A bit of nostalgia: What Was The First Supplement You Ever Used?

[chrismac365]

I'd be willing to bet I'm a lot older than most on this forum...

First supplement I ever used was the original Phosogen by EAS, prob 1994.

I did buy a few proteins before that though and remember when Next Proteins launched Designer Whey (it was cutting edge back then), and of course the MetRx meal replacement packets.
Creatine remains one of the most kick-ass things in the supplement world!

[Big_Spaz]

I believe mine was Ultimate Orange or EAS packets that were the meal replacement shakes (you got 20 packs in a box). I remember EAS was a staple for me when I first started lifting (1996)





-Spaz

[TheFugitive]

I forgot the name of the first protein I purchased, but I do remember how chalky and what a chore it was to get down. First preworkout other than ultimate orange was NO Xplode, that was the game changer IMO

[JCubb12]

No-Xplode. That red bottle and shiny labeling got me at 16 years old. Remember arguing with everyone back in high school if it/creatine was like taking steroids (lol).

But if we are going to start a supplement nostalgia thread, I have to throw out the name: JACK3D!!!!!!!!!!!

[Iluvmud]

Isopure meal replacement packs.... tasted like butt but did the job! Then got hooked on EAS when they just had the meal replacements and creatine..... those became a staple for me

[Joe D]

I think tigers milk bars and chromium picolinate. Talking about 90-91 here. Couldn't afford cybergenics.

[WolfBeast]

Bodyfortress whey (strawberry)- I can remember that because that was one of the worst things I had tasted.

[Iceman1800]

Weider Dynamic Muscle Builder

[TheFugitive]

No-Xplode. That red bottle and shiny labeling got me at 16 years old. Remember arguing with everyone back in high school if it/creatine was like taking steroids (lol).

But if we are going to start a supplement nostalgia thread, I have to throw out the name: JACK3D!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't forget about the OG 1MR

[chrismac365]

I think tigers milk bars and chromium picolinate. Talking about 90-91 here. Couldn't afford cybergenics.

Nice! another old timer! I wanted that Cybergenics kit so badly as a kid, but never managed to save up enough money.

[doughnutking]

Egg protein powder and liver tablets.

^^ holy chit at the above poster, i went to buy the cybergenics stuff, but they wouldn't sell it to me and would only sell me egg protein. I think i was about 13 yrs old.

[HayZues Christi]

Creatine pills from GNC. Would open the tub and pocket like 15 capsules and walk out. Srs.

Would take like 1 a day then so it again. Lmao.


Edit - was like 15/16.

[Jdot5]

Gatorade protein shakes. thats what they gave us after weight room workouts for football in college

[NoCarbsNoSugar]

Isopure Zero Vanilla.

[TCWoody]

For me it was a Weider product, ordered out of a magazine.

The first i actually remember by name was CellTech. They had stashed a free tshirt inside.

[chrismac365]

Egg protein powder and liver tablets.

^^ holy chit at the above poster, i went to buy the cybergenics stuff, but they wouldn't sell it to me and would only sell me egg protein. I think i was about 13 yrs old.

if I'm not mistaken, those desiccated beef liver tabs from the 1980s and early 1990s were naturally high in creatine. This is before creatine was being bottled and sold, so it was a great choice at the time. The old strongmen types always swore by that stuff.

[keyboardworkout]

Soy protein in the 80s along with a multi.

[grubman]

Man, I was like 16 in 84, it was a Weider product, I think it was called mega mix, or mega muscle pack, or something. It was a box with 12 plastic wrapped packages and each package had like 6 pills, gel caps, and capsules in it. I have NO CLUE what it was, probably BCAAs and vitamins.

My next product was a tin can full of weider protien powder that tasted like dirt and sawdust.

When I was 18, in the army, there used to be this little health food store that sold suppliments near the base. Every payday I went there and bought the newest snake oil. The guy who owned that must have loved my naive ass...he would just pull out whatever, give me his sales pitch, and I’d buy it. I’m sure everything I bought was crap, and I had no clue in those days.

[grubman]

Nice! another old timer! I wanted that Cybergenics kit so badly as a kid, but never managed to save up enough money.

I had a buddy who got it. It came with all those guarantees...but it also came with a pamphlet with rediculously rules, like all your liquids had to be room temperature, and it basically outlined a diet to eat...in essence, the pills were snake oil and the diet plan was what would cause the weight gain.

[powercage]

Ultimate Orange, Twinlab Creatine Mono

[WaxyMaize]

Apex whey concentrate Protein

Myoplex Ready to drink cardboard drinks

CellTech

Max Muscle preworkout at the time, gave me a panic attack.

[TheFugitive]

Ultimate Orange, Twinlab Creatine Mono

I remember my first tub of Twinlab CM

[LoudyRowdy]

You guys are a bunch of young'uns....


1989 or so....Weider Mega Mass 2000. Later purchased their Carbo Fire and a few others..

I didnt get a bit serious until 1995 or so when EAS came out with Phos****en (Creatine) and Sportspharma Creatine Mono powder. I SWEAR by Sportspharma's Vandyl Sulphate.

First Andro (roids?) was Substrate Solutions (PA's company).... Nor19

[Farley1324]

Creatine monohydrate from the three letter, would have been...1999 or 2000

Nostalgia pics

[Rob1882]

OG Twin Labs Ripped Fuel in the brown glass bottles / OG Muscletech Hydroxycut all about them ECA/ECY stacks
MET-Rx orig protein meal bars thank fk it's gotten much better since them days Lol

[grubman]

You guys are a bunch of young'uns....


1989

Young un??...by 89 I had 4 years of lifting under my belt and a kid!

[JayLS1-327]

Weider Dynamic Muscle Builder

That! Tasted like sand.

[MentalistMan]

Purple K

[poison]

Smilax and Chromium with Wieder and Tigers Milk.

[Joe D]

I took these healthy n fit vitamin packs back in the 90's. I don't know what was in them, but I had crazy energy and endurance. I'm sure I probably took a bottle of ph's in the 90's too. I would just go to the supp shop and ask for something that gave me strength. My one rep max on bench skyrocketed in a short time. I never took hot stuff though, but the kids in hs were raving about it.