product review
I’m very impressed with the PurpleWraath product (ControlledLabs). I tried this during a little cut cycle last summer & got great results. Prior contest prep always included the Beverly BCAA’s & Glutamine Select w/ BCAA’s. Fantastic products to be sure, and I’ll even say Glutamine Select is THE BEST in this line of products. Period. I’ll also say that, the way I believe you need to use BCAA’s, Glutamine Select becomes the MOST EXPENSIVE in this line of products - PERIOD. I’m not one to skimp on supps, especially precontest, but…
I subscribe to the theory that you need to have BCAA intake level at 30g or higher surrounding w/o for maximum anabolic/recovery effect (at my weight). Use the GlutSelect product at that level and you’ll be spending a small car payment monthly. I get great results from the PurpleWraath, and combine it w/ AST’s BCAA’s to get my total intake where it needs to be. The AST product is very economical, and it’s good quality. Great combination.
If $ were no object, then yeah I’d stick w/ the GlutSelect. I will still use Beverly’s Muscularity BCAA’s when I get to about 4 weeks out, and I think the Density product they just dusted off & brought back out recently is awesome; I’ll use that up until the 4-week out mark. ControlledLabs has impressed me with their products too; I also like the White Blood for a pure N.O. use, without all the added "this & that" everybody wants to use in their formulas — which really is just another way to get more $.
Ah, gotta love the supplement industry…
I should add (if it’s not understood) that i add my glutamine in to the Wraath/BCAA combo, so we’re comparing apples to apples w/ Glutamine Select. Been using VPX, just switched to GL3 (AST).
I throw creatine mono (AST again) into that same mix, so that eliminates the need for, say, Creatine Select by Beverly, again saving some bucks. Mono’s cheap, works just fine for me, no bloating or stool issues. So w/ my before & after mixes, i get 20g glut, 20g creatine, & 30+ grams bcaa, and it doesn’t break my wallet.
