Protein Guide | Creatine Guide | Fat-Burner Guide | Pre-Workout Guide | Test Booster Guide Want results? It starts with exercising regularly and eating for your goals. But once you have a training style that you enjoy and can stick with, and the basics of nutrition in place, you’re ready to upgrade your workouts with …
Who Should Take Amino Acid Supplements?
Amino acid supplements are a common sight in gyms—particularly in weight rooms. You can spot them from across the gym, usually in the form of a brightly-colored liquid inside a gallon-sized water bottle. In many cases, they’re being carried around by someone who is easily identifiable as a “serious lifter.” But are amino acids …
4 Reasons Why Supplements Are More Important Than Ever During the Pandemic
Six months after having to make drastic life changes thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, many people are going a bit stir-crazy. Millions have transitioned from working at the office to working from home. Gyms have closed, reopened, and in some cases, closed again. Many of us are now on a first-name basis with our …
The Best Supplements of 2020
The results are in for Gym2k.com’s 2020 Supplement Awards! You, our customers, have spoken loud and clear regarding the best of the best sports-nutrition products of the year. In all, 21 categories were up for grabs, and many of them were hotly contested. We started the awards process with a lengthy list of products …
2 Easy Ways to Make Your Vitamin D and Collagen Supplements Work Better
The 2 Essential Supplements for a Plant-Based Diet
If you’ve hopped on the plant-based diet bandwagon and given up meat, dairy, and eggs, you’re probably feeling like you’ve finally got the healthy-eating thing figured out. Unfortunately, as good as you may feel while following a vegetarian or vegan diet, you won’t get enough of certain critical vitamins and minerals from eating plants …
4 Hydration Supplements That Will Supercharge Your Summer Workouts
If you care about looking great and performing at an elite level, chances are you already train like a machine and eat a precisely calibrated diet. You track your strength gains over time and watch your macronutrient intake, finetuning as you go. In other words, you pay close attention to your training and nutrition. …
How to Use “Smart” Supplements as Ergogenics
Silicon Valley and Wall Street were among the first sectors to embrace nootropic supplements and smart ingredients. While their high-level executives were using nootropics to get ahead, it became obvious that the substances had many other uses, including enhanced physical performance. Our last article on Gym2k.com, “Double Duty: 6 Supplements That Aid Brain Function …
4 Greens Supplements That Are Worth Your Green
Double Duty: 6 Supplements That Aid Brain Function as Well as Performance
Is creatine an ergogenic substance or a modern-day nootropic? There’s often a fine line between the two. Some herbs and adaptogens that we learned to use for physical performance from traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine are more popular today for boosting brain function, while some of the synthetically derived chemicals that have become available …
4 Immune-Boosting Supplements You Should Be Taking Every Day
Staying healthy takes a multi-pronged approach. It starts with regular exercise, a nutritious diet, adequate sleep, and stress management. Supplements can also help ensure you and your immune system are running at 100 percent when the day comes that you need them to be resilient against the world at large. Never has that been …
3 Just-Right Energy Supplements from Mild to Wild
Drive comes from within. Energy comes from a solid diet, adequate sleep, and an active lifestyle. You’ve heard it all before. So let’s be real: All of those things matter a lot, but plenty of people who have those boxes checked also choose to take an occasional energy supplement. Why? Because the right energy …
Food vs. Supplements: Which Is Safer?
Let’s play a quick game of fill-in-the-blanks. Simply add the missing words to these sentences: Manufacturers of [blank] are not required to conduct research on safety and effectiveness of their product. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must prove a [blank] is unsafe before it can be taken off the market. …
5 Brain-Boosting Nootropic Supplements
The name may sound a bit quirky, but nootropics are supplements designed to optimize mental performance. We’re not just talking about the energy and motivation you can get from stimulants like caffeine, although that can help, too. Some nootropics also may improve reaction time, mental focus, cognitive function, and neuromuscular communication. While nootropics are …
5 Pro Tips for Getting More Out of Your Supplements
Are you maximizing the potential benefits of the supplements you take? Your body is a temple that deserves only the best products, so you might as well use them correctly. Darryn Willoughby, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Health and Human Performance and Recreation at Baylor University, as well as a former …