Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Counter that Preworkout N.O


In an effort to prevent the fucked up January I had health wise(sick twice) I have added an anti-oxidant addition to the daily optimal routine. The evidence is overwhelming, should have started this much earlier. But like joint support supplements, immune system supplements are something that becomes lax because eventually having pain free joints and never getting sick become your default state. You then start to think you’re a super hero and will be fine without them, that’s when you don’t keep up , it bites you in the ass  and you realize that they were actually providing benefits all along.

As a bodybuilder I take a lot of pre-workout, any good pre workout will have a shit load of  nitric oxide boosters. Nitric oxide is a powerful free radical,  If you hit the pre workouts for any amount of time you will get burned out and run down.  A big part of this is the free radicals wreaking havoc on the body. If your not familiar they are associated with aging, inflammation, stroke and heart disease. Combined with intense workouts, that’s a lot of bad shit floating around the bloodstream. The pump N.O provides is too much too give up for me, so in an effort to balance out the preworkout intake I will  increase the amount of flavonoids I intake. Particularly Pycnogenol which quenches not only N.O molecules but other even more potent free radicals up to and including radiation poisoning(the deadliest free radicals)

Pycnogenol is a combination of flavonoids derived from pine bark, another great effect besides the powerful anti-free radical properties is that it greatly increases the longvety and effectiveness of  vitamin C, enhancing the immune system and thus recovery.

So before giving it a permanent place in the routine I will spend the next day researching then purchasing some form of these flavanoids. After a month I will give my recommendation

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