A Special Report on Supplements and Training For Endurance Athletes
As an endurance athlete, you've probably never heard of "stacking". Body builders coined this term in the seventies to describe the use of various supplements and compounds to improve their performance. They had learned that by combining different supplements (and sometimes even drugs) they could get better results than if they took the various substances individually.
This same discovery, when applied to you, the endurance athlete, has the potential to take your performance to a level you may have never imagined. We call this intelligent and comprehensive method of stacking Metabolic Optimization.
When you are Metabolically Optimized you will experience:
- Faster Recovery
- Greater strength
- More endurance
- Higher lactate tolerance
- An increased VO2 Max
- A reduction in injuries and illnesses
- Better competitive performances
Every element of your physiology must be addressed in order for your body to perform at peak efficiency. This means you must have maximal stored energy, maintain a high degree of nitrogen retention (prevent protein losses), be supremely hydrated, protect your muscle tissue from exercise induced damage and maintain your joints and connective tissue to prevent injuries.
When you do all of these things, your ability to train and compete at a higher level will increase. We guarantee it!
Michael Zumpano coined the term Metabolic Optimization in the early eighties to describe his systematic approach to training and nutrition. While he was studying athletes he discovered that certain athletes continued to get bigger, stronger and faster as long as they continued to train. This was in contrast to "average" athletes who eventually plateaued and stopped improving. The athletes that kept getting better where what Mike called the "genetic elite". Mike realized that the primary difference between average and genetically elite was in the perfection of their metabolic processes.
You can view the metabolic processes as links in a chain. The strength of the entire chain can be compromised by only one weak link. Genetically elite athletes, Mike learned, simply had few (or no) weak links. This discovery lead Mike to develop his theory of Metabolic Optimization. He found that by maximizing or optimizing the performance of each of the body's metabolic links, even average athletes began to perform more like the genetic elite. His systematic approach to the improvement of each individual system has helped hundreds of athletes achieve levels of performance they never even imagined possible.
Each product he designed has a specific role in his Metabolic Optimization program. However, Michael never revealed his complete Metabolic Optimization routine to any but the most fortunate group of elite athletes. Nevertheless, as savvy athletes began to discover that certain combinations of Champion products worked especially well, they began to use what has now come to be called the system.
In this special report, we are going to tell you what products make up "The System", how they work together to help you go faster, and what else you can do to learn more about other products and techniques to improve your performance.
In its simplest version, the system is comprised of four products:
Each of these products plays a key role in the support of your body's best performance. In the next several pages, we are going to go through each product one by one and explain its unique role in Metabolic Optimization. Following that, we will talk about other products that can provide even more support, and we will give you information about how you can determine which products may be the most crucial ones to give you that extra edge. Keep a close eye out for our tips. These tips are the tricks that the pros use to get ahead of the competition and it's the first time ever that we're sharing them with the public. (And boy are those guys gonna be mad when they see we've shared their little secrets!).
That said, lets get on with it and divulge the stack that can help you get faster, stronger and help you push yourself harder and for longer than you ever thought you could!
MUSCLE NITRO is really a little known, dark horse product that can make a huge and immediate difference in your performance. Ask anyone that has used it correctly and they'll tell you that it makes an astounding difference in how you feel and in how you recover. If people understood how it worked and used it correctly, it would be impossible to get because we wouldn't be able to keep it in stock.
As it is, only a select group of elite athletes are using Muscle Nitro and it's one of the reasons that they're so fast. One reason that Muscle Nitro is largely unknown is that it seems like a simple product but it actually performs a number of very complex functions.
Muscle Nitro impacts your performance in several ways: First, it improves your oxygen uptake capacity. Simply said, it gives you "more wind". The science behind this is quite complex, but the short version is that one of it's ingredients, succinates, improves cellular energy production. For you folks who like the technical information, succinates have been shown to improve the efficiency of electron transport by as much as much as 300%! By making this process more efficient, you get improved cardiovascular performance. This can make a big difference in those intensely aerobic events like climbing, criteriums, pursuits, time trials. During lower intensity aerobic events like marathons, Muscle Nitro also helps by allowing you to perform at a lower percentage of your maximum capacity. This means that when you have to dig in and kick up a hill or to the line, there's something left.
Another and even more noticeable benefit of Muscle Nitro is its ability to help prevent post workout soreness. We realize that this is tough to believe but maybe, after we give you a few details you'll be curious and after you try it you'll be convinced!
When you stress muscle tissue, it leaks out reactive calcium ions. These little guys act like tiny buzz saws. Once released from inside the muscle cells, they chew little holes in the cell membranes. White blood cells find these holes and start an inflammatory condition. Ultimately, this causes you to get sore. This sensation of pain is known as delayed onset muscle soreness.
You may have experienced this in the form of extreme pain in your extremities or even the inability to get out of bed the day after a really tough race or training session.
By using Muscle Nitro 90 minutes before your races or intense training sessions, you will experience a dramatic improvement in recovery, an increase in your maximal and sub-maximal capacities and a significant reduction in pain and muscle soreness the next day.
Additionally, Muscle Nitro is high in Branched Chain Amino Acids. BCAA's are a major source of energy for your body during exercise. In fact, scientific research estimates that up to 15% of your energy comes from the breakdown of these important amino acids.
Guess where your body gets BCAA's if you don't supply them from supplements?
From your muscle tissue, that's where! That's right, all the muscle that you've worked so hard to build is being stripped away each and every time you train hard. The research shows us that two particular amino acids, glutamine and alanine, are used preferentially for energy by the body. If you take supplemental Branched Chain Amino Acids, the body will use them instead because they present a more convenient and readily available fuel source. If, however, you don't have those extra BCAA's floating around in your bloodstream, the body will break down your muscles to get at the glutamine and alanine. This means that you'll get weaker and slower and won't be able to recover as well.
TIP #1: Use Muscle Nitro before every race and before every tough training session. Don't scrimp on the amounts. With Muscle Nitro, taking more is better. (some pros use as much as 18 capsules before races!) When you take this much, though, you should be sure to take it with food or even better, with Metabolol Endurance.
Using this little known product will make a difference you can feel on you very next workout. Muscle Nitro is also the only product that we've ever seen that combines these effects.
Muscle Nitro is completely unique in the world of supplements. Don't confuse it with other products that have only branched chain amino acids. They can't do what Muscle Nitro does and you won't get the same sort of benefits. Try Muscle Nitro and you'll be a believer, too!
METABOLOL ENDURANCE is designed to give you the ideal combination of pre training or competition macro-nutrients in a great tasting and convenient drink. It was designed with feedback from professional athletes. It contains virtually everything the pros want in the quantities they asked for.
As competitive athletes ourselves, we know all too well how hard it often is to eat enough food early in the morning before a tough training session or race. Rather than trying to choke down a bowl of oatmeal and _ a dozen eggs, we developed Metabolol Endurance. Specially designed for endurance athletes, Metabolol Endurance has a proprietary combination of ingredients that provide both short term "quick" energy, and slower burning, longer lasting energy as well.
Metabolol Endurance provides long term energy for the longest training sessions and races!
Additionally, Metabolol Endurance contains MCT's . Medium Chain Triglycerides are sometimes called the fatless fat. That's because the body isn't capable of storing them as fat and therefore can only use them as a long lasting energy source. This helps you maintain higher levels of output for longer periods of time.
MCT's provide extra energy without increasing fat storage!
Because we know that carbohydrates are only a part of the equation, we also added a generous amount of highly bioavailable isolated protein. Even if you are lactose intolerant, the proprietary proteins in Metabolol Endurance can help maintain your high energy levels and protect your long term performance even during the longest races or the toughest epic training rides. Plus, Metabolol Endurance is also an easy way to take a meal on the fly. If you regularly train or race for 4 or more hours, you might wish to take a second bottle of Metabolol Endurance about half way through your event.
Additionally, we added some specialized herbal components to Metabolol Endurance that help increase your energy and mental alertness. These ingredients also promote more effective use of your stored body fat as an energy source by helping to mobilize stored fatty acids into the blood stream. By helping your body use stored fat more effectively, Metabolol Endurance helps spare carbohydrate, which can then be used when you're really pushing yourself and thus, need it the most.
No more bloated stomach or starting line indigestion! Metabolol Endurance is easy to digest!
We also made Metabolol Endurance easy to digest. Having started enough events burping up eggs, we decided that there had to be a better way, Metabolol Endurance is it!
No pro would think of training for three hours first thing after getting out of bed in the morning! That's right no breakfast!
Unless you're totally inexperienced or are a sadist, you won't do it. An un-fueled athlete will bonk and end up feeling like road kill all the rest of the day.
Why?
Simple. Without fueling up, you simply don't have the reserves to do that. As your energy stores become depleted, you get weaker and weaker, slower and slower until you have to stop all together and are desperately looking for somewhere to buy a Coke®. The point is, you failed to even provide the most minimal optimization for your body, and that failure resulted in poor performance.
Next time, try Metabolol Endurance instead and experience high octane performance!
TIP #2: Take Metabolol Endurance about 60 minutes before your training or races for best results. During longer rides and races, take Met Endurance once each hour.
REVENGE PRO
Any of you who have ever pushed yourself hard during even a two hour race or training session can relate to that disoriented, wobbly, dizzy and even sleepy feeling. Visions of chicken legs may have danced before your eyes as you plodded along over the last endless miles to the finish line or the security of your home. Or worse, you simply stopped, exhausted, hungry and weak, and waited for some kind soul to offer you a lift
Welcome to the wonderful world of bonking! We'll bet you weren't drinking Revenge. If you had, that feeling would still be a mystery to you and you'd wonder why people make such a big deal about this thing they call bonkin!.
An athlete who understands the fundamentals of Metabolic Optimization wouldn't let him or herself get into this situation.
When you're working hard, maintaining blood sugar is crucial to staying strong...but it's not the most important thing!
Reducing lactate is...
That's because lactic acid produced by exertion is the biggest problem the endurance athlete faces. Lactic acid is responsible for literally all the pain you feel when you are exercising hard. Imagine how good you could perform if there was some way to eliminate all this pain!
There is...REVENGE PRO!
It works like this:
Revenge Pro is the only sports drink that contains a blend of sophisticated ingredients which help quench and reduce lactic acid production while increasing gluconeogenesis! Reducing the production of lactic acid produced during exercise can improve your performance by an enormous margin.
When you exercise, a byproduct of glycogen breakdown is lactic acid. Lactic acid can cause enzymes (chemicals responsible for energy production), to become deactivated (it actually pickles them!), it forces glutamine and alanine out of your muscles and it ultimately stops energy production. In other words, as lactic acid levels go up, performance goes down.
This is really important, because when you have continuously elevated lactic acid, muscle tissue cannot be re-synthesized and you stop recovering. What's worse, chronically elevated lactic acid levels will actually cause overtraining.
Revenge Pro not only reduces lactic acid, it also keeps blood sugar levels stable and it increases plasma volume so there is more oxygen being delivered to exercising muscle.
As you lose water, your blood becomes thicker. As blood thickens several undesirable things occur. Blood pressure drops in the blood vessel leading to the heart. This causes poorer blood flow into the heart, resulting in slower filling of the chambers of the heart. Each contraction moves less blood and because of this, the heart must beat faster to deliver the same amount of oxygen to the working muscles. This causes you to become less and less efficient. Secondly, the heart must contract harder to move the thickened blood. As water losses get greater and greater, your performance plummets. After a certain point, body temperature rises and this further hurts your performance. Continuing strenuous efforts once you've become dehydrated and overheated can be very dangerous to your health.
Many a world class marathoner or triathlete has celebrated his or her victory recovering from heat exhaustion in an emergency room!
The good news is that hydrating regularly with Revenge Pro solves all of these problems. By ingesting fluids every fifteen minutes during exertion, you can maintain plasma volume and offset dehydration. When the liquid also contains sources of simple and complex carbohydrates, it helps maintain stable blood sugar levels and prevents the total depletion of your stores of muscle and liver glycogen.
Some of the ingredients in Revenge belong to a class of substances known as plasma volume expanders. Hospitals use may use these compound derivatives to maintain and increase plasma volume. Because the body loses water from the blood before it pulls it out of other tissues, dehydration lowers plasma volume first. "Hetastarch", a starch ingredient used in Revenge, is a molecule that the liver cannot breakdown into simple sugars, and the large size of the molecule makes it tough for the kidneys to excrete. This leaves it trapped in the blood stream. By changing the osmotic gradient of the blood, hetastarch pulls water out of surrounding tissues into the blood, thus maintaining plasma volume.
"What makes Revenge Pro Different from the other sports energy drinks?"
Using Revenge Pro every time you race will:
- Reduce dehydration which prevents heat exhaustion and cramping
- Help you maintain stable blood sugar levels so you stay fresher longer
- Reduces the production of lactic acid which can lead to overtraining
- Helps you recover faster from each effort
Consistent hydration with Revenge Pro improves your performance three ways: it provides vital additional fuel to keep you going longer, it helps maintain your plasma volume which keeps you cool and efficient and it reduces lactic acid so you can push yourself harder and get better results.
TIP #3: Start drinking Revenge Pro 15 to 30 minutes before you begin a race or a training session and continue drinking it every fifteen minutes throughout your exercise period. Once you've stopped, continue drinking Revenge Pro to quickly rehydrate yourself and help you recover more quickly.
PRO-SCORE 100
Recovery. Serious athletes know recovery is the holy grail of athletic performance. When you are recovering well, you improve, when you aren't you don't, period. You can train harder and you can train more often. When you start having trouble recovering things begin to go wrong. You begin to feel more and more fatigued, you get irritable-maybe you even get sick or injured. If things have gone terribly wrong, you may even become overtrained and have to take a significant amount of time off to get back on track!
A number of factors dictate how well and how completely you can recover. But none are more critical than protein. Scientists have shown that taking more protein can double your recovery rate and improve performance on successive exercise days. Protein is the building block from which your body assembles and repairs all of your tissues. As you train and compete, your body is constantly being broken down. These losses are reflected in your nitrogen retention status. When you are losing protein from your muscles you are in a negative nitrogen balance. This is bad!
Being in negative nitrogen balance means you are losing muscle. If you are an endurance athlete in intensive training, you don't have muscle to spare!
The good news is you can do something about it! Supplementing your diet with a concentrated easily digestible source of protein will help you maintain a positive nitrogen balance. Preferably, this protein should also be especially high in both glutamine and also in those critically important branched chain amino acids.
Because the science of "Metabolic Optimization" looks at what the body is needs and then supports those functions to maximize the efficiency of each biochemical process we developed Pro-Score 100 to be the ultimate post training recovery protein. Pro-Score 100 is exceptionally high in both glutamine and also in branched chain aminos. Even the name "Pro-Score 100" serves as notice that this product is something special. Pro-Score 100 refers to the fact that this is the only product that rates a perfect amino acid score. In comparison, most other whey proteins rate between 65 and 85%. To you, a perfect amino acid score means you will recover faster and get stronger than ever before.
The Window...
Athletes who understand how important recovery is, and also know how important adequate protein intake is to recovery love Pro-Score 100. Because it tastes good, readily mixes in water or other beverages and is quickly and easily digested, they use it within the period between 15 minutes and 2 hours immediately following a training session or race. This period is also called "The Window", during this time, muscles can suck up as much as 85% of the amino acids they will use for the next 24 hours of recuperation.
What's more, the most experienced athletes (or the ones that have either been lucky enough to work with Mike Zumpano, or have taken courses in exercise physiology) generally add up to 100 grams of additional complex carbohydrate to their post exercise meal. That's because the combination of both protein and carbohydrate immediately following a hard effort is especially important. Physiologists call this period "the window". During the 15 minutes to 2 hours immediately after intense training the enzyme system for storage of glycogen is especially active. This means that sugar is quickly and effectively driven into the cells of both the muscles and the liver. As glucose is drawn into the cells it can carry amino acids with it. This speeds the rate at which the additional protein can be used to begin repairing the muscles that you have recently traumatized.
One other little known fact is that other nutrients are also more rapidly absorbed at this time. Things like Power Creatine are especially effective when taken in combination with your post workout meal and within the crucial two hour window.
Take at least 100 grams of complex carbohydrate like Metabolol Endurance with up to 50 grams of protein from Pro-Score 100 between 15 minutes and 2 hours after you train.
Well, that's it. "The System". It's the basic nutritional stack that won more NORBA Nationals and more other endurance events of all types during the past few years.
SUMMARY
120-45 minutes before training or racing: Metabolol Endurance and Muscle Nitro
60 minutes before to 2 hours after training or racing: Revenge Pro (every 15 minutes during)
15 minutes to 2 hours after training or racing: Pro-Score 100
Once you've tried this system for a while, you'll be ready for step two which involves Power Creatine, JSF and Cortistat. As you become more adept at manipulating your personal nutrition to Optimize yourself Metabolically, you'll discover what different time sequences and combinations of products work best for you. You might also find that adding other Champion Nutrition products to help you recover and prevent overtraining:
- CORTISTAT-PS, to prevent the most common cause of muscle loss and overtraining in pro athletes, the dreaded cortisol spike.
- CHAMPION JSF, to keep your joints and connective tissue strong, supple and uninjured
- POWER CREATINE. Creatine is the single most important thing you can do to increase strength for peak power output such as climbing short steep hills or sprinting.
The hard work that you do to achieve the strength and fitness to be successful as an athlete requires complete commitment. You are asking a tremendous amount from your body. You owe it to yourself to do everything possible to maximize your efforts by using every trick and biochemical aid to get the best performance possible. Champion Nutrition recognizes your commitment and applauds your efforts. We stand behind every product we sell with guarantees of satisfaction and quality. Try the system and see if it doesn't take your performance and shoot it into the stratosphere! We'll see you at the races...And on the podium!
