IForce Nutrition : Finish Line Post-Workout

After distributing the Iforce Nutrition line for nearly a decade, Predator Nutrition has finally borne witness to the American brand's first ever post-workout supplement in Finish Line.

How Post-Workouts Lost Their Place

Truth be told, when Predator was first established in 2009, the post-worrkout category was still among the most popular around with gymgoers conditioned to think of training as being a three step endeavour comprising of a pre-workout, intra-workout and post-workout to facilitate the ideal bodily environment for improving performance and recovery. However, over the years we have seen the post-workout category decline with many individuals either electing to skip a post-workout drink of any kind or else sufficing with a protein shake.

The reason why post-workouts fell out of fashion across the board is most were designed based on scientific studies conducted in endurance athletes and so in the bad old days, most post-workouts packed in upto 100g of fast digesting sugars. While these play a role for endurance athletes, the truth is bodybuilding style training uses glycogen only to a small degree with the ATP/CP system being the dominant energy source for fueling our gym efforts. As such, taking a drink packed with carbs was a great way for most users of these supplements to get fat and bloated.

Finish Line - A New Generation Post-Workout Shake

Fortunately, many trainees have started to become wise to the role that recovery plays, primarily through their experiencing benefits from intra-workout supplements. 

Intra-Workouts generally contain high amounts of bcaa's, a fast acting amino acid that plays a key role in the regulation of muscle recovery and muscle growth and it is bcaa's that are the number one ingredient in Finish Line, with Iforce packing in 6g of bcaa's in a 4:1:1 ratio which features 4g of the most important of the bcaa's, l-leucine, and the amino acid more important than any other in the cellular signalling process that helps create new muscle growth.

However, Finish Line is far more than just bcaa's with it featuring a stellar cast of supporting ingredients including the research based dose of 3.2g of the acid buffering beta-alanine, 2.5g of trimethylglycine, 2g of creatine hcl, 2g of the form of carnine shown to most improve performance (l-carnitine l-tartrate) as well as glutamine, alanine and magnesium creatine chelate, a form of creatine that combines the performance benefits of creatine with the recovery boosting effects of magnesium.

Finish Line truly is a packed out formula as you can see, with many of the ingredients above being designed not so much for improving muscle recovery but enabling your muscles to perform better at subsequent workouts.