Supplements for Stronger Nutrition?

admin — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:39:34 -0400

There are thousands of websites and businesses out there trying to sell you nutritional supplements. It is an industry worth billions of dollars. One of many nutritional supplements dealers on the web, Stronger Nutrition, is the subject of this review. They have over 3500 products, unfortunately, most of them probably aren't worth the ink on their labels. For every supplement that does offer some type of nutritional benefit, there are hundreds more that probably hurt more than they help.

Is There Such Thing as a Good Supplement?

Well, as I've stated before, I believe there are two supplements that have benefit: protein powder, and creatine. Everything else is suspect in my books and I'd recommend you truly look into whatever claims that supplement is making before laying down your money to buy it. Chances are it is being marketed to your emotions, hopes, and dreams and any money you do pay for it, you may as well have thrown in the garbage. The supplements that make the sales will be known as super supplements whether they do anything or not.

What is Stronger Nutrition?

Stronger Nutrition is an online store that sells nutritional supplements and... I wish I could tell you more about the company, but when I went to their About Page -- wait a minute -- there is no about page! So, I really don't know who they are, except that they are based out of the United States judging by where they ship to. As far as online stores go, it is a clean interface and there isn't really anything about Stronger Nutrition that makes it truly stand out among the gazillion other nutritional supplement businesses as the goto place for online supplement shopping.

What's Useful About Stronger Nutrition?

Amazon has lead the way in online shopping, and Stronger Nutrition was wise to include reviews in their product pages. Especially in the supplement industry where you are trying to figure out if you should bother wasting money on another pill or powder. At least when there is a review, and if you can trust that review, you can ride the back of someone who's already spent the money.

Only problem here is that Stronger Nutrition is either a new site or an infrequently shopped site and there aren't a whole lot of reviews there to advise you. The ones I did find are quite suspect - consisting of one line, positively promoting the product, and no indication of who left it. Just a date. Deduce from that what you want.

On the plus side, the internet is a big place, so if there is no review on Stronger Nutrition, a quick google for the product plus the word review will likely yield some interesting results. I'd suggest you take a minute and do that before purchasing any.

Shop by Goal

Shop by Goal

A decent feature of the site is the ability for you to shop by goal. Really just a way to categorize supplements, but an intuitive way. If you want to gain muscle, you are presented with the supplements that claim to do that. If you want to lose weight, you are presented with the supplements that claim to do that. This is handy and at least sets you in the right direction when you're thinking you need a boost by supplementing your diet.

Is it a Good Site to Buy Supplements From?

If you're going to buy supplements, then there are plenty to choose from. Stronger Nutrition has a wide and varied selection and a rewards program designed to keep you coming back (and refer others). Guess what, though, most every supplement site on the internet has that.

They have a forum, which is pretty much standard, but again, lack of traffic or interest or time means you can read every post in their forum in about twenty minutes.

The only thing left that may entice you to buy from Sports Nutrition is price. So, I compared this muscle milk on Stronger Nutrition with the same muscle milk at the highly trafficked Bodybuilding.com supersite. Stronger Nutrition sells the product for $4.01 less. To be honest, I was actually stunned for a sec when I saw that as I usually buy my protein powder from Bodybuilding.com thinking that as far as supplement sites go, it was the granddaddy of them all and should naturally have lower prices.

Looks like I may be buying my protein powder from Stronger Nutrition from now on...