Bodybuilding Hall of Shame Vol. 1 "The Supplement Years"

[calfzilla]

I would pay like $3 for these real little energy drinks just because they had ginseng and a bunch of other crap in them. 

[nolotil]

I would pay like $3 for these real little energy drinks just because they had ginseng and a bunch of other crap in them. 

 yeah i used to drink those kinda drinks and red bulls like 10 years ago,..nowdays i dont feel the urge to spend money on expensive sugar water 

[wes]

Just eat food,all supps are basically useless.

[Doug_Steele]

I would pay like $3 for these real little energy drinks just because they had ginseng and a bunch of other crap in them. 

I use to buy three cases of Blue Thunder, Mass Recovery and XXL'S every month.  AAB products. Damn, i could really use all that money now. 

[andreisdaman]

Actually, I'd take this out of the Hall of Shame. I used this and its predecessor, Mega Mass 2000, when I was in college. It helped me most in 1996, allowing me to bulk up from 189 lbs. to 210 lbs. by the end of the semester.

The way I used it, one serving was 10 oz. of powder with water, which came out to approx. 1100 calories: 210 grams of carbs, 55 grams of protein, and 3 grams of fat.

Three of those gave me 3300 calories with 165 grams of protein. I took one between classes in the morning, a second in between my afternoon classes, and the third about 30-45 minutes after training (depending on how long I felt like swimming or using the hot tub).

Mega Mass was hard on the stomach (way too much lactose). But, it was worth it, as far as I was concerned. I didn't care as much for the Giant Mega Mass 4000, because the protein content varied, based on the flavor. Actually, Giant Mega Mass has LESS protein, gram for gram, than (Super) Mega Mass did.

I still have the Muscle & Fitness Bodybuilding preview tape that came with a bag of regular Mega Mass 2000 that I bought. I lost, however, the one with Troy Zuccolotto, Flex Wheeler, Francis Benfatto, and Nasser El Sonbaty (Super Mega Mass 2000).

I see you are still the apologist for the supp companies, eh McWay?

[Topskin69]

I use to buy three cases of Blue Thunder, Mass Recovery and XXL'S every month.  AAB products. Damn, i could really use all that money now. 

I think I have blown more cash on ABB supplements then anyone. I think I have been buying bottles of ripped force sine the mid 90s...lol... not to mention sometimes buying Blue Thunder/Protein shakes for post workout. For me its just the convienance...Its better then spending the time to mess around with mixing powders at home, and always having a shaker cup handy, (which I seem to lose them the moment I get them).

 

[baker]

Weight Gainer 2500 in delicious strawberry. As the proverbial 120 pound weakling my strength coach put me on this stuff. I took it religiously every morning for a week only to have it erupt like a pretty pink volcano from my stomach on the way to work every morning. After a week of this I was finally bright enough to start taking half or a third of it but by then I reacted much the same way I do to MadDog 2020 in the orange jubilee flavor. Not very well.

[K-1]

A few drops of this and it will enter the muscle faster than regular creatine, I swear!

It tasted AWESOME though...

LOL it did taste pretty good. wow..forgot about that stuff.

[K-1]

Took it before football games in High School  

LMAO OMG....now I feel old. lol. I used to do the same thing before games...wow man. LOL.

this is back when so called protein bars and such tasted like vitamin laffy taffy mixed with sand...rubbery as hell. The stuff now taste like snickers bars. lol

how about that old school vitamin power pack. All horse sized tabs...all of em. lol

[che]

The Emelianenkos fell for it too 

[2Thick]

Creatine works better with simple carbs, not to mention that plain creatine (or creatine, taken with just water) is absolutely VILE!! That's why folks used to take creatine with grape juice, back in the day.

I thought the grape juice was for the "insulin spike" it provided to promote anabolism (Zulak reccommended a serving of high protein MesoTech about 45 minutes later), shuttle the creatine into the muscle cells, and stave off catabolism either from hard training or from sleeping 8+ hours without any nutrients? The idea was to drink the creatine / grape juice mixture first thing in the morning or right after completing the last set of the workout. Of course Cell Tech made the need for grape juice obsolete, and changed the way we use creatine forever.

[MCWAY]

I see you are still the apologist for the supp companies, eh McWay?

This coming from the guy who brags about buying Cell-Tech, cheap (even more than I do)?

I see supplements for what they are. In the particular case of Mega Mass 2000, it's a weight gainer, simply a concentrated form of food. I used it in the mid-90s, along with my diet and it helped me gain size and strength.

Did it make me Mr. Universe? No. But, it help put on 21 lbs., when my goal was simply to gain 11.

[MCWAY]

I use to buy three cases of Blue Thunder, Mass Recovery and XXL'S every month.  AAB products. Damn, i could really use all that money now. 

I still buy those. But not by the case. In fact, I just got some XXLs, which were marked down to $0.99 each.

[Doug_Steele]

I still buy those. But not by the case. In fact, I just got some XXLs, which were marked down to $0.99 each.

I paid like $3 or $4 for those each! They are so convenient though and taste so good.

[Topskin69]

I paid like $3 or $4 for those each! They are so convenient though and taste so good.

Indeed! I would take an ABB sponsership! All they would have to do is hook me up with free cases whenever I wanted! 

[Earl1972]

The Emelianenkos fell for it too 

fighters want to be bodybuilders, bodybuilders want to be fighters

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[Hulkotron]

I bought some protein powder at the grocery store today for the first time in about five years.  What sort of side effects should I anticipate?

[Doug_Steele]

I bought some protein powder at the grocery store today for the first time in about five years.  What sort of side effects should I anticipate?

Looking like Markus Ruhl 

[Hulkotron]

Should I consider any PCT when I go "off"?

[Tyr]

I still buy those. But not by the case. In fact, I just got some XXLs, which were marked down to $0.99 each.

Are those  still around? I  remember them costing around $3-4 back then.

[Doug_Steele]

Are those  still around? I  remember them costing around $3-4 back then.

Ask the owner of your gym that you belong to. Europa provides them, atleast that is what i have always been told or you have to own a Gym, GNC, Vitamin Shoppe,...etc

[gcb]

does anybody still spend money on creatine?

[Doug_Steele]

does anybody still spend money on creatine?

Cell-Mass and Size on, does that count??

[Blockhead]

Cell-Mass and Size on, does that count??

Probably better off just buying/using plain creatine monohydrate.


 This thread brings me back. I remember playing hockey in highschool and a dude from the team would give us a couple scoops of this orange Tang looking stuff in our water-bottles before the game. (Ultimate Orange) Our games were usually around 8 or 9pm on weekends and we'd wonder why we wouldn't get to sleep until 8am the next day.

 I distinctly remember the guy who first introduced us to Ultimate Orange saying verbatim...

 " try this shit, it gives you more energy than Gatorade! "


  If I Could Turn Back Time...

  .. I would buy a supply of Animal CUTS, Animal TEST, MHP T Bomb, Ultimate Orange and Xenadrine.


 I can't believe hese companies these days trying to sell us caffiene with arginine in deliscious fruit punch flavor for the ultimate pre-workout energy. How dare they!



 - Block.

[MCWAY]

Are those  still around? I  remember them costing around $3-4 back then.

I just picked those up last week at GNC, while at the mall (looking for Christmas presents for my wife and daughter).