intheayer55 Gaspari Glycofuse

[intheayer55]

I'll be using the Orange Mango flavor of Gaspari's Glycofuse product. Each scoop of Glycofuse has 25 grams of cyclic dextrin as its carbohydrate source. On top of that, you also get some calcium, magnesium and sodium to go along with it. For me, this will be my intra-workout carb source and will definitely come in handy for days like legs and back that are very demanding.

Currently, I'm doing legs every other day as I've just fallen in love with how brutal the sessions can be. So with that being said, it's a perfect time to add in some Glycofuse to see how it will help my endurance and my recovery as well. I'm hoping that each serving that I take will provide my body with some extra fuel for my workouts and allow me to finish just as strong as I started.

The rest of my training is every major bodypart each day. So if I were going through a typical week, here is what my training routine might look like:
Monday - Legs
Tuesday - Back
Wednesday - Legs
Thursday - Chest
Friday - Legs
Saturday - Shoulders
Sunday - Legs

I do some arm work at the end of my sessions and the reason I'm doing this now is because I have a bit of a left elbow injury that I'm dealing with. So I've backed off my arm training a bit to try to let it heal up. Plus I know I'm getting some work in on them when I do other bodyparts as well. And this is another reason why I'm training legs so frequently as well. With how my training is set up, I think that adding Glycofuse to the mix will really help me along.

Most of my sessions last about 90 minutes once I'm warmed up. Legs can go for as long as 120 minutes if I'm feeling it. Normally I don't hit a wall towards the end of my workouts, but as with anyone who trains hard, the intensity at the end isn't always as much as I'd like it to be. So that's where I'm hoping Glycofuse will really shine for me.

[Zachattack43]

Here for your thoughts on it

[intheayer55]

So I used a scoop during my leg workout this morning. The Orange Mango flavor was outstanding!!! I mixed about half of a scoop into one of my water bottles and the other half into a second bottle as I go through a lot of water while I train. Each bottle is a 16 ounce bottle and a half of a scoop tasted really great in each. The flavor is not too sweet and definitely tastes like orange mango. It mixed extremely well too.

My leg session looked like this today:

4 sets of plate-loaded leg presses where I did 7 45-pound plates on each side for 10 reps, dropped a plate off of each side to hit another 10 reps, and then added that plate back on for 10 more reps. So essentially, I did 4 sets of 30 reps.
3 sets of barbell back squats using a 45 and a 25 on each side for 12 reps. I then added 5 more pounds to each side to hit 10 reps and kept going up by 5 pounds on each side until the total weight on the bar was 235 pounds. I barely squeezed out 10 reps on that last set but I wasn't going to let myself come up short.
4 sets of seated leg extensions working each leg alone. I did 10 reps with my left leg using 70 pounds on the stack and then would do 10 reps with my right leg.
4 sets of seated hamstring curls with 110 pounds on the stack. On the last set, I hit my 10 reps and did a drop to 90 pounds on the stack for another 10.
I finished things off with 4 sets of walking dumbbell lunges using 45 pound dumbbells. I did 15 strides per leg per set.

I definitely liked the energy I had while I was training as I felt that the Glycofuse kept my body going until the end. Overall, a very successful first workout using this stuff.

[intheayer55]

I am continuing to use 1 scoop of Glycofuse during my workouts and I'm finding that it is definitely helping me to finish my workouts stronger than when I'm not using anything intra-workout. Again, not that I crash during my workouts without a carb source, but the extra little bit of energy that I'm getting from this is helping my last few sets have a little more "oomph" behind them.

This morning I trained shoulders and biceps. This was my workout today:

4 sets of seated rear delt flyes facing backwards on the chest flye machine. I did a little bit lighter of a weight so that I could activate my shoulders and get the blood flowing to them. I did 15 reps for each set.
5 sets of seated dumbbell shoulder presses. I'm not really strong when it comes to overhead presses, so I started out using the 40's and did 12 reps. For each subsequent set, I went up by 2.5 pounds with the dumbbells and I was able to get no less than 10 reps as I moved on. I ended up finishing with the 50's.
4 sets of seated side lateral raises with the 15 pound dumbbells. I was able to get 15 reps on each of these sets.
4 sets of standing dumbbell front raises with the 20 pound dumbbells. I alternated arms and was able to get 13 reps for each set that I performed.

My biceps work at the end was pretty random as I just chose a movement and did as many reps as I could get. I only did one set of each exercise before moving on to the next exercise. I tried to do a movement that was in the contracted position and then with the next movement, have that one be in the stretched position so that I could hit my arms from different angles.

[intheayer55]

Back day today for me. Sometimes I find back training to get a bit stale, so for this workout, I did only one set of each exercise before moving on to the next one. But after each set, I went over the trap bar and did 15 reps of deadlifts with 50 pounds on each side. It served as a way to really fatigue my back as well as get in some cardio too.

So for my workout today, the list would end up being quite long if I just started to list out each and every exercise since I performed only one set of each and did a bunch of different things. But it was quite a taxing session for me and I enjoyed using my scoop of Glycofuse along the way to help me out. I used two water bottles during this session and split the dose of Glycofuse in half for each bottle. As each bottle is 16 ounces, it still mixed in quite well and tasted great. It's hard not to blow through the water bottles so quickly because this stuff honestly tastes really fantastic.

[intheayer55]

Today's post will be some quick comments on the flavoring. I'm using the Orange Mango flavor of Glycofuse. Now I've only been using 1 scoop during my workouts at the moment, but I've tried mixing an entire scoop in about 20 ounces of water as well as doing 2 half-scoops in 16 ounce water bottles. And honestly, both ways have been fantastic in that the product isn't too strong in just 20 ounces and it isn't too diluted when I use a half of a scoop. No matter which way I've been taking it, the flavor is spot on and very fruity. Gaspari did a great job hitting the true Orange Mango flavor on this one.

[Zachattack43]

Today's post will be some quick comments on the flavoring. I'm using the Orange Mango flavor of Glycofuse. Now I've only been using 1 scoop during my workouts at the moment, but I've tried mixing an entire scoop in about 20 ounces of water as well as doing 2 half-scoops in 16 ounce water bottles. And honestly, both ways have been fantastic in that the product isn't too strong in just 20 ounces and it isn't too diluted when I use a half of a scoop. No matter which way I've been taking it, the flavor is spot on and very fruity. Gaspari did a great job hitting the true Orange Mango flavor on this one.

That is my favorite flavor, and I used to get ridiculed for it. All that matters is how our taste buds react.

[intheayer55]

So this post will be about what I've seen in the mirror thus far. From purely a visual standpoint, I've noticed no accumulated bodyfat since using Glycofuse. Since each serving is only 100 calories, that is really nothing when added to my daily macros. So the simple addition of 100 calories is just giving me more energy during my workouts. And if I have more energy, I'm working harder and probably blowing through those 100 calories in no time.

From the weight on the scale, no change here either. I'm currently sitting at about 173 pounds. Some days a few pounds heavier, some a few lighter. But 173 is the ballpark I seem to stay at most of the time. No real change on the scale for me. Not sure if I will end up changing much or none at all.

But for this post, I'm summing things up by saying that adding in one scoop of Glycofuse is only providing me with more of a boost during my workouts and not adding to any unwanted weight gain or fat accumulation. Not that I anticipated any of that, but just throwing it out there.

[intheayer55]

Leg day for me this morning. And it was a killer. A lot of other people were doing legs today as well so it was a struggle to get into and on all of the machines & equipment that I wanted to use. So I did a fair amount of jumping around to make sure that when something opened up that I had an opportunity to use it.

My leg workout started out with an exercise that I saw somebody perform at my previous gym and is something I incorporate from time to time. They are Smith Machine leg presses where I lay on my back and push the bar up & down. It's a great alternative to the leg press machine when it is being occupied and it's also been a great saver on my knees. Once the squat rack opened up, I hopped into it to push out a few sets of heavier back squats. I did 4 sets of these with my 10-rep max weight. After squats, I moved onto seated hamstring curls for 4 sets and I followed that up with seated leg extensions for 5 sets. I played around with the seat on my extensions a bit as the machine at my gym can hit your quads a bit differently depending upon how you are set up. I finished things off with seated calf raises (5 sets of 15 reps on each set) and then calf presses on the leg press machine (a little heavier weight for 10 reps & 4 sets).

So while today's session was a bit chaotic, it was a really good one for me and one that left me feeling exhausted when it was all over.

[intheayer55]

Another leg day for me today. Here was the routine that went down…..

8 sets of plate loaded leg presses where I hit 15 reps using 7 45-pound plates on each side and immediately after those 15 reps, I did a set of 10 reps on the hack squats. I did that combination for the first 4 sets. For the last few sets, I did the leg presses followed immediately by wide stance squats using the landmine station. I took the end of the bar where the weight was loaded, held it near my chest, and performed 10 reps of squats this way.
4 sets of single-legged leg presses on the leg press machine. I dropped down to just 2 45-pound plates on each side and hit 15 reps with my left leg before switching over to my right leg. The rest between legs was only about 10 seconds as I wanted to keep up the intensity.
4 sets of seated hamstring curls using 120 pounds on the weight stack. I got no more than 12 reps on all of the sets that I performed.
4 sets of seated leg extensions using 150 pounds on the stack. I was able to get 15 reps on the first set, 13 on sets #2 & #3, and only 12 reps on the final set.

My legs were completely exhausted after this workout as it was definitely a quad dominant type of day.

[intheayer55]

Chest day for me today:

4 sets of incline Smith Machine presses with a 45 pound plate on each side. I was able to get 12 reps on each set and this served as a great opening exercise to get the blood flowing into my chest.
4 sets of seated peck deck flyes. I had the weight stack on 70 pounds and did a little higher reps of 16, 15, 15, and 14 for each of my sets.
3 sets of incline dumbbell presses. I made sure to maintain constant tension in my pecs throughout and I used the 55 pound dumbbells for these. I was able to get 12 reps on each set.
3 sets of bodyweight chest-emphasized dips till failure. I'd say I probably hit around 15-18 reps for these sets but I lost count as I'd push through the set.
3 sets of Hammer Strength chest presses. The angle of these presses were more of the mid-chest and this was my final exercise where I really pushed with everything that I had. I had each weight stack on 60 pounds and that truly exhausted my chest today.

[intheayer55]

Today I pounded through another leg session. Although I almost always do a completely different routine than the previous time that I trained a certain bodypart, I just had the urge to mirror my last leg workout but increase the weights on each exercise. And while the increase in weight was maybe only 5 pounds, I still went up in weight on every single exercise that I performed today. And mentally, it was taxing to know that I was going to push myself for the same amount of reps but with a slightly higher load. It was a very successful session as I managed to hit my target of the same amount of reps for each exercise. And now that I'm training with some additional fuel in my tank in the form of Glycofuse, I feel like I was able to push through that extra bit that my body demanded today.

[intheayer55]

Today was chest and triceps for me. I'm working through a left elbow twinge but luckily today, I didn't have any pain while doing my pressing exercises or while performing any triceps exercises.

4 sets of standing cable flyes supersetted with incline cable presses
4 sets of flat bench dumbbell flyes supersetted with Hammer Strength flat chest presses
4 sets of peck deck flyes supersetted with decline Hammer Strength chest presses
3 sets of Smith Machine incline presses

I really felt like doing the pre-exhaust for my chest by doing flyes first would serve as a great way to really tax my chest and keep the weight manageable on my presses. And I think that helped to make sure my elbow felt good today because I wasn't going super heavy on my presses. I had to back the weight off just a bit because the flyes had already taken their toll on my chest.

[intheayer55]

With legs on the docket every other day, today was another grinder session where I had to dig deep first thing this morning.

For this workout, the leg press machine was taken up all day so I completely avoided it. Instead I did all of my pressing exercises on the Smith Machine. I made sure that all of my sets had reps of no less than 10 so it was a high volume workout for me today.

7 sets of Smith Machine leg presses. For the first 5 sets, I was able to push myself enough to hit 15 reps and got 13 on sets #6 & #7.
4 sets of Smith Machine presses with a very narrow stance.
4 sets of Smith Machine presses with a very wide stance.
5 sets of seated hamstring curls
6 sets of seated leg extensions
4 sets of lying hamstring curls
4 sets of seated calf raises
4 sets of donkey calf raises

For each of these sets, I hit no less than 10 reps on each set. For my last sets of hamstring curls and leg extensions, I did have to take a few seconds of rest for my final couple of reps but I wasn't going to let myself get less than 10 as that was my goal for the day.

[intheayer55]

Back was the latest bodypart that I trained. Here is the rundown of my session:

4 sets of wide grip lat pulldowns
4 sets of wide grip rows on a plate loaded Life Fitness machine
3 sets of underhand close grip pulldowns
3 sets of underhand bent over rows using the EZ curl bar
4 sets of dumbbell shrugs
3 sets of lower back extensions on the machine

I was careful during this session as a few weeks ago I tweaked a muscle in my back and had some discomfort for about a week after that. Ever since then, I've been twice as careful on my form on back day to make sure that I don't tweak things again.

A scoop of Glycofuse definitely gave me a lot of great stamina throughout the workout.

[Zachattack43]

Was it your upper or lower back?

[intheayer55]

Was it your upper or lower back?

It was in my upper neck area. I did it doing shrugs and felt the twinge almost immediately.

[intheayer55]

I want to thank Gaspari for the opportunity to run this log of Glycofuse.

Overall, I'm scoring this supplement a 10 out of 10 because of how effective I thought that it was. The flavoring was really great but the way that it allowed me to push harder in the gym was where it really stood out for me. It was a great product to use during my workouts and even after to help restore my glycogen levels. I always felt like I recovered extremely well and that I was ready to follow up with another great workout the day after.

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[fbcpastormk]

Great job with your log and review. I may have to give this a try sometime soon.