We all need a little Venom

A new product got advertised at a local health club recently. It is Venom. Buy it and you'll presumably get the kick you need to excel at your workouts. Or it will you get you the kick that you need recover from your workout.

There are no directions on the machine. Nor are there any of the dosages of what is in Venom.But the club has always been good to its people before, so it is reasonable to assume that what's in Venom must be good as well.

Nevertheless, a check on what's in anything is always prudent. Googling Venom reveals that one bottle contains 2 servings, that it has 80mg of caffeine per serving along with 30gm of carbs 30 of sugar and 200mg of ginseng along with 3000mg of taurine. All of that together is quite a kick. Drink the whole bottle and the 165 pound man would probably take off. Or, that all makes sense on the basis of this rather small 148pound male writer who never misses a workout. Thus you should only do one serving at a time (unless you are well over 250 and quite sedentary.

So, if that makes some sense to you, Venom might be worth a try regardless of what the wet blanket folks say. Their warnings are always all the same. Anything with a kick like that or any where similar is too hard on your heart and should most surely be avoided. One might be inclined to agree, especially if they had an academic degree after their name, were it not for the fact that they more than likely they would have no trouble with a pre workout breakfast of hash browns, eggs a couple pieces of toast and maybe some bacon along with a glass of whole milk.

Perhaps this is not being sufficiently kind to the NormalMajority, but it does seem appropriate. Their preferred energy booster is just as hard on you, perhaps even harder. What's more they do not call it an energy booster. They just call it breakfast something no one should be without whether they do a workout or not. That's what they think you need to make it through the day. Of course, you have to digest it before it becomes available to do what it's supposed to do. And that says nothing about whether the digestion will be impaired from yesterday's lunch or even dinner from the night before that..

The long and short of Venom is that it may be the right energy booster for you either as a pre-workout supplement or as one which is perfect for recovery. If you have the cash, as it is a little expensive, you might want to try it both before and after your workout in place of the tried and true eggs, hash brown, glass of milk, toast etc routine. It does have calories and it does have caffeine and sugar content, so you need to be careful. Too much can make you fat, make you irritable and even cause all of the problems that all of the normal people are sure to follow from using any performance enhancer of any kind. But, as a workout enhancer or athletic lifestyle enhancer as this author prefers calling it, it just might be what coach ordered. (And yes this is supposed to read "what the doctor ordered.) Because of its liquid form it really may do everything you might wish for, resulting in such a net performance increase that the extra calories (60 per serving) may well quickly drive into the negative.

The bottom line then is simple : try it, you might like it. Just skip the breakfast and all of other supposedly normal or true and true stuff that will theoretically never get you.