What's up, guys?
Jeff Cavaliere, ATHLEANX.com.
Outside of the gym today because I don’t live in there.
I actually have other things I have to do, too.
But today it's still going to be to try to help you because supplementation is sort of
that other aspect of lifting and most of the time people want to know more about supplementation
than even the training.
There's a reason for it.
I know.
I get it.
I understand because it takes a lot less work to take something than it actually does to
go into the gym and do something.
But no less important because so many people do it.
Now, that being said let me set the stage for how this whole video is going to shake
out.
First of all, I'm going to review a supplement, but don’t ask me to review other supplements
because I'm not going to do that.
We have our own supplements.
I created my own supplements for a very important reason, because I feel like I've addressed
some of the shortcomings of the industry in the first place.
Secondly, I don’t want to get in the habit of trying to go over somebody else's product
because I don’t really want to speak about their products.
However, to underscore a very, very important point for you, I am going to do that here
today.
So that being said, the name of the company is USN.
The product is called Hyperbolic Mass.
More important than that is the individual who wrote to me and asked about this because
they were – from what I gather – a high school student in the UK.
I think this is a UK company because I really don’t know who they are.
But they wanted to know if this product would be great for them for packing on mass fast.
They want to know how they could pack on mass as fast as possible.
Right away I have a problem with the fact that they're relying on supplementation and
even thinking and having the expectations of packing on mass fast because anybody that
will sell you that bullshit should not be listened to, okay?
First and foremost.
I don’t care if that comes in the form of a supplement, or whether that comes in the
form of a workout.
Hard work is always going to be that nagging little step in the middle that you have to
make sure you figure out if you want to pack on mass.
But that being said, he wanted to know what he could do because he was on the very, very
thin side.
Now pointing to this supplement, we actually had responded to him first by saying "Hey,
check out the video that Jeff already did on weight gainers, and why he called them
horseshit", because that's exactly what I called them.
One of the reasons why is because they're just loaded with sugar.
They're nonproductive calories.
They're not what you need.
I try to discourage anyone from relying on them for packing on mass, even back then.
But it wasn't enough because he said "You don’t understand, this particular product
has excellent reviews.
It's got all the protein that I need, it's not loaded with useless sugars; everything
they're saying about it is really good."
Let me show you why I feel like this is an important video for us to go over to illustrate
what's so deceiving about all this nonsense.
So we look at this, and if I look – Jessie, take a look at the label.
First thing I see is "All in one gainer".
So if I'm looking at this, I'm thinking, as a kid who's actually really desperate to put
on size, this is all I need to gain mass.
It's Hyperbolic Mass.
It's everything.
All the buzz words are there.
51g of protein here.
That's very clear from this.
Then it's in really faint white, but it says "40 scoops".
So, wow!
That's a lot in one bottle.
51g of protein, and 4.7g of creatine.
So I'm like "That actually has high levels of intrinsic BCAAs and glutamine.
It's got everything."
Okay, now let's see how truthful that really is.
We look at the price.
45.99 And that is for pounds.
We do the conversion and it's like $56.
So it's not cheap.
Then we come down here and look at the supplement facts.
The first thing I want you to be educated about and realize is there's two columns here.
There's 100g serving which provides only 409 calories, and there's a 300g serving that
provides 1226 calories.
Well, when we're talking about a weight gainer, obviously he's interested in the 1226 calories.
He's focused on this.
I know he's focused on this because he referenced the 51g of protein, which here says 53g of
protein, okay?
He also referenced the creatine in it, which is 4.7g, but only if you're in this column
over here, which is the 300g serving.
So the funny thing is, he also tells us that in the literature it bragged about only having
17g of sugar.
Which, for a big weight gainer that's packing all those calories, man; that would be pretty
impressive unless it was loaded with fat.
Well, we take another look.
The 17g of sugar here are in this column.
So why are we cherry picking and going back and forth between the 100g serving column
when we want to do sugar, and then the 300g serving when we want to do the creatine and
the protein and everything else?
Which, by the way, 24g of fat here, 15g of saturated fat.
I don’t necessarily have anything against fat, but I always said that these things are
like candy bars.
You either get your flavor from fat, or sugar.
That's really about it.
So now that's what we're looking at.
So let's see why it's worse, why this is really – this is what pisses me off.
If you look at it, look at the serving size of the bottle here, Jessie.
2kg.
Now, I don’t know if that was done intentionally or not, but 2kg.
A kilogram is 1000g, so we're looking at 2000g in this bottle.
Well, fi we know that with the benefits that we're looking at and what this young man is
looking for is 300g we know that if he takes that – 300g a pop – my math wasn't very
good, but I do know that's not even seven servings.
That's not even a full seven servings.
So if he's taking this every day, this wonderful mass gainer is going to last him less than
seven days.
Not even a week.
So he's paying 45.99 in pounds, or $56, per week.
You multiply it – he's actually going to need more than that.
That's only going to give him 28 days.
He's going to need about 2.5 bottles – I'm sorry.
4.5 bottles.
So he's spending well over $200 for this impressive mass gainer, okay?
I say that very loosely.
Now, we haven't even gotten into the quality because now when we get into the quality we
go down and we start looking at the actually ingredients more and we realize when they
claimed about the sugar, first of all that wasn't the right claim.
There's actually 51g of sugar in that 300g serving, but that's not even truthful because
there's 195g of total carbs, 51 of which are sugars.
I'm not buying it guys, because if you look into the actually detail of the breakdown
here, the number one ingredient here in this whole thing is their carbohydrate matrix – which
sounds really good, but it’s not – which is filled with dextrose monohydrate which
is high fructose corn syrup and fructose.
So they're loading up on the latter two there loading up, and they're underreporting drastically
how much sugar is in this.
There's got to be well over 100g of sugar in this and that makes it really, really shitty.
Really, really shitty.
On top of that then they get into the protein sources.
They have a bunch of soy protein.
The bottom line is, guys – look I'm losing my voice because I'm getting all friggin'
worked up here – but the bottom line is, I have no axe to grind with this company.
If you think this is in any way a commercial for my supplements, guess what the punchline
is for this young kid?
Don’t buy my stuff.
It's not appropriate for you.
As a matter of fact, our RX2 – which is our protein powder – only has under 200
calories for a serving.
It doesn’t even have that many calories in it.
It's not meant to bulk up.
What he needs to do instead is, he needs to get dedicated to two things.
Number one: proper nutrition.
Meaning he has to start eating a lot more calories.
My stuff won't cut it.
It won't.
This stuff could, but it's loaded with shit.
This is not going to be productive for him.
We've talked about it all the time.
I've got Jessie here.
I've got my own, personal hard gainer.
He's pretty thin and he makes a habit out of eating tons, and tons of calories of awful,
sugary, nonproductive calories.
It doesn’t equate to more size.
He happens to be blessed with a fast metabolism that just churns through that without issue.
If he wants to start putting on productive muscle he's going to have to start feeding
it more productive calories.
Meaning, he's going to have to start eating a lot of good foods.
A lot, and higher qualities of better foods.
That's what he needs to do, too.
This guy has to – this young kid here – has to start eating high quality foods first and
foremost before he ever starts looking into supplementation.
The second thing he needs to do is go back a little bit and say "Maybe it's not all about
supplementation.
It's about the hard work, too.
I have to start committing myself to the hard work."
Now, before I would run and recommend "Oh, just do all the barbell lifts.
Get stronger in your deadlift.
Get stronger at your squat."
Sometimes that's not even an appropriate place to start because I've seen kids get under
that bar that don’t belong there.
Flat out don’t belong there.
Their body structure is not ready to handle it.
Their form doesn't – they don’t even know how to handle the bar.
That is not the first place, necessarily, I would start.
It's a good place he's got to get to eventually, no doubt.
He's got to get down that path where he starts doing the compound lifts and get stronger
all the time.
But it might not be the best place for him to start.
But there is going to be – there's no equation where he's not going to be somehow getting
involved in hard work and dedicating himself to that, and allowing time for this to occur.
It ain't going to happen fast, guys.
Not with supplements.
Not with my supplements.
Nobody's stuff.
Hard-ass work is what it's going to take.
If he got all that in place then certainly at that point, that's when I recommend "Yeah,
ATHLEAN-RX2 is going to give you a far better quality than this without all the excess BS,
and without all the sugar.
Far better than that."
Again, this is not about boasting about myself, necessarily, or anything about that.
It's about making sure that you understand where this deception lies and where these
gains are being played, and how, hopefully, you don’t become susceptible to those yourself.
So as I said, hopefully it's a helpful video, even though we're not in there, in the gym.
There's still so much more that plays into the whole equation here, and a lot can be
learned, sometimes, just sitting behind your desk and reading what you read online.
So guys, if you found this video helpful make sure to leave your comments and thumbs up
below.
In the meantime, again, don’t ask me to start reviewing other people's supplements.
I don’t do that for a very specific reason.
I just want to illustrate here, this is a major problem that we all encounter – me
included.
I was in the same boat, but hopefully now, with more dedication, you're not going to
be susceptible to that either.
All right, guys.
I'll be back here again soon.
See you.