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CON-CRÈT Creatine HCl Review — What Does HCI Do?

Promera Sports is a Massachusetts-based supplement company that has a few products on offer, like pre-workouts and fat burners, but their best-known product is probably CON-CRÈT, their creatine ... Continue Reading

Universal Creatine Review — Where Is the Creatine From?

Based in New Brunswick in New Jersey, Universal Nutrition has been in the supplements business for over forty years. Perhaps best known for targeting their products at the bodybuilding community, we've ... Continue Reading

Cellucor Cor-Performance Creatine Review — Is Flavored Better?

Cellucor is a Texas-based sports nutrition company and we’ve tried quite a few of their products: their whey protein, their branched chain amino acid supplement, and their flagship pre-workout called ... Continue Reading

MusclePharm Core Series Creatine Review — How Pure Is It?

MusclePharm is a Denver-based nutrition company that’s pretty well-known for their inexpensive protein powder Combat Whey and their Combat Crunch protein bars, so named because MusclePharm ... Continue Reading

Genius Brand Creatine Review — What’s AstraGin®?

The Genius Brand, as the name suggests, focuses more on nootropics than other supplement companies, meaning they specialize in substances that may improve cognitive function. They sell about a dozen ... Continue Reading

BPI Sports Micronized Creatine Review — Quality Creatine for Cheap?

BPI Sports is a sports nutrition company based out of Hollywood, Florida, and they’re pretty well-known for their inexpensive protein powder and protein bars. But their product line is enormous: they sell ... Continue Reading

MET-Rx Creatine 4200 — What’s In These Pills?

MET-Rx (pronounced "met-rex") is a sports nutrition company based in Boca Raton in Florida, and compared to other supplement companies they seem to focus a little more on football than bodybuilding. Their ... Continue Reading

MuscleTech Platinum 100% Creatine Review — Simple and Straightforward?

MuscleTech is owned by Iovate Health Sciences in Ontario, Canada, which is the same company that owns popular supplement companies Six Star Pro Nutrition, StrongGirl, and Hydroxycut, among others. ... Continue Reading

Onnit Grass Fed Whey Isolate

Onnit’s Grass-Fed Whey Isolate Review — The Best Digesting Protein Powder?

Onnit is one of the fitness industry’s biggest giants even though their approach to wellness is somewhat unconventional. On the equipment side they’re perhaps best known for focusing on kettlebells, clubs, ... Continue Reading

BPI Sports Best Creatine Review — 5 Kinds of Creatine?

BPI Sports is a sports nutrition company based out of Hollywood, Florida, and they’re pretty well-known for their inexpensive protein powder and protein bars. But their product line is enormous: they sell ... Continue Reading

A scoop of Nutricost Creatine Monohydrate.

Nutricost Creatine Review (2025), Expert-Reviewed

Nutricost is a Utah-based supplement company, and as its name suggests, the company specializes in affordable supplements, like Nutricost Creatine Monohydrate, one of the best creatine supplements we've ... Continue Reading

Six Star Pro Nutrition Creatine X3 Review — Why the Amino Acids?

Six Star Pro Nutrition is a supplement company that's owned by Iovate Health Sciences, the same company behind MuscleTech and StrongGirl, and the brand is targeted a little less toward bodybuilders and ... Continue Reading

Territory Foods Meal Service Review

Territory Foods is a healthy meal delivery service that focuses on providing locally sourced meals to four territories across the United States. Their four delivery territories are San Francisco Bay, ... Continue Reading

Earth Fed Muscle Stammpede Pre Workout Review — All Natural, Still Effective?

Earth Fed Muscle is a Pennsylvania-based company that was founded a couple of years ago by the guys behind Garage Strength, a training facility in Fleetwood, PA. The company sponsors a lot of athletes from ... Continue Reading

Ritual Essential Vitamins for Women Review — Only 9 Ingredients?

Working as a wellness and fitness writer, I sometimes find myself overwhelmed by all the things I should be doing for my well-being. On one hand, I love to work out. CrossFit, hot yoga, high intensity ... Continue Reading

Nutrex Research OUTLIFT Pre-Workout Review — BCAAs + Caffeine

Nutrex Research is a Florida-based supplement company that sells a ton of products that include fat burners, testosterone boosters, and non-steroidal anabolic agents. (Not surprisingly, they sponsor a lot ... Continue Reading

StrongGirl Pre-Workout Review — Does Green Tea Help Weight Loss?

In 2015, Iovate Health Sciences — the same company behind MuscleTech — launched StrongGirl, a female-focused brand with four products: a whey protein, branched chain amino acids, a fat burner, and a ... Continue Reading

Six Star Pro Nutrition Pre-Workout Explosion Review

Six Star Pro Nutrition is a supplement company owned by Iovate Health Sciences, the same company behind MuscleTech and StrongGirl, and the brand is targeted a little less toward bodybuilders and more ... Continue Reading

MuscleTech Vapor X5 Next Gen Pre-Workout Review — What’s Nitrosigine®?

Operated by Iovate Health Sciences in Delaware, MuscleTech is a pretty big name in the supplement business and they sell a ton of different products that are arranged under different product lines. They ... Continue Reading

Pure Nutrition Black Jack Pre-Workout — What’s Bitter Orange Extract?

Pure Nutrition is a California-based supplement company that sells dozens of products that are variously aimed at bodybuilders, martial artists, and endurance athletes. They’ve got several pre-workouts ... Continue Reading

FitMiss Ignite Review — A Pre-Workout Just for Women?

FitMiss is part of MusclePharm, a brand probably best known for their inexpensive protein supplement Combat Whey and their Combat Crunch protein bars. FitMiss was launched in 2008 "specifically designed to ... Continue Reading

BPI Sports 1.M.R. Vortex Preworkout Review — Plant Extracts?

BPI Sports is a sports nutrition company based out of Hollywood, Florida, and they’re pretty well-known for their inexpensive protein powder and protein bars. But their product line is enormous, and they ... Continue Reading

Cobra Labs’ The Curse! Pre-Workout Review — Proprietary Blends?

It’s probably fair to say that The Curse! is Cobra Labs' flagship product. When you visit their website, it immediately appears before you in a flash of lightning and they claim that over a million bottles ... Continue Reading

MyProtein THE Pre-Workout Review — Two Kinds of Pepper

MyProtein is perhaps best known for their popular, inexpensive whey concentrate called Impact. But they have a lot of peri-workout products too, including seven different branch chain amino acid ... Continue Reading

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