Promax diet is a great protein powder for anyone who is trying to lose fat but maintain and gain muscle mass.  If you are a bodybuilder cutting down for competition or a woman looking to shed some pounds but maintain and enhance muscular toning then this is a good protein shake for you.  I recommend Promax diet to lots of my customers who have these goals in mind and all of them find Promax diet to give them that extra bit of assistance with reaching their goals.  Although Promax is relatively expensive compared to lots of other sports supplements, Promax provides a great tasting supplement whilst many others are often hard to digest due to the taste, something many of us don’t want to suffer when taking it on a daily basis.

Promax diet acts as a great meal replacement as it has a low GI, giving you sustained energy release and great appetite control. Promax diet provides 37.8g per serving a good amount per serving, if you are a woman I would advise you to cut the serving size just slightly as you will probably find your body will digest protein better in smaller amounts.  Protein shake manufacturers often give us too much protein per serving so we finish the tub quicker and need to buy another, I tend to keep my protein shakes to around 30g per serving as I find this is the most my body can digest efficiently, but this depends on your body and size.

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Ready to drink protein shakes are very popular now as people are not wanting to spend time mixing up protein shakes that are not only time consuming but messy.  There are a huge choice of ready to drink protein shakes currently on the market but 90% of them I would personally avoid.  Keep away from protein shakes that are sitting there pre mixed.  This includes all protein shakes in a carton or bottle such as Weider shakes, Multipower shakes and Met Rx shakes.  When protein has been pre mixed and left there for weeks the protein will not be absorbed at its best into the body, hence the rise of ready to drink protein shakes just as a powder sitting in a bottle that you add water to.  These powder forms are good but pricey considering all you need to do is buy a tub of protein and put your own scoop of powder in an empty bottle and add water, you could do this for 50p instead of £3.50.  The protein shakes that I am actually a fan of at the moment are the Pro slam shakes as they are so fast and easy although an already mixed protein shake, which I am certainly not usually a fan of, I have gotten good results from these.  Some people love ready to drink protein shakes for ease of use and feel they work for them but I am not a big fan.  Like with all supplements when I write a review of them you should not necessarily avoid it like the plague but take note of my advice and try it for yourself.  You may find it works for you so by all means stick to it, often with supplements we need to try different ones ourselves and not go entirely on others peoples opinions as we may like the taste, they may hate the taste, they may say there is too much protein in the serving and it will be excreted, we may find it is easily digested and works well.

The overall best option is to get a small bottle and put a scoop of powder in it, take it to the gym add water shake up and drink, like I mentioned above, cheap and easy.

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New Pro slam protein drinks are a great fast way to get the protein you need.  Pro Slam protein drinks are designed as a pre workout protein shot that can be drank in 2 seconds and give you 27g of protein 0g of fat and 0g of carbs.  If you are tired of being bloated after drinking protein shakes and hate the fuss of making them, then this is the best protein drink for you.  Average price in stores is roughly £3.50 but can be purchased cheaper from online supplement stores.  Of all the ready to drink protein shakes that are on the market this is by far the winner in our eyes.

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Nowadays you are seeing lots of all in one protein powders, that can include creatine, glutamine etc.  Allot of people have been asking me about these lately as they love the idea you an take it all in one rather than in separate forms.  I would advise against purchasing these types of protein powders as the levels of the different supplements you need per day are not necessariy proportional in the protein powder.  The most common all in one protein powder is the protein powder creatine combination, powdered creatine needs to be taken in a loading phase, how can you do this in a combination of the two?  Secondly, creatine power is not the best source of creatine you are much better off going for a liquid creatine such as MMUSA liquid creatine as most of this is abosrbed by the body rather than creatine powder where most is excreted from the body.  Stick to separate protein powders, creatine and glutamine, you will get the right amounts of these supplements in their own form and I am sure you will see much better results taking them in this way.

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In London there are very few places that sell protein shakes, wheatgrass and high quality energy smoothies ready to go, Crussh does.  I highly recommend Crussh juice bars to anyone who is into fitness and building muscle, these juice bars have everything you need.  Yesterday I went to Crussh in Notting Hill, where I got a large protein shake for £5 with a Vit c booster.  You can have anything you want put in your protein shake.  Although their protein shakes are not made with a very high level of protein you can get double scoops, also make sure the Crussh juice bar you are going to has the protein tub you are purchasing on display not just a white tub with no label so you can check exactly what you are getting.  Some of their products are very strong like wheatgrass, you shouldn’t have more that one of these per day.

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Most people I see in gyms workout for far too long, they split their workouts up with chatting to friends and the workout becomes less and less productive since the time they walked in the gym to workout and the time they leave, workout length is very important and directly related to results.  I keep my workouts to  55 minutes, this includes warm up and stretching to, I believe you can get all you need done in this time.   You don’t need to do 10 sets on biceps and a full  body workout every session, you need to stick to one or two body parts at a time, complete sets quite close back to back resting after each set for roughly 45 seconds.  Keeping your workouts to a strict time keeps the intensity up making your workout allot more productive.  Most people who workout for 1 hour and 30 minutes are only actually working out for about 40 minutes of that.  The intensity that we train has a direct relationship with how good we look.

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