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30 Surprising Fitness Supplement Industry Market Statistics

February 22, 2021 By Jess Billitz

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Beeline to the health & fitness aisle at your local supermarket or chain retail store, and you’ll find yourself in a “magical wonderland” that many lifters describe as “heaven.”

Rocket freeze pre-workout powders for a caffeinated jolt. Birthday cake-flavored protein bars to rebuild those pythons. Horse pill fat burners that slim down the gut you owe to pizza roll binges.

It’s a fitness junkie’s playground!

But if you explore a little deeper and yank a few tubs from the shelves, you’ll realize that sports nutrition is only the icing on the cake.

Other dietary supplements — like herbs, multivitamins, and energy bars — rule the supplement industry like they’re going out of style (fad or not).

It seems like everyone has dietary capsules tucked into their bags. These 30 surprising fitness supplement industry market statistics will examine how we fill in the remaining nutritional gaps.

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Does Creatine Break a Fast? (And Does it Matter?)

November 12, 2020 By Steve Burden

One of the greatest things about the fitness industry is how it constantly adapts throughout the years, never afraid to change its standards based on new information or techniques that are discovered.

While in years past you’d have heard bodybuilding great Arnold Schwarzenegger touting the use of supplements such as creatine, you’d likely have associated concepts along the lines of fasting more with holy men, like the Dalai Lama.

In the modern fitness world, though, they go side by side, considered some of the most effective supplements and dieting techniques, respectively.

The question is, though, while they are both effective individually, what happens when you combine the two?

To answer that, we’ll first have to look at what both of those things are.

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Does Pre-Workout Break a Fast? (And Does It Matter?)

September 22, 2020 By Steve Burden

When it comes to the world of fitness, everyone wants to see results as quickly as possible.

Everywhere you turn, celebrities, athletes, and trainers are telling you about “the best way” to achieve your goals.

This frequently leads to people trialing new supplements, fad diets, and fashionable workouts, desperately trying to find one that gives them that “quick fix” they’ve been looking for.

But what happens when you try two options that not only don’t work together, but could potentially negate the effects of the other altogether?

Well, that’s what we’re going to be discussing today, as I’m going to look at whether or not taking a pre-workout supplement breaks your fast, and if so, does it actually matter?

Before we get started, though, let’s quickly go over what fasting and pre-workouts actually are.

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How Long Does Preworkout Last? [Surprising Details]

May 30, 2019 By Kyle Hoffman

How long does preworkout last in your system before it wears off?

Have you considered using a preworkout supplment to boost your workout energy?

Or… are you currently using preworkouts, but don’t know whether it’s actually helping you at the gym?

It can be difficult to guage whether a preworkout is doing it’s full job and that’s why it’s important to answer some common questions about them like…

How long does preworkout last?

Make sure you read this article to the very end because you’re going to learn what exactly a preworkout is, how long it lasts, how your tolerance affects the benefits and a lot more.