iForce SwoleMate – BCAAs with a Performance Boost

SwoleMate is the latest innovation from iForce Nutrition that’s much more than another copycat BCAA intra workout supplement.

We’ve always been big fans of iForce Nutrition – even before they were bought by trusted manufacturer Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals… but now they want to take their relationship with consumers to a whole new level. SwoleMate level!

Amino acid supplements, and more specifically BCAA supps, are extremely busy niche of the supplement market. Every company has their own version of it, and for the most part, they’re all more or less the same — lots of flavoring and 5g worth of BCAAs, we hope.

However, iForce Nutrition, looks to separate themselves from the masses with a decked out BCAA product that also aims to power your performance and muscle gains with SwoleMate.

We’ve always loved iForce’s take on intra workout supplements – their COMPETE supplement doesn’t contain free form BCAAs, but does contain super-fast digesting hydrolyzed whey and that lemon drop flavor tastes downright phenomenal. Can they beat it with SwoleMate?

We’ll find out below, but first, take a moment to check the best deal and sign up for alerts from PricePlow:

SwoleMate Ingredients

Though the name can be misleading, SwoleMate is not a pump-based pre workout, but an endurance boosting, BCAA-laden intra workout that will match perfectly with iForce’s soon to debut brand new pre workout.

• BCAAs 2:1:1 (7g)

  

  SwoleMate is packing much more than just BCAAs for their performance-boosting intra workout.

  While iForce Finish Line contains a unique 4:1:1 ratio of BCAAs, SwoleMate has included the more common, researched BCAA ratio of 2:1:1. This means each scoop of SwoleMate provides get 3,500mg of Leucine, 1,750mg of Isoleucine, and 1,750mg of Valine.

  The 3.5g worth of Leucine is the key here, as it’s the primary activator of the mTOR pathway in the body.^[1] This keeps you in a pro-anabolic state throughout your workout, even without chugging some protein pre workout.

  BCAAs also provide a source of muscular energy during training, which increase performance and endurance — yielding better workouts and more gains.^[2,3]

  Why the 2:1:1 ratio?

  Some of you may be wondering why SwoleMate utilizes a different BCAA ratio than Finish Line, also made by iForce. We were curious also, so we reached out to iForce to see why:

  “Finish line is designed for post workout, so it’s designed to spike MPS (Muscle Protein Synthesis) post exercise, hence the higher Leucine content.

  SwoleMate uses a 2:1:1 ratio which has more evidence for endurance and performance.” — VaughnTrue

• Beta Alanine (1.6g)

  SwoleMate’s first performance-enhancing ergogenic is the endurance booster, beta alanine. Each serving provides half of the minimum beta alanine dose (3.2g) to see effectiveness.

  Why not include the full 3.2g?

  Well, for one, taking that much results in the tingles for most people not already saturated with BA, and two, and more importantly, research demonstrating beta alanine’s endurance enhancing effects uses several smaller doses spread throughout the day to optimize nutrient uptake. When you consume 3.2g or more at once, you’re essentially oversaturating the BA receptors and not absorbing all of it.

  Beta Alanine’s effects on endurance are pretty well known, but it’s also proven to increase strength, work capacity, and time to exhaustion.^[4-6]

• Betaine (1.25g)

  

  Will you be iForce’s SwoleMate?

  The next interesting addition to SwoleMate is the strength-building Betaine, a.k.a trimethylglycine (TMG). Betaine is a metabolite of choline, naturally found in sugar beets, that supports / enhances creatine production in the body.

  Betaine also increases power, strength, and endurance.^[7-9] Additionally, betaine can reduce soreness, something typically associated with the ergogenic.

  We’ve got loads more info on betaine, but to avoid going on a wild tangent, see our betaine mega-post for all of your betaine needs!

• L-Citrulline (1g)

  Citrulline is a proven and effective nitric-oxide boosting ingredient, much more than L-Arginine^[10]; however, that’s not the primary reason its here — you’d need 3g minimum to really notice that.

  In this case, the gram of L-Citrulline serves to bolster your pre workout dose of L-Citrulline (or Citrulline Malate), and improve your intra-workout endurance, thanks to Citrulline’s role as an intracellular buffer in the body.^[11,12]

  Our favorite intra workout supplements have a bit of pump ingredients like this — we always love to keep the pumps rolling during weight training sessions.

• Vitamin D (1,000IU)

  

  It’s time to get serious about your intra workout partner….it’s time to get a SwoleMate

  We don’t usually cover the vitamin and mineral content of most supplements, but when Vitamin D is included in the supplement panel, it’s something worth talking about. Simply put, people far and wide are chronically deficient in this fat-soluble vitamin due to spending too much time indoors and not enough time outside.

  Low Vitamin D levels are linked to low testosterone levels, as well as elevated estrogen levels.^[13] Additionally, men with deficient vitamin D levels also tend to have higher body fat, less muscle mass, lower lower fertility, and greater risk of CVD.

  SwoleMate is a welcome ally in keeping you swole, lean, and manly.

On the Formula

“SwoleMate was designed to offset the widespread and unethical underdosing of active ingredient so often found in the intra-workout category. Each ingredient was included to mimic clinical studies showing direct benefits, in an effort to provide users with actual gains, and not just marketing promises. While the formula may appear to be ‘simple’, SwoleMate provides more BCAAs than the competition, along with proven ergogenic training aids, all while staying at the same price point!

SwoleMate is also the first intra-workout product to not only focus on traditional aspects of training like increased endurance and muscle recovery, but to also provide efficacious doses of key ingredients to positively influence hormones like testosterone. This makes SwoleMate not only the most effectively dosed intra-workout, but the best training partner anyone can hope for.” — VaughnTrue

Flavors Available

Is Sour Lemon Candy the heir apparent to iForce Compete Lemon Drop?!

iForce always brings the goods when it comes to flavoring, as we found with the old HEMAVOL and COMPETE lemon drop reviews. When SwoleMate debuts, it’ll come in these unconventional flavors for intra-workouts:

Will you be iForce’s SwoleMate?

SwoleMate packs everything you’d want in a BCAA supplement, plus a host of other ingredients well documented to improve all aspects of your performance. The extra pump and endurance during workouts is great, and we almost never say no to Vitamin D. We know the flavors are going to deliver with this product, now we just need to see how it pairs with the brand’s forthcoming pre workout….