But right now La Cense Beef and Food Renegade are doing a giveaway contest.  So posting this in hopes to win some free great tasting and healthy grass-fed beef.  And maybe La Cense Beef will send me something anyways and let me write-up about some of their different sides of beef.

Took Speed V2 at 8:30, 12, and 5.  Took Anadraulic State at 3:30pm

My goal the first challenge is t0 increase my ATP levels for increased endurance while working out, which I hope Anadraulic State will accomplish.  Also I hope to get rid of my gut, at least the most I can within 30 days.

I will be taking Speed V2 3 times a day.  I will be taking Anadraulic State prior to my workout.  On an off-day I will take Anadraulic State late morning.

I plan to workout 4 to 5 times a week, eat 5 meals a day, and drink a lot of water (which I don’t currently do).  I will post daily with what I have ate and what my workout was for the day.  Weekly I will add updated pictures to see my progression.

As I have written before I am an average guy.  I have a gut but I am not huge.  I have a hard time putting muscle on.  I sometimes falter on eating well, but I try to eat as good as I can.  I might screw up here and there during this challenge, and that is the point.  Everyone will see the results I get with how I eat and the supplements I take.  If I eat perfect and workout 4 to 5 times a week but do not see the results expected from the extra supplements, then the supplement might have failed.  All up to you, the readers, to decide.

Can LG Sciences live up to their hype?  I hope so!!!  But only time will tell.

Here is what LG Sciences marketing says about the product:

Speed V2 Rapid Release Caps are the newest revolution in thermogenics from LG Sciences. Rapid Release Caps dissolve twice as fast as regular capsules & provide instant action giving you immediate energy! Unlike other products, V2 doesn’t contain caffeine which can rob performance. The average American can get up to 1000 mg of caffeine from the daily diet. Adding more caffeine may only reduce the effectiveness of a theromogenic, which is why V2 doesn’t contain any caffeine, yet still gives an amazing thermogenic boost in and out of the gym.

This supplement is very interesting to me.  A thermogenic without any caffeine…..you don’t see that often.  The ingredients (shown below) look but no blow your socks off stuff.  I like that fact, actually.  Looks like just solid ingredients.

Taking this and Anadraulic State together are going to be fun for me to try.  Speed V2 is going to be a good challenge with myself, since I do need a thermogenic to get rid of my fat.

Wushu Department, Guangzhou sport university, Guangzhou 510500, China. niuniuwoaini@sohu.com

The aim of this study was to determine the modulatory effect of Lycium barbarum polysaccharides (LBP) on the oxidative stress induced by an exhaustive exercise. 32 male Wistar rats were taken in the study. The experiment was a 30-day exhaustive exercise program. We determined the lipid peroxidation, glycogen levels, and anti-oxidant enzyme activities in skeletal muscle. The results demonstrated that L. barbarum polysaccharides administration significantly increases glycogen level and anti-oxidant enzyme activities, and decreased malondialdehyde (MDA) level and creatine kinase activities. In conclusion, L. barbarum polysaccharides administration can significantly decrease the oxidative stress induced by the exhaustive exercise.

Isolation and purification of Lycium barbarum polysaccharides and its antifatigue effect

Luo Q, Yan J, Zhang S. Department of Hygiene, Hubei Medical University, Wuhan 430071, China.

A purified component of lycium barbarum polysaccharide (LBP-X) was isolated from lycium barbarum L. by DEAE ion-exchange cellulose and sephacryl gel chromatography. LBP-X was tested on five different doses (5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 mg.kg-1.d-1) in mice. The results showed that LBP-X induced a remarkable adaptability to exercise load, enhanced resistance and accelerated elimination of fatigue. LBP-X could enhance the storage of muscle and liver glycogen, increase the activity of LDH before and after swimming, decrease the increase of blood urea nitrogen (BUN) after strenuous exercise, and accelerate the clearance of BUN after exercise. The dosage of LBP-X 10 mg.kg-1.d-1 was the best amount among the five tested doses.

2008 Study

Pharmacology of Schisandra chinensis Bail.: an overview of Russian research and uses in medicine.
Panossian A, Wikman G.

Swedish Herbal Institute Research & Development, Spårvägen 2, SE-432 96 Askloster, Sweden. alexander.panossian@shi.se

Schisandra chinensis (Turcz.) Bail. is often referred to as an example of a medicinal plant with use in modern Chinese medicine. However, Schisandra chinensis first gained recognition as an adaptogen in the official medicine of the USSR in the early 1960s, principally as a result of the large number of pharmacological and clinical studies carried out by Russian scientists in the preceding two decades. Schizandra has now secured an established position within the medicine of Russia/USSR as evidenced by the inclusion of the drug in recent editions of the National Pharmacopoeia of the USSR and in the State Register of Drugs. Pharmacological studies on animals have shown that Schizandra increases physical working capacity and affords a stress-protective effect against a broad spectrum of harmful factors including heat shock, skin burn, cooling, frostbite, immobilisation, swimming under load in an atmosphere with decreased air pressure, aseptic inflammation, irradiation, and heavy metal intoxication. The phytoadaptogen exerts an effect on the central nervous, sympathetic, endocrine, immune, respiratory, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal systems, on the development of experimental atherosclerosis, on blood sugar and acid-base balance, and on uterus myotonic activity. Studies on isolated organs, tissues, cells and enzymes have revealed that Schizandra preparations exhibit strong antioxidant activities and affect smooth muscles, arachidonic acid release, biosynthesis of leukotriene B(4) in leukocytes, platelet activating factor activity, carbohydrate-phosphorus metabolism, the formation of heat shock protein and polyamines, tissue respiration and oxygen consumption, and the tolerance of an organism to oxygen intoxication. In healthy subjects, Schizandra increases endurance and accuracy of movement, mental performance and working capacity, and generates alterations in the basal levels of nitric oxide and cortisol in blood and saliva with subsequent effects on the blood cells, vessels and CNS. Numerous clinical trials have demonstrated the efficiency of Schizandra in asthenia, neuralgic and psychiatric (neurosis, psychogenic depression, astheno-depressive states, schizophrenia and alcoholism) disorders, in impaired visual function, hypotension and cardiotonic disorders, in epidemic waves of influenza, in chronic sinusitis, otitis, neuritis and otosclerosis, in pneumonia, radioprotection of the fetoplacental system of pregnant women, allergic dermatitis, acute gastrointestinal diseases, gastric hyper- and hypo-secretion, chronic gastritis, stomach and duodenal ulcers, wound healing and trophic ulcers. This review describes the considerable diversity of pharmacological effects of Schisandra chinensis reported in numerous studies carried out in the former USSR and which have been confirmed over more than 40 years of use of the plant as an official medicinal remedy. Such knowledge can be applied in the expansion of the use of Schizandra in the pharmacotherapy of European and other countries as well as for the further discovery of new drugs based on the lignans that constitute the main secondary metabolites of this plant.

The challenge will begin on Sunday, March 1st.

This revolutionary new product is unlike anything you have ever experienced. It puts your body in the perfect state to accomplish muscle growth, a state we call The Anadraulic State. You’ll experience explosive pumps, skyrocketting test levels, vastly increased nutrient absorption and utilization which will turn your body into a muscle building machine!

Anadraulic State is the first pre-workout product made exclusively to build the key androgenic compounds needed for extreme muscle growth.  Its powerful 4 stage release technology increases the key factors in a man’s endocrine system that cause muscle growth and cellular expression.  Based on years of scientific research, this product combines our Receptor technology with the active pSARM’s and anti-estrogens found in our other popular products, along with a new type of creatine to give you the most complete formula for increasing muscle growth.

So it looks to be creatine with other ingedients.  Looks pretty good.  LG Sciences is very good at marketing, to be honest.  Now lets look at the ingredients in Anadraulic State.  I will try to put what each of the ingredients are and information about the ingredients.

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LG Sciences will be sending me Trifecta Stack and Anadraulic State (maybe throwing in some extras???  ).  The Trifecta Stack is made up of Methyl Masterdrol V2, Methyl 1-D, and Formadrol Extreme.  This will be a 6 week challenge based on the stack.

LG Sciences claims these products are prohormones.  I will be writing about the ingredients in each product over the next week.  There was a few reasons why I choose LG Sciences but mainly wanted to see if their products would work on an out of shape guy like myself.  Most people would say take their stuff once you are in shape, but LG Sciences claims their stuff works on beginners, as well.  We will see if they live up to the hype!