Nitrix Review - A Bodybuilding Supplement

Nitrix is a product, in tablet form that is used to enhance body building and musculature. The way it works is by increasing blood vessels, which in turn increase blood flow to organs and thereby promotes muscle growth. In addition, the supplement helps to reduce gonadotropin-releasing hormone and adrenaline, which promotes more effective workouts and reduces inflammation.

What is NO

The main ingredient in Nitrix is a molecule called NO. NO is an abbreviation for Nitric Oxide. NO is normally found in gas form and, according to multiple scientific studies increases blood flow, promotes higher levels of nutrients being delivered to muscles and promotes muscle growth when the muscles are subject to strain.

The discoverers of NO were awarded the Noble Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1998. Although Nitric Oxide was found to be present in human bodies and is made by many different types of cells. In scientific studies, the NO already present in the body has been show to do more than promote muscle growth. It has been proven to protect the heart, reduce blood pressure, stimulate the brain and kills bacterial. When exercising, NO is released in blood stream.

The makers of Nitrix, BSN, market the product as a steroid replacement with the purpose of increasing muscle mass.

Who is BSN?

BSN, Bio-Engineered Supplements and Nutrition, is a privately held company, located in Baton Rouge, Florida. ?Team BSM? ? those who recommend and use BSN products include highly successful body builders and expert athletes. BSN has many different products, apparel and programs. These products include those to assist in building endurance, increase motivation, promote muscle recovery, and those that reduce the absorption of fat and sugar while eating.

Usage Instructions

Nitrix must be used for a minimum of four weeks for optimal results. Daily dosage instructions include taking 3 tablets at least 3 times a day for a normal-sized person. Someone who is very heavy or thin may alter the daily dosage. Some side effects include diarrhea, weakness and nausea.

Consumer reviews

Most consumer reviews are positive. The consumers who wrote in state the product does work and they have noticed a change in their workouts and muscle mass. The few negative comments relate to the price ? many felt it was expensive, but worth the price.

Ty Johns is a researcher and writer on many health related products and is a contributor for an informational website Nitrix Review

Forced Reps: Disasterous for Natural Bodybuilding

Nobody can rightfully lecture me about training intensity. In the mid-1980s, I endured over thirty weeks of BUD/S Training; the basic regimen one goes through to enter the Navy SEAL Teams. I went through that training?s Hell Week twice ? start to finish. At a tender age, I learned how to push my body well past the pain barrier of muscle fatigue and bodily exhaustion that?s a signal to us that it?s time to quit and take a rest. I could, upon internal command, become an endorphin-releasing, pain-ignoring workout machine? unstoppable!

Our dependability under pressure was augmented by such a regimen, but not our physiques. In other words, we built more character than muscle in BUD/S Training.

Later on when I took up natural bodybuilding, I carried my work ethic and proclivity for intensity over to that endeavor. This resulted in experimentation with every conceivable bodybuilding workout intensifying technique in existence. I?ve used drop sets, pre-exhaustion, up-and-down-the-rack, and the ever ubiquitous forced reps. Name the intensifier ? I?ve tried it. At one time, I even used a derivation of forced reps that was borderline insane. Imagine taking a bench pressing weight with which you can eke out ten repetitions. Now imagine your spotter standing behind the bench and pushing down on the weight for the first few reps as you attempt to push it up. By the time you make it to the second five reps, your spotter has shifted from trying to make the weight heavier for you to trying to help you bring it up on the positive. This effectively gives every rep the intensity of a forced one and will have your spotter inadvertently getting a bent over rowing workout. I don?t recommend that you try these.

In fact, I?m here to dissuade you from engaging in any of this nonsense. If workout intensifying techniques were the key to muscle growth, I would have been freaky huge by the time I was twenty-nine. Instead, I was chucking my weight belt across the room in frustration as I arrived home from the gym each day. I was mad at bodybuilding. Thoughts of quitting plagued my mind. Nowhere was there such a mismatch between effort and reward than in this wacky endeavor or sport.

I remember reading an article that raved about how professional bodybuilder Tom Platz took all of his sets to failure and beyond. My thoughts were ?big deal ? I do this all the time?. It seemed that without the aid of steroids and the genetic predisposition for superhuman recovery, I was destined to build more character than muscle from high intensity practices. I wanted an attention-getting body, yet all I was producing was attention-getting workouts.

It?s this frustration from which I want to save natural trainers. You will waste your time and effort by taking the no-pain/no-gain mantra to its extreme. Much like a member of BUD/S Training, you?ll build plenty of character, but not a nicer body.

You might be asking how I could make such a claim. Yet the answer is revealed when you really ask yourself how well you?re doing with your muscle building progress if you?re a practitioner of forced reps or any other bodybuilding intensifying techniques. Are you making steady and measureable gains? Some words of warning: a ?pump? at the conclusion of your workout is not a sign of gains. The same is true for local muscle fatigue and soreness. As I often tell people: ?A successful workout might be physically taxing ? but this doesn?t mean any physically taxing workout is successful.?

In order for a muscle building workout to be successful, you must move a slightly higher volume of weight than you did during your previous workout. This won?t happen without adequate inter-workout recuperation. And adequate recuperation is next to impossible after muscles have been obliterated due to the erroneous belief that this will somehow equate to more or better growth.

If you?re a natural trainer (or even if you?re a steroid user who wants to make progress between cycles), heed my advice. Don?t waste time and effort discovering what took me years to figure out. Push your bodybuilding workouts with enough intensity to burst through your past volume records. Couple this practice with enough rest and recuperation between workouts to allow a warm expansion and absence of soreness to permeate the tissue.

When you do this, you?ll be well on your way to steady muscle growth. You can then leave the character building to those more devoid and desirous of that than a great physique.

Scott Abbett is the author of HardBody Success: 28 Principles to Create Your Ultimate Body and Shape Your Mind for Incredible Success.

Scott is a certified fitness trainer and a certified Master Practitioner and Trainer of NLP. You can view his own phyical transformation by visiting http://www.hardbodysuccess.com

Building A Home Gym

Due to your busy daily schedule, the time you once devoted to visit the gym has become so limited that actually now prevents you from enjoying a "real" hour of workout without thinking of the million things you have to take care of. Thus, some of your friends decided to create a home gym in an effort to balance work and family responsibilities and manage to stay fit at the same time. But before screaming "That's it!" and bursting out the door to shop till you literally drop, since you have not been using your muscles for a while now, you should better consider the following:

- Goals: The first thing you need to do is to determine your fitness goals. Before selecting which equipment will better serve your particular case it is necessary for you to conclude on what do you want to get out from your home exercising facility. Do you wish to maintain your fitness level or increase it? Do you want to burn more calories and add muscle tone or boost your energy? Moreover, upon deciding on your actual fitness goals you have to estimate which are your objectives; which muscle groups you want to train first.

- Budget: The crucial cost related question comes second, because upon deciding on your fitness goals and objectives you have to determine how much money you have currently available for your house gym project. Keep in mind that a usual price range is between $ 300 and $ 1,000 per equipment and in case you are aiming to buy the best there is, you should at least double those prices.

- Area: Prior to any purchase, you have to decide how much space are you willing to allocate for your home gym. Does the whole basement seem a good idea, or do you have a spare room you use currently to put laundry which can fit your purposes perfectly? Decide on which area of your house is going to be hosting all the equipment you will later carry in and measure its exact dimensions.

- Fitness Machines: In order to meet the previously determined fitness goals and after deciding upon the available budget, you have to go shopping. A variety of fitness stores can supply you with the equipment you will need to train that set of muscles you want, but before accepting an offer try first to look around and check what you can discover. A store might be selling off, a department might have an extremely good deal on a couple of machines, or your neighbor might be interested in selling his treadmill. Check, ask and test the equipment you are considering of buying. After all, you are about to spend a small fortune.

- Expert's Opinion: Ask, listen and write down the opinion of people much more experienced than you. Also it is always better to purchase the equipment you will be using from a fitness specialty store. You are entitled a guarantee and you can choose from a greater variety of machines. Moreover, these types of specialty stores employ professional trainers most of the times, who know what to advice you and why.

- Knowledge: Research and learn. Try to improve your knowledge on safety issues and exercising risks. Read all those equipment directions before attempting to use them and follow them!

Jonathon Hardcastle writes articles on many topics including Fitness, Food, and Boating