If you haven’t already heard, GNC launched its most Xtreme pre-workout to-date, Beyond Raw Concept X. Concept X is the ultimate pre-workout with clinically studied ingredients to maximize your performance. This pre-workout goes beyond just short-term effects to get you focused and pumped for your workout. Concept X pre workout is clinically dosed to target benefits over time too!
What is Concept X?
Beyond Raw Concept X is GNC’s most Xtreme pre-workout with 16 ingredients intentionally selected to provide Xtreme performance, strength, and recovery. This was designed for bodybuilders, powerlifters and gym rats seeking a pre-workout to help them work harder and get intense results.
Concept X pre workout is engineered to provide immediate and long-term benefits including:
- Energy and Focus
- Strength
- Muscle pumps
- Endurance
- Reduce muscle soreness
- Immune support
Concept X was formulated by our very own Registered Dietitian, Dr. Lauren Green, who walks the walk as a Certified Personal Trainer, a figure competitor, and powerlifter.
What are the Benefits of Concept X?
What Can You Expect to Feel?
As mentioned before, Concept X was designed with intention. Ingredients were hand selected to provide immediate and long-term benefits. Get pumped because we are about to dive into the specific benefits from immediate to 8-weeks, along with other long-term benefits of supplementation!
Get pumped for your workout! Immediate Effects of Concept X
Caffeine, beta-alanine, and creatine are staple pre-workout ingredients for immediate effects. These are commonly understood in the fitness world as priority ingredients for focus and pumps. Here’s what you can expect to feel immediately after taking a dose of Concept X:
Energy and Focus
With 250 mg caffeine followed by 50 mg targeted-release Xtenergy caffeine, the immediate energy and focus of caffeine is unbridled compared to standard pre-workout supplements. Additionally, we loaded Concept X with extra energy and focus with Dynamine. Beyond caffeine, we added a whopping 5 g of creatine to provide quick energy fuel for your working muscle.
Muscle Pumps
Intense gym goers love the tingles from pre-workouts! Concept X delivers a double dose of tingles with 6.4 grams of beta-alanine, almost double the amount of traditional pre-workouts. Not only does beta-alanine provide a feeling of tingles, but it also helps buffer the burn – meaning you might be able to push through an extra rep or two. To boost nitric oxide production, Nitrosigine is a blend of arginine, inositol and silica, which has been clinically studied to enhance N.O. production, promoting increased blood flow during exercise*.
Read More: Beta-Alanine Basics
Who gets Stronger? It’s You, After 2 Weeks!
Within 2 weeks, improvements in strength can be seen from consuming Myotor daily at 325 mg, the exact dose found in one serving of Concept X. Myotor is a blend of two Ayurvedic botanical extracts which have been clinically shown to improve muscle strength in just 2 weeks!^
Read More about Myotor: What Is Myotor?
Four or More… What to Expect After 4 Weeks of Supplementation
After 4 weeks, you’ll start feeling the benefits from Carnosyn, aka beta-alanine. Carnosyn has been clinically shown to increase the carnosine level in muscles. Carnosine is a critical control fatiguing factor, contributing to your ability to buffer the burn and enhance endurance. Endurance can take your training to the next level allowing your body to push through a few extra reps. A study demonstrated after 4-weeks of supplementing Carnosyn, muscle carnosine levels increased by almost 60% (1)!
Eight is Great! Two Months after Routinely Using Concept X
Pushing through to 8 weeks, an unprecedented improvement in strength can be seen with an average bench press increasing by 23 lbs. and leg extension increasing by 17 lbs^*. Not only will Myotor allow for more strength gains, it’s also been clinically shown to improve muscle strength and stamina with half the exercise. In other words, if your buddy hits 2 sets of resistance training and you hit only 1 set (but you’ve been taking Myotor), you will still see similar improvements!^*
Finally, Concept X provides some long-term benefits from vitamin C, Astragin, and Rhodiola rosea. These ingredients offer immune support, physical stress defense, and nutrient absorption improvements.
- Boost Your Immune System – With one scoop providing 90 mg of vitamin C, your immune system will get 100% of your daily Vitamin C needs to boost your immune defense (2). Less time feeling under the weather means more time training. More time training equals gains!
- Fight the Radicals – Vitamin C also acts as antioxidant by reducing free radicals produced from intense exercise (3). This potent antioxidant has a whole host of health benefits
- Improve Nutrient Absorption – With 50 mg of Astragin® per serving, the patented blend of two botanicals has shown to enhance the absorption of vital nutrients in pre-clinical laboratory studies4*
- Adapt to Physical Stress – Rhodiola rosea has traditionally been used as an adaptogen. Apaptogenic compounds help our bodies adapt to intense physical stress.
As you can see, Concept X is one of a kind. Developed with the intention to take your workouts to an Xtreme level and benefits ranging from immediate to long-term for performance support. GNC went beyond the standard pre-workout for those seeking cutting-edge performance support. Take your training to the next level with clinically studied ingredients to boost performance and recovery. Concept X is not for the faint of heart. If you are new to the pre-workout scene, start with using half the dose or another entry-level pre-workout like Beyond Raw LIT or Beyond Raw LIT AF. Then work your stamina up to the most Xtreme pre-workout at GNC.
*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.
^An 8-week randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of 118 healthy men participating in a supervised resistance training program showed that those taking MyoTOR® had significant increases in mean upper body strength (42.5 lbs vs. 19.4 lbs), mean lower body strength (37.1 lbs vs. 19.2 lbs) and muscle endurance after 8 weeks vs. those who took a placebo with the same exercise. Improvements in strength were seen in as early as 2 weeks. Men on MyoTOR® had greater improvements in muscle strength and upper body endurance vs. those who took a placebo but exercised twice as much.
Note: For long-term benefits take Concept X routinely, long-term benefits will not occur from a one-time dose
References
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- Carr AC, Maggini S. Vitamin C and Immune Function. Nutrients. 2017; 9(11):1211. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu9111211
- Donizete C.X. de Oliveira, Flavia Troncon Rosa, Lívia Simões-Ambrósio, Alceu Afonso Jordao, Rafael Deminice. Antioxidant vitamin supplementation prevents oxidative stress but does not enhance performance in young football athletes, Nutrition, Volumes 63–64, 2019, Pages 29-35, ISSN 0899-9007, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nut.2019.01.007.
- AstraGin product dossier. Retrieved from: https://docdro.id/rA01t9O
