How to “Pack on Mass Fast!”… (SUPPLEMENT)
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What’s up, guys? Jeff Cavaliere, ATHLEANX. com. Outside of the gym today because I don’t live in there. I actually have other things I have to do, too.
But today it’s still going to be to try to help you because supplementation is sort of that other aspect of lifting and most of the time people want to know more about supplementation than even the training. There’s a reason for it. I know. I get it. I understand because it takes a lot less work to take something than it actually does to go into the gym and do something.
But no less important because so many people do it. Now, that being said let me set the stage for how this whole video is going to shake out. First of all, I’m going to review a supplement, but don’t ask me to review other supplements because I’m not going to do that. We have our own supplements. I created my own supplements for a very important reason, because I feel like I’ve addressed some of the shortcomings of the industry in the first place.
Secondly, I don’t want to get in the habit of trying to go over somebody else’s product because I don’t really want to speak about their products. However, to underscore a very, very important point for you, I am going to do that here today. So that being said, the name of the company is USN. The product is called Hyperbolic Mass. More important than that is the individual who wrote to me and asked about this because they were – from what I gather – a high school student in the UK.
I think this is a UK company because I really don’t know who they are. But they wanted to know if this product would be great for them for packing on mass fast. They want to know how they could pack on mass as fast as possible. Right away I have a problem with the fact that they’re relying on supplementation and even thinking and having the expectations of packing on mass fast because anybody that will sell you that bullshit should not be listened to, okay? First and foremost.
I don’t care if that comes in the form of a supplement, or whether that comes in the form of a workout. Hard work is always going to be that nagging little step in the middle that you have to make sure you figure out if you want to pack on mass. But that being said, he wanted to know what he could do because he was on the very, very thin side. Now pointing to this supplement, we actually had responded to him first by saying “Hey, check out the video that Jeff already did on weight gainers, and why he called them horseshit”, because that’s exactly what I called them. One of the reasons why is because they’re just loaded with sugar.
They’re nonproductive calories. They’re not what you need. I try to discourage anyone from relying on them for packing on mass, even back then. But it wasn’t enough because he said “You don’t understand, this particular product has excellent reviews. It’s got all the protein that I need, it’s not loaded with useless sugars; everything they’re saying about it is really good.
” Let me show you why I feel like this is an important video for us to go over to illustrate what’s so deceiving about all this nonsense. So we look at this, and if I look – Jessie, take a look at the label. First thing I see is “All in one gainer”. So if I’m looking at this, I’m thinking, as a kid who’s actually really desperate to put on size, this is all I need to gain mass. It’s Hyperbolic Mass.
It’s everything. All the buzz words are there. 51g of protein here. That’s very clear from this. Then it’s in really faint white, but it says “40 scoops”.
So, wow! That’s a lot in one bottle. 51g of protein, and 4. 7g of creatine. So I’m like “That actually has high levels of intrinsic BCAAs and glutamine.
It’s got everything. ” Okay, now let’s see how truthful that really is. We look at the price. 45. 99 And that is for pounds.
We do the conversion and it’s like $56. So it’s not cheap. Then we come down here and look at the supplement facts. The first thing I want you to be educated about and realize is there’s two columns here. There’s 100g serving which provides only 409 calories, and there’s a 300g serving that provides 1226 calories.
Well, when we’re talking about a weight gainer, obviously he’s interested in the 1226 calories. He’s focused on this. I know he’s focused on this because he referenced the 51g of protein, which here says 53g of protein, okay? He also referenced the creatine in it, which is 4. 7g, but only if you’re in this column over here, which is the 300g serving.
So the funny thing is, he also tells us that in the literature it bragged about only having 17g of sugar. Which, for a big weight gainer that’s packing all those calories, man; that would be pretty impressive unless it was loaded with fat. Well, we take another look. The 17g of sugar here are in this column. So why are we cherry picking and going back and forth between the 100g serving column when we want to do sugar, and then the 300g serving when we want to do the creatine and the protein and everything else?
Which, by the way, 24g of fat here, 15g of saturated fat. I don’t necessarily have anything against fat, but I always said that these things are like candy bars. You either get your flavor from fat, or sugar. That’s really about it. So now that’s what we’re looking at.
So let’s see why it’s worse, why this is really – this is what pisses me off. If you look at it, look at the serving size of the bottle here, Jessie. 2kg. Now, I don’t know if that was done intentionally or not, but 2kg. A kilogram is 1000g, so we’re looking at 2000g in this bottle.
Well, fi we know that with the benefits that we’re looking at and what this young man is looking for is 300g we know that if he takes that – 300g a pop – my math wasn’t very good, but I do know that’s not even seven servings. That’s not even a full seven servings. So if he’s taking this every day, this wonderful mass gainer is going to last him less than seven days. Not even a week. So he’s paying 45.
99 in pounds, or $56, per week. You multiply it – he’s actually going to need more than that. That’s only going to give him 28 days. He’s going to need about 2. 5 bottles – I’m sorry.
- 5 bottles. So he’s spending well over $200 for this impressive mass gainer, okay? I say that very loosely. Now, we haven’t even gotten into the quality because now when we get into the quality we go down and we start looking at the actually ingredients more and we realize when they claimed about the sugar, first of all that wasn’t the right claim.
There’s actually 51g of sugar in that 300g serving, but that’s not even truthful because there’s 195g of total carbs, 51 of which are sugars. I’m not buying it guys, because if you look into the actually detail of the breakdown here, the number one ingredient here in this whole thing is their carbohydrate matrix – which sounds really good, but it’s not – which is filled with dextrose monohydrate which is high fructose corn syrup and fructose. So they’re loading up on the latter two there loading up, and they’re underreporting drastically how much sugar is in this. There’s got to be well over 100g of sugar in this and that makes it really, really shitty. Really, really shitty.
On top of that then they get into the protein sources. They have a bunch of soy protein. The bottom line is, guys – look I’m losing my voice because I’m getting all friggin’ worked up here – but the bottom line is, I have no axe to grind with this company. If you think this is in any way a commercial for my supplements, guess what the punchline is for this young kid? Don’t buy my stuff.
It’s not appropriate for you. As a matter of fact, our RX2 – which is our protein powder – only has under 200 calories for a serving. It doesn’t even have that many calories in it. It’s not meant to bulk up. What he needs to do instead is, he nee