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Fitness and Nutrition
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items What's more fun than working out? BUYING WORKOUT SHIT! Here's what you need to have the DOPEST collection of hobbyist goodies, edible powders, and future clothes-hangers, i.e. home workout equipment!!! Nah, I'm just playing. I BELIEVE IN YOU!
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This list contains affiliate links. I may earn a small commission if you purchase through them at no extra cost to you.
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Personal Workout Gear
Home Gym Equipment
Supplements
Meal Prepping
Personal Workout Gear
Things you need to work out HARD and see proportional results
Absolutely required to maximize ab/core gains
DMoose Fitness Hanging Ab Straps for Pull Up Bar
Nothing fancy. I have used mine for ten years.
Rip Toned: Lifting Straps
Conical lifting belts for general use. Some may prefer cylindrical, which is of course also badass. It's personal preference.
BELTS
totally badass conical traditional lifting belt
Belts - Strength Shop
Joint warmth and support, plus what we all use them for, really: HEAVIER SQUATS
Knee Sleeves
Now I actually bought the Yes4All grips, but they are not on Amazon anymore. So these are very similar, both in terms of shape and also price. My client with a messed-up wrist was just able to close-grip bench 165 for 8 reps without pain, so I wanted...
Iron Bull Strength Alpha Grips 2.0 Charcoal
IKR! Jeans, in the “personal workout gear” area?!? But tbh tho, when I'm going to the gym and I want to save time by NOT having to change into workout pants and then CHANGE BACK into non-workout pants, I can just wear my Barbell Apparel Jeans. Now I ...
My little affiliate code is what this is. I think everyuone who buys from them gets one.
My little affiliate code is what this is. I think everyuone who buys from them gets one.
Athletic Fit Jeans for Men - Stretch Denim for Muscular Legs
Home Gym Equipment
Make the most of the least and best of the best.
totally badass and completely solves the problem of hamstring isolation at home (without a leg curl) (and is actually better than a leg curl anyway in many ways because it can work the ham at both the origin and the insertion)
The only drag with Sorinex is that a lot of the pieces are made-to-order. SO if you order one, you'll have to wait forty years to get it. But you'll have forgotten it by then, and then it'll be like a surprise gift to your self! (and you're future se...
The only drag with Sorinex is that a lot of the pieces are made-to-order. SO if you order one, you'll have to wait forty years to get it. But you'll have forgotten it by then, and then it'll be like a surprise gift to your self! (and you're future se...
Glute Ham Roller
A very cool, space- and weight-saving tool, both for home gyms and for taking to the gym with you. I use them for carries, lunges, and kroc rows, mainly. While it has some drawbacks compared to loadable olympic dumbbell handles, the simplicity, form ...
AdaptaBELL™ Plate-Loaded Adjustable Dumbbell
20 inch handles can hold 400 pounds. Remember that if you drop one of these, whatever weight is on it will be INCREASED by the force of the fall. So beefier is often better.
Loadable 20" Olympic Dumbbell Handles - Pair
Why this one and not some other POS? Because this one has zercher hooks. Beat that, Titan!
Frontsquat Harness - Front Squat Harness - Robert Baraban
Just in general. Use my referral link: https://kensui.com/?ref=resistancequest
some of the neatest, most outside-of-the-box gear for neck training, home gyms, specialty barbells, and weighted vests. Plus a shitload more.
some of the neatest, most outside-of-the-box gear for neck training, home gyms, specialty barbells, and weighted vests. Plus a shitload more.
Kensui Fitness | Premium Workout Equipment for Elite Athletes
Cap is a solid consumer brand. The trap bar is a useful item for any home gym, mainly because it's so frickin badass. Anyone can deadlift with this thing. And also squat with it and do shrugs with it. But the deadlift is the thing. The deadlift is mo...
CAP Barbell Olympic Trap Bar Black
Supplements
Get the edge you need to maximize results. Even if it's mostly placebo.
USE CODE ‘RQNOOCH’ for 10% OFF. The only one I use and recommend. If it's too expensive, see the next best option in my list, which is by Orgain.
Micronized Creatine Monohydrate Powder
The slightly more affordable creatine that I recommend.
Creatine Monohydrate Powder
USE CODE “MARK74117” for 10% OFF. I use True Nutrition's custom protein blends. I use a blend of 45% pea protein, 35% rice protein, 15% soy protein and 5% hemp protein. Per 34g scoop, there are 27g of protein. F*CK YEAH
For protein powders, it's tricky as a vegan because of two main reasons: a) powders lack a blend of protein sources (leading to wackass amino acid profiles), b) they often taste weird and crappy, and c) a lot of vegan powders add “greens blends” and ...
For protein powders, it's tricky as a vegan because of two main reasons: a) powders lack a blend of protein sources (leading to wackass amino acid profiles), b) they often taste weird and crappy, and c) a lot of vegan powders add “greens blends” and ...
True Nutrition
After Nutrabio torched all but one or two of their EAA/BCAA products, I've had to look elsewhere. Nutricost is good.
Nutricost EAA Powder 30 Servings (Unflavored)
Not for the faint of heart (literally). Badass as frick. Good dosage. Great flavor. Transparent label. Has acesulfame-K, which I could do without, and FD&C Blue #1. But hey, Blue 1 is permitted in Europe. So there's that. If you're taking somethi...
JNX SPORTS The Shadow! 350mg Caffeine Preworkout
A small serving, a good price, a quality source (picolinate).
Thorne Zinc Picolinate 15mg Supplement
insane price, gangsta-ass dosage
Carlyle Vegan Omega 3 Supplement 1290mg 60 Softgels
Been taking it for years and I get compliments on my hair all the time. (PS, I'm a dude)
Zhou Hairfluence Vegan Biotin Hair Supplement
I haven't used this, but oral HA seems to help a lot of people with their joint pain. And a 300mg capsule is massive. Check with your doctor and take it with food.
Triple Strength Hyaluronic Acid 300mg 180tabs
Dirt cheap and (I assume) good-enough quality. Get the unflavored and add some other flavor to it. The flavored one gave me asthma. Pretty sure it's cuz the flavor is some artificial-ass shit. But for EAAs, this price is sick.
If SOMEBODY had just sustained their BCAA and normal EAA products (looking at you, Nutrabio!), I wouldn't have had to buy this swill. But Fuck it!
If SOMEBODY had just sustained their BCAA and normal EAA products (looking at you, Nutrabio!), I wouldn't have had to buy this swill. But Fuck it!
EAA7000 (Powder) – EVLUTION NUTRITION
If you have to use malto, I guess this is the one to use. 250 calories per half-cup serving is pretty amazing. The fact that it is “basically pure sugar” is just a detail. If you take it and feel like shit, don't take it again. But if you take it and...
I mean let's face it. We'd all use Highly Branched Cyclic/Cluster Dextrin if it wasn't so frickin expensive. As Mountain Dog would've wanted.
But until we have that kinda guap to piss away on essentially ground corncobs, we have to settle for this. Which is made from, essentially, ground corn kernels.
Corn. I tell ya. It can do anything.
I mean let's face it. We'd all use Highly Branched Cyclic/Cluster Dextrin if it wasn't so frickin expensive. As Mountain Dog would've wanted.
But until we have that kinda guap to piss away on essentially ground corncobs, we have to settle for this. Which is made from, essentially, ground corn kernels.
Corn. I tell ya. It can do anything.
NOW Foods, Carbo Gain Powder (Maltodextrin)
Use code MARK74117 for 10% off!
Speaking of dextrin, this is the best price you're gonna get for it. Essentially bulk pricing. Get 7 pounds and get extra whatever-percent off. Use your loyalty points for this-this-and-this amount off. Buy it on a holiday for whatever-the-fuck amoun...
AND YES. YOU CAN STACK THESE (most of the time). That's part of why TN rules.
Speaking of dextrin, this is the best price you're gonna get for it. Essentially bulk pricing. Get 7 pounds and get extra whatever-percent off. Use your loyalty points for this-this-and-this amount off. Buy it on a holiday for whatever-the-fuck amoun...
AND YES. YOU CAN STACK THESE (most of the time). That's part of why TN rules.
Highly Branched Cyclic Dextrin 1lb - True Nutrition
Been using these for damn near a decade. I'll take two with a decent-sized high-fiber meal, two with a simple protein shake, three with a huge high-calorie shake, three with a 1/4 to 1/3 pound of pasta, and four with 1/2 pound of pasta. I ALWAYS have...
NutraChamps Digestive Enzymes 180 Vegan Caps
Meal Prepping
This is not the same one I have; the last two pictures are of my utensil. This Alijonalo one looks better than mine, which is a no-name and I have no clue where i got it. Perfect for carrying around so you can annihilate multiple meal preps in one damn day.
6-in-1 Stainless Steel Detachable Multitool