MuscleTech vs GNC Pro Performance supplements

[CJLMehu]

Which supplements are overall the best? If you have had both which give you the best results explain.

 

[Hbs6]

wanna know what gives you the best results? A good diet and exercise program. Judging by this question i dont know if u have that.

 

[pbj67]

yeah, a solid diet/ exercise/ sleep program comes first.

Once you have that,
1) multivitamin
2) whey
3) creatine

4) everything else (most is worthless).

I RUN from the GNC store brand.

 

[Diomedes]

Muscletech is XTREME, pump up with muscletech and you'll be XPLORING your true potential.

 

[pbj67]

yeah, a solid diet/ exercise/ sleep program comes first.

Once you have that,
1) multivitamin
2) whey
3) creatine

4) everything else (most is worthless).

I RUN from the GNC store brand.

 

[justint]

yeah, a solid diet/ exercise/ sleep program comes first.

Once you have that,
1) multivitamin
2) whey
3) creatine

4) everything else (most is worthless).

I RUN from the GNC store brand.

I would say that fish oil is about 10x more important than creatine

1) multivitamin
2) fish oil
3) whey
4) everything else (depends on goals)

 

[Sinister]

I RUN from the GNC store brand.

Why? There's absolutely nothing wrong with the basics, creatine monohydrate, whey protein, etc. The specialty stuff is crap, but the same can be said for nearly every Company's "specialty" items.

 

[pbj67]

I would say that fish oil is about 10x more important than creatine

1) multivitamin
2) fish oil
3) whey
4) everything else (depends on goals)

sorry, you are right. Fish oil is good. I eat lots of high fats from steak, milk, etc, and cover it in that matter. As you get older, fish oil becomes more and more important.

 

[pbj67]

Why? There's absolutely nothing wrong with the basics, creatine monohydrate, whey protein, etc. The specialty stuff is crap, but the same can be said for nearly every Company's "specialty" items.

I stand by this. The GNC store brand is of lower quality. Tastes, different, mixes different, smells different, and certainly emits the "dust" differently.

I know there are lots of garbage supplements, and the quality diff is minimal between brands - and I am by no means recommending brands, even though there are some I consider better than others -

But from my experience, the GNC store brand is just a worse quality. More fuller, dust, junk, whatever you want to call it. It's just a lesser quality, in my humble opinion. It's cheaper too, coincidentally...

 

[HellIsForHeroes]

I'd put fish oil first on my list. My multi is just backup for my diet, which is pretty nutrient filled as it is.

 

[Sinister]

I stand by this. The GNC store brand is of lower quality. Tastes, different, mixes different, smells different, and certainly emits the "dust" differently.

I know there are lots of garbage supplements, and the quality diff is minimal between brands - and I am by no means recommending brands, even though there are some I consider better than others -

But from my experience, the GNC store brand is just a worse quality. More fuller, dust, junk, whatever you want to call it. It's just a lesser quality, in my humble opinion. It's cheaper too, coincidentally...

More fuller? What does that mean?

It sounds like you have a gripe and don't know why. GNC's Whey is not Cheaper than Optimum, Designer Whey, nor any other basic brand of solely whey concentrates. Reason being is that whey is whey. The only difference is flavoring systems and amount of things like sodium or sugar or fat. If you don't like flavors that's one thing, but that says nothing of quality because flavor preferences are subjective.

In-terms of mixing, I don't know what protein or creatine monohydrate you've gotten, but I've never seen any one that mixes poorly by comparison to any other equal product (equal meaning JUST whey protein concentrate or creatine monohydrate).

Now if you want to argue that whey protein isolates are higher quality than concentrates, and that protein blends are higher quality than both, then sure. But that's common knowledge, isolates are also coincidentally more expensive and more grainy in texture, thus blending less thoroughly.

BTW, the GNC store brand is made by the same manufacturers as Optimum and some of the products are made by Iovate, the same manufacturers as MuscleTech. It's funny how much of this stuff comes from the same people, yet at the retail level is contended to be better than the others.