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Feast Day 15 Today's Exercise: Feast Workout #6 (CC) Today's Maintenance Calories: 2933 Daily Caloric Goal: 110% of 2933 = 3226 Calories Consumed: 3219 (110% of maintenance) 232g protein Weighed in this morning at 171.8 lbs and I'm down to 9.4% body fat! This is just crazy. I keep eating a ton, and...

Anyone who has lower back pain, or really any joint pain at all...PLEASE do yourself a favor and buy a bottle of castor oil for $5. I am absolutely amazed at the results I have had after applying it with heat for only 3 days. I cancelled my cortisone injections after the second day, and my back pain...

Feast Day 14 Today's Exercise: Softball Today's Maintenance Calories: 2389 Daily Caloric Goal: 110% of 2389 = 2628 Calories Consumed: 2756 (~115% of maintenance) 201g protein Weight is up a bit to 173.8 lbs this morning. I'm definitely noticing increased muscle hardness after my first day of Syntha...

Feast Day 13 Today's Exercise: Feast Workout #5 (CC) Today's Maintenance Calories: 2824 Daily Caloric Goal: 110% of 2824 = 3106 Calories Consumed: 3157 (~112% of maintenance) 233g protein Both my new digital scale and my Synthagen came in today! It's like Christmas around here! Now that I have an a...

MASS PRO Synthagen Pictures!

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Full label courtesy of Rob:

aron7awol- those Egoscue exercises are awesome. I find the most relief doing the pullover exercise. Same here, I love that exercise. It stops my lower back muscles from spasming every time. I also found something else that is extremely helpful. I went to a spinal specialist earlier this week and th...

Feast Day 12 Today's Exercise: None Today's Maintenance Calories: 2330 Daily Caloric Goal: 110% of 2330 = 2563 Calories Consumed: 2565 (110% of maintenance) 191g protein I'm feeling great so far. My muscles are looking noticeably thicker and denser. My scale is coming in tomorrow so I'll be able to...

You can figure 650mg of "protein" per capsule from the amino blend, Aron, if you are counting protein/amino intake this closely - but it's really not the proper way to consider the ProtoGeneX content in form and function on the whole. Great, thanks for the info. Any way someone can post a...

RobRegish wrote:I'm not sure on the calories (negligible), but the ProtogeneX AA blend is VERY close to the literature on the 600% increase in protein synthesis, when taken pre-workout.

Very close to the literature in the amount of protein contained? Can you point me toward this literature?

For those of us weighing food and counting calories, how many calories and grams of protein are in Synthagen?

Also, can someone please post a picture of the bottle/label?

Feast Day 11 Today's Exercise: Convict Conditioning Testing Today's Maintenance Calories: 2670 Daily Caloric Goal: 110% of 2670 = 2937 Calories Consumed: ~2900 calories (not sure exactly, had a ton of protein) I pulled my hamstring playing softball this weekend, so I had to take it easy on the squa...

Feast Day 10 Today's Exercise: Softball Today's Maintenance Calories: 2755 Daily Caloric Goal: 110% of 2755 = 3030 Calories Consumed: 2982 (108% of maintenance) 209g protein I'm starting to put on a bit of fat, so I'm bringing my calories down to 110% for the rest of week 2 of feast. I've also deci...

Feast Day 9 Today's Exercise: Softball / CC testing Today's Maintenance Calories: 2800 Daily Caloric Goal: 120% of 2800 = 3360 Calories Consumed: ? I wasn't able to track my calories today. I ate pretty well, but had a few beers. Body fat seems to have gone up a tiny bit. I'm not sure about my weig...

Rob, I was confused for a minute there because you edited my post, but thanks for the reply.

I'm only considering switching to CC exclusively right now because of my injuries. My lower back and shoulders are not in a good place right now.