Kyle's Durablast Log

[kelmore]

I was one of the lucky people picked to review primaforce's product Durablast. This is a sport specific based log, so the effects on endurance athlets such as myself can be recorded.

What is Durablast?

Primaforce Durablast is a scientifically advanced formula designed specifically for pre-workout use. It was created to help increase endurance and energy, enhance fat loss, improve performance, enhance recovery and preserve lean mass while you dieting. Durablast can be taken with your favorite pre-workout supplement or thermogenic. To often, dieting takes its toll on your lean muscle mass. Durablast is the perfect way to a hard body full of energy and health. Don't make the mistakes your friends have. Take Durablast and notice the difference.

Durablast Benefits:

* Preserve Lean Mass
* Maximize Endurance
* Reduce Lactic Acid
* Enhance Fat Loss

What's in it?

Supplement Facts:

Serving Size: 4 Capsules
Servings Per Container: 30

Amount Per Serving:


Calcium (from Dicalcium Phosphate) 120mg 12%
Phosphorus (from Dicalcium Phosphate) 92mg 9%
Potassium (from L-Potassium Aspartate) 30mg 1%
Propionyl-L-Carnitine 1000mg
L-Asparagine 650mg
Acetyl-L-Carnitine 500mg
L-Potassium Aspartate 150mg
Caffeine (USP) 125mg

Other Ingredients:
Magnesium Stearate, Gelatin

Directions: As a dietary supplement, take 4-8 capsules 30-40 minutes prior to exercise. To assess tolerance, begin with 1/2 the recommended dose.

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

Why do you need it?

I am taking this so that I can enhance my endurance in swimming so that I may swim longer races at a full sprint. I would also like to experience the labeled benefits of lactic acid reduction and lean mass preservation.

Personal Stats

Age: 18
Height: 6'4"
Bodyfat: 10%
Weight: 168lbs
Bodytype: Ectomorph
Diet: Pretty Clean. I can get away with a few cheats due to my bodytype.
Calories: 3800-4200
Fat: 175-200g
Carbs: 350-400g
Protein: 250-275g+

Supplements
On 100% Whey Chocolate
Fish Oil
Multi-Vitamin

I am also hoping to add in the Green Bulge/White blood stack later.

Training

Weight Training, focusing on both strength and endurance through the week:

A Week:
Resistance Exercises on the Bowlfex, without free weight or bodyweight exercises.

Monday: Chest/Tri's/Shoulders, 4-5 sets with 8-12 reps, higher weight
Tuesday: Back/Bi's/Forearms, 4-5 sets with 8-12 reps, higher weight
Wednesday: Legs, 4-5 sets with 8-12 reps, higher weight, with a focus on being explosive
Thursday: Chest/Tri's/Shoulders, 4-5 sets with 18-25 reps, lower weight
Friday: Back/Bi's/Forearms, 4-5 sets with 18-25 reps, lower weight
Saturday: Legs, 4-5 sets with 8-12 reps, higher weight, with a focus on being explosive
Sunday: Rest


B Week:
Free Weights and Body Weight Exercises only

Monday: Chest/Tri's/Shoulders, 4-5 sets with 8-12 reps, higher weight
Tuesday: Back/Bi's/Forearms, 4-5 sets with 8-12 reps, higher weight
Wednesday: Legs, 4-5 sets with 8-12 reps, higher weight, with a focus on being explosive
Thursday: Chest/Tri's/Shoulders, 4-5 sets with 18-25 reps, lower weight
Friday: Back/Bi's/Forearms, 4-5 sets with 18-25 reps, lower weight
Saturday: Legs, 4-5 sets with 8-12 reps, higher weight, with a focus on being explosive
Sunday: Rest

Alternate A and B weeks.

I will be swimming 3-4 times a week, I would be swimming the full 6, but due to gas prices and lack of funding, I am currently unable to. This will hopefully change in the near future.

Goals

This year I hope to obtain All-American status in one or more of my events and win at my state swim meet. For club swimming, I hope to get all my times to AA or better. In the future I hope to compete at the national, and hopefully olympic level.

[kelmore]

Day 1

Weight Training

Legs and Abs

Legs
5x12 Leg Press, really slow negative, 310lbs
5x10 Leg Curls, 120lbs
5x10 Hip Abductions, 60lbs each leg
5x12 Leg Extensions, 160lbs'
5x12 Calf Raises, 310lbs

Abs
4x10 Crunches, 30lbs
3x10 Twisting Crunches, 20lbs

Swim Practice

Just to note, from now till about October we will be doing "dryland traing" for about an hour or so before we swim on Mon/Wed/Fri at swim practice.

Dryland:

50 Streamline Crunches
50 Hagglers
50 Streamline Crunches
1 min Lie on back flutter kick, rest 1 min
1 min lie on back crossovers, rest 1 min
1 min Lie on back flutter kick, rest 1 min
1 min lie on back crossovers, rest 1 min
2x1 of bridging, 1 min rest between
Lunges around pool permiter

Swim:

500yd Warmup
400yd free on 7:00
400IM drill on 7:00
16x75yd w/fins, half lap underwater kick, half swim
100 Loosen up
6x200yd on 2:50
8x50 sprint choice kick with board on 1:30
200yd Warm down

Total: 4400 SCY

How I felt about Durablast today:

Time Taken: 4 capsules 39mins before start of practice

I was quite frankly surprised as to how well it worked. I did feel a little wierd warming up, kinda funky with my stomach, but thats it. After that I felt really good, and towards the end of the workout I was doing great. On the 6x200 and 8x50 sprint kicks, I felt awesome. Usually on a hard set like that towards the end of pracice I burn out pretty quick, but I was able to go hard and keep going hard all the way till the end. I look forward to tommorow

Just a quick note: I will be taking Durablast before my swim workouts whenever I do them, however, on days that I don't swim and I do endurance lifts, I will take it before my lifts.

[dito]

Looks good . Also if you want on non swimming days you can take it if you need an extra boost.

[kelmore]

Day 3

Weight Training

Didn't happen today, I had a private lesson after school, then I went and coached the little kids, then had my normal practice right after that and didn't get home till about 45 minutes ago. However, I will be doing today's workout tommorow, in addition to my regular workout.

Swim Practice

800 Reverse IM Drill Warmup
4x300 Free, 4:20
8x100 Choice Kick w/board, 2:05
24x50, IM Order, Drill/Swim, 0:55, 0:45
24x50, choice kick w/fins halfway under water, choice swim rest of lap, 0:45
400 IM Drill Warmdown

Total: 5600 SCY

I could swear we did more than this, but this is all I can remember.

How I felt about Durablast today:

Time Taken: 4 capsules 40mins before start of practice

Today was great, I never felt fatigued anywhere the entire practice except for my shoulders. I noticed I was not breathing heavy between sets as well. But the coolest thing was, when towards the middle of the last set, I got that "runners high" feeling, and felt absolutely amazing for the rest of practice. I've never had that before, and I can't wait till next week's practice to see if it happens again.

[kelmore]

Day 3

Weight Training

Since I didn't get to workout yesterday, I added it to today's workout.

Chest
4x20 Regular Bench, 140lbs
5x18 Chest Flys, 50lbs Each hand

Triceps:
4x20 Tricep Pulldowns, 80lbs
4x20 Tricep Overhead Extensions, 60lbs

Shoulders
3x18 Front Raises, 30lbs Each hand
3x18 Side Raises, 15lbs Each Hand

Biceps:
3x20 Standing Curls, 70lbs
4x18 Reverse Curls, 60lbs
4x20 Hammer Curls, 40lbs

Back:
4x25 Lat Pulldowns, 150lbs
5x20 Seated Rows, 130lbs

Forearms:
12mins Gyro Ball, switch Hands every minute

Swim Practice

We didn't have practice today.

How I felt about Durablast today:

Time Taken: 4 capsules 40mins before start of workout

This was overall a good workout, and I had no problem go through the sets. But as with swim practice, I was really noticing the effects towards the end of the workout.

Also, I dont know why I put "Day 3" for yesterday's log... its supposed to be 2.

[kelmore]

Day 4

Weight Training

Legs
5x25 Leg Press, 310lbs
4x20 Leg Curls, 100lbs
3x18 Groin/Hip Abductions, 55lbs
4x20 Leg Extensions, 130lbs
5x20 Calf Raises, 310lbs

Abs
5x25 Crunches, 20lbs
5x20(each side) Side Crunches, 10lbs

Swim Practice

We didn't have practice today.

How I felt about Durablast today:

Time Taken: 4 capsules 40mins before start of workout

Durablast worked really well with this workout. I usually get pretty tired doing all those reps on legs, but I really didn't have that problem today.

[kelmore]

Day 5

Weight Training

This begins a B week where I do only bodyweight/free weight training.

Chest
5x8 Pushups, Feet Raised on Chair, hands on ~8in of books, 20lbs on back
5x8 Clapping Pushups
5x12 Slow Regular Pushups

Triceps
5x8 Overhead Extensions, 30lbs
5x9 Lying Tricep Extensions, 10lbs each hand

Shoulders
5x12 Front Raises, 30lbs
5x8 Lateral Raises, 20lbs each hand

Swim Practice

We didn't have practice today.

How I felt about Durablast today:

Did not take durablast today because it was not an endurance workout.

[Poppa Pump]

would you mind including your supplement history? Have you ever used anything aside from what you are using now? Thanks. Peace

[kelmore]

would you mind including your supplement history? Have you ever used anything aside from what you are using now? Thanks. Peace

Sure thing PP.

Supplement History:

I tried the BSN mass stack a while back, way before I discovered these boards and the plethora of information they have on this kind of stuff. While it worked, I felt that for the price I wouldn't do it again.
I have been consistantly taking ON 100% Whey for about 8 months now, and I have used Muscle Milk on and off, I don't use it consistantly because of the price/serving size.
I have been taking multi-vitamins since I was a kid and started taking fish oils in the last month or so. Other than that, I've never done anything.

[kelmore]

Day 6

Weight Training

Back
5x5 Pullups
5x8 Bent Over Rows, 50lbs DB each hand

Biceps
5x8 Regular DB Curls, 30lbs DB each hand
4x3 Chinups
5x10 Hammer Curls, 30lbs DB each hand

Forearms
5x12 Forearm Curls, 30lbs DB each hand
5x12 Reverse Forearm Curls, 10lbs DB each hand
5min gyro ball, switch hands every 0:30

Swim Practice

8x100IM Warmup, 1:50
6x200 Free, 75 Swim, 50 Drill, 75 Kick, 3:40
12x100 Kick w/fins, evens on stomach odds on back, 50 dolphin kick 50 flutter kick, 1:30
100 Loosen up
3x400IM, 1st: 50 kick 50 swim, 2nd: 50 Drill 50 Swim, 3rd: All swim, 7:30
6x50 Free, 1-3 on 00:45, 5-6 on 00:40, 6 on 00:35, repeatx4
200 Warmdown

Total: 5900 SCY

How I felt about Durablast today:

Time Taken: 6 pills ~20 mins before practice

I took them a little late today, but man I felt great. I got the "runners high" feeling right off the bat, and it stayed there almost all the way till the end. I only started to get tired on those last 50's, but thats just because of all the working out I did today and yesterday, I was really sore. Overally it was a great workout, and I'm really liking what Durablast is doing.

[kelmore]

I did not get to workout or do anything today because of the impending hurricane Rita which is headed towards Houston (where I live). We were hurricane proofing as much stuff as we could today, but we are still going to stay here instead of evacuating, it should prove to be fairly exciting.

As a result, I am not having swim practices from now until further notice. I will, if I have time tommorow, do my regularly scheduled weightlifting workout and add in the workout I was supposed to do today.

-Kyle

[CanadaBBOY]

Day 6


I took them a little late today, but man I felt great. I got the "runners high" feeling right off the bat, and it stayed there almost all the way till the end.

That's funny, because that runners high feeling is sort of what i'd explain the feeling that i had yesterday while in class. I mean that's a bit crazy, but things felt really good mentally, and concepts seemed to click more easily and i was able to recall things better.

[kelmore]

We just got electricity and internet back today.

I've been keeping up with my workouts, and have been to swim practice the past 4 days. I've been taking 8 caps of Durablast before the practices, and the effects of this product have continued to be good. I've been experiencing the "runners high" effect almost all practice at every practice.
I will continue with the regular log next Tuesday after that practice, provided we have electricity and internet.

-Kyle

[kelmore]

Day 11

Swim Practice:

800 Free Warmup
9x200 IM, Kick/Drill/Swim, 3:45/3:20/3:00
40x25, 10 Fly, 10 Back, 10 Breast, 10 Free, :30, Descend 1-5
20x50, Swim/Kick with fins, :45
4x400, 200 breath every 5th, 200 build to 100%, 6:00
200 Warmdown

Total: 6400 SCY

How I felt about Durablast today:

Time Taken: 8 pills ~35 mins before practice

Another great workout. I actually felt better today than I have in a while. I never felt fatigued, which is good because I was able to keep a nice stroke the entire time.

[kelmore]

Day 12

Swim Practice:

Not much of a practice today. We have a meet tommorow, so we just did some drills and such, it was kind of random, so there are no sets to write down. It was maybe 3500 yards total.

How I felt about Durablast today:

Time Taken: 8 pills ~30 mins before practice

We didn't do enough to really push the effects of this, but I felt just about as good as I usually do.

I will be taking Durablast during the meet before my first event, and I will post my times here tommorow.

I will be swimming the:
100 back: 1:11.07, June 05
50 free: 28.55, June 05
100 breast: 1:15.39, July 05

So its been a while since I've raced, and I'm hoping to drop a lot on all those events.

[kelmore]

Swim meet:

Ok, I don't whats going on here, but my times are terrible. I do better than this in practice, and I'm not sure what happened today, but something is going to have to change.

100 back: 1:12.39
50 free: 28.05
100 breast: 1:19.64 (went a 1:18 later in the 400medley relay)

Back in June, we did a sprint set in practice, I chose to do it all backstroke, on the last one, I went all out and had a 1:11.07, my coach timed it. This was at the end of practice. God only knows why I went slower than that today.
The 100 breaststroke time is ridiculously slow, its 3 seconds slower than my long course converted time from a race 3 months ago. My coaches were expecting my go about 1:05-1:08, I went a 1:19, and then 1:18 in the relay.
My 50 free did go down, according to my long course converted time, but I've swam it faster in practice, my friend has timed me at a :27 low, 2 months ago.

So it was kind of frustrating. And I'm not blaming durablast, I don't think it was that, but just to see, I am not going to be taking it tommorow.

Tommorow I swim the 200 back and 200 breast, my times for those are 2:34.07 and 2:42.45 respectively. So we'll see how those swims are. I'm hoping some of my splits tommorow will be better than todays races.

-Kyle

[UNCW SWIM]

Just wondering but are those times in SCY??

[kelmore]

Yeah, they are. Long course season ended in July for us. I'd actually be pretty content if those were my long course times.

All my "registered" long course times with USA swimming can be found here, just search for Kyle Elmore: http://www.usaswimming.org/USASWeb/D...bow&Lang=en-US
Take note of course, I've only been swimming since last Nov, so I'm really not "great."

[UNCW SWIM]

I haven't swam long course in so long, I actually hate it alot

[kelmore]

Today's Meet results:

Today wasn't as bad as yesterday, but I still went slower than my personal bests.

100 free (in a relay): 1:03 - This is actually a 12 second drop from January, I havn't swam it since then.
200 back: 2:38.09 - only went up 4 seconds, not too bad
200 breast: 2:52 - went up 10 seconds, pretty bad.

Anyhow, I don't feel that Durablast would have much impact at the meet. It is more for long distance races than the short races I did. I didn't take it today just because I didn't feel it helped me yesterday, and I didnt want to waste such a good product.

-Kyle

[kelmore]

Sorry I havn't posted all week, we ran into some internet trouble on my computer and apparently it had a virus so we ended up doing a reformat and just got back to normal today.

I finished off Durablast Thursday, and would like to now conclude this log with a summary of this product.

I was impressed with its effects early on, the caffeine in it helped me wake up for the workout, especially the early morning swims this last week. I had some really good practices while on this stuff, and noticed a lot less fatigue than normal. In the beginning, I noticed a sort of runners high feeling during practice, however that slowly began to taper off and I didn't seem to have it towards the end. I think I was just getting used to Durablasts effects.
Overall, this is a solid product, and worth the money. $30 for 30 servings. I feel that if I were to go buy another bottle of this, I would only take it for tough practices and maybe only 3 times a week or less, just so I wouldn't get accustomed to its effects.

Thanks to Dito for giving me the chance to do a review of Durablast for Primaforce.

-Kyle