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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

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

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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

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 Review

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

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 Review

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

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 Gold Standard Whey Protein

Optimum Nutrition Gold Standard Whey Protein Review

Of all the whey protein powders on the market, Optimum Nutrition’s Gold Standard whey protein may be the best-known and most widely consumed. It’s the number one seller on Bodybuilding.com and Amazon, but ... Continue Reading

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Ghost Whey Protein Review — As Good As the Popular Powders?

We've got a lot of whey protein powders on our shelves, but none of them stand out the way Ghost does. Most protein powders are housed in serious black tubs emblazoned with block letters and terms like ... Continue Reading

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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 superfood powders on the market and now the Connecticut-based company Vibrant Health has produced a new version of their supplement that includes CBD ... Continue Reading

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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

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IdealLean Pre Workout for Women Review – Is It Good for Fat Loss?

What kind of stuff would you find in a women’s pre workout? IdealLean has released a product, just called “Pre Workout for Women,” that joins the slowly growing market for female focused workout ... Continue Reading

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IdealShake’s IdealShape Superfood Blend Review – Spinach and Whey?

The company behind IdealShape has an impressive variety of different brands on the market, including the organic-focused IdealRaw, the female-focused IdealLean, and their popular meal replacement ... Continue Reading

Xtend Pro Whey Isolate

Xtend Pro Whey Isolate Review: Why Add BCAAs?

BCAAs and protein powder in the same product? That’s what you get with Xtend’s very unusual Pro Whey Isolate, a product that hits you with 50 percent more branched chain amino acids than you’d normally get ... Continue Reading

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VitaHustle Review – Kevin Hart’s Multivitamin for Athletes

Actor, comedian, and burgeoning fitness icon Kevin Hart spent four years developing his new nutrition product and instead of going the way of whey protein or pre workouts, he decided to formulate a ... Continue Reading

Blue Apron Review

Blue Apron Meal Review – Biggest Player in the Game?

Blue Apron is a company you have probably heard of in the world of Home Meal Delivery Services. They were founded in New York City in 2012 and have gained popularity in their offerings and accessibility. ... Continue Reading

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Legion Casein+ Review: The Most Protein Dense?

Legion is a supplement company that's newer than some of their competitors, but they've pulled ahead to the forefront of the industry with transparent labeling, science-backed dosages, and by appealing to ... Continue Reading

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