Athletic Edge Nutrition
IntraXCell-FAQ
http://forums.bulknutrition.com/?showtopic=35254


SteelEdge-FAQ
http://forums.bulknutrition.com/?showtopic...07&hl=steeledge


Statistics
-Age: 30
-Sex: Male
-Height: 5'10''
-Weight: 186.47 (1 week average)
-Bodyfat: 14.2 (1 week average)


Training experience
For a good 6 years I was in a bodybuilder mode on and off but never had any desire to compete but just gain a lot of size. I went from around 135lbs to peak around 185lbs. I then started to get very inconsistant with my workouts and waveried anywhere between 165 - 180lbs. I never considered myself strong compared to the size that I gained. Then I started a Westside Barbell program back in November 2006 and have moved entirely over to the Darkside for good. I'm now training for a powerlifting meet in April of 2008.

Present diet
Currently for the past month I've been eating around 4,500 to 5,000 calories a day. Percentages split up somewhere around 40c/30p/30f.

Training outline
Typical Westside so far

Day1: DE Bench
Day2: ME Squat/DL
Day3: ME Bench
Day4: DE Squat/DL

Then throw in some GPP work here and there.


Supplements taken for a least 2 months before testing

Wake up 5:30am: 3 scoops (133g) Universal Real Gains, 2cups Milk (703cals, 5g fat, 101g carbs and 63g protein)
Workout 6am: water
PWO: 2 scoops (88.6g) Universal Real Gains, 1 scoop whey, 5tbls Dextrose, as much water as I can fit in the shaker (641cals, 5g fat, 101g carbs(50/50), and 53g protein.)
Get to work 45min later: eat, drink water
eat, drink water as much as I can all day and night
Go to Bed: Casein Mix with 1 cup Milk, multi-vit


Will Add in the following and test for a two month period:
On Training Days:
Pre-workout: carb drink as usually but with 1 scoop of Steel Edge and 3caps of IntraXCell
Post-workout: PWO shake as normal plus 3 caps of IntraXCell

On Non-Training Days:
No Steel Edge
Morning Breakfast with 3 caps IntraXCell
Dinner with 3 caps IntraXCell

Present goals
Compete in the 2008 NASA Iowa State Power Lifting competition. Going for at least 450SQ/300Bench/415DL.

Any and all prescription or recreational drugs you use that may alter resultsNever did any drugs and haven't had any alcohol since 1996.

Anything else that may alter results – disabilities, conditions, life situations, etc.
Nothing right now but you never know.

"Before" picture

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Current Bench, Squat, Deadlift
I did my 1RM 9 weeks ago now and was planning on waiting a good 12 weeks before I did it again. But I will go ahead and shoot for a 1RM again on my Squat, Bench, and DL. Then I will go for another 1RM in another 9 weeks after doing my test with IntraXCell and Steeledge and be able to compare. I know it probably wont be as large of a gain in weight increases as increases probably wont come as easy in the future.

Previous Max: (With creatine)
Squat: 355lbs
Bench: 255lbs
DL: 325lbs
Total: 935lbs

Current Max: (No Creatine)
Squat: 405
Bench: 270
DL: 385
Total: 1060

Goal Max in 2 months: (With Steeledge and IntraXCell)
Squat: 430
Bench: 280
DL: 405
Total: 1115

Any other relevant information
I've been off creatine now for over a month and can feel the effects on my endurance and recovery. I haven't lost any strength as I have consistently lifted PR's the past month. My muscles seem to get sore quicker and for longer periods of time. I was going to go back onto creatine by April before I saw the opportunity to test SteelEdge and IntraXCell and decided to try something different that is supposed to help with exactly what I'm feeling.

Will updated regularly the following information:
- My workouts
- How many calories, macronutrient (protein/carbs/fat) amounts
-Any cardiovascular or other exercise – include intensity and duration: Cardio? What's that? I'll list any GPP work that is done.
-Any comments that I have on the product including side effects, impressions of the product, etc. even if they are possitive or negative
-Answer Any questions anyone might post or PM

Nice layout, looking forward to seeing where this log goes.


lol, at your cardio comment.

Hey Jason i'll definetly be paying attention to your log bro.....im doing Incarnate, excited to see 2 different companies beta alanine productd being tested @ the same time!!...good luck

Awesome man! I'm excited to see how you respond to this stack

This is a go. One more edit to do on the above starter post and that will be a before picture. I don't know when I'll have it though as I told her she'll have to get a candid picture of me with my shirt off otherwise I might do something stupid like pose.

EDIT: Oh yeah, Thanks AEN for this opportunity.

@John
I'll be watching all the other product testers too that are testing some type of BA product.

nice log

More background stats that I worked out in my journal.

November 2006:
B/W: 167
B/F: 11%
LBM: 148.63lbs

Jan 2007:
B/W: 177.74 lb (avg 1week)
B/F: 13.3% (avg 1week)
LBM: 154.1

March 2007:
B/W: 186.47 (1 week average)
B/F: 14.2% (1 week average)
LBM: 159.99


From November 2006 to March 2007:
B/W: up 10.51lbs
B/F: up 2.2%
LBM: up 5.45lbs

FROM Jan 2007 to March 2007:
B/W: up 8.73lbs
B/F: up 1%
LBM: up 5.89lbs

From November 2006 to March 2007:
B/W: up 19.47lbs
B/W: up 3.2%
LBM: up 11.36lbs


MAX Stats:

November 2007:
Never did a Max attempt in my life before this.


Jan 2007
Squat: 355
Bench: 255
DL: 325
Total: 935

March 2007
Squat: 405
Bench: 270
DL: 385
Total: 1060

Max From Jan 2007 to March 2007
Squat: up 50
Bench: up 15
DL: up 60
Total: up 125

Goals and How I plan to get there:
in another 9 weeks.

Bench: 280
I'm getting stuck on the bottom now so get some 1 and 2 board presses in my workouts. I'm thinking I also need some more delt and lat work to help out. Maybe throw in some ME OHP work. I also feel like I am going to slow on the decent so I'll speed up the decent on speed days instead of take is slow on the way down.


Squat: 425
I felt it was really hard to get down into the hole and feel if I was below parallel. I figure some more low box squats will help here.


DL: 405
Still having a hard time getting it to come up off the floor. I think I need more work with the DL off a platform or using 25lbs plates. Also need to add in some good pullthroughs and maybe some GM Squats and Zercher Squats.

Did some GPP landscaping style yesterday. I spent the day digging, pulling out and dragging around 3 big, 4ft tall, bushes. The did some random raking and cleaning up of the yard.

Sunday GPP work:

Bush Dig
3x324323223@shovel

Bush dead lift from roots
3x1@big bush

40 yard Bush Drag
3x1@ big bush

Good stuff man. At least you got creative when you were doing yard work

Week1/ Day 1

Comments
First day of taking SteelEdge and IntraXCell. Didn't know what to expect but was waiting and preparing myself for the "tingling" feeling that people talk about. I did notice more a rush feeling probably from the stimulants in SteelEdge which I'm not used to taking early in the morning or at all really. It felt like a drank two cups of coffee which I might do on occassion. My foot tapped quite a bit between sets and my body temp felt slightly elevated earlier in the workout. Normally I feel really warm after my workouts. Never got any tingling sensation but I took everything together this morning with my normal 3 scoops of Real Gains and 2 cups of milk. The taste wasn't as bad as I was expecting as I mixed a citrus flavor with chocolate flavoring. I did feel the buzz of stimulants well after my workout was over but I do a pretty quick and intense workout.

Energy level after waking up: 1 still asleep and 10 wide awake and about to explode
4

Energy level once in the gym:
9

Energy level after workout:
7

Time to complete workout:
40m

The Workout

DE BENCH
Flat Bench
6x3@160
3x3@175
1x3@185

Assistance Work
Standing DB Military Press w/ Palms facing in
1x10@35, 50
1x6@45
2x8@35

DB Rear Laterals
4x10@25

Decline Bench Sit-ups
1x50@10lbs ball

B/W:186.2
B/F:14.5%

Today's Gorging of Food:

Didn't know the calories in the IntraXCell but through in 6 caps for that and I doubt it adds up to much.

Cals Fat Carb Prot
Real Gains from Universal ( 133 gram ) 523 5 75 45
SteelEdge from Athletic Edge Nutrition ( 1 serving ) 82 0 15 0
Milk, calcium fortified, cow's, fluid, skim or nonfat ( 2 cup ) 180 0 26 18
Real Gains from Universal ( 88.6 gram ) 349 3 50 30
Dextrose by NOW ( 5 tablespoon ) 180 0 48 0
Elite Whey, Banana from Dymatize ( 1 serving ) 112 2 3 23
Oatmeal Our Family ( 3 cup, cooked ) 450 9 81 15
Muffin, fruit and/or nuts ( 1 extra large muffin (3-1/2" dia) ) 393 9 68 8
Monster Thick Burger Hardee's 2/3lbs beef ( 1 serving ) 1410 107 47 60
Chicken, breast, with or without bone, roasted, skin not eaten ( 8 oz, boneless, cooked, skinless ) 367 8 0 69
Rice, brown, long-grain, cooked ( 1 cup ) 216 2 45 5
Cheese, natural, Cheddar or American type ( 1 slice (1 oz) ) 114 9 0 7
Beans, string, green, raw ( 1 cup ) 34 0 8 2
Micellar Casein, Pure - TrueProtein ( 1 serving ) 110 1 0 25
Milk, calcium fortified, cow's, fluid, skim or nonfat ( 1 cup ) 90 0 13 9
Total 4611 155 478 315

Okay this site is being a major pain in the but and wont let me update my original post with a before picture. So, here is the before picture. Of course, like I said earlier, I told my wife to take a candid shot so I wouldn't do anything stupid like pose so she thought it would be funny to whip around the corner and take a picture of me in my underwear brushing my teeth.

EDIT: and yes, I was just about to take a piss.

EDIT: please don't bash me here in the log, make all your rude comments over here http://forums.1fast400.com/?act=ST&f=13&t=...t=0#entry407810

LOL.....that is hilarious man.

Wow, this is one detailed log. I like the Sunday workout too but I'm too lazy to workout on Sundays.

Week1/ Day 2

Comments
A little about the experience taking the products. I wanted to mention a few things again about the taste. I said yesterday that it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be and it's not. I wasn't saying that is was like drinking koolaide because it wasn't. I've just had much worse when it comes to supplement drinks. I might try it out tomorrow morning even though I don't workout by itself with water and see how it really tastes. Also wanted to mention that the scooper in the SteelEdge has way to long of a handle. Pain in the butt to pull out at 5:30am when you're still half asleep. I guess it's like that so people don't have to get their hands messy when it gets to the bottom but they still have to stick their hands in there to get it out. I said I was going to mention everything about these products in the log. The intraXCell caps are just the right size and I can pop all three in at the same time.

I was really tired this morning and didn't feel the kick from the SteelEdge as strongly this morning but did start noticing the blood rushing a little more than normal by the second set into my first exercise. I had a really tough workout and felt extremely drained by the end. One of those days where you just sit down in the locker room and try and decide to either hit the bathroom to throw up or hit the showers to cool down. My body temp was pretty high and I felt like I had steam coming off me coming out of the showers and sitting back down. I noticed those my head was throbing a little on my way out of the gym. Not painful or a headache just feel like the stimulants were still trying to kick in.

Finally starting to gain back my composure after todays workout now about an hour and a half to almost two hours since leaving the gym. This is typical for a really good intense Max Effort day for me.

Energy level after waking up: 1 still asleep and 10 wide awake and about to explode
2 almost 1

Energy level once in the gym:
4 then 7 after my second set of first exercise

Energy level after workout:
1 (I'll say 0 would be puking and/or passing out)

Time to complete workout:
43m

The Workout

ME SQ/DL
Arch Back GM (Going for 3 RM)
1x3@bar, 95, 115, 135, 165, 185, 205, 225, 255 PR, 275 PR, 295 PR, 315 PR
1x1,miss@345 PR

I haven't done these in a long time. I figured I'm due to do them again. Watching the westside squat workout tapes I noticed how much explosive power they have in their hips when doing these and standing with a wider stance. Last time I did these I used a shoulder width or so stance. So, this time I brought my stance out like a squat and did them concentrating on exploding my hips into it. I can really feel them now.

Assistance Work
BB Lounges
1x10@bar
1x7@95 (was going for 8 but my glut really started to cramp so a stretched for a little bit)
1x9@95

GHR
3x8

Hanging Leg Raises
4x15

Standing Calf Raises
4x8@175

B/W:186.6
B/F:14.1%

Today's Gorging of Food:

Cals Fat Carb Prot
Real Gains from Universal ( 133 gram ) 523 5 75 45
Milk, calcium fortified, cow's, fluid, skim or nonfat ( 2 cup ) 180 0 26 18
SteelEdge from Athletic Edge Nutrition ( 1 serving ) 82 0 15 0
Real Gains from Universal ( 88.6 gram ) 349 3 50 30
Dextrose by NOW ( 5 tablespoon ) 180 0 48 0
Elite Whey, Banana from Dymatize ( 1 serving ) 112 2 3 23
Oatmeal Our Family ( 2 cup, cooked ) 300 6 54 10
Game meat, deer, cooked, roasted ( 4 oz ) 179 4 0 34
Coney (Chilli) Cheese Dog - A&W Restaurant ( 2 serving ) 700 42 54 26
A&W Root Beer Small - A&W Restaurant ( 1 serving ) 150 0 40 0
French Fries - A&W Restaurant ( 1 serving ) 310 12 45 3
Egg, whole, raw ( 2 large ) 149 10 1 12
Hamburger, 1/4 lb meat, with tomato and/or catsup, on bun ( 2 (1/4 lb) hamburger ) 890 41 76 52
Cheese, processed, American or Cheddar type ( 2 slice, NFS (.75 oz) ) 141 11 3 8
Milk, calcium fortified, cow's, fluid, skim or nonfat ( 1 cup ) 90 0 13 9
Micellar Casein, Pure - TrueProtein ( 1 serving ) 110 1 0 25
Total 4445 136 502 295

I'm FREAKING HUNGRY... Although I'm hungry a lot of times but today before lunch I was ready to just devour anything in sight. I’ll be interested if I’m like that again just before dinner time. I do plan on snacking on a couple hard boiled eggs before then.

Jason great detail man..damn.....any itching yet from the beta-alanine??..they say it takes about 2 weeks for carnosine levels to increase in the muscles so ill be keeping an eye out to see when you start to feel results. Good luck...keep it up playa