MidwestBeast
Legend
Big shout out to Sean1332 for hooking me up with some White Rapids to try out. My bff schizm cleaned up big-time on the CL promo and has several tubs coming his way so I told him I expected a ziplock with 2 scoops coming to me after he claimed his booty. Well, Sean decided to get me my own and that's super thoughtful -- props!
I've been using the same pre-workout since about April of 2014 and haven't changed it, save for the occasional trying a sample of something new. It's a good product and has ingredients in it that I like -- I don't jump from product to product anymore (insert "I'm gettin' too old for this s---" .gif here). But I do have to say, when I saw the label show up for White Rapids, it was very similar to what I already use in a lot of ways and looked straight-forward (no prop. blends) and well-dosed (at 2 scoops).
Here is the White Rapids label:
Here is the label of my go-to pre-workout:
And I dosed 6g of bulk citrulline malate along with that, anyway. So, as you can see, it brings it even closer to White Rapids.
The differences for White Rapids (at 2 scoops) from my go-to product are:
- Citrulline Malate = (*because of what I added on my own from the start)
- Betaine -500mg
- Glycerol +2g (not in my go-to at all)
- Agmatine +500mg
- Total Caffeine Content -18mg
- Alpha GPC +100mg (not in my go-to at all)
- Evodiamine +10mg (not in my go-to at all)
- Toothed Clubmoss +100mcg (not in my go-to at all)
- Beta Alanine -3.5g (not in WR at all)
- Crea-Trona -1g (not in WR at all)
- Beet Root -500mg (not in WR at all)
- Sodium Nitrate -250mg (not in WR at all)
- CDP Choline -211mg (not in WR at all)
- B3, B6, B12, Sodium (not in WR at all)
*Green = in both
*Red = only in White Rapids
*Blue = only in my go-to (not in White Rapids)
As far as the heavy hitters are concerned, you can see that these are really similar in a lot of ways.
The flavor I was sent (because there are 3, from what I saw) is Tropical Pineapple -- and it's delicious. It's got 6g of cit mal in those 2 scoops, so you know it's got that working for it. But a great job on the taste for sure. Now I haven't done much with GMS since the days of GlycerGrow (still have a nearly full tub in my cupboard), but one of the main reasons I never used it regularly was because of the taste and the fact that it didn't mix into anything worth crap. So I was very happy that this mixed up easily in a shaker cup without a huge layer of foam on the top. With my pre-workouts, I basically chug them (or drink them in 3-5 big drinks over the course of 2-3 minutes) regardless of taste. That said, this is one that I could definitely sip on if that was my goal.
My workouts vary every other week. I rotate on an A/B/A/C/repeat pattern where A is a heavy week (4-6 rep range), B is a high intensity/circuit week (4x12's or 3x15's with no more than 60 seconds rest at any point in time), and C is volume week (4x25's and such with crazy burnouts at the end). This happened to get here on Saturday (after I already got home from the gym) and yesterday was chest day in my heavy A week. This usually gives a decent pump, but nothing compared to the volume week.
The only other variable that was different aside from the changing of the pre-workout was the fact that the wife and I hit the buffet for Sunday dinner, so I had more cals/carbs in me from the night before than what I normally do. So that may have played a role, as well.
Anyway, my workout followed my general trend of making slow/steady progress (increases of 5 lbs. on a lift of a few extra reps on the final set). That said, near the end, it was becoming increasingly harder to fatigue myself and my endurance seemed to improve (I finally stopped after my last station of seated cable flys after my chest was no longer feeling it, but my biceps were). The crazy thing, though, was the pump was definitely more pronounced. I was not expecting this at all as I get great pumps anyway and wasn't going out of my way needing something to improve them. But I felt like a monster walking around lol. On chest and leg days I'll usually wear an actual t-shirt with sleeves, whereas every other day I'll rock a gutted old t-shirt with a beater underneath it. So, I couldn't see the outside of my chest like I could on those days, but rocking one of my USP barbell shirts, I was just swollen. My chest used to be overgrown compared to the rest of my muscles, but it's since become a lagging body part after some injuries. It was nice to have it feeling so full.
So we'll see how heavy back session goes tonight, but for Day 1, I was thrilled. Let's see how much of it was the food and how much was the White Rapids.
I've been using the same pre-workout since about April of 2014 and haven't changed it, save for the occasional trying a sample of something new. It's a good product and has ingredients in it that I like -- I don't jump from product to product anymore (insert "I'm gettin' too old for this s---" .gif here). But I do have to say, when I saw the label show up for White Rapids, it was very similar to what I already use in a lot of ways and looked straight-forward (no prop. blends) and well-dosed (at 2 scoops).
Here is the White Rapids label:
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Here is the label of my go-to pre-workout:
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And I dosed 6g of bulk citrulline malate along with that, anyway. So, as you can see, it brings it even closer to White Rapids.
The differences for White Rapids (at 2 scoops) from my go-to product are:
- Citrulline Malate = (*because of what I added on my own from the start)
- Betaine -500mg
- Glycerol +2g (not in my go-to at all)
- Agmatine +500mg
- Total Caffeine Content -18mg
- Alpha GPC +100mg (not in my go-to at all)
- Evodiamine +10mg (not in my go-to at all)
- Toothed Clubmoss +100mcg (not in my go-to at all)
- Beta Alanine -3.5g (not in WR at all)
- Crea-Trona -1g (not in WR at all)
- Beet Root -500mg (not in WR at all)
- Sodium Nitrate -250mg (not in WR at all)
- CDP Choline -211mg (not in WR at all)
- B3, B6, B12, Sodium (not in WR at all)
*Green = in both
*Red = only in White Rapids
*Blue = only in my go-to (not in White Rapids)
As far as the heavy hitters are concerned, you can see that these are really similar in a lot of ways.
The flavor I was sent (because there are 3, from what I saw) is Tropical Pineapple -- and it's delicious. It's got 6g of cit mal in those 2 scoops, so you know it's got that working for it. But a great job on the taste for sure. Now I haven't done much with GMS since the days of GlycerGrow (still have a nearly full tub in my cupboard), but one of the main reasons I never used it regularly was because of the taste and the fact that it didn't mix into anything worth crap. So I was very happy that this mixed up easily in a shaker cup without a huge layer of foam on the top. With my pre-workouts, I basically chug them (or drink them in 3-5 big drinks over the course of 2-3 minutes) regardless of taste. That said, this is one that I could definitely sip on if that was my goal.
My workouts vary every other week. I rotate on an A/B/A/C/repeat pattern where A is a heavy week (4-6 rep range), B is a high intensity/circuit week (4x12's or 3x15's with no more than 60 seconds rest at any point in time), and C is volume week (4x25's and such with crazy burnouts at the end). This happened to get here on Saturday (after I already got home from the gym) and yesterday was chest day in my heavy A week. This usually gives a decent pump, but nothing compared to the volume week.
The only other variable that was different aside from the changing of the pre-workout was the fact that the wife and I hit the buffet for Sunday dinner, so I had more cals/carbs in me from the night before than what I normally do. So that may have played a role, as well.
Anyway, my workout followed my general trend of making slow/steady progress (increases of 5 lbs. on a lift of a few extra reps on the final set). That said, near the end, it was becoming increasingly harder to fatigue myself and my endurance seemed to improve (I finally stopped after my last station of seated cable flys after my chest was no longer feeling it, but my biceps were). The crazy thing, though, was the pump was definitely more pronounced. I was not expecting this at all as I get great pumps anyway and wasn't going out of my way needing something to improve them. But I felt like a monster walking around lol. On chest and leg days I'll usually wear an actual t-shirt with sleeves, whereas every other day I'll rock a gutted old t-shirt with a beater underneath it. So, I couldn't see the outside of my chest like I could on those days, but rocking one of my USP barbell shirts, I was just swollen. My chest used to be overgrown compared to the rest of my muscles, but it's since become a lagging body part after some injuries. It was nice to have it feeling so full.
So we'll see how heavy back session goes tonight, but for Day 1, I was thrilled. Let's see how much of it was the food and how much was the White Rapids.
and that pineapple flavor...Awesome review man...
lol
