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Beware of What You might Be Currently Drinking!

Would you purposely take a “Corn Syrup Solids” capsule? How about a nice “Fructose” shake to kick start the lean mass gain and fat loss process? Unfortunately, this is what many bodybuilders unknowingly do. We drink our MRP and assume that it is for the best, but in reality, it could be doing more harm than good. With fat promoting maltodextrin and other cheap, filler carbohydrates, we are left with subpar results, a flabby waist and even worse, these cheap but tasty ingredients can also lead to bad health issues. What kind of “health” supplement is this?

Scivation has the Solution to this epidemic, Scivation Solution 5™–The World’s Most Advanced Meal Replacement™. This revolutionary formula is packed with high quality protein to help build lean mass, an abundance of HEALTHY fats to help you get lean and stay lean, Soluble fiber, a complete, full spectrum digestive enzyme blend, and an advance blend of Antioxidants from fruits and vegetables called the PolyOrphac Blend™ containing the equivalent of multiple servings of fruits and vegetables per shake! And to top this all off, Solution 5 has a thick, rich, amazing taste that will have you craving more!

Solution 5 contains NO FRUCTOSE, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, MALTODEXTRIN or SUGAR!

Solution 5 Protein Blend

Protein is the most important element to building muscle, losing fat, and should be the cornerstone of any diet program.

The Solution 5 Protein Blend contains the most advanced protein blend ever seen including ProCream - a unique whey protein/high-phospholipid complex, Whey Protein Isolate, Whey Protein Concentrate and a PEA Protein complex.

This blend of protein provides you with the perfect ratio and mix of amino acids along with controlled rates of dispersion that provides your body with the protein it needs when it needs it.  

Getting the Most Out of Your Diet

Healthy Carbs and Fiber are a must for everyone for overall health and wellness as well as proper digestion of protein. You also need antioxidants from fruits and vegetables and digestive enzymes to ensure that you get the most out of your meals.

Fiber
Includes Oat Fiber, which provides soluble fiber and with it, a host of health benefits including digestion and cholesterol management.

PolyOrphac Blend
Rich in antioxidants from various sources that have been proven to assist in overall health and weight management.

BioCor Complete Digestive Enzyme
Contains Amylase, Protease, Protease II, P rotease III, alpha-Galactosidase, Glucoamylase, Lactase, Invertase, Acid Maltase and Peptidase This advance blend will help you get the most out of every delicious sip of Solution 5!

Healthy Fats To Keep You Lean!

Includes the ProCream phospholipid blend and Medium Chain Triglycerides (MCTs) that assist in health, hormone production and weight management. Healthy fats also help control insulin and prevent fat gain to ensure that your physique stays lean and your blood sugar levels and cravings remain under control.

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Hey New Guy: Bodybuilding Advice for the Beginner in all of Us

Remembering the ‘Little Parts’

We’ve all got ‘em.

Little Parts—wrists, calves—maybe a deltoid or two.  Parts that just don’t grow—parts that we hate to train, because they don’t blow up.

They don’t pump.

They lag behind—worse, they make us feel like we’re missing out on a great workout—(for some body part we can pump—) every single time we hit them.

So we don’t.

Hit them, that is—and if we do, we don’t do it as often—if we do, we don’t do it as hard.

Its basic bodybuilding psychology, really; we focus on the muscle groups that make us feel good.  The muscle groups that we know we can count on for results—the body parts we know will swell every single time we work them.

We’re visual beasts, us bodybuilders—and we want to leave the gym or the basement or the club feeling like we’ve accomplished something.  

We want to leave feeling like we look as huge as we’re feeling.

Before we know it, a pattern develops—and before we know it, we’ve got Little Parts.

All of a sudden, they’re staring back at us in the mirror—those imperfections, those flaws in-an-otherwise-flawless physique.  They’re holding us back, affecting our symmetry, our proportions—and, if we’re blessed enough to get up on that stage—they’re undoubtedly holding us back on those judges scorecards.

So, what’s the fix?

The best advice (—for those of us cursed with Little Parts, and for those of us not yet blown-up enough to notice them— )is to incorporate them, wholeheartedly, into our workout routines.

It reads easy, sure; trust me, though—if you’re developed enough everywhere else to have Little Parts, then you’ve developed habits of not training them in the first place.

So,

Yes, this means priority training.

Yes, this means looking like a fool wrist-curling five pounds.

And, yes, this means you’re not always going to pump the way you would on a regular arms day.

Put in the work—

–convince yourself that you can catch those lagging calves up to your massive quads—

–and maybe—

–just maybe—

–you can make your Little Parts a bad memory.

Hey New Guy: Bodybuilding Advice for the Beginner in all of Us
The Adonis Complex

Admit it, tough guy: you spend more time in the mirror than your mammy, your lady, and all your lady’s friends put together.

And while they’re making sure their hair falls just so, you’re obsessing about everything else, aren’t you?

Hell, that hair could be losing faster than the Lions on Sunday, and your follicles would be the last thing you scanned in your reflection.

No, you’re obsessing about every inch—every gain, every loss (–perceived or otherwise) in every body part you crushed out in the gym this week.  

The slightest change in the fit of the T-Shirt you threw on means that your protein intake is too low.  

You’re looking deflated in the mirror downstairs, so you run to the bathroom off the master suite to double check.  

Because, hey, the lighting in there is better anyway.

God forbid you have to let out the belt a notch during a cutting phase; you’d never eat solid foods again.

…

The truth is, as bodybuilders, it’s our job to measure.  To scrutinize.  To analyze and overanalyze every aspect of our training, nutritional, and social routines, and calculate how they maximize—or detract—from our potential in the gym.

Or, in other words, obsess.

It’s our job to obsess.

About ourselves.

Sure, we could argue that we’re looking at our physiques as a sculptor might look to a lump of clay (–lump, depending on your definition of ‘your definition’) but in all reality, we’re narcissistic creatures.

It’s the price we pay, willingly, to emulate the physiques of others we’ve obsessively studied.

There’s the argument that, on some psychological level, we suffer from a type of body dysmorphic disorder—a chronic mental illness in which we can’t stop dwelling on flaws in our appearance—be they real, or imagined.

I mean, by definition, BDD involves obsessing over one’s ‘appearance and body image, often for hours a day.’  I don’t know about you, but I spend at least an hour in the gym, and for that hour, I’m sure as hell obsessing over my chest.  Or my triceps.  Or biceps.  

Rinse, wash, repeat, given the routine I’m crushing out.

And then, of course, there’s the hour before the workout; the hour I spend imagining the workout, licking my lips in anticipation—waiting for that glorious swell, that pump I need to get me through the afternoon.

Heaven forbid, if I have to go to the mall, that I’m not cranked.

And then there’s the hour I spend (much to my girl’s dismay) recounting my triumphs on the squat rack, or the chinup bar, or the bench press.

But I’m a bodybuilder, right?

It’s not like I’m some waifish model, vomiting in the bathroom because my ass looks a tad large before a runway walk.

No, they’ve got problems.

I’m a bodybuilder.

Totally different.

Right??