Driven Sports (DS) Craze 238 Grams 45 Servings + FREE Predator Shaker

Craze is the most unique preworkout you will ever take!

Product Features

• Limitless Energy
• No crash
• No jitters
• Tunnel vision focus
• Supreme confidence and motivation in the gym

Predator Nutrition Review

We first got our hands on DS Craze at the Mr Olympia Expo in Las Vegas in Sept 2011. We had been hearing about this product for a while and, given the number of preworkouts on the market it would take something special to make us notice it. Within a half hour of taking it both Predator Nutrition testers noticed the following:

Increased focus - Not just focus but being absolutely dialled into the zone all athletes aim for.

A sense of euphoria and energy - We can imagine people taking this on a Saturday night in fact!

An absence of anxiety - No jitters at all!

A rising wave of energy - This peaked about an hour or so after taking it.

No crash - As the effects wore off absolutely no crash whatsoever.

As a preworkout supplement, Craze shattered our preconceived ideas as to what a preworkout supplement can do and there is no finer compliment to the product we can pay than that. Outstanding.

Driven Sports Craze Description

As an athlete the word performance may not mean much to you but it should. That is because performance is literally EVERYTHING.

Envisage having a preworkout available that allows you to train BEYOND YOUR LIMITS. Imagine endless energy. No weight is too great and no personal best is beyond reach. That pre-workout would give you unmatchable results, where others have failed. That pre-workout is Craze™, the final word in pre-workout power!*

    Perform At Your Ultimate: Get ready for the best workouts of your ENTIRE LIFE!* ǂ

    Gain Strength And Size: The precise blend of proven ergogenic nutrients in Craze™ will take your workout performance to a whole new dimension.*

    Feel incredible just like all of our alpha and beta testers who reported awesome muscle pumps, supreme focus and limitless confidence.

ǂ How can we claim all this? Well, if you use Craze™ and don’t have the greatest workouts of your life simply return the unused portion of the product along with your receipt to the place of purchase for a full refund.

Arginine DOES NOT Give Great Pumps…

As a matter of fact, it doesn’t even give mediocre pumps – it gives ZERO PUMPS. For years supplement companies have included some form of arginine into their pre-workout formulas. This is despite more and more scientific data being published demonstrating just how worthless it actually is! In fact one randomized crossover, placebo-controlled study found absolutely no effect from arginine supplementation when administered in large amounts (6g  per day) to ten elite athletes (1) – no effect on performance  or pump at all! Furthermore, earlier this year a study was published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research that detailed it could even be performance-reducing(2). Yes, it could in fact make your workout WORSE! We only assume that these companies do not follow the latest science. We certainly do, and it means we produce products like Triazole™, Activate Xtreme™ and Lean Xtreme™ that you all know and love.

Taking something simply to give a pump does not guarantee a great workout. This is where too many companies get it backwards. They try and FORCE a pump out of you, but it doesn’t work that way. Let us put it another way…

“The Best Pumps Come From The Best Workouts.”

A great training session makes for a superb pump, and once you're at that point every individual rep feels amazing and you don't want the workout to end. If we told you that this is how you'd feel with every single training bout on Craze™ then you would probably think we were exaggerating, but read on and allow us to detail exactly why this is the case. We didn’t let you down with Activate Xtreme™, Triazole™ lived up to the hype AND MORE, and Lean Xtreme™ is probably the reason you had a lean midsection this past summer. Believe us, once you try the product itself you'll realize that we aren't lying with this claim – Craze™ will produce the best workouts of your life!*

Here’s why:

“The Best Workouts Come From The Best Performance.”

It’s true. This is why you ought to be as concerned with your performance as you are with what you eat and how much you sleep. It doesn’t matter whether training for competition or just aiming to get stronger in the gym. Excellent performance means increasing weight, and progressive weight increases equals growth (3).

Recovery Begins At Home, Growth Starts In The Gym

Outside of the gymnasium you rest, you eat, and recuperate for your next workout. You get on with life, like family, friends, work and your other interests, but you always have one eye on your next workout. This is because you know from experience that what you put in when you workout, or when you practice, ultimately determines the final product that you produce. If you compete, this could mean the difference between making the team or sitting on the sidelines. It could be the difference between winning a medal, or watching someone else claim first prize. If you are a non-competitive bodybuilder, this could be the difference between hitting a new PR or being stuck in a plateau. It could be why you weren’t in shape the last time you went to the beach.

When you train you initiate a sequence of events that trigger muscle hypertrophy – the growth of muscle tissue – and make you stronger. If you DON’T TRAIN HARD enough, you don’t send the signals and you WON’T GET BIGGER, faster or more powerful. Before you know it you’re stuck in a rut. Sportsmen around the world realise that to perform at their highest level they need to be able to train at their highest level year-round. In the exact same way, to look your very best you have to train your very best and do so consistently. This isn't always possible in life – there can be too many LIMITING factors, things that get in the way and hold you back.

To succeed in your goals for looking better and being stronger you should consider yourself an athlete and aim to ensure that every workout you have contributes towards those goals. We’d like to tell you how Craze™ can help you in your endeavors.

Welcome To Your New World Of Craze™

Everything about Craze™ has been formulated based on the latest scientific evidence for sporting performance enhancement*. The Kinesis™ blend that makes up Craze™ begins with trimethylglycine (TMG). TMG has been shown in a recent double-blind placebo-controlled study to IMPROVE TRAINING PERFORMANCE AND LOWER FATIGUE in human subjects (4). Another recent research study published in the JISSN, also a randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled trial, found that TMG supplementation INCREASED POWER AND FORCE OUTPUT of participants that were asked to bench and squat, and those given TMG maintained the power and force ability throughout the workout (5). TMG is believed to exert these effects due to it being a natural osmolyte (6). By pulling water into cells TMG can volumize the muscle, making it bigger, stronger and more resistant to fatigue. It’s incorporation in Craze™ was as much of a no-brainer as the next component: creatine monohydrate.

Creatine: Performance Results Every Time*

Operating a scientific query on monohydrate produces tens of thousands of results, many of which focus squarely on creatine’s ability as a performance booster. It does this combining with a phosphate from adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to rapidly renew phosphocreatine (PCr) in muscle (7). PCr is a currency that the muscle can use for fast energy demands - like heavy strength training. This can cause a significant difference in your training as evidenced by numerous human trials. A double-blind study involving thirty-two resistance-trained men found that it only took five days for the individuals to raise their body weight and fat-free mass (i.e. muscle) and drastically increase their peak force production on the bench press (8). Some of the weight gained was undoubtedly water - just like TMG creatine pulls water into cells, causing volume. But this study is not the only to find these effects. Other placebo-controlled studies have reinforced the use of creatine to improve performance and muscle mass (9, 10), and more importantly IT DOES THIS SAFELY, with no effect on blood pressure, renal function, or plasma CK activity (10).

Creatine Makes A Muscle Grow*
 

The effects that creatine can have on muscle size is NOT just related to its ability to increase water retention. In fact research has established that creatine can directly increase muscle size itself, and it can do this through a number of growth-regulating paths. Leucine is one of the main amino acids involved in protein synthesis and muscle-building, and creatine is proven in a randomized placebo-controlled study to reduce rates of leucine oxidation (11) thus making more available for protein synthesis. But creatine will not boost protein synthesis rates alone. In conjunction with resistance exercise like weight lifting, however, it is a different story. A study in twenty-two untrained male subjects found that weight lifting over a period of a dozen weeks while supplementing with creatine had a SIGNIFICANT EFFECT ON MUSCLE SIZE versus placebo (12). The effect was particularly significant in the type II muscle fibers - those with the highest potential for growth and force production (i.e. strength). A follow-up study - again double-blind, placebo-controlled - investigated the effects of creatine on myogenic regulatory factors over twelve weeks in twenty-two males. The study found that creatine increased the expression of myogenin and MRF-4 more than placebo (13). Myogenin and MRF-4 are BIG PLAYERS in myosin heavy chain expression and building muscle.

It has also been suggested that creatine plays a part in controlling myostatin levels. Myostatin is a protein that limits muscle growth so you don’t add an excessive amount of energy-expending muscle tissue. Some people have mutations on the gene that encodes for myostatin and are therefore heavily muscular and can add muscle mass extremely easily.  A double-blind study published from the journal Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology investigated the effects that creatine combined with weight lifting had on twenty-seven healthy males (14). The researchers of that study discovered that creatine supplementation in conjunction with resistance training lead to larger decreases in serum myostatin, which may explain the increased muscle mass that is amplified by creatine supplementation.

Now you know that Craze™ can build size and strength, but what can it do for pump and power?

We’re glad you asked…

We Repeat, Supplemental Arginine DOES NOT Give Great Pumps!
 

In fact, there exists research that is almost twenty years old that has shown this (15) and yet firms persist in including it in their inadequately designed products. Within the arteries of the body arginine converts to citrulline through an enzyme called endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS). This process releases nitric oxide (NO) as a by-product. NO goes on to relaxing muscles in the walls of blood vessels, therefore promoting blood flow to muscles. This is important, as it helps deliver nutrients to the working muscles, but merely taking arginine does not significantly increase blood-arginine levels.

In actual fact THE BEST WAY to increase blood-arginine levels is by taking citrulline, as evidenced by a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled cross-over review in twenty healthy volunteers (16). As it happens, citrulline is the rate-limiting factor for arginine synthesis (17). To put it differently: more citrulline, more NO, and more pump. This is one reason why Craze™ uses L-Citrulline, but NOT THE ONLY reason. Citrulline also plays an exceptionally functional role in the body.

Citrulline And Ascorbic Acid: The Performance Specialists*
 

The Urea cycle is a process which occurs mainly in the liver and is crucial for regular body function through removal of highly toxic ammonia from the blood stream. Ammonia is a by-product of nitrogen breakdown that accumulates due to a variety of bodily processes, including amino acid digestion. By increasing metabolic rate and as a consequence amino acid breakdown, physical exercise produces a great deal of ammonia which might build-up. When the Urea cycle is unable to keep up with the manufacture of ammonia and harmful nitrates, their build-up induces a metabolic acidosis which may inhibit energy production, reduce recovery, and impede athletic performance substantially - something that has been shown in human metabolic testing (18) and is partly due to citrulline depletion (19)..

Nitric oxide is a free radical, and its release depletes the supplies of a naturally-occurring antioxidant within the body called glutathione (GSH). Because of this a sort of tolerance develops (20) that results in lowered nitric oxide output. This explains why many people fail to respond to NO-boosters after a few doses - the companies they buy from don’t understand the complex mechanisms involved. But we do, and we researched and found a double-blind, placebo-controlled study that proved that ascorbic acid, more well known as Vitamin C, can help prevent this tolerance from developing in the first place (21). But vitamin C is a multi-headed beast and has also been shown in one double-blind, randomized, crossover study to help lower oxidative stress, leading to lower post-workout muscle soreness and enhanced recovery (22). This finding has since been repeated in other double- and single-blind placebo-controlled human trials (23, 24). And now you know why Craze™ includes ascorbic acid.

There is one more facet of each session that is often missed in pre-workout products.

Enhancing The Mind-Muscle Connection

There aren’t many supplements available that can boost the mind-muscle connection quite like caffeine can. It acts in the brain by antagonising (blocking) adenosine A1 and A2A receptors (25). This inhibits the activity of Adenosine, a compound in the body that typically decreases nerve cell activity, initiating a relaxed type of environment. By antagonising adenosine, this result is in fact reversed and nerve cell activity is increased. In other words, you are stimulated.

This stimulation has been shown in human trials to manifest as an enhancement in performance ability (26) and a decline in fatigue (27). In eighteen male sportsmen caffeine was shown to improve strength on the leg press, chest press and Wingate test, as well as leading to a greater peak power (28). A placebo-controlled study recently published in the European Journal of Applied Physiology discovered that in healthy males, those given caffeine recorded superior sprint cycling performances (29). A double-blind, placebo-controlled trial conducted at the University of Alabama found out that caffeine ingestion just before exercise improved performance by delaying fatigue and blunting the pain response (30). A study from California State University-San Marcos has recently backed these findings on caffeine lowering the pain response to exercise (31). Another study from earlier this year found that caffeine prior to exercise not only lowered fatigue in healthy males leading to an improvement in the bench press, it also increased how they perceived their mood (32).

We could go on and on about this subject all night, but the fundamental message is that caffeine enhances performance. A review paper published in the journal Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism discussed the effects of caffeine on the neuromuscular system and concluded that caffeine is an ergogen not just because of a more direct effect on muscle cells (where it potentiates calcium release from the ryanodine receptor), but also on the nerves themselves (33). Human trials have found that caffeine enhances COGNITION, promotes ALERTNESS and enhances MOTOR CONTROL (34, 35). This role in neuroprotection is also believed to be how Dendrobex™, a proprietary dendrobium extract, may work (36). Dendrobium is one of the fifty “fundamental herbs” listed in traditional Chinese medicine (37). Here it is made into an herbal tea and drank as it is believed to help strengthen the immune system and act as an energizer.

Citramine™ is an extract of Citrus reticulata, produced from the fruit of the tangerine. For centuries it has been used in both Ayurvedic and chinese medicine where it is believed to promote the flow of natural energy through those that consume it. This effect is thought to be due to the alkaloids that Citramine™ is rich in, including N-methyltyramine (NMT) and naringenin. The stimulatory qualities of NMT have been shown in rodents, where it BLOCKS the alpha-2 adrenergic receptor (40). This receptor would typically lower stimulation, as well as promoting fat storage, so this is very welcome. The stimulatory effect of NMT may be amplified by the naringenin content of Citramine™, which can also extend the stimulatory effect of caffeine as noted in a human trial released in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology (41).

Now you know what Driven Sports Craze™ is, allow us to explain what Craze™ is NOT!

Out With The Old, In With The Craze™

Craze™ IS NOT Another Geranium Extract Copycat Product.
 

The Kinesis™ formulation in Craze™ is a thing we feel is truly new and novel. Within a few months of Craze™ being released we fully anticipate that there will be companies trying to produce and market copycat products with the Kinesis™ blend. We have seen it countless times before with our other products and we can only expect that this one will be exactly the same. However this time we are more prepared. The Kinesis™ blend is proprietary to protect the time we spent researching to perfect the Craze™ product formula. It is not just generic amounts of each component - it is a PRECISE amount of each element based on the human scientific studies available. Don't be fooled into thinking that a generic rip-off will give the same results. And for certain, with these ingredients more is definitely not better*.

So You Wanna Determine what Makes Craze™ Stand Apart?

As you have seen, Craze™ was designed to enhance your workouts and enhance your progress. We believe that you’ll agree with us that Craze™ MORE THAN lives up to this expectation. There are many other aspects of Craze™ that we feel to be vital to your experience. These are FLAVOR, VALUE FOR MONEY and the fact that Craze™ DOES NOT USE CRAPPY FILLERS to pad out the product.

How Did Coca-Cola® And Pepsi® Help Flavor Craze™?

As insane as it sounds these soft drink behemoths played a role in flavoring Craze™. We can only assume that other companies with flavored products spend LITTLE OR NO TIME on the taste of their products, which is probably about the same amount of time they invest in the science backing their formulas! We know our market and we have tried a great number of other products. Some of them taste so awful that they are hard to finish. This is because many companies only sample sips of their product during the development stage, and this is where Coca-Cola® and Pepsi® come in.

In the 1970’s and 1980’s Coca-Cola® and Pepsi® were involved in an ALL OUT WAR after Pepsi® introduced the “Pepsi Challenge”. This involved blind-taste tests, called central location tests, held in places like shopping centers over the country. These tests were just sips of the two drinks, which concluded that people preferred the taste of Pepsi® over Coke®. This marketing campaign helped increase sales of Pepsi® somewhat, but Coca-Cola® remained the leading beverage of the United States.

Why?

Because consumers don’t just sip the beverage once, they drink entire cans, and over the course of an entire drink more people prefer Coke®! For this reason, when we sampled all of the flavor variations of Craze™ we would drink the entire serving in order to establish what we believe to be the perfect taste. Just sipping is not sufficient. We replicated the ENTIRE experience that you will have with Craze™.

“Why Did My Pre-Workout Go Weak?”

With Craze™ you have one scoop for a serving - maybe two for the more extreme workouts. We are confident you won't find yourself needing a higher and higher dose. We have seen other products that claim 45 servings per tub that you find yourself working up from 1-2 servings to 3-4 servings! That means a tub doesn't last long! This just ROBS YOU of value for money, and no one wants to have to buy a new pre-workout product every week. With Craze™ you will NEVER NEED to go higher than two servings, and in fact SHOULD NEVER exceed two servings.

We also pride ourselves on not padding out the product will crappy fillers like maltodextrin. With Craze™ all you get is the great formula and the great taste. Nothing else.

It’s time to focus on MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE AT EVERY WORKOUT in order to make yourself the best you can be.

It’s time for The Next Big Craze™!

*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

Supplement Facts
Serving Size: 1 scoop (5.3 grams)
Servings per container: 45
      Amount per Serving     % Daily Value
 
Vitamin C (as ascorbic acid)     250mg     417%
Klnesis™ Proprietary Blend:     4,580 mg     *
Trimethylglycine (Betaine Anhydrous), Creatine Monohydrate, L-Citrulline, Dendrobex™ (Dendrobium Extract) (stem) (concentrated for alkaloid content including Dendrobine, Dendroxine, Dendramine, Citramine™ (Citrus reticulata extract) (fruit) (Concentrated for N-Methyltyramine content), Caffeine anhydrous
 
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
** Percent Daily Values not established.
 
OTHER INGREDIENTS:
Citric Acid, Malic Acid, Natural & Artificial Flavors, Sucralose, Acesulfame Potassium, FD&C Red # 40, FD&C Blue #1.
 
Directions:

As a dietary supplement, take 1-2 scoops with 8-16 oz. of cold water 30-45 minutes prior to training. Start by taking one scoop to assess tolerance and increase the dosage slowly. Some individuals may find 1, 1.5, or 2 scoops is the ideal dose pre-workout. To avoid sleeplessness, do not take within 6 hours of sleep. Contents may settle after shipping. Shake container prior to each use. Store in a cool, dry place. DO NOT EXCEED 2 SCOOPS IN ANY 24 HOUR PERIOD.
 
WARNING:

For use as a dietary supplement only by healthy adults the age of 18 and over. Do not use this product if you are nursing, pregnant, or attempting to become pregnant. Consult a physician before using this or any other dietary supplement. Do not take this product if you have any pre-existing medical conditions. Do not use Bioperine® without physician supervision since it may increase blood levels of prescription medications. This product contains all-natural ingredients which may by banned by certain sports organizations. Tested athletes should not use this product and user accepts all risks, liabilities, and consequences in regards to testing. KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN.