Muscle Elements AmiNO Flow: THE Weight Lifter’s BCAA

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Everyone loves a great tasting and effective BCAAsupplement. Whether you’re looking to fill up before a big training session, refuel mid workout, or get through a tough dieting cycle, BCAA supplements provide a means to make sure you never enter the dreaded catabolic state.

Meanwhile, all weight lifters love a great pump! Yet until this spectacular product came out, nobody ever really mixed the two categories together.

Muscle Elements takes the traditional BCAA supplement and turbo charges it, adding several components to help boost nitric oxide production and give your better pumps while keeping you anabolic in their hit intra workout supplement, AmiNo Flow.

Put simply, this is the the intra workout supplement for weight lifters – so much so that we named it the Best BCAA Supplement for lifters and asked Muscle Elements if they’d be our featured brand this summer!

So what’s in AmiNO Flow that sets it apart from the prototypical BCAA powder?

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AmiNO Flow Ingredients

AmiNO Flow doesn’t rely on a sole ingredient to increase NO levels, but uses a complex system of ingredients to boost NO production and improve nutrient transportation.

AmiNO flow is the first BCAA product that can stake claim to the label “Amino-Oxide,” a brand new division of BCAA supplements that combine amino acids and nitric oxide boosters. You may have seen other products that have tried to do this with the addition of a single ingredient. AmiNO Flow uses a system of potent NO boosters to dilate those blood vessels and generate some serious pumps. Let’s see what they have in store!

• Muscle Growth & Recovery Matrix

  • Instant BCAA Blend 3:1:2 (5g)

    AmiNO Flow is first and foremost a BCAA supplement, and Muscle Elements gets things rolling with a healthy dose of 5g of BCAA in a 3:1:2 ratio of Leucine, Isoleucine, and Valine.

    The benefits of BCAA supplementation aren’t new by any means, but are always worth mentioning:

    • Improved Recovery^[1,2]
    • Stimulates Muscle Protein Synthesis^[3,4]
    • Increased Stamina^[5,6]
    • Reduced Soreness^[5,6]

  • L-Taurine (1g)

    Taurine is a conditionally essential amino acid with large stores located in the muscles, heart, and brain. It’s also one of the most abundant amino acids in the body.

    More importantly, Taurine works together with BCAAs to reduce muscle soreness.^[7] Additionally, taurine acts as a cell volumizer by drawing water and nutrients into muscles.^[8] This will help with endurance during your workout and ensure those BCAAs get to where they’re needed most.

• Pump & Transport Elements

  Here’s where AmiNo Flow starts to get crazy, adding nitric oxide boosters to an intra workout.

  

  The Citrulline Pathway – Get ready to get PUMPED!

  The first ingredient is the primary driver, but what we love is that there are also three ingredients that aren’t typically in pre workout supplements, so you’re going to get pumped up in more ways than you otherwise would have.

  • L-Citrulline (2g)

    When looking to increase Nitric Oxide production in the body, there’s not a better place to start the L-Citrulline. It converts to Arginine in the body and boosts nitric oxide levels better than arginine itself. Beyond the boosted NO levels, you’ll also experience increased training capacity,^[9]and reduced fatigue.^[10]

    Effective clinical doses of citrulline are usually in the range of 3-4g; however, since this is intended to be used intra workout, stacking this with a pre workout that contains some additional citrulline will simply put you over the edge, and keep the pump lasting through the end of your workout (and even longer afterward).

  • Agmatine Sulfate (250mg)

    

    The awesome team at ME knows how to get you pumped up!

    Riding co-pilot with Citrulline in the potent pump producer department is Agmatine Sulfate. Whereas Citrulline directly boosts NO levels, Agmatine indirectly boosts NO levels by preventing its breakdown.^[11]

    Aside from providing better pumps, agmatine supplementation also has the potential to reduce perceived pain,^[12] leading to increased training capacity. The usual dose of Agmatine is between 500-1000mg, but again this is an intra workout product and when combined with the L-Citrulline already contained in AmiNO Flow, should provide for some serious pumps!

  • L-Histidine (125mg)

    Histidine is another amino acid that dilates blood vessels helps to lower blood pressure.^[13] Other function of Histidine include regulating the pH levels of blood, wound healing, and regulating the body’s various growth and repair processes.

  • L-Ornithine HCl (125mg)

    Ornithine is involved in the urea cycle and a precursor of Arginine. Ornithine has demonstrated the ability to spike growth hormone levels in bodybuilders.^[14] Newer research also shows that Ornithine supplementation can benefit muscle protein synthesis and reduce fatigue.^[15,16]

  • Grape Seed Extract 95% (75mg)

    Grape Seed extract comes from the Vitis Vinifera plant which are standardized for polyphenols to increase their potency. Grape seed extract contains many compounds like tannins and catechins that have been shown to increase nitric oxide production^[17] and reduce oxidative stress after bouts of exercise.^[18]

• Hydration & Endurance Elements (750mg)

  AmiNO Flow finishes things off with a trifecta of heavy hitting electrolytes in the form of: Disodium Phosphate, Dicalcium Phosphate, and Dimagnesium Phosphate. These ensure the muscles of the body are properly hydrated and maintain the delicate fluid balance required to allow your muscles to continue firing from start to end.

Our AmiNo Flow Review with PreCre

Mike, Amin, and Chris did a workout review below, and you can see what happened to Chris when we also stacked in AmiNo Flow: He went from beast most to beast mode x9000!!!

Flavors Available

Muscle Elements AmiNO Flow is the first truly effective Amino-Oxide supplement that provides BCAAs and Nitric Oxide boosting ingredients.

AmiNO Flow is available in Fruit Punch and Watermelon, giving you two options to quench your thirst, fuel your muscles, and boost your nitric oxide levels.

Despite not normally liking standard fruit punch flavors, we’re huge fans of this one! It has the honor of being the best smelling supplement, too, which is definitely out of the ordinary for BCAA supplements, which typically smell pretty bad. Smell isn’t that important, it’s just cool to note that this product’s experience is a total pleasure from start to finish!

Takeaway

Muscle Elements has broken new ground with the creation of AmiNO Flow, and we should have written about this way sooner!

Until now, most BCAA products attempted to combine amino acids and NO booster, but were ultimately unsuccessful. Using a healthy dose of BCAAs and a unique system of NO boosters yields a superior “Amino-Oxide” product that will fuel your workouts and provide for some of the best pumps and intra workout nutrition you’ve ever experienced.

Although this is the first in the category of “Amino-Oxide” supplements, we expect to see many more candidates enter the fray as we’ve seen over the past year with the ever expanding category of Energy Aminos in our Best BCAA Guide.