Supplement deals/offers thread

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Flibble said:

smiffy180 said:

regardless surely the price counter balances it out to be still cheaper?

Soy comes out as 88% protein as-is so you're buying 2.2kg in your 2.5kg bag, at a 70% weighting vs whey this is 1.54kg whey equivalent. You pay £13.49 on offer for that, so £8.75 per kg of protein. A good deal. Without the half price offer it;s £17.50 per kg, so a little worse than the whey protein. Still competitive with the whey isolate though.

oh yeh i meant as its half price atm. Everything is always cheaper when i dont have any money!

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Tigerite said:

With regards soy protein..

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=1&a...

Ah yes I forgot about that. There's also pea protein by myprotien don't know if that's any good? (On phone takes too long to check)

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didelydoo said:

smiffy180 said:

Ah yes I forgot about that. There's also pea protein by myprotien don't know if that's any good? (On phone takes too long to check)

No, pea protein is horrendous- I'd avoid at all costs.

only because you responded so quick to my post!

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Halb said:

Anyone know where to get the weider low carb bars at the best price?

http://www.supplementcentre.com/ProductList/1560/Protein-Bars.asp?pg=3
Not sure how much they are normally but that's a starting price anyway

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Jimbo NW said:

MP caffeine plus is on offer at the minute for 3.99 for 200 tablets, got some

How are they compared to say, red bull/relentless and to a pre workout such as jack 3d or equivalent?

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Flibble said:

200 mg caffeine per tablet, 80 mg for a can of red bull, 160 mg for a can of relentless. 200 mg is about as much caffeine as a double espresso.

Jack3d is DMAA and aside from being banned from sale in the UK, is a much stronger substance than caffeine, hard to compare really.

Fair enough, jack 3d stopped working for me after a week
For 4 quid think im going to get some

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Lord_Howit_Hertz said:

Can anyone tell me if this is a good deal and/or advise if TPW is any good?

http://www.theproteinworks.com/products/packs/lean...

Thanks

IMO you may be able to get it cheaper if you buy individually. I would look at myprotein and get the same then use the discount codes supplied throughout this thread or Google them then compare

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Challo said:

Just popped into my local GNC as they lots of BOGOF on Whey Proteins at the moment. Just wondered if anyone could give some feedback on the brands and any i should steer clear off. The ones recommended in store where:

Optimum Nutrition - Gold Standard 100% Whey - 908g - £43.55 per tub
30 servings (29.4g per serving = 24.2g Protein/1.3g carbs/1.1g fats
http://www.gnc.co.uk/optimum-nutrition-gold-standa...

PhD Pharma Whey - 2.27kg - £83.15 per tub
90 servings (25g per serving = 20g Protein / 1.7g Carbs / 1.61g sugars

USN 100% Whey Protein - 908g - £39.59
24 servings (34g per serving = 24g Protein / 3.2g Carbs / Fat 3.8g

Looking general on the internet i could get the individual products cheaper, but with their BOGOF offer it works out quite good value.

Myprotein is £60ish for 5kg flavoured or £50ish for 5kg unflavoured and that's 80% concentrate I think so 25g scoop is 21g of protein?

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Just about to buy a shed load of stuff so going to be spending ages saving every last penny
I will be trying natural products that tend to be cheap so if anyone wants a review or recommends anything tell us in the next couple of hours.
So far I'm looking at:
Protein
Dextrose
Creatine
D aspartic acid
Vitamin D3
Caffeine tabs (not sure yet)
BCAA
Beta-alanine
Omega 3
Cheap multivitamin.
Glutamine

Considering:
GABA

Edited by smiffy180 on Tuesday 26th March 19:38

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pilchardthecat said:

I would forget about
Dextrose
D aspartic acid
Vitamin D3
Caffeine tabs (not sure yet)
Glutamine
GABA

All of which are either useless or easy to get from a normal diet

Dextrose is highly recommended post workout?
D aspartic I want to try as it's cheap and people rave about it for increase in test
L glutamine is also raved about?
I don't think my diet contains them and I don't plan on changing it as it's expensive enough as is

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pilchardthecat said:

Dextrose = unnecessary, just eat something with carbs in it post-workout. Good opportunity to eat healthy fruity vegetably things. Dextrose is a waste of calories.
Glutamine = your protein powder is full of it anyway, as is meat/eggs/fish/any other source of animal protein. It did nothing for me, waste of money.
D aspartic = just another amino acid, see glutamine. You eat it, and your body makes it.

The only aminos that are worth supplementing individually are the essentials (BCAAs) as your body cant make these when it doesnt have enough. A decent protein supplement will have all of them in it anyway

Fair enough.

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jeebus said:

D-aspartic acid does work noticably well in my opinion, it brought me out in quite a few spots and made my skin go oily as well as an increase in sex drive, also it's cheap and you only use it for a couple of weeks at a time.

Most supplements are a waste of time imo, I suppose if your going to spend vast sums of money on them you might aswell save some money and go straight for the steroids, at least they're proven to work and I wouldn't be suprised if they did less damage than some of the off the shelf supplements.

I would but plan to stay natural

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C996 said:

What does everyone use for pre-workout supplements?

I used to used Jack3d which for me seemed to work although I did end up going over the recommended dose, Looking on MP I've seen these two but not sure as the first one the reviews aren't to cracking

http://www.myprotein.com/sports-nutrition/pulse-v4...

http://www.myprotein.com/sports-nutrition/exceed/1...

Does any one have any experience of using either of these? Or recommend anything else?

Rage seems to be the new jack3d at the moment but I haven't tried it. Apparently the main igredients are beta alanine and lots of caffeine. IMO I would buy caffeine tabs and anything else that provides energy as that's all they are at the end of the day

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mu0n said:

Sainsbury's are doing Jack Daniels 1ltr for £22. Down from £34.

Bargain.

could've done with it this weekend. Landlords doing my head in

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mu0n said:

Can someone buy this:

http://www.myprotein.com/sports-nutrition/protein-...

And tell me if it's anything like Angel Delight?

make some angel delight and drop some protein powder in

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Opara said:

Can anyone advise if this is a good protein supplement?

http://www.discount-supplements.co.uk/sports-suppl...

It comes in at £50 for 5kg which seems a bargain.Here's the ingredients:

Undenatured Cross-Flow Microfiltered Whey Protein Isolate (65%), Isolated Undenatured Micellar Casein (33%), stabiliser (pea fibre), Sweetener (cyclamate, saccharin), Natural Flavour.

Cheers

Yes it's good. I'm just about to buy the same brand. If you type 90 whey protein on ebay; there's a pack of 3 for £133!

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Ebay there's nutrisport 90+ 5kg 3@£140ish
If that's gone there's 4 at £210.

RRP is £70+ a tub

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Defcon5 said:

Matrix stuff is always cheap, is it actually any good though?

Full of soy apparently, if you don't mine cheap sources of protein then go for it.
Unfortunately if you want 100% whey you'll be paying big money

edit: I may have brands mixed up but I'm sure I read bad stuff on matrix. Anyone confirm?

Edited by smiffy180 on Thursday 6th March 13:10

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