Side Effect Sports ***Muscle Builder*** Sample Review!

Lifthard72's review of SES' Muscle Builder!!!

As Many of you know Side Effect Sports, and their reps have been all over Bodybuilding.com and their forums promoting their products as well as providing support for not only their products but others who have been training. Sort of a break out brand, I'm lucky enough to have a few of their products to try!

I received this sample, as well as a sample of Post Workout, Fat Burner, and Pre Workout, within an order I Placed a while ago. I also received a cool little shaker cup as well that works fairly decent! Lets start out with some pics!

I mixed one sample packet with 8oz of water and upon my first glance at it, as you can see it started to mix immediately (did not shake it) Although as you can see in the next pic there was a bit of settling at the bottom, but this was BEFORE shaking it.

The next two pictures were taken a bit after shaking it for about 5 seconds. (got dressed in between shaking and taking the pic)

The reason I took so many pictures is because mix-ability is a huge aspect for me and I HATE grainy powders, they almost make me gag. SO as you can see, this was great!
MIXABILITY 10/10-------As stated earlier, before I even began to mix this stuff up it was already starting to dissolve in 8oz of water. The directions state to drink/mix in 10-14 oz of water, and so I tried the bare -minimum(most of their other products say 8-12oz). After a few shakes it was all dissolved. Did not see or taste/feel any grains, clumps, or anything else. One of the better products I take as far as mixability![/size]

TASTE 9/10 The taste of this product actually reminded me of kool-aid! A very nice not too strong Fruit punch Flavor, Next time I try the product through I will probably mix it with more water just because I like my flavors a little more watered down. Aside from that I found it very yummy, not too sweet and no chemically taste or after taste to it. SES got the flavor right with this one.

INGREDIENT PROFILE 9/10
Love the ingredient Profile although, I am intrigued by the Ion Channel Transport aspect that they put in most of their products. It seems interesting to me and it's something I would just like to read up on. I know some people will call the various versions of creatine busts or frauds, and I am one to usually just take mono, but I did like the CKG and GKG in it. I have taken Arginine AKG before and it has worked well for me so that AKG in general must work well in my body. I did not rate this a 10 unfortunately because of the "proprietary blend" and the fact that I see Sucralose at the bottom. I know a lot of products have that in it but it would be nice to see one without, simple as that!

EFFECTIVENESS 10/10---N/A I gave this two ratings because I cannot tell an overall effectiveness based on 1 product from 1 workout, HOWEVER, after finishing up a supplement log last week my soreness has been greater. My program increases sets/reps etc each week as well as increases in weights, so I have progressively getting sorer. My diet has not changed, but I did notice the day after taking the Muscle Builder my DOMS were almost non existent and the only soreness was in my legs! (2 days of squatting in 3 total days) With that in mind, I feel I will never be able to be NOT sore if you have a good workout but I am extremely pleased I did not have to waddle at work the next day because my legs were too sore to walk like normal.

VALUE 8/10 Plain and simple I think any supplement over $30 is pretty expensive, especially being a college student, but looking at it on the bodybuilding.com store, you're getting 45 servings for roughly $35, assuming you workout 4 days a week like I do you're looking at 2.5-3 months out of this product making it very reasonably priced at about $12/month(before shipping obviously). Based on what it did, I think this is a GREAT VALUE, but is just tough for me to rate any higher than 8 because, well $35 is like a half tank of gas for me!

OVERALL 9/10 All together I cant really find too much to pick apart about this product. Im sure people will flame me and say "so and so wasn't proven to do anything and studies show this isnt effective" etc etc. Bottom line is I recovered damn good, call it a great placebo effect idc, I will definitely be looking into this product in the future. it made walking a hell of a lot easier!!!

Here is my review, unfortunately I was not allowed to link my thread so I kept it short and sweet! http://reviews.bodybuilding.com/Side...229772caadac4/

Source: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=155315363&goto=newpost

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