Super Quad Protein & Inner Armour: Now Available at FitFuel.com

It’s always nice to come across a nutritional supplement company that is focused when so many of them are all over the place, having no precise message to send to consumers. Inner Armour is such a company. Super Quad Protein is the only product that Inner Armour produces, which makes us at Fit Fuel feel good about promoting it. More focus and less distraction leads to better end-products and higher quality!

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Super Quad Protein is a 4-Stage Extended Release protein that can be taken at just about any time of the day. Unlike a pure whey protein which is digested very quickly, thus forcing your body to either absorb it all at once or discard it as waste, Super Quad protein contains Whey Concentrate, Whey Isolate, Micellar Casein and Egg Albumin. With this protein matrix, the whey isolate is absorbed first, then the whey concentrate, then the egg albumin and finally the micellar casein. Thus, your body has an extended time frame in which it can absorb the protein. This is nice because you do not have to worry as much about wasting the protein you’re ingesting.

Not only is protein waste not good from an economic perspective (you’ll save money and maximize results by taking the exact amount of protein which you can absorb at a given time), protein waste is also not good from a health perspective. The byproduct of excess protein is toxic to your body and is bad on your internal organs, especially your kidneys. Therefore, being able to truly absorb and utilize the protein you consume is nice from a bodybuilding, athletic, economic and general health point of view. Niiiice.

To learn more about the general absorption rates of protein, you need to know a protein’s specific BV, or biological value. A protein’s BV determines how well the body can absorb or utilize a protein. Thus, the higher the value, the more absorbable, and “better” the protein. Standard whey protein has a BV value of 104, egg protein has a BV of 100, milk 91, beef 80, soy 74, beans 49, etc.

Check out this wiki article on Biological Values here.

In addition to its great protein matrix, Super Quad also includes a BCAA blend, creatine and taurine for optimal performance benefit.

Want to really get acquainted with Protein BVs? Buy Super Quad Protein today! That’ll give you a first-hand experience ;)

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Dog Shedding

Sick of your dog getting hair all of your nice carpet and furniture? Tried all of the supplements on the market that are supposed to stop your dog from shedding?

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We came across a great new product that attacks the problem directly– at tool to actually deshed your dog in minutes, sometimes second. The main reason we like it, of course, is because it has a Terminator-themed name similar to our line of CLEANutrition products (The Liverator, Regulator, etc). No, we’re not suing for patent infringement– we’re actually promoting their brand because it saved us time grooming our dogs and it’s the easiest product to use by far!

To see a video of the Furminator dog deshedding tool in use, visit the product page here.

The Furminator can be used on both dogs and cats and comes in a variety of sizes based on the size of your dog (if you have a chihuahua, the largest tool is likely bigger than your dog is).

You have two choices: either get a dog that doesn’t shed (like a Poodle), or get the Furminator!

Golden Finish Product Review

As promised after the Universal Torrent review, I recently picked up Controlled Labs’ newest post-workout supplement, Golden Finish. I’ve always been a big Controlled Labs fan. The company produces high quality, effective supplements, and many of their products have been among FitFuel.com best sellers over the last couple of years. On the surface Golden Finish has absolutely everything you could ask for in a post-workout supplement:

cl golden finish 225Being a late-night gym attendee, the sugar-free formula was what initially drew my attention to Golden Finish. I really didn’t want to load up on sugar less than a couple hours before going to bed, so Golden Finish seemed like a perfect fit.

Unfortunately, my optimism began to subside as soon as I opened the factory-sealed lid. Maybe the name should have prepared me for it, but for some reason I wasn’t actually expecting to see yellow powder. I don’t know about you, but I’ve heard enough stories about yellow snow that I’m usually a little weary when faced with a “golden” drink. Maybe I had already made up my mind at that point, but my first drink confirmed my suspicions. The nicest way I can describe the flavor is unique. Unique in the sense that in today’s golden age (lame pun completely intended) of supplements where protein shakes actually mix smoothly and we no longer have to plug our nose when downing creatine, Golden Finish falls well short of Torrent, Cellmass, and many others in the flavor department.

But, hey, maybe forcing down an unenjoyable but nutritious post-workout drink is just another way to challenge yourself. If that’s the case, then Golden Finish is for you!

FucoThin Clincically-Backed Diet Pill: Now Available at FitFuel.com!

FucoThin & Fucoxanthin - Now Available at FitFuel.com!

We just recently picked-up the full Garden of Life product line at FitFuel.com. Nice! This is great news for all of you natural supplement enthusiasts. Garden of Life, and its owner Jordan Rubin, are known across the health and nutrition industry as being huge promoters of achieving optimal health via 100% natural means. We at FitFuel.com are on board with this philosophy too!

We’re especially excited about the latest, and hottest, weight-loss supplement by Garden of Life named FucoThin.

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FucoThin, a non-stimulant thermogenic diet pill, contains fucoxanthin as well as pomegranate seed oil. This formula - 100% natural and safe to ingest - creates a natural thermogenesis and metabolism boost within the body. How does it do this? Great question.

Fucoxanthin is a powerful antioxidant that is derived from marine algae. This substance, long used in eastern medicine for its weight control and immune boosting capabilities, has been shown in clinical studies to help users lose 13 more pounds during a 4 month period than if the users use no fucoxanthin product at all. Those are good results!

Even if FucoThin doesn’t provide for significant weight-loss, the FitFuel.com team approves of the supplement because of the fact that it is more than just a weight loss aid. It’s an immune booster too via its antioxidant inclusion.

To see a detailed video on FucoThin please see the FucoThin Video.

Salty Diets Lead to Obesity in Children

As many Fit Fuelers know by now, childhood obesity is a major issue for Fit Fuel as a company and we’ve made major efforts to combat this serious epidemic through our nation-wide healthy vending program. When new research comes out on childhood obesity, we’re on top of it.

Today, a new study emerged that concluded that salty diets could lead to obesity in children by causing them to drink more sugary or fattening beverages. The researches at St. George Medical Center in London found that if children reduced their sodium (salt) intake by half (about 3 grams per day), this would lead to a decrease of approximately two high-sugar beverages a week.

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Fit Fuel is going to consider reducing the amount of salty snacks in it’s Fuel Zones as a result of this study. It’s important to note that salt reductions of between 10-20% cannot be detected by human salt taste receptors; what this means is that we can reduce the salt content by up to 20% in your favorite salty snack that you’ve been eating from our vending machines for the past year and you shouldn’t notice any difference at all - but a reduction of 20% on something that you eat every day could have a significant impact over time.

This measure is primarily being applied to our school planogram.

Warrior Wear at FitFuel.com

Do you want to dress like your favorite UFC fighter? FitFuel.com’s MMA Specialty Store offers a wide selection of fight shorts, t-shirts,gonzaga hoodies, beanies, and even fighter-specific nutritional supplements. One of the best-selling and most popular MMA brands currently on the market is Warrior Wear International. You’ll see fighters such as Gabriel Gonzaga, Joe Stevenson, Sean Sherk, Tim Sylvia, Brock Lesnar, and many more wearing Warrior Wear fight shorts and t-shirts in and out of the octagon. All of the same gear is available at Fit Fuel by browsing the Warrior Wear brand listing.

Our resident MMA expert absolutely loves the shorts for when he’s in the ring, and, well, the rest of us are going to take his word on it. But even the non-fighters out there have to agree that the shirt designs are pretty damn cool and a great deal for under $20. Oh yeah, did I mention you won’t find lower prices on Warrior Wear anywhere else on the Net? So check it out today before this guy roid-rages on you. (And I think he’s clearly been falsely accused, by the way.)

The Economics of Health

While most economists would say that I’m oversimplying, economics is truly a study of people’s decisions; how they respond to certain incentives and how they value two or more potential choices when faced with a decision. Unfortunately, economics often plays a crucial role when it comes to our health. Numerous studies have suggested that our country’s obesity problem can be credited to simple econmics. After all, the cost per calorie of a Big Mac is significantly less than your average home-cooked, nutritionally-balanced meal. We’re essentially faced with the decision to save money and eat cheap, unhealthy food or sadnaspitve our bodies and spend slightly more. Other factors certainly play a role in that decision, as time and convenience contribute to so many people choosing the quick and easy option, but it’s truly unfortunate that money has such a profound impact on our health.

More recently, these same economic factors are determining whether or not Americans take advantage of the latest technology in DNA testing. Genetic testing has proven to be effective in determining whether or not someone has an elevated risk of numerous diseases, which would have obvious benefits in the prevention and/or treatmeant of such conditions. Unfortunately, most people are unwilling to submit to genetic testing because of the economic risks of potentially testing “positive.” Being genetically predisposed for any number of conditions could (and, at this point in time, definitely would) lead to higher insurance premiums, if you could get insurance at all. Some are even worried that they might lose their job if their employer found out that they were at risk of being terminally ill.

As a result, both doctors and patients are not armed with all of the available information to make an informed decision to necessarily diagnose and treat at-risk individuals, and it’s a shame that the economics is playing such a huge part of the American healthcare system.

Herbalene Diet Pills with Advantra-Z (Formerly Herbalene)

Unlike most diet pills that come out on the market today, Herbalene is actually clinically-backed with reliable research. The team at Fit Fuel gives Herbalene a universal thumbs-up because of the fact that it is a very safe fat-burner and weight loss aid. Rather than take the risk of using ephedra, which is a vaso-constrictor and thus causes heart-rate and blood pressure to increase, Advantra-Z is not a CNS (central nervous system) stimulant. Instead, Advantra-Z contains synephrine, which is a peripheral stimulant that aids in thermogenesis, further leading to an increase in metabolism and energy.

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In addition to the proven weight-loss ingredient synephrine, Herbalene also includes hoodia, the magical South African appetite suppressant that has been used to fend off hunger for centuries in nomadic tribes across Africa and beyond. This 1-2 punch of thermogenesis with appetite suppression makes for a great weight-loss aid that is safe for most users to take. If you’re looking for serious weight-loss but want to maintain optimal safety, Herbalean (formerly Herbalean) is a great choice!

To guarantess optimal results and the most effective fat-burning, be sure to stack Herbalean with The Regulator. The Regulator, by Clean Nutrition, is both a thermogenic amplifier and a thyroid regulator. Thus, this supplement increases third party supplements’ fat-bruning effectiveness while ensuring the highest level of safety via thyroid regulation.

Be safe, get lean and be happy! Take Herbalean with The Regulator and get geared-up for the beach.

Tennis Players - String Your Racquet Right!

For those Fit Fuelers who play tennis instead of boring treadmill runs, we thought we’d start your week off with a few tips to keep your racquets in tip top shape.

- don’t expose your racquet to extreme heat or cold
- keep it out of the sun when it’s not in use…not good to leave it laying on a hot clay court all day, for instance
- try not to pick up balls with it (it scrapes the racquet)
- put protective tape over parts of the surface that you might scrape when going to low reaching shots
- most importantly, string within the recommended range. exceeding the range of your racquet can break your frame and will usually void your warranty.

We’ve got 5 avid tennis players on staff and asked them where the best place to string a tennis racquet was, and 4 of them came back with the same answer: Match Point Stringers (http://matchpointstringers.com/)

These guys are the premier tennis stringing experts in Las Vegas. They have extremely reasonable pricing and are good sized guys who can smack the crap out of a tennis ball, so they’re used to stringing ‘em tight. One of the owners is a USRSA Master Racquet Technician and the other is a stringing specialist and happens to be a Fit Fuel employee on the side.

So yes, this is a plug– but anyone who uses Matchpoint Stringers will receive a 15% discount off of their next Fit Fuel order. To receive your discount, contact Nick Costanios at nick@fitfuel.com

Music Therapy

Most of us know that music can help power us through a grueling run or workout session at the gym, evidenced by the growing number of ipods we see at the gym these days. But music may have more powerful benefits.

A recent study of stroke patients in Findland showed that post-stroke recovery patients who listened to music for a couple of hours each day improved their verbal memory and attention span and experienced less depression than patients who didn’t listen to music at all. Three months after a stroke, verbal memory was boosted by 60 percent in music listeners, by 18 percent in audio book listeners, and by 29 percent in non-listeners.

These findings bolster a growing body of research pointing to the benefits of music and music therapy for conditions including autism, schizophrenia and dementia.

Music may be particularly beneficial in people with brian damage since music has been shown to directly stimulate the damaged areas of the brain, as well as the more general mechanisms related to “brain plasticity,” the ability of the brain to repair and renew its neural networks after damage.

So crank up your volume and train on.

Fit Fuelers talk about their favorite workout tunes in this forum thread–a must read for anyone looking to rev up their training.

http://forum.fitfuel.com/index.php?showtopic=2084&hl=

Another tip to exercise your “musical benefit” — swap ipod with someone for a couple of days. Throw a kink in your tunes listening just like you do to your workout routine!

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