Supplements

[Cookie]

Worst supplement you have every taken covering value for money, taste, effectiveness?

Worst supplement company you`ve every had the misfortune to use?

[Al]

Weider's Anabolic Megapak circa 1983. Utter shit.

[samurai69]

EAS Myoplex chocolate

[Cookie]

Weider's Anabolic Megapak circa 1983. Utter shit.

What that even beat muscle milk

I had forgotten all about those Al, even remember being suckered into buying them

EAS Myoplex chocolate

What was wrong with it.

[samurai69]

tasted like an old piece of cardboard (i remebber that from when i was a little kid) and mixed so badly and left a rank aftertaste

TBH i am surprised its still going


and any liver tablets........not that they where bad, just so big tough to swallow


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[Scott]

EAS Myoplex chocolate

surprised at that one. Ive used myoplex a few times and thought it was good!

My very first protein was a weider one. got it for argos LOL! and it was just nasty. In recent years it has to be CNP Whey which was so bad it reminded me of weider. Strange because their pro-peptide / Pro-mr is excellent.
Didnt think much of that 'designer protein' either for that matter. Tried years ago, dunno if its the same nowadays.

[samurai69]

EAS Myoplex chocolate

surprised at that one. Ive used myoplex a few times and thought it was good!

My very first protein was a weider one. got it for argos LOL! and it was just nasty. In recent years it has to be CNP Whey which was so bad it reminded me of weider. Strange because their pro-peptide / Pro-mr is excellent.
Didnt think much of that 'designer protein' either for that matter. Tried years ago, dunno if its the same nowadays.

CNPs vanilla pro peptide is great

the MYOPLEX was around the time it first came out.......................the worst stuff, maybe changed it a few hundred times since then


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[Scott]

CNPs vanilla pro peptide is great
agreed. their best flavour imo. Vanilla is my flavour of choice ( I am THAT exciting!) and cnp do it spot on in pro-pep and pro-mr. Pity its so expensive.


the MYOPLEX was around the time it first came out.......................the worst stuff, maybe changed it a few hundred times since then
yeah, probably has changed since you first bought it in the twenties.

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[Cookie]

Worst tasting Dorian Yates approved vanilla protein when he teamed up with Kerry Kayes after ousting Borresson, then Sportstar(Demay & a few others I think got this company up & running in the late 80`s) protein powder which was so bad it tasted like sick does after it comes back up then goes back down

Weider used to be a complete con when it came to mixing shakes up to their recommendations, far too much used which gave you an overly thick shake & not so many servings per tub.

Supplement companies these days seem have to taken on board the American way of packaging, huge tubs half full, massive scoops & serving sizes equals sod all servings per tub. Example would be these maximusle progain extreme tubs Scott sent, 20 huge scoops per serving (125g) giving 41.2g protein & 52.5g carbohydrates when mixed in water for a total of 16 servings per tub. far too many calories imo & at over 40 quid a tub

[Scott]

agree with the way some market their serving sizes. they really try to twist it.
maximuscle are bad for it. I hear they are to stop offering discounts as well now as they 'dont want to devalue their product'. I think this means you will stop seeing maximusle in supplement shops and will only get it direct. No loss there. The only way I'd use them is at a tenner a tub
LA muscle are doing the same. two of the most overpriced supps around

[samurai69]

maximuscle are big in to general supps now in the large superstores etc.........thats the way they are going, so they wont be in the supp shops for much longer

LA mscle, i havent seen in shops, only in mags and their TV channel so reckon that wont change too much

[Cookie]

agree with the way some market their serving sizes. they really try to twist it.
maximuscle are bad for it. I hear they are to stop offering discounts as well now as they 'dont want to devalue their product'. I think this means you will stop seeing maximusle in supplement shops and will only get it direct. No loss there. The only way I'd use them is at a tenner a tub
LA muscle are doing the same. two of the most overpriced supps around

They are targeting the "higher earner" end of the market through those that can afford to use these crystal palaces that they now pass off as gyms. People go in see those supplements on offer & irrespective of the price will pay for them because they are lead to believe that by being there they are best or otherwise the gym would not be offering them. Viscous circle & one of manipulation.

As for the maximuscle progain extreme, 2 scoops would kill me, I would be on the toilet all night. Far too rich to be taken as a single serving. Having one right now but have added in a scoop of hemp powder, 1/2 teaspoon of apple fibre to slow down absorption & wheatgrass to boost the nutrient totals.