New Rule: 1 Hour of Exercise for Every 8 Seated

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I remember when I had a day job that had me sitting down for well over eight hours a day. At first, it sounds great, there are you are sitting, while others have to stand all day at their jobs. If you were imagining a life on easy street, where you drive home feeling rested and relaxed, you are in for a surprise. Within the first three months at this job, I had already gained about 15 pounds. The extra weight I was carrying on me wasn’t because I had taken on a new weightlifting plan, it was because I was getting fat. My wife had actually showed me some pictures from that time and I couldn’t believe I was looking at a picture of me. I hadn’t noticed it, but eventually, the fat started to creep in. I hadn’t changed what I was eating, which were sack lunches made with meals I prepared.

The usual lighter sets that I had been doing were not enough to stop me from being chubby. My stomach now pooched out farther than it used to and my clothes started fitting me awkwardly. I had assumed that the stress of a new job may have had me overeating but the portions had stayed the same. To make it worse, I started being more aware of my co-workers, most of whom were not in the greatest shape. Eventually, I got out of that place because it just wasn’t the right match for me. Wouldn’t you know it, within a month of leaving that job, I started to get my old figure back! Why you should change the viewpoint that you have about having to do that one hour of exercise is that it removes all the lazy stuff you do throughout the day. If you find yourself heading home, after a long of work, to sit in front of the tv, a simple hour of training will wash away all of that free time.

Our bodies are made to be active and to move, when we change what our body wants, it can develop some serious medical issues. If you still aren’t convinced, try exercising, at a time you prefer, for just a week. If you challenge yourself to follow through this week, without making any exceptions, you will have had a whole week of not worrying that your sedentary life is going to catch up to you. It appears as if those commercials about the stand-up desk were really onto something. I will absolutely be spending more of my day up and at them, instead of sitting and waiting for a blood clot, yikes! To everyone out there who has a day job that leaves them sitting idly by while the hours pass, put that pent up energy to good use and set aside just sixty minutes out of your day.

All of those stories you hear about sitting down all of the time being bad for you have a portion of truth to them! Sitting does feel great and has to happen through the workday, just don’t let it be the way that you spend the majority of your day. To help drive the point home, I had gotten a call from a former co-worker at that same job I talked about earlier. He had to go to the hospital, one weekend, because the doctor had even told him sitting down as much as he did, which was about eight hours a day, would start affecting his health.

Supplements Work With You, Not For You

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You know that from reading this website, we often mention the big prohormone ban that occurred in 2014. However, if you have searched around, you will see that store still offer prohormones, how can they do that? It isn’t what you think, they aren’t quite prohormones but rather the closest thing to them, now that fewer options are available. With looking at these products, you are going to need to mix it up and some will be hit or miss. Supplements are a growing industry, that has been reported by many big news sources. The secret is out, more people are believing in the supplements they take, but how much will they believe. If you saw the supplement featured in the video down there, would you get it?

Where Do I Stand on Supplements?

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I find myself on the fence, I think that some replacements are good, I think of it as getting the generic brand of groceries. I admit that I am a cheap person who will often fill my cart with the generic items that cost less, there really isn’t much of a difference that I noticed. With supplements, you have to be careful of how generic you are going. Using them daily and under not as much scrutiny, you have to play it safe. Hoping to outshine the others, you can also get more supplements at a cheaper rate, if you buy more. Be careful that you check what companies will do this, you don’t want to assume that you are getting a bulk discount, only to be fooled once you hit that checkout button.

Many will waste both their time and money getting supplements and just thinking that they can do nothing and expect a change in their structure. Sadly, this will never happen because to have to put in work to see these supplements really start to pay off. Think of it as getting prize money for winning a race but you would never see a dime of that money if you didn’t start the race, eventually getting to the finish line. Supplements help you close the gap and get to that checkered flag much sooner!

Don’t Be Lifting Like These Men and Women!

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To be more on the lighthearted side today, I present a video collection that I’ve found, all about what not to do when you are working out. From the mildly amusing, to the downright dangerous, do not apply what you see in the video below to your workouts. To those that spend no time exercising, these clips won’t hit close to home. For the people among us that have tried what others in this video fail at, that pain becomes more personal. The squatting person at about 0:39 into the video had hit me the hardest. I don’t understand why you have to squat with wrists bent back so far. I would rather have shoulder and back pain, than to come close to breaking my wrists, by weight pushing them backwards. Also, I think a common pattern that I’m seeing throughout this compilation are egos that don’t know their real max weight.

There is a lesson to be learned by watching this video, it’s better to lift too little and move up weight than it is to lift too heavy and smack the gym floor! My advice to anyone that doesn’t want to end up the victim of one of these videos would be to tell your friends to leave their camera phones in the locker room. It’s depressing to see just how many gym patrons have no remote idea on how to use gym equipment. Perhaps, there should be more employees helping these misinformed individuals. I suppose that if there helpful workers ensuring that everyone knew how to do their exercises, we wouldn’t have any failure videos to watch. In all seriousness, every person in this video was very lucky to walk away relatively unscathed.

Before you start any new lift, use the day before your lifting to check your form. I know it is often harped on but form is the difference between success or failure, relating to getting the most out of your exercising endeavors. Also, make sure that who you bring to the workout center with you is a friend that coaches, not one who is standing there, waiting to film your next big goof.

Stacking Pure Lean Mass like the Spartans

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I’m thrilled to be covering one of the coolest stacks, I’ve seen in years. You know that the big ban has taken away, basically all the prohormones. At first, we were all upset but understood that these supplement needed to be removed. For a while, it looked like anything that even resembled a prohormone was going to be getting the ax but things have lightened up a bit, forcing manufacturers to clean up their act. Spartan Nutrition have kept their head above water and have what is called a Spartan Mass Ultimate Cycle that is awesome.

With each supplement having a sole purpose, we have the Mass, Shield, and PCT. The supplement for mass has piperine and DHEA within it, making it a potent contender for mass gainer of the year. I would love to know the graphic artist behind making this line of packaging, they deserve a raise. With a nod to the 300 film, you can see where inspiration was garnered from but Spartan Nutrition adds a visual flair that can’t be missed. For those who have used a similar supplement, you know that while exercising, you’re going to put on rapid lean weight. Next up, is the Spartan Shield, the piece to this stack that is responsible for keeping the body cleansing itself of any leftover elements of the Mass supplement.

One cool aspect that only raises the importance of Spartan Shield is that it can reduce blood pressure, which is a danger of the diet, usually rich in red meat, most of us are currently on. Spartan Shield is comprised of an extended release capsule, not allowing to fully dissolve until it reaches the bottom of the stomach. There would be no point to a supplement that is supposed to defend internally, if it is dissolved by the time it reaches the stomach so I like that Spartan made enhanced this formulation. This stack has been the culprit of why I have never seen such huge lifts in my future, I never thought it would be possible.

Whereas other manufacturers will put out any stack, not always determined for it to be in the best interest of the customer, Spartan has your safety in mind. It is like a miracle has happened, that we can finally get the muscle now that we only thought we could in 2014, before all of the banning happened. I’m also proud to say that Spartan Nutrition is not making prohormones, especially nothing like the dreaded ones we were using a long time ago. Safety, now more than ever, is the biggest concern of supplement makers and Spartan is doing a great job of ensuring all customers are safe.

Be warned, I did feel a bit angrier than usual, with a few moments where I had to realize how I was acting and calm down. I could attribute the attitude changes to a stressful week, not one hundred percent sure it was the stack that was the cause. Doing anything that would have ready for a nap didn’t wear me down, like it would use to. I also had some amazing sleep throughout using these three supplements, upwards of nine plus hours a night. My brain seemed like it was sharper and I was suddenly able to recall names and places a little faster. If you have been wanting to dip your feet in the water of a stack, the temperature is great, dive in!

Bioarmor Epic is Loaded with Powerful Ingredients

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Taking it back to where we started, let’s learn about Epic, a newer prohormone made in England. If you do not live epistane suppwhere any prohormones are for sale, leave them alone. Trust me, you don’t want to wind up in a troublesome situation because you couldn’t follow the rules. I briefly went to school over in England, catching up with old pals when I go back and they were all too eager to tell me about Epic. What caught my eye was how cool the bottle that one of them had looked. I love the black and yellow color mixture with the red coloring that looks like blood around the title really makes it stand out. If you’re needing to know which steroid Epic is made to replicate, that would be Epistane. Primarily targeted to beginners, or those who don’t want the hassle of an advanced hormone, Epistane was brought to the world year ago but it hasn’t showed signs of losing its hold on those wanting to get massive. I have been looking to build up my chest, as it has started to take on a slightly caved-in appearance.

I knew that I wouldn’t risk as much with using a form of Epistane while away, I would have with something harsher. Speaking of being less-harsh, you can double up and pick up a PCT if you want to be completely sure no harm will come to you. For what I ate while taking Epic, it was a basic bodybuilding meal plan. I would cook up some egg whites with toast on most mornings. I would mix up my lunches, as this is always that time of day where I need a good meal to get me through the halfway point of a typical day.

I’ve been making big improvements to my meals, in terms of sticking to what I should eat, not what I WANT to eat. Due to a recent scary experiencing with racking a barbell, I’ve been sticking to machines, mostly. It does take a toll on short-term gains but nagging pains have made this equipment more optimal for me. I would usually be able to safely move about 100 lbs on my lat pulldowns, within three weeks, I was starting to get used to moving 140 lbs. I’ve been concentrating on lifting to failure, to really know that I gave it all I had. If you weren’t aware, training to failure means that you are lifting weights until your muscles fail you, by not being able to keep going through the motions, literally.

I wouldn’t want to try it for every single movement that I would do, but if you can go until muscles are failing, more power to you. I will save the failure lifts for the final stretch because this is when I will do the lightest lifting, saving all my power to complete the bigger ones, early on. Be prepared, though, as lifting until you are stopped can leave you setup to be very sore the next day. Getting back to Epic, if you are able to have this where you live, it is a great prohormone for someone who wants to gain decent size, without being at the mercy of a hundred different side effects! I really didn’t have difficulty with using Epic and found it to be, overall, as pleasant as it could get when talking about a prohormone.

Will Androgen Make Me Grow More Hair?

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Both genders have asked about the rate at which hair growth will occur, if you were to use the Andro type of prohormone. Women will want to not take certain prohormones, due to the fact that they will add more hair onto their face. I’m not a woman but I would be embarrassed to walk around town, sporting a newly grown in mustache, or even worse, a beard! Where hair will grow, will depend on how much of the Andro is taken and the duration of use. Men have mixed feelings about the hair growth that can occur as a side effect of Andro use. Males who can’t grow dark or thick facial hair may like the newfound full follicles, associated with prohormones.

Men like me, who were sporting goatees before they could drive, hate having to shave off more hair than we already have. This isn’t a farming game, where you can choose where the crops come into grow, expect patches. When I had ran Andro, one dumb time in my life, I was busting out my electric razor shortly thereafter, because my chest hair had gotten thicker, at least that was how it felt against my shirt. I started becoming itchier and didn’t know if I was breaking out in a rash, or if my hair was becoming coarser. I had astronomical weight gaining properties with the Andro, I couldn’t keep enough shirts on handy that were loose fitting, which was what I liked to have when it came time to go asleep. I don’t know about you, but I can’t stand trying to get rest, while wearing a shirt that is too tight. I feel like my circulation is being restricted as I close my eyes, it freaks me out.

After I got baggier clothes, I was still noticing that the patches of hair had become darker. I already am someone with olive skin, with a naturally darker hue to my hair, this was my boiling point. You can easily find horror stories of women, who were given the wrong advice and ended up using prohormones, mostly made for men. What these poor females were in for was a world of torment and changes that I wouldn’t wish upon my worst enemy. If it isn’t in too late of stages, women can get operations to have the more manly aspects of supplement use reversed. However, time is a great healer and will reverse most damaging side effects of prohormones. They say that blondes have more fun, they will also be the luckiest when it comes to supplements and additional growing of hair.

Due to the lighter shade, blonde hair is only visible under intense light. Brunettes have a disadvantage, due to their hair being darker. Any way you slice it, there are prohormones that can cause you to grow more hair. Always do extra checking up on any supplement you plan on using, those hours of research could mean the difference between growing muscle and only growing hair! Take this from someone who has suffered from fast-growing facial hair for years, just make it a part of your morning routine. Yes, it will add a bit of an effort to get the rest of your morning ritual done faster but you won’t be caught off-guard with too much scruff, ever again. Also, look into getting a type of topical lotion for an aftershave, they actually do help me to shave less during the week. Check what the product will smell like, if possible, before getting it. You don’t want to be stuck with a bad smelling aftershave that will leave folks running away from you.

Do Vasodilators Attribute to Rapid Gaining?

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There is a pride match going on all over the world. Men are trying to get the appearance where they look so muscular, to the point where it looks like they will burst. If you have seen garden hoses that look like some of the veins that world class strength trainers have, it could be attributed to the use of a vasodilator. Uncommon to most, what a vasodilator will do is to help puff out blood cells. When you are in the midst of overexerting yourself, you don’t just want to grab the nearest water, chugging it down in hopes that you will feel refreshed. At best, once your thirst is quenched, you’re likely to fall into the same trap of not being able to meet the standards you set to complete. I don’t take them daily but using a vasdilator here and there has never caused me any trauma. Why I won’t always take one is because it begins to feel like I am being too showy, I always try to maintain a slight bit of modesty. If you bruise or get sore easily, think of using a vasodilator to help release the toxins in your bloodstream. While not quite lining up perfectly, hand in hand, clean muscles are ones that have been released of toxins, it helps me sleep better at night.

If I had to narrow it down, from every vasodilation supplement around, to select my favorite it would have to be Vein Supreme. Sounding like some awful pizza that even mutant turtles wouldn’t eat, this supplement works great to enhance vascularity. If you’re hunting down a practical thought about why you would have to get veins that pop out of your arms, keep looking, I have found it to be more visually pleasing. Looking back in history, there are old black and white photos of the Venice Beach type bodybuilder, with veins popping out of every visible area of skin. When the readers see the images of incredibly toned weightlifters, they want it too! I envy those who have environments where veins are showing like a map, it is being shredded, in it’s purest form.

Before setting out to try every supplement that will widen walls the way that these ones do, assess your own eating stretching pumpand drinking habits. After you have determined the general way in which you eat most foods, eliminate the ones that are higher in fat. If you assume that a vasodilator means that you have free reign to eat any food you want, think again! Foods that are full of unhealthy fats will undo what a vasdoilator does, even if you get the best one available. Most likely, capsules will be the preferred digestion method, due to the time-release formula that has to be done. One minor irritation can be when your stomach lining absorbs the extra n.o. workload, leading to rumbles and sharp pains.

More often the exception and not the rule, take a few of those chalky indigestion tablets if the inflammation is so bad that you can not normally function because of it. Other than an occasional sore tummy, vasodilators are a simple source of big time muscle inflation with low-key drama around them, unlike the alienating prohormones. I remember getting to try a dilation product before a first date, with someone that I was crazy about. The funny anecdote is that I got a dilator that didn’t jive too well with my genetic makeup and it did no repairing, whatsoever, what an embarrassing night.

 

Can Being All-Natural Bring You Muscle Gain?

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Pat yourself on the back, if you are an all-natural bodybuilder. Cutting out the need to use any steroids or prohormones will keep you healthier. Also, you won’t spend any time worrying about feeling bad, since those harmful compounds won’t be in your system. Hearing many different messages, all speaking of how you can’t get big naturally started to get to me. It seems like there is so much negativity and the need to put others down for asking questions, that I had to take a stand. Don’t become cynical and believe that taking the natural approach means that you will never get big, that is not true. There are actually designated classes of bodybuilding competitions that are meant for those who are all-natural. After going to a few of these shows, these men and women certainly have no problem in looking like marble statues, without changing the way that their bodies behave.

Why are so many condemning a life lived without taking destructive substances? I can’t, for the life of me, see why we should all rally around and make fun of anyone, let alone those who carry the same goals that we do. It is almost as if we are going back to an older time in our lives, bullying those who don’t make the same choices as we do. Hopefully, you do decide to take a natural way of building your body. Not only is ditching prohormones a better choice to make but it will also be less expensive, in the long run.

Some have even developed quite a knack for picking out who is on juice and who isn’t. According to some of these geniuses, there are tell-tale indicators that a person is taking steroids, all having to do with physical signs of wear and tear. Needing recovery from the grating effects of prolonged prohormone use, the body of someone who maintains a natural approach to bodybuilding will not wear out so quickly. Organs can be easily damaged and overworked by supplements that are supposed to being helping you, it is just a hidden danger that isn’t widely spoken of.

In the natural vs not debate, almost every supplement you could talk about is a topic. If you make use of the normal products to aid in workout success that are widely available (not steroids), I would consider that to be a natural plan. The fact remains that if a bodybuilder in New York City can look like a pro by only eating vegetables, most everyone else could do the very same thing. What you choose to have up your sleeve, in order to achieve your personal goals is fine, as long as it won’t do you any harm.

Dark Carnival is A Vicious Alternative to Use

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Known as a manufacturer that notching out their spot in a company to turn to, if you want to change your physique, Vicious Labs is back at it again. Dark Carnival has been one of their supplements that is gaining much traction, so I figured that I would give all of you lovely readers a heads up about this selection. First, Dark Carnival is made to be an epiandrosterone supplement, something that works well for many different changes to your body makeup. Dark Carnival contains 300 milligrams of its mixture, per serving. I have seen the bigger bottles that contain 90 servings, this would be the one that I would be getting. The dosages can vary, depending on what you want to achieve. Regardless, you will still want to follow the recommended amounts of this supplement to ingest, in order to not take too much or too little. Epiandrosterone has often gotten a bad reputation but different findings have shown that what this ingredient does, isn’t always as bad as what we have read about.

Known as a natural steroid that is already created in our own bodies, this ingredient does have the power to help your body start to become more anabolic. I would say that you should stack any Epiandrosterone supplement with one that will help to offset the high risk of side effects. Yes, this particular supplement could be a little risky, in this game, most supplements that are potent enough to cause big changes to the way you workout are going to carry along some undesirable issues. The actual hardness of your muscles will be affected, when using an Epiandrosterone supplement. In the past, I didn’t notice as much growth as I did feel that my muscles were much more dense that previously noticed. It is a strange feeling, one that is hard to put into words, having increased density of your muscles is great and a joy that you will not want to go away.

What Dark Carnival will do is to convert over to a natural hormone that males already have circulating through them. By mimicking an already occurring process, it makes using Dark Carnival a safer pick, over the harsher alternatives that are available. This supplement is created in England and, as far as I know, is not allowed to be used in the states. However, you would need to check if any ingredients have made their way onto the not allowed list of ingredients to be sure. The details of how this supplement looks are awesome, I can’t get enough of the cool circus theme that this company has taken with their product line. You can see different labels, all with the theme of a circus epiandrothat has gotten turned onto its own head. It is similar to the Psycho Circus thing that the band KISS had going a while back, I always saw that theme as such a cool one. If you are cool with the byproduct of the good and bad reports out there about using an epiandro, feel free to check out more about Vicious Labs, located out of England. I can’t vouch for if these products are allowed to be used everywhere but in countries where these supplements are allowed, I can’t say much against this manufacturer. Don’t get in over your head, always follow whatever the label says, and you shouldn’t run into too many hurdles that you need to resolve. Anything that involves an epiandrosterone will always draw ire from individuals but don’t get bent out of shape, there are others who have found an epiandro product to give them the muscle composition that they need.

Side Effects of Extended E-Stane: Higher Cholesterol

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As they often go hand in hand, prohormone use and side effects are commonly associated with each other. There are many different physical symptoms that I have covered in the past, let’s turn the tables and talk about what can be going on internally. If you look at an average weightlifters diet, there is a ton of sources of high cholesterol from many of the protein-heavy foods that you are going to be having. It wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world to grab a product that can manage your cholesterol levels. Your body doesn’t like rapid fluctuations to how it is usually maintained. When you throw a prohormone into your system, you can gain weight at a quick pace. This rapid boost in tipping the scales caused prohormones to really start selling out. The next month, after you finished using your prohormone that weight you gained started to fall away, just as quick as it came.

Let me use a personal incident that went on in my life, over the course of two months, as an example. About seven years ago, I ran an exceptionally brutal stack that brought me everything I wanted, at first. I went from 210lbs to 233.5lbs in a very short time frame. I was expecting to keep all of this extra weight and had actually already bought some new clothes to celebrate, one of the worst purchases I have ever made. I hadn’t thought much of how my figure was currently looking, I knew I had weighed in about three weeks ago and it wasn’t until someone pointed out my rapid weight loss that I got worried. After I could get home, I rushed to my weight scale, to find that my biggest fear had come true. As fate would have it, I was weighing in at 218lbs, nearly a drop in fifteen pounds. My stomach wanted to hit the floor, it was like the last few months that I had worked so hard, were all for nothing. It was, at that very moment, that I vowed never to trust another prohormone again. Luckily for me, it wasn’t too long after that that word began to get out about the hidden dangers of these supplements.

Needless to say, within a short time, prohormones were swept under the rug and have stayed there ever since. Whenm-stane weight takes a roller coaster approach and begins to rise and fall, it wreaks havoc on your cholesterol. Laying waste to the progress that you have made, this was just one of many reasons people cried foul at what the long-term risks of these specific supplements were. I felt devastated that I had put so much time into trying to skirt around doing hard work on my own. I suppose that, looking back on it, I should have known that such quick weight gain was too good to be true. Before you start any serious plan and are looking for weightlifting products, always have your cholesterol levels checked by a professional. You do not want to begin taking what could possibly raise your blood pressure, if you already have high pressure numbers already. From personal experience, I had no clue that I had high blood pressure and cholesterol until I had it checked by a machine. I was really fortunate to not have experimented with what could have raised my numbers even higher.

Information about Methylstenbolone: My Personal Take

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I wanted to go over another type of prohormone, in order to better educate my valued readers. Methylstenbolone was, at first, disguised as a safer way to use prohormones. What made this kind of prohormone different from the other formations was that it knocked out any kind of estrogen builders. Not touching the receptor responsible for increased production of estrogen, anything with methylstenbolone in it was seen as a smarter choice. One big negative about using this type of supplement was that it was very tough on your organs. Namely known for its destruction of the liver, it was almost mandatory that you take another product with this, in order to lessen the bad side effects.

There were just way too many bad effects, associated with this prohormone, that had to have a safety measure put in place for it. Those of us who didn’t like maintaining longer cycles found a friend with methylstenbolone, however there would be negative repercussions from such a short cycle life. Only lasting about a month, the cycles that were ran of this supplement were shorter in length, only because the potency of this prohormone made it unsafe to use for a longer period of time. Before it was removed worldwide, I would run about five milligrams of methylstenbolone, at around two to three servings per day.

There is room for changing your required amount of methylstenbolone, I would just always take it at a lower dosage. I do not recommend that anyone try to do this for themselves, remember that I was taking this before all of the information about how dangerous this stuff was had been made public. Now that I know all of the hidden dangers, I wouldn’t touch a supplement like this one with a ten-foot stick! I would advise anyone taking methylstenbolone to watch out for any signs that you are experiencing side effects. The most common one is going to be changes in the way that you feel, with most of those changes being mental ones. You could feel like your mood is swinging, in many different directions.

Physical symptoms will vary but there is one that you should take immediate care of. Namely, pain in your sides, of which can occur at any time. If you are feeling this pain, grab up water and drink up! I would usually take an old milk carton (washed out, of course) and fill it up with ice cold water, keeping it in the fridge. I would go through a full two-gallon size container of water in about two days. I know that if you don’t like water, there are ways that you can add some flavor into this drink. If you decide to add a sweetener or one of those flavor packet things, will be up to you and how you feel about additional chemicals in your drink.

I, myself, love using the flavor packets, as it is the only way I will ingest water, most of the time. I have always had a tough time with drinking all of the water, in one day, that is recommended to drink. As with any prohormones, the usual side effect suspects can occur with methylstenbolone, even though it was originally thought to be so much safer than anything else. Even though molecules were moved around to change the formation of this supplement from a known danger to a questionable safer choice, methylstenbolone is not very well-known today.