Real Weight Training has got the inside scoop on a hot new product coming out from Scivation. The new product is called Quake 10.0 and should be available mid February. I am a huge Scivation fan and use many of their products (Whey, Xtend, Showtime) on my regular supplement schedule. I have written to Scivation president Marc Lobliner to see if I can get a tub of Scivation Quake 10.0 to review and log here on the blog. I will be posting updates if he agrees to send me one According to Marc, Scivation Quake 10.0 is some really powerful stuff. He’s been using it in his lead up to the Arnold show and says that “it’s really powerful stuff”.

Keep an eye out for future posts about Scivation Quake 10.0 - as I am definitely going to try it!

More about Quake 10.0:

Scivation Quake 10.0 will be available first here.

Scivation Quake 10.0 reviews page here.

Optimum Nutrition has just announced their latest whey protein product, Platinum Hydrowhey. This comes as big news as Optimum has been holding out on the bodybuilding community for quite some time about this release, things we’re kept very quiet! Optimum usually goes the GNC route when launching their new products, but this time internet retailers we chosen to lunch Platinum Hydrowhey to the public.

Here’s what Optimum had to say about their new Platinum Hydrowhey:

“Platinum Hydrowhey is the fastest, purest, most advanced whey protein we’ve ever developed. In a word: excellence. By hydrolyzing the protein in this premium formula we’ve created our fastest-acting whey protein yet. Hydrolyzing breaks larger proteins down into smaller pieces that are able to get into your system rapidly, enabling your muscles to start rebuilding quickly.”

Platinum Hydrowhey is not going to appeal to everyone though, it’s more expensive than most protein supplements including 100% Whey Gold Standard (also made by Optimum), and most other premium protein blends. I think Hydrowhey is really going to appeal to the serious athlete who won’t mind spending the extra cash to get the best protein product available.

Have you tried Platinum Hydrowhey yet? If you have tried it, please leave your comments and reviews below!

News just in, CytoSport (the makes of Muscle Milk) have just released Muscle Milk Refuel. Muscle Milk refuel is an energy shot with a twist, it also contains 5 grams of whey protein isolate. This is what I like about CytoSport, they take existing product ideas and make them better, not just clone them like some other companies.

I have tried quite a few energy shots, and being caffeine sensitive they usually result in hue amounts of energy and a BIG crash. No matter how much the bottles say no crash, I got one. I think that the new Muscle Milk Refuel shot is going to be much better for those that are sensitive to caffeine, as it contains less than half the caffeine than many other energy shots. So rather than taking one per day, you could space them out and take 1-3 and really get “hours of energy” without the crash.

Anyone tried these? If you have, let me know in the comments!

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.

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!

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!

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!

Check out this new (or not so new?) protein powder - Ultimate Nutrition Protein Isolate, made from 100% wheat protein isolate. This is a protein source I have never come across before. I have see pea and soy protein, but never wheat.

Generally, plant forms of protein do not have the superior amino acid profile that animal sources do. I was surprised at how solid UN’s wheat protein isolate product. Check it out:

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Not getting the results you want from weight training? Nine times out of ten it’s got something to do with what you eat, how how you train! Most lifters place so much importance on sets, reps, drop sets, negatives, routines etc etc but totally leave their diet out of the picture! It should be done the other way around, get your diet and nutrition plan zoned in and then hit the gym.

Without the right diet for weight training you’re going to limit your results severely! If you don’t have the right nutrition to back up your intense workout routine you will not gain. In fact, you could actually LOSE MUSCLE through catabolism.

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I was browsing through my favorite online supplement store last night and I came across a (what I think is new?) protein powder from Optimum Nutrition called Pro Complex. Pro Complex is actually a blend of 8 different types of protein, is super high in amino acids, and have more glutamine than most other protein powders I’ve seen. Is this the ultimate protein source?

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