It really works, I’m currently 1.5 months into a run of xgels. I’ve made some massive strength gains within the first month and they held pretty steady into the second month.
I’d say the joint pain can be hit or miss. My joints feel great, however I’ve been having nagging lower back pain that has appeared a week ago, this seems to happen for me with every run of ara I’ve done. I can’t really explain it, I think it’s just soemthing you should be wary of when taking it, as well as a couple bad headaches here and there.
Otherwise it is one of my favorite natty products, great for strength gains.
Also I would recommend doing 1g re workout on lifting days only. This would extend your run, also you could take even more preworkout (if you workout 3 days a week you could have enough to dose 1.5 preworkout). Also you could completely eliminate omega 3s, but I like to just dose 1 cap of fish oil as far away from the ara as possible, this hasn’t lessened the effects of it at all for me. Also look into getting carinitine l tartrate, iirc it is supposed to decrease the break down of ara allowing it to circulate through your body better. Also look into getting hydromax, it is supposed to emulsify the ara allowing better absorption, can’t tell if it really makes a difference but the pumps from hydro max are worth it alone.