ProLine Sports, Nutrition Blog

New Gels & Pre-Race Confections Coming to Market

Well, I'm personally excited about the new products First Endurance plans on bringing to market mid- 2007. Tired of gels you're using now? First Endurance proudly present to you the "Liquid Shot". The liquid shot contains 150 energy-dense calories, 720mg of electrolytes, and 1000mg of Amino acids per serving, and is all-natural and preservative-free. 

A pre-race mix was also introduced and is said to increase mental stamina, increase time to exhaustion, increase maximum workload, improve mental clarity and increase oxygenation of the muscles. Some of the included ingredients are Taurine, Quercetin and a proprietary blend of Neuro-stimulants. Sign me up! No question these two prototypes will follow the path of the recently released First Endurance EFS bars. Such a hit they can't produce them fast enough.

You'll be able to find these and other First Endurance supplements at www.ProLineSportsNutrition.com

Red, Red Wine ......

This can't be! I told the wife it was good for you, but I never thought it had endurance properties. Now, as she would say .. something about being modest and nothing in excess (I guess the bottle we killed last Saturday night doesn't count here).

Natural Blood Builder EP-NO Celebrates a One Year Anniversary

Not a lot of new endurance products can say they've weathered their first year as a new entrant into a seemingly small but growing market. Dedicated Athlete's EP-NO was the supplement of choice for a majority of professional cyclists towards the close of 2006 according to John Gamble, founder and CEO of Dedicated Athlete.

Gamble, a biochemist and cycling coach, spent five years developing a natural nutrition product with superior ingredient that would provide endurance athletes exceptional absorbability and safe performance benefits.  In September, the EP-NO product received an endorsement from Jonathan Vaughters as a staple training tool for Team Slipstream p/b Chipotle Professional Cycling Team.

“2006 was the first season where we did a full schedule in Europe. A schedule of that intensity grinds on everybody. Obviously we’ve seen, in the past, guys start to flirt with anemia, and definitely red cell counts and iron counts lower. The greatest thing about EP-NO is that it’s an organic iron and not just a chemical extraction iron. It absorbs so much better into the body,” said Vaughters, an acclaimed climber as a professional and winner of Stage 5 in the 2001 Tour de France, who is currently the Directeur Sportif/general manager of Team Slipstream presented by Chipotle. Team Slipstream is one of several professional teams using EP-NO..... Click here to read the full press release

The company is set to launch one of their newest products later this month. Rapid Recharge, recovery in a jug, will go head to head with Ultragen manufactured and marketed by First Endurance. Dedicated Athlete also touts a Multi-Vitamin designed specifically for endurance athletes and the like.

EP-NO and the full line of Dedicated Athlete products can be purchased on-line at www.ProLineSportsNutrition.com

We hope to see a lot more from Dedicated Athlete in 2007

Rejuvenation Centers and Steroid Stings?

Good Lord! Did Barry Bonds not teach these people anything? If big names like Evan Fields (Evander Holyfield), Kurt Angle and Jerry Hairston Jr. from a previous sting are unveiled... watch out.  SI (Sports Illustrated) tagged along while investigators from multiple law enforcement agencies completed raids on several facilities.

"It will take weeks, months perhaps, for authorities to sift through the client lists, hard drives, invoices and trash from Dumpsters that were seized in the raids -- more than a ton of documents was confiscated. And when they're through, investigators believe they'll unearth the names of hundreds, even thousands of clients who have received a wide array of drugs; and that list is likely to include prominent athletes." ... read more

The daily grind... my daily struggle

Got off the "L" this past Monday at around 5:30am after a blurry, eye opening 4am revelry. Off the tracks and up the stairs... the long walk down the hall; along the moving walkway and up to the United baggage carousel #1. I wait among 60 or so other people waiting on an escort. It looked like most of them had been waiting pensively well before I showed up. And for good reason. The minute our escort team arrived on the scene I felt like I had regressed back to the second grade... unable to think for myself. You see where I'm headed.