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The 8 Best Pre-Workout Supplement Alternatives to Improve Performance

Whether you’re looking to bust through an old plateau or start a new program off right, you’re ready to keep on crushing your workouts. Time for a little bit of pre-workout to fuel your body to perform its ... Continue Reading

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The Best Pre-Workout Ingredients for Focus

When it comes to crushing your workouts, it takes a balance of energy, intention, determination, and focus to make it happen. For many, focus can be difficult to tap into and maintain throughout ... Continue Reading

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How Whey Protein Isolate Can Help Build and Maintain Muscle

Envision your future muscle-bound physique. Your clothes drape perfectly over your torso, your jeans cinch around your waist, and the compliments roll in. You feel better than you’ve ever felt: ... Continue Reading

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What to Look for in a Pre-Mixed Pre-Workout

Athletes, powerlifters, bodybuilders, and other gym-goers who are serious about getting results know that sipping a top-notch pre-workout before exercising can help them run faster, lift longer, and ... Continue Reading

Benefits of Protein

7 Benefits of Protein for Health and Performance

When you’re looking to bolster your training regimen with a well-rounded supplement plan, odds are you’ll look for the best protein powders first. After all, would vitamin shops around the nation ... Continue Reading

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Different Pre-Workout Formulations Explained and How to Choose the Right One For You

Choosing the best pre-workout for yourself can make a big difference in how hard and long you’re able to push through reps and sets during your training sessions. But with so many pre-workout supplements ... Continue Reading

Perfect Keto Whey Protein

Is Whey Protein Keto-Friendly?

When following a training regimen, mixing whey protein into a shake, smoothie, oatmeal, or the like can be an efficient way to get adequate protein into your diet. Whether to support weight loss or weight ... Continue Reading

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7 Types of Protein Powder Explained: Which Is Best For You?

When you walk into your local supplement shop, you'll likely come face-to-face with an endless selection of supplements, including many of the best protein powders. The colorful shelves and assorted ... Continue Reading

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Benefits of Greens Powder

You don’t need a peer-reviewed scientific study to tell you that eating vegetables is good for your overall health. (1) Heck, it’s why the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends eating at least 400 ... Continue Reading

Creatine Shortage

Inside the Creatine Shortage Affecting Consumers and Supplement Brands

This isn't some twisted meathead nightmare — if your typical creatine order seems outlandishly expensive or is completely unavailable, you'd be right. Creatine is in short supply and it's affecting ... Continue Reading

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What Top Lifters Want in a Pre-Workout Stack (Brought to You by Kaged)

With the mountains upon mountains of supplements available to gym-goers these days, it can be challenging to decide which is best for your goals. Finding the right pre-workout with the optimal ... Continue Reading

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Why Protein and Oats Are a Perfect Muscle-Building Combo (Brought to You by Kaged Muscle)

If you're training in the gym to pack on muscle and get stronger without the same dedication in the kitchen, you might stunt your gains. While resistance training will improve muscle hypertrophy, ... Continue Reading

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Should You Take Protein During a Workout? (Brought to You by Kaged Muscle)

How do you fuel your workouts? Is it best to take a pre-workout supplement? An intra-workout? A post-workout? A combination of all three? A pre-workout supplement can offer benefits on the way to the ... Continue Reading

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Whey Protein vs. Casein Protein — What’s the Difference and Which is Better for Muscle and Strength? 

There’s no avoiding passionate debates in the fitness world, whether that’s free weights vs. machines, high-volume vs. low-volume, or pro-carbs vs. anti-carbs. And then there’s whey protein vs. casein ... Continue Reading

Greens Powders vs. Multivitamins

Greens Powders Vs. Multivitamins — Which Supplement Should You Take?

Americans aren’t getting enough vitamins and minerals through their diet, leading to a wide range of diseases and conditions. One 2020 study found 46% of U.S. adults didn’t get enough Vitamin C, necessary ... Continue Reading

Ultimate Guide to Pre-Workouts

The Complete Guide to Pre-Workout Supplements

Taking a scoop of pre-workout to get fired up has become a regular part of many gym-goers’ daily routine. And just like your heart rate after taking some of the stuff, its popularity shows no signs of ... Continue Reading

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How Weightlifters Should Time Protein and Carb Intake for Maximum Recovery

Protein and carbohydrates are necessary macronutrients for all of us regardless of whether you are a weightlifter or not. For the sake of clarity, the term weightlifter is referring to individuals who are ... Continue Reading

BCAAs Vs. EAAs

What’s the Difference Between BCAAs Vs. EAAs Anyways?

Branched Chain Amino Acids (BCAAs) get the majority of the attention in the sports supplement market. They're right up there with creatine, pre-workout, protein powder, and meal replacement shakes as one ... Continue Reading

History of Protein Shakes

How Protein Powder Became a Supplement For Athletes

Protein powders are big business. Prior to the pandemic, it was estimated that in the United States alone consumers spent billions of dollars a year on protein supplements. (1) Pre-made protein shakes and ... Continue Reading

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We Try the 5 Weirdest Whey Protein Flavors

At BarBend, we're experts on whey. We've tried dozens and dozens of them so we could come up with a list of the best whey protein powders, but what about the weirdest? This supplement is so darn popular ... Continue Reading

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Benefits of Pea Protein and Potential Downsides

Pea protein’s bad reputation is unfounded, says science. This plant-based protein source is known to build muscle just as well as whey protein, and it’s naturally hypoallergenic — that is, it’s naturally ... Continue Reading

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What’s the Best Whey: Concentrate, Isolate, Hydrolysate?

You know that if you want to build or retain muscle, it’s important to consume a good amount of protein per day. (Here’s how much protein is ideal, if you’re unsure.) But with protein typically being ... Continue Reading

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Why More Athletes Should Look to Vegan Protein (Brought to You by Ample)

It’s not controversial to say that human beings should have diverse diets. As omnivores, we want to get as broad a spectrum of foods as we can in order to consume as wide a variety of vitamins, minerals, ... Continue Reading

Optimum Nutrition Gold Standard Vs. MuscleTech Premium Gold – Which Whey Protein Is Best for You?

The world’s most popular whey protein powder versus the top selling bodybuilding supplement company in the United States. Who comes out on top? At this point, Optimum Nutrition’s Gold Standard is more ... Continue Reading

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CookUnity Review (2025): An Expert-Tested and Flexible Prepared Meal Service

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