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12-31-2020, 12:12 AM #1174
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Glad you liked it. The PB toffee cookie is a really nice, unique take that makes me think of toffee peanuts.
The vanilla bean is nothing to sleep on, reminding me of some premium vanilla bean ice cream, down to having real vanilla beans speckled quite generously throughout.
Moose cream is supposed to be Moose Tracks, which is vanilla ice cream with peanut butter cups, but most importantly fudge, the lack of which is what I think really hurts this Isomix flavor.
It's good, but it's also far too subtle on the PB cup end, while not giving me any impression of chocolate fudge. So, what you're left with is basically a toned down vanilla with weak CPB, that could have really used some real peanut powder to at least bump up the peanut butter cup side.
Ryse just announced a vanilla peanut butter flavor, which based on the tub's label looks like it's going for vanilla ice cream with peanut butter swirls. From what I've tasted of their chocolate peanut butter cup, I would imagine that mixing the two together would make for a better replication.
Now that I'm thinking about it, I'll have to at least try the Ryse CPB + Vanilla Bean Isomix, then maybe throw in some Ryse Cookie Blast to give it that ultra dark chocolate note.
You might like the Ryse Chocolate Cookie Blast, then. It's easily the strongest chocolate flavor I've had, more so than the Xtend Lava Cake, the only one you listed that I've also tried to compare, but it's not overbearing or one note like if you were to open a bag of pure cocoa powder.
Every time I open the tub, I get taken back to being a kid and this:
Spoiler!I will stand firm, I refuse to kneel - The fury in me is divine
My dark grave awaits, my fate is revealed - But I'm not afraid to die
If you have any problems or need advice, feel free to ask
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12-31-2020, 05:10 AM #1175
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01-02-2021, 12:02 AM #1182
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I have an order with the Axe n' Sledge Farm Fed Glazed Donut protein on the way, as well as Astroflav's Peanut Butter Puffs Isomix.
The latter is one I've been aching to try for ages now, but only until very recently has it been available anywhere besides their own site or Amazon.
I haven't tried that flavor in ages, but I can say that their cake pop flavor is quite good. Very much a frosting forward taste but it still has enough cake to it to not be only frosting.
*I'm still looking for a solid yellow cake, like the old Duncan Hines mix flavor.
Their Peanut Butter Cookies flavor isn't half bad, either. It isn't a dead ringer for a Nutter Butter like Ghost's, but they also didn't adulterate the powder or compromise the macros to get a pretty good peanut butter biscuit flavor with the emphasis on biscuit.I will stand firm, I refuse to kneel - The fury in me is divine
My dark grave awaits, my fate is revealed - But I'm not afraid to die
If you have any problems or need advice, feel free to ask
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01-04-2021, 01:00 PM #1191
Alright..... 4 weeks of no stims...... i guess that's not totally true as I need my coffee..... but no pre's........ not sure if i need to stop ALL caffeine or just pre's...I just think that Ive been using stims so long I need a "reset"..... opinions?
Salty.......... like Extra salty.......
*Neg SS on site crew - MSSRA!
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01-04-2021, 01:09 PM #1192
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01-04-2021, 02:49 PM #1193
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01-04-2021, 03:38 PM #1194
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01-04-2021, 03:48 PM #1195
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I’m going to have to properly look at home workouts without equipment. I’m currently isolating because the NHS covid app says I was in close contact with someone who tested positive on my last trip to the gym though I think it was when my phone was in my locker and his was in the adjacent one behind mine.
10 days inside, can’t leave for any reason.Strong & Unstable
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01-04-2021, 06:58 PM #1199
I'm the same way I DON''T touch caffeine at any time of the day except what's in my preworkout and
I rotate a different pre each workout so I don't build a tolerance using the same caffeine amount or
stimulants. When I take a complete training break for two weeks about 3x a year then I consume NO
caffeine so that's when I take my caffeine breaks.
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01-04-2021, 07:49 PM #1200
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The Axe n' Sledge Glazed Donut has arrived. Just taking a lick off the seal... Now, I'm probably not the best judge of what a true Krispy Kreme Donut should taste like; I can't even remember the last time I've eaten a donut, let alone a Krispy Kreme.
But I think they might have nailed it here. Of all the donut flavors I've had - Animal glazed donut, MAN Sports frosted donut, and I'll throw in Muscletech funnel cake as well - there's some magic going on here that reminds me of what a donut tasted like.
There's what I can only describe as a fried, cakey dough flavor setting up the base that is topped off by what I guess is the vanilla "glaze" side of the spectrum. It's hard to stop once you start, and might put a smile on your face for how uncannily the flavor notes captures a donut instead of something like just a sweetish cake-like knockoff.
The protein itself is fluffy, so it's has a very impressive consistency for an isolate, which are can often be kind of "flat" and thin.
Definitely a brand I'm going to keep a future eye on now.
I've never tried Snytha 6, but I'd be interested to see them come out with at least a cleaner protein - even if it sacrifices a bit on the flavor cheat code ingredients - to see how they'd fare.
Just doing some quick comparing between BSN's Isolate, it doesn't fare poorly compared to something like the Ghost cookie flavors:
Spoiler!
To reiterate, that's their isolate, because the regular Syntha 6 is kind of ridiculous with how many extra macros are in there that aren't protein, and it probably should taste ridiculously good when (in the spirit of the above protein) an actual Krispy Kreme donut* has fewer calories for almost the same serving size.
*Naturally it's not going to have as much protein and more sugar, but you should expect that from a protein powder.
Ouch. I don't think I could do it at this point. Stims/caffeine are the only thing that make my fourth nerve palsy bearable.
Anyway, I'm not sure if it's just placebo or not, but I've been regularly supplement with N-Acetyl Cysteine for I don't even know how long, which is superb for detoxifying the liver.
Perhaps that and/or Milk Thistle might help fully detoxify your body and clean you out.
The only other variable pertaining to me off the top of my head is that I don't drink alcohol, so reducing any alcohol intake could perceivably help the body clean out since it's less that it has to filter alongside the stims/caffeine.I will stand firm, I refuse to kneel - The fury in me is divine
My dark grave awaits, my fate is revealed - But I'm not afraid to die
If you have any problems or need advice, feel free to ask
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