum Nutrition ZMA

Weight Gainers:

1. Dymatize High Protein Mega Gainer
2. MHP Up Your Mass
3. ON Natural Oats & Whey
4. Prolab N-Large 2
5. Gain Fast 3100

Fat Burners:

Technically, you don’t need fat burners to lose fat. But if you need something f or extra energy and to speed up the process I recommend considering a thermogenic fat burner.

1. ON Mega Fat Burner
2. Ultimate Nutrition Fat Bloc
3. Twinlab Ripped Fuel Extreme
4. MHP Dren
5. Nutrex Lipo-6

Nitric Oxide:

1. ON Vassive-NO
2. SciVation VasoCharge
3. MRI Black Powder
4. CytoSport fast Twitch
5. Controlled Labs White Flood

Amino Acids:

1. Twinlab L-Arginine
2. Amino Liquid Fuel
3. Dymatize BCAA Complex 2200
4. ON BCAA 1000 Caps
5. Prolab Amino 2000

Are you using any of these brands? If not, you might wanna check them out becuase you might be able to get something similar for a cheaper price!

This is a must read article written by a natural bodybuilding hero, Skip La Cour!

Here’ my favorite point:

“As you improve, get ready for the skeptics. Natural bodybuilding must be the only sport in the world when you get too good, it sometimes becomes a bad thing. It seems that the entire general public believes anyone who spends a lot of time in the gym and has any degree of muscle mass has to be on steroids. “There is no way they can get that big naturally!” they say.

This can be especially frustrating to the natural bodybuilder. Whether you are 140 pounds or 240 pounds, you probably have been accused by someone of using steroids. If not, you will as you get better. Although you want to be known and respected for your decision not to use drugs, everyone in the general public is not going to believe you.

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