subject: Cytosport CytoGainer [print this page] I'm 20, 5'10" and was STUCK at 150 lbs no matter what I ate in my 6+ cafeteria meal/day diet (I eat very healthy) or the level of chocolate milk or peanut butter sandwiches I forced into me (you get what I mean.) I'm a hardgainer and was basically ~6-8% BF and can run a half-marathon in 1.5 hrs, so I've an extremely high calorie diet which requires 4K+ calories on behalf of me to achieve any weight, since I can't stop running. I prefer running ;p. I think the running made my calorie intake too high to manage, but I was not weight loss so I definitely hit my plateau for muscle gain from gym workouts.
I completely switched my workout exercises to a way more longer, endurance type gym workout (took like 1.5-2 hour for a gym workout which were pretty intense for a runner like me, doing 100 pull ups as only a small a part of one of the workouts as an example) and took cytogainer and went from 150-158 after surfing two 6lb tubs in around 1 month I assume. I had the cytogainer 4 times a day (2 scoops mixed with oatmeal and water, and a pair of scoops with skim milk post-workout) . I took 1 when I got up around breakfast, 2nd before workout, 3rd postworkout, 4th near bed-time. I'm positive that those endurance type of workouts would have either made me lose weight or I would have still kept a similar weight without the Cytosport CytoGainer.
I noticed after stopping the Cytogainer and switching to regular whey protein, my weight dropped from 158 to 155, which was the excess water weight. Ultimately, I made a lean 5 lb muscle gain in a month. I admit I did cut out the long distance fast pace runs during this month, but I don't believe that would have changed much of the results cuz I was burning lots of calories. Also, my bodyfat from just looking in the mirror didn't change.
I then experimented by just using plain old whey protein rather than cytogainer and again, STUCK at the same weight after trying that for around 3 weeks.
Now, I'm back to my 3rd tub of Cytogainer and after the first 1.5 weeks of being back on the stuff, my weight spiked up past 160 from 155, and I have been going to the gym 5 times a week so far.
I can testify this stuff works even when you need to do lots of cardio. You just must know how much your body must eat to pass though your calorie intake. You probably must eat very high quantities to gain weight without this supplement for someone like me. It's something I'm not willing to accomplish till I reach that point where I'm satisfied with my weight.
