Pre-workout is one of the most popular supplements in the weight training industry and has been around for nearly 40 years. (1) Looking at today’s market, you will see a variety of products that are loaded ... Continue Reading
Nurish Multivitamin Review
If you’ve ever wanted to hit reset on your health, and add all the right supplements to your daily regimen, you’ve probably at least considered a personalized multivitamin subscription. There are multiple ... Continue Reading
Xwerks Motion BCAA Review
BCAAs have become a popular athletic supplement for their potential to improve muscle retention, fat loss, endurance, and focus during workouts. BCAAs — or branched-chain amino acids — include the ... Continue Reading
Xwerks Grow Whey Protein Review — Is Grassfed Better?
Xwerks is a Florida-based supplement company that has a particularly dedicated following among the functional fitness crowd. The brand sponsors a few big name CrossFit® Games athletes, most ... Continue Reading
Xwerks Lift Creatine Review
Creatine is one of the most scientifically backed supplements on the market with hundreds of studies suggesting its powerful effect on performance and body composition — more specifically, it can ... Continue Reading
Xwerks Ashwa Ashwagandha Review
Ashwagandha is an herb that has a long medicinal history. For years, people have been using the herb to treat stress — ashwagandha is considered an adaptogen and can help calm the brain, in turn, helping ... Continue Reading
Kaged Muscle C-HCl Creatine Hydrochloride Review — Quality Control?
Creatine has hundreds of studies backing its effectiveness when it comes to athletic performance and body composition. Creatine can help increase your ability to improve power output in the gym, in turn, ... Continue Reading
Kaged Muscle Pre-Kaged Review — A Pre-Workout With Vegetables?
If you think you don’t need to take a pre-workout supplement before you hit the weights, the track, a HIIT circuit, or whatever your exercise of choice is, well, you’re right. You ... Continue Reading
Pro Jym Protein Powder Blend Review — Does the Science Hold Up?
Pro Jym is the brainchild of Dr. Jim Stoppani, a man with a Ph.D. in exercise physiology and a long tenure in fitness media. He was the senior science editor at Muscle & Fitness and Flex for over 10 ... Continue Reading
BSN Syntha-6 Protein Powder Review – Big Ingredient List
When it comes to picking the right supplements to improve your performance or recovery, a protein powder is usually a good place to start. With hundreds of options on the market today, the prospect of ... Continue Reading
BSN N.O.-Xplode Pre-Workout Igniter Review — Do The Ingredients Stack Up?
When it comes to getting that extra edge in the gym during intense training, adding a pre-workout supplement to your cabinet can be hugely beneficial — if you know what to look for on the label. BSN, which ... Continue Reading
Leanbean Fat Burner Review — Why Is It Female-Focused?
Fat burners are one of the most enticing supplements on the market. Can I really take a pill and burn fat? Leanbean presents an interesting and compelling case. Squarely marketed at women, the product aims ... Continue Reading
Reset Logic Supplement Review
Reset Logic aims to answer the question of whether you really need all those supplements you see on Instagram every single day — the “detox” plant extracts, the greens powders, the probiotics, the immune ... Continue Reading
Body Fortress Super Advanced Whey Protein Review
There are hundreds of different protein powders available on the market today, and they all boast of their unique properties and optimized blends designed to make you a better athlete. While whey products ... Continue Reading
Optimum Nutrition 100% Whey Gold Standard Review (2024): An Expert-Approved Option with Loads of Flavor
When it comes to seeking out the best protein powder, there can be plenty to sort through. Sometimes, it helps to go with a protein shake that’s long been a staple in plenty of athletes’ regimens, ... Continue Reading
Ghost Whey Protein Powder Review (2024), Personally Tested and Tasted
When you’re trying to build muscle, it’s no secret that you need to eat enough protein to go along with your lifting. Ghost Whey Protein is a popular option in the supplements world for chasing those ... Continue Reading
PlantRise Supergreens72 Review: Most Densely Packed Greens Powder?
PlantRise is one of the newest and most comprehensive additions to the greens powder pantheon. Also called greens powder and superfood powder, the term refers to a broad variety of supplements that are ... Continue Reading
Ritual’s Essential Multivitamin for Men – Extra Absorbable Nutrients?
Research suggests that over a third of Americans take multivitamins every day and with such a saturated market, it's not surprising there's such a wide variety of multivitamins you can buy — and they're ... Continue Reading
Dymatize Elite Casein Review | The Best Tasting?
Dymatize is a very popular name in the supplement industry. They're best known for their protein powders, with the company's general manager calling their ISO-100 whey powder their "flagship product," but ... Continue Reading
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
IdealGreens Superfood Blend Review: The Best Value?
The Utah-based IdealShape has a wide range of supplements on offer that we've reviewed before, including their meal replacement and one of their protein powders, but when they sent us their green superfood ... Continue Reading
Performance Lab Whole Food Multi Review – Vitamins From Whole Foods?
How do you get a whole food-based multivitamin? They're not steaming vegetables and putting them into capsules; the process behind Performance Lab's Whole Food Multi is actually far more complicated. The ... Continue Reading
Green Vibrance + CBD Review – Is This Enough CBD?
We named Green Vibrance as one of the best green powders on the market and now the Connecticut-based company Vibrant Health has produced a new version of their supplement that includes CBD oil. CBD (or ... Continue Reading
Ascent Casein Review – Is This the Purest Protein?
How do you make an "elite" protein? Ascent is swearing up and down that their casein protein is the benchmark in protein purity, and they manage to support their claims because they make all of their whey ... Continue Reading