Jalfrey--MuscleTech's Anabolic Halo Deliciousness! v 2.0
I've got to open with a big thank you to MuscleTechJake and the rest of his new (and improved) MuscleTech team here on the boards. I am always grateful to companies that are willing to put their products on the line for honest review. Their new Performance Series is impressive. I have had the opportunity to sample a couple of MuscleTech's new products from that line and approve of both the Cell-Tech and Nitro-Tech. The best looking thing in the Performance Series so far, though, is Anabolic Halo!
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Anabolic Halo takes 7 of the top factors for recovery and mass building and puts them all into one complete post-recovery shake! You want whey protein? Antioxidants? Creatine? BCAAs? Both quck and slow-release carbs? Electrolytes? How about glutamine? It's all in there!
Anabolic Halo Performance Series by MuscleTech is a post-workout mass-builder that combines 40 grams of protein with a number of other muscle-building compounds. Among these compounds are 6 grams of BCAA’s, 5 grams of Glutamine & Glutamic Acid, and 5 grams of Creatine Monohydrate. Anabolic Halo Performance Series also includes a multi-stage carbohydrate blend to help promote glycogen replenishment and cell volumization. The inclusion of so many different ingredients necessary for muscle growth and recovery makes Anabolic Halo Performance Series a fairly comprehensive solution for mass-building support.
Profile--Pretty solid. One scoop gets you the following:
Glutamine/BCAA Matrix
L-Glutamine and L-Glutamic Acid 2.5g, L-leucine 1.4g, L-Valine 0.8g, L-isoleucine 0.8g
Multi-Phase Carb System
ModCarb Slow-digesting carbohydrates 3g (Oat, Amaranth, Quinona, Buckwheat, Millet, Chaia)
Muscle Growth and Recovery Complex
Creatine Monohydrate 2.5g, Tart Cherry Concentrate 250mg
Cell Volumizing Compounds
L-Alanine 0.75g
Active Digestive Enzymes
Papain 25mg, Amylase 25mg
In my Anabolic Halo Deliciousness v 1.0 review, I mention that I thought the 1 scoop serving was a bit underdosed. So I'm going to use 2 scoops of Halo after each workout. I'm currently following Gethin's DTP protocol. I've modified it for 5 days a week and to hit chest twice. It looks like this--
Mon-Chest and Back
Tuesday-Legs
Wed-Cardio
Thursday-Arms
Friday-Shoulders and Chest
I started using Anabolic Halo on Thursday and it's taste is just as awesome as I remembered. It's more of a smoky dark chocolate flavor than just a run-of-the-mill chocolate. It's a complex flavor that makes me want to savor the shake instead of just slugging it back after a workout. Definitely one of, if not the best, chocolate shakes I've ever had!!
My recovery has been great over the past couple of days. I'll elaborate more on that in Tuesday's entry after nuking my chest and back on Monday. Thanks for stopping in!
An end to the deliciousness...
After 3 weeks of using Halo. I have to say that I believe in it as an awesome recovery product! Even after switching rep schemes by body felt good with no DOMS!
That was using 2 scoops instead of one, which breaks down to about $3.13 a serving. Not cheap, but not too bad if you consider all the supps that Halo covers.
It's hard for me to give a final review to recovery items or proteins. Especially for a shorter log like this one. I didn't include pics because I didn't think 3 weeks would be enough time for anyone but myself to notice a size difference. So in closing, I'm just going to give my thanks to Jake and the rest of the incredible MuscleTech team he has assembled here on the boards. Thanks to my fellow loggers that have been popping in here. Sorry that I'm so slack on posting in your logs.
I just want to say that Anabolic Halo helped me to recover very quickly, again no DOMS! I'm one of those dummies that measures the previous day's workout by how sore I am the next day, so the lack of soreness was hard to get used to, but I like it. I also have to say that Halo is still the best tasting chocolate protein I've had yet. Of course, I have a tub of Phase-8 chocolate that I'm going to rip into this week. Based on how tasty Phase-8 vanilla is, that chocolate should be awesome!
Anabolic Halo gets the thumbs up from jalfrey, it works!