With the help of this website and countless hours of research I believe that I have a solid foundation knowledge of bodybuilding and supplementation. Through the years, Universal Nutrition has grown to become one of my favorite supplement companies, especially because of their great promos and the fact that their products really work. I have always had Universal Storm (creatine) and Shock Therapy (pre-workout NO booster) as staples in my diet, however I was hesitant to add Universal Torrent (protein) to the mix. Although I knew that Torrent would complement my current supplements really well and give it the extra punch that my supplement stack needs, I wasn’t ready to take the plunge and purchase it.
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There are a few reasons why I did not try Torrent:

1) Ever since I first started training a few years back I used Optimum Nutrition’s 100% Whey as my post-workout product. I was really content with the taste of this chocolate protein in milk. However, as my knowledge of supplementation grew and I started adding more and more to my post-workout shake and mixing it in water, I began to enjoy this taste less and less. My post-workout nutrition, as you can see in the picture, consisted of ON 100% Whey, ON Glutamine powder, ON BCAA powder, ON Glycomaize, and Universal Creatine Monohydrate. As you can imagine, this shake tasted pretty bad. The only thing I can compare this to is the taste of chalk (if you have ever tried eating chalk you’ll understand), with a powdery aftertaste. Taking Universal Torrent post-workout would eliminate the need for all 5 of these products. In the past I have thought about changing up my post-workout nutrition, but I felt the need to be loyal to ON since it has brought me so far. On the contrary, three years of the same chalky chocolate taste had my taste buds longing for much more.

2) Another reason why I haven’t tried Torrent is that I have always thought it to be an expensive product. For the average college student, like myself, it is priced a little too high. Nevertheless, I didn’t expect that I’d be mixing 5 different powders into my post-workout shake. Adding up the price of the 5 powders together makes Torrent seem relatively cheap.

3) This may seem like a poor reason to not try a product, but I was always somewhat scared to try a protein that wasn’t chocolate flavored. My doubts were soon put to rest when I tried the sample of the Green Apple Avalance flavor of Torrent that Universal Nutrition sent upon request. It was absolutely delicious, and a very positive change from the norm.

Aside from tasting better and being hassle-free, Torrent comes with extra goodies that were not in my previous post-workout nutrition. Torrent contains a creatine complex, carbohydrates for muscle recovery, and a high percentage of BCAA’s and glutamine. Torrent is specifically designed to be consumed in the post-workout period and has a specially based formula to act in this period. This distinct formula cannot be replicated, even if I was to add many other powders to my previous post-workout nutrition. Recent studies have shown a lot about the positive benefits of supplementing with leucine, and you’d finally be able to see if the hype is true with Torrent. On top of that it is very exciting to see the volumizing effects of Citrulline Malate, and how your body responds to the creatine derivatives in Torrent.

Universal Torrent is exactly what I needed to propel my training to the next level, and hope that you’ll feel the same way.