Animal Pak

[umop3pisdn]

I used to the search button and couldn't find any recent threads on Animal Pak because for some reason every time I search titles I get 15 pages full of threads made in 2002.

Anyway, can someone please provide a thread or review which explains what animal pak is exactly and what it does? People who have used do you think it is worth it?

[Senecan]

http://www.google.com/search?q=anima...e7&rlz=1I7ADBS

their vitamins i like them seem to work for me

[twoheadedboy]

If you're talking about "Animal Pak" as in the multivitamin, well, it's a multivitamin, but formulated for the type of people who populate this forum...way more ingredients and way higher than the daily recommended intake amounts for people who do more than just sit at a desk and maybe walk around the office on their lunch break.

It's good stuff that's been tweaked over the past 20+ years and many have gotten good results from it. For me, I already take Omega and Flex and don't really want to take that many pills so I take a more "pedestrian" athlete's multi (as you can see in my sig). It's also kind of expensive, but if you have the dough and the need, I don't see another product that compares.

[umop3pisdn]

In aus it costs $85. How many days would it last me if I were to only have it once a day? Also when is the reccomended time to have it and do you have it with a meal?

[twoheadedboy]

It IS only once a day, it comes in little plastic baggies for each day with a bunch o' pills.

[DEATHEYE]

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You only need to take one pak one time a day...

********THIS IS FROM THE ANIMAL WEBSITE********


When it comes to nutrition, it all starts here with Animal Pak. It's your nutritional foundation. It's your nutritional insurance. Start with the Pak as your basic starter supplement and add the other Animal products around it.

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? I have been lifting weights for fifteen years, and most of that time was spent training as a natural powerlifter. I've experimented with hundreds of supplements over the years, some good, some worthless. But the best supplement I've ever come across is Animal Pak. I've been using Animal Pak since I started as a powerlifter. It was and still is the foundation upon which I rest my nutritional regimen. Fancy supplements come and go, but the basics stay the same. The Animal Pak is king.?
-M. Palmieri, Las Vegas





Since August 8, 1983, Animal Pak has been helping competitive bodybuilders get the most out of their freakish training routines by providing all the nutrition they need, plus some they didn't know they needed. For 25 straight years, people like you have made Animal Pak the #1 selling training "pack" in the world. In fact, more competitive bodybuilders have cut their teeth on the Animal Pak than any other bodybuilding supplement in history. Why? Simple. Animal Pak gets the job done. It works. First time. Every time. Animal Pak has stood the test of time.

See, nature, in all her ingenuity, has designed the human body as the ultimate training machine. Since the dawn of mankind, our bodies have changed very little. And when it comes to growing our muscles in a freakish way, we still need the right combination and mega-doses of essential amino acids, carbs, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and essential fatty acids (EFA's). Only Animal Pak has everything you need.

OK, so you think your regular multi is going to cut it? Get real, Jack. You want massive size and mega-strength and only Animal Pak can deliver. Each Animal Pak starts with mega-doses of necessary vitamins and minerals. Yeah, vitamins and minerals. Vitamins (organic) and minerals (inorganic) are pharmacological agents and catalysts. They can exert significant ergogenic/anabolic benefits and function as the spark plugs for activating all the necessary chemical reactions which make training and building muscle possible.

If you're training or dieting hard for a contest, the first thing that happens when you don't take the Animal Pak is that nutritional gaps begin to form. Why should you care? Because over time, these deficiencies continue to grow. Eventually, your body will stop functioning at its optimum level. In other words, you hit the wall, your development reaches a plateau. In fact, even if only one key nutrient is missing from your diet, your body could shut down the anabolic drive needed to build muscle so that it can support more critical metabolic processes. When this happens, you stop growing.

Research has proven that strength athletes such as bodybuilders and powerlifters, due to the intensity and frequency of their training programs, have higher nutritional requirements than regular athletes. Studies have shown that these unique needs are greatly increased for bodybuilders who regularly compete and need to diet down. During calorie-restricted diets (diets which tend to be repetitive and monotonous, e.g., rice and chicken), the potential for nutritional deficiencies increase dramatically.

More alarming is the fact that championship-caliber bodybuilders, even when supplementing with a regular multivitamin, were still experiencing significant nutritional deficiencies. A basic multivitamin supplement won't be enough. Competitive bodybuilders know that a superior multivitamin is the first line of defense. This fact is confirmed by studies which have revealed that 100% of Olympic weightlifters and over 90% of competitive male and female bodybuilders use a vitamin/mineral supplement like Animal Pak.

These nutritional gaps not only affect your performance and size, but they begin to impact the way your other supplements work. For many of today's supplements to work efficiently, your body needs to be running on all cylinders. Nutritional gaps mean that your supplements may be rendered ineffective. For example, many supplements (e.g., prohormones) rely on enzymes and other substances in your body to "activate" them. Poor nutrition means poor conversion and activation of expensive supplements. Animal Pak is your insurance policy to prevent this from happening.

One other reason to take Animal Pak daily: drug-induced nutrient depletion. Pharmaceutical drug use can lead to vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Relying on "science? or ?gear? to get you huge can obviously exacerbate this problem. Even common pharmaceuticals and OTC's such as aspirin, ibuprofen, antidepressants, and cholesterol-lowering drugs can deplete your body of folic acid, iron, potassium, and important vitamins. If you use drugs of any kind, this is another reason to supplement with Animal Pak.

With Animal Pak, you get plenty of everything you need. And a few extras. Animal Pak features performance optimizers such as pyridoxine alpha-ketoglutarate (PAK), IGF colostrum, nucleotides, lipotropics, L-arginine, Protogen A, eleuthero, and the like. In every pack, you get a vast arsenal of over 55 key ingredients that are delivered in the right amounts at the right time, every time. Each of the 11 tablets included in each pak has been specifically formulated to deliver the goods.

Consider the Animal Pak as the cast iron skillet of your supplement program, your body's first line of defense. If you train with weights, then you absolutely need to train with the Animal Pak. Remember, while most supplements have come and gone, precious few have stood the test of time. When you're ready for the best, step up to the most trusted name in serious bodybuilding nutrition: Animal Pak. What IFBB pros and Mr. Olympia competitors have used since '83.

For more info, check out the feature article, "The Pak: Where It's At".



required for

? All competitive strength & power athletes
? High-intensity training
? Athletes who use supplements
? Athletes who want maximum performance
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daily dose

1 pack per day during the off-season for maintenance, 2 packs during a pre-contest diet or when training is unusually intense.

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selected ingredient profile
Mega-Vitamin/Mineral/Antioxidant Complex
? Zinc
? Chromium
? Magnesium
? All The B Vitamins
? Copper
? Manganese
? Potassium
? Phosphorous
? Vitamins
? Vitamin C
? Vitamin E
? Selenium
? Folic Acid
Key Amino Acid Blend
? Arginine
? Leucine
? Valine
? Isoleucine
? Glutamine
? Methionine
? Lysine
? Histidine
? Threonine
? Phenylalanine
? Tyrosine
? Cysteine
Performance Optimizers
? L-Carnitine
? Pyridoxine Alpha-Ketoglutarate
? Coenzymes A & B
? Para-Aminobenzoic Acid
? Siberian Ginseng (Eleuthero)
? Oriental Ginseng (Panax Ginseng)
? Alpha Lipoic Acid (Thioctic Acid)
? IGF Colostrum
? Phosphatidylcholine
Joint & Bone Support
? Milk Thistle
? Calcium
? Vitamin D
? Magnesium
EFA Complex
? Linoleic Acid
? Oleic Acid
Digestive Enzymes
? Lipase
? Papain
? Pepsin
? Pancreatin
? Micozyme

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recommended stacks
As the "foundational" supplement, Animal Pak should be a part of every bodybuilder's regimen. Every Animal supplement has been designed to work together, creating a unique, powerful, and comprehensive nutritional system. Animal Pak is your starting point.
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?Bucci LR. Micronutrient supplementation and ergogenesis: metabolic intermediates. nutrients as ergogenic aids for sports and exercise. CRC Press: Boca Raton, 1993:41.
?Bucci LR. Selected herbals and human exercise performance. Am J Clin Nutr 1997; in press.
?Burke LM, Gollan RA, Read RS. Dietary intakes and food use of groups of elite Australian male athletes. Int J Sport Nutr 1991;1:378.
?Couzy F, Lafarue P, Guezennec CY. Zinc metabolism in the athlete: influence of training, nutrition, and other factors. Int J Sports Med 1990;51:1093.
?Cynober L, et al. Action of ornithine alpha-ketoglutarate, ornithine hydrochloride and calcium alpha-ketoglutarate on plasma amino acid and hormonal patterns in healthy subject. J Am Coll Nutr 1990;9:2.
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[evilsteve02]

I used to the search button and couldn't find any recent threads on Animal Pak because for some reason every time I search titles I get 15 pages full of threads made in 2002.

Anyway, can someone please provide a thread or review which explains what animal pak is exactly and what it does? People who have used do you think it is worth it?

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/search...chid=251748251

don't lie....

[umop3pisdn]

Well thanks for pasting that off their site but I can't really base my decision off **** they've said on their site.. i mean of course they're gonna give it wraps. I want real experiences from people who have tried it. Even some reviews , c'mon

[twoheadedboy]

I don't understand how text from their site doesn't answer your original question - "what it is and what it does".

[umop3pisdn]

I don't understand how text from their site doesn't answer your original question - "what it is and what it does".

it does??

[Blindead]

Good god, you'd have to be insane to spend 85 bucks on Animal Pak. It's not even that great to begin with.

[evilsteve02]

it does??

there are plenty of user reviews of the product....why not use the search button. the link i posted (which is a search for "animal pak") can answer any question you have on the product w/o having to make a useless post that has already been made by 40 other members.

[umop3pisdn]

there are plenty of user reviews of the product....why not use the search button. the link i posted (which is a search for "animal pak") can answer any question you have on the product w/o having to make a useless post that has already been made by 40 other members.

As I said, I did use the search button but the 15 pages of results it gives me are threads made from 2001 +, most of the time the last page has 2006 threads and doesn't go any further, and i thought if I read those old threads I might be getting misinformation.

So you can see the dilema I'm in. I'm forced to make a whole new thread as google also lets me down due to the overwhelming amount advertising it feeds me. I'm not gonna buy a product based on how great animalpak.com says their product is. I want real experiences, pros and cons from real life users.

All I got from this thread was you calling me a liar and negging me for reasons which are out of my control. Now I've wasted space and time writing this bs to try and defend myself when all I asked was a simple few questions on a supplement in the supplement forum. thank you to the people who tried to help though. oh and here is a screenshot for you evilsteve, this is what happened when I clicked on your link

so yeh, thanks for nothing.

[twoheadedboy]

it does??

Yeah. What questions about "what it is and what it does" are left unanswered from the text on their site?

Though I'm not sure what "wraps" are in the context you used.

[umop3pisdn]

Yeah. What questions about "what it is and what it does" are left unanswered from the text on their site?

Though I'm not sure what "wraps" are in the context you used.

Well cell tech claims to give 7lbs of muscle in 7 days, but that sounds like bs to me.
so how do i know everything animal pak say is true, that's why i was simply after real life users opinions on them.

[twoheadedboy]

Well cell tech claims to give 7lbs of muscle in 7 days, but that sounds like bs to me.
so how do i know everything animal pak say is true, that's why i was simply after real life users opinions on them.

Universal is not Cell Tech, and you don't even know because you haven't read it.

So basically you're asking people to give you opinions on something due to the fact that you fail at forum search and refuse to read their website.

User opinions do not answer "what it is and what it does", they answer "does it work?"

[LIVE_FAST_]

I've been using the Pak for 5 years now, I do notice a diffierence in energy levels as well as the absorption of my protein rate and the functioning on my metabolism. It gives me all the minerals and daily values needed.

[Tyler44]

Well cell tech claims to give 7lbs of muscle in 7 days, but that sounds like bs to me.
so how do i know everything animal pak say is true, that's why i was simply after real life users opinions on them.

Animal Pak wont help you build muscle its a mulivitamin. When I used to take it I felt as if I had more energy daily from the B vitamins I assume. You wont "gain 7lbs in 7 days" or any bull****. Its a multi, supposed to help keep you healthy. What else is there to know? The smaller tubs are 30 days I believe and I think they have 60 or even 90 day cans.

[umop3pisdn]

I've been using the Pak for 5 years now, I do notice a diffierence in energy levels as well as the absorption of my protein rate and the functioning on my metabolism. It gives me all the minerals and daily values needed.

Quick simple and informative answer.

And trust me guys if my search function did work I would have been more than happy to sift through all the 09 threads on Animal Pak if they were available to me. Would have been much easier to avoid all the controversy.

[DEATHEYE]

I used to the search button and couldn't find any recent threads on Animal Pak because for some reason every time I search titles I get 15 pages full of threads made in 2002.

Anyway, can someone please provide a thread or review which explains what animal pak is exactly and what it does? People who have used do you think it is worth it?

type multi vitamin in the search you will get something that way....
Here is a link on there reviews which 100's of people said what they thought about it....

http://reviews.bodybuilding.com/Universal/Animal_Pak

[peteskeys]

I've been taking AnimalPak for a few years now and I love it. As far as multi's go I haven't found anything better as far as profile, though if you want to save some money you might try GNC's Megamen Sport. I generally feel better--more focused, aware, energetic--when I'm taking them. Additionally, they're great if you're not getting all of your nutrients from your diet (and who is these days). It's a solid supplement with a lot of people who love it. Universal is also one of the most reliable and respected supplement companies around along with places like Controlled Labs and they back up everything they make, so even if you think you wasted your money they'll probably help you out.

[griffiths3]

Must say im quite rotted they dont ship to canada at the moment

[naturalguy]

Must say im quite rotted they dont ship to canada at the moment

This is a pretty old thread however Animal Pak is available in Canada