OTC Supps

[Quadsweep]

This is another of my blog post on Needtobuildmuscle

I must say with the turn of events in my life I am glad that there has been good headway made in the OTC bodybuilding supplement area! Back when I started really training in …shoot 1981 and joined my first gym in 1983 the supplement industry really was snake oil. Does anyone remember Smilax!? It was an alcohol carrier of a “refined” wild Mexican yam. Tasted like shit! Burned like hell too! The idea I think was as AAS is derived from the wild Mexican yam, consuming the product sublingually would produce similar results. Problem is there is a hellava lot of a chemical change made to the raw material between yam and steroid! I bet you I used 100 of these 2.5 ounce bottles! And I am pretty damn sure it did not do anything! Gamma Oryzanol was another….made a resurfacing a few years back. I don’t think it does much for growth but it does help with health issues. And the proteins were so bad back then it was all you could do to drink them…I remember one in particular…IRONMAN PROTEIN. So insoluble you had to swirl the cup around as you drank it to keep it from settling to the bottom! Disgusting!

Andro came next! Made famous by Mark McQuire. While I do think it had anabolic effect it was quickly turned to estrogen, which is why we all broke out so much from it!

After that they really started making headway in the Pro hormone arena. Unfortunately this caught the eye of Big Brother who for some unknown reason does not want you to be big. They say it is to keep sports fair but 99% of those that take these supps or Steroids for that matter do not compete in sport and its all for cosmetic purposes. You can get pectoral implants but you cannot take this supplement…damn cheater you!

I am currently taking a plethora of OTC supps! Unleashed, Post Cycle, HCGenerate, Need2slin, Attack, Lipoflame and Adderlin. I use liquid Egg white for protein as I developed a Whey protein allergy. I use Physical-Sciences liquid vitamin for health. My diet has been crappy as of late as I am stressed and kinda don’t care a whole lot but it is starting to bug me now a bit so I think I am going to get back in the swing of things.

Depending what happens with my legal stuff and provided I am out and about I may go at it natty next year…never thought I would say that but given I am still doing my benchmark 225x25 on incline. I am still 220# and I still have all six abs after 10 weeks off I may actually give it a go next year.

As for the subject of the article, I really do not know a whole hell of a lot about OTC supps as I was always on the DARK SIDE! Are they working or is the gear still working or maybe it is just 30-year-old muscle. Who the hell knows? I guess time will tell a multitude of things to come. Will I be free…will I physically deteriorate? I don’t know. But I do know I will find all this out!


Jeff

http://www.needtobuildmuscle.net/blo.../18/otc-supps/

 

[lartinos]

Always a great read. I'll take a look at that liquid vitamin. Sometimes I think about how much money I wasted in the 90's on bogus supps. I wonder how much money I wasted, lol.

 

[Nelson Montana]

Yeah, in a way way it was kinda fun sorting through all those silly substances in the 80's. It began my study into what does what and why.

SMILAX! lol Actually gamma Orzanol has some effectiveness, as does boron and vanadyl but those things were touted as having steroid -like effects and that, of course, is a joke.

I think the natty trainer has a HUGE advantage today. But there's still a load of crap on the commercial market. It takes more research to find what works, though I think in time more and more of the effective substances will become mainstream. Hell, when I was doing my studies on avenacosides, NOBODY knew what that was. Now, there are over a dozen knockoffs of UNLEASHED -- but they still don't get it right.

But maybe the biggest advantage is in PCT. Everyone was looking for the perfect PCT drug and that was barking up the wrong tree. PCT is all about recovery, and you can't recover while depending on a drug. That would be like staying on anti biotics full time.

Protein is sure better than the "Hot Stuff" and MetRx days.

But the bottom line is still the training. I think in general, too many guys under train and expect the supps and the drugs to do everything. They can only enhance -- and THAT, they do. But the majority of results come from proper training.

Sorry for the rant.

 

[Quadsweep]

Yeah, in a way way it was kinda fun sorting through all those silly substances in the 80's. It began my study into what does what and why.

SMILAX! lol Actually gamma Orzanol has some effectiveness, as does boron and vanadyl but those things were touted as having steroid -like effects and that, of course, is a joke.

I think the natty trainer has a HUGE advantage today. But there's still a load of crap on the commercial market. It takes more research to find what works, though I think in time more and more of the effective substances will become mainstream. Hell, when I was doing my studies on avenacosides, NOBODY knew what that was. Now, there are over a dozen knockoffs of UNLEASHED -- but they still don't get it right.

But maybe the biggest advantage is in PCT. Everyone was looking for the perfect PCT drug and that was barking up the wrong tree. PCT is all about recovery, and you can't recover while depending on a drug. That would be like staying on anti biotics full time.

Protein is sure better than the "Hot Stuff" and MetRx days.

But the bottom line is still the training. I think in general, too many guys under train and expect the supps and the drugs to do everything. They can only enhance -- and THAT, they do. But the majority of results come from proper training.

Sorry for the rant.

I am the king of the Rant! Hot Stuff! Holy shit! had 10% label claim! 5 grams not 50 per serving. MetRx whn it first came out I think it was a great product.


Jeff

 

[Liquid 2009]

NeedToBuildMuscle products have been a huge turning point to gaining some great size for me! Love the products.

 

[Only1eagle]

MetRx was great but it made me bloated as can be and sh#$ing my brains out all day long! Ahh the good ole days!