Hey everyone, CaffeineMan here and today I
got another pre-workout drink for you.
This one's actually been requested
several times on my channel as well and
I was surprised to find that they
actually list a whole bunch of the
ingredients as well as how much of each
ingredient is in there and I'm talking
about how much creatine is in it; how
many BCAA's are in it; and all that other
stuff most people care about, unlike
those other two companies you guys know
about. Can't say the same for them.
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*LIGHTNING STRIKE!*
Hello
again everyone, thank you so much for
joining me today.
And today, to my surprise and maybe yours,
it's another pre-workout drink.
This was actually requested several
times on my channel as well and,
believe it or not, they actually
contacted me several months ago and
asked if I'd be interested in reviewing
their product if they sent me some free
product. I said, "Sure go ahead, send it and
I'll give you guys an honest review." But
then a couple months went by and I still
hadn't received the product yet. I had
been so busy I didn't really even notice
and then they contacted me just to see
how things were going.  I asked if they
had sent the product and they said they
sent it months ago. Apparently it got
lost in the mail. I have a sneaking
suspicion that the FedEx guys might have had
a little drink on the side, if you know
what I mean.
And then they were delivering packages like superfast!
They sent out another shipment immediately and today I'm going over Scorpion pre-workout energy drink with you.
Why didn't I say Scorpion energy
drink? Well because right on the
can it says Scorpion pre-workout
drink. Also as a side note, if you happen
to hear any reverb or echo, its because they
finally began demo on my office so I'm
hoping that within the next few weeks
I'll have a new studio to record my
videos in. Why do I say a few weeks? Well
it only gets worked on one day a week,
similar to my video posting schedule. So
what else are we going to go over today?
I'm actually pretty much gonna be
jumping right into the ingredients after
one or two sentences about the company.
After I go through the details of the
ingredients I'll move right into the
taste test.
And lastly I'll have some brief
announcements about some videos and
upcoming events that I'll be at. Whooof! It's
kind of be a busy summer! Scorpion came
out onto the market back when
pre-workout drinks were just starting to
become more mainstream and popular. It's
been a slow rise for pre-workout drinks
to become more mainstream and they were
lucky enough to get in early to get
their name out there. And what's actually
great about these drinks is that when
you look at the ingredients, it actually
gives you all the information on the can,
unlike some of the other companies who
don't tell you how much creatine CoQ 10
or BCAAs are in their drink. This
drink lists it all for you,
and I'm gonna go over those ingredients with you today.
So what are these ingredients and how
much of them are in there? Let's take a
look...
Oh crap. I moved sides. Always tweaking the videos.
Let's take a look. They list the serving size as one can. Nice! And it has all your standard set of zeroes.
Zero calories, zero fat, zero sugar, zero carbs
and zero protein. As for the vitamins, it
actually keeps it pretty simple. The Scorpion pre-workout drinks have 100% of your daily value of
B3, B6, B12 and vitamin C. For sodium it's a touch higher than some of the other pre-workout
drinks on the market at 300 milligrams. Which is still only 13% of your daily
value.
I think Bang in their regular drinks has
about 40 milligrams of sodium. The Bang
Keto has about 110 to 120 milligrams,
depending on which flavor Keto coffee
you get, and Reign comes in right around
200 milligrams of sodium, if you care
about sodium. Im sure some people do! For
sweeteners it uses sucralose and ace k.
and another ingredient some people seem
to like is a cyan cocoa bomb. That's what
I call it because I don't feel like
learning on how to say the proper way.
And cyan cocoa bomb is just a
man-made version of B12. For creatine,
here's where we start to get into the
numbers that nobody else likes to put on
their cans. Scorpion has 500 milligrams
of creatine in it. How about CoQ10?
Scorpion has 75 milligrams of CoQ10 in
it. Whats CoQ 10 good for? CoQ10 works
similar to an antioxidant, so it helps
out when it comes to your metabolism. It
also helps in the production of ATP,
which is a chemical form of energy,
therefore, overall supplementing with CoQ 10 can help increase power during exercise and reduce fatigue.
BCAAs.
BCAAs stand for Branched Chain Amino Acids and amino acids are the building blocks of protein.
The three most important amino acids for maintaining muscle are leucine, isoleucine and valine. Scorpion has a
combined total of 1000 milligrams of
BCAAs. It's got 500 of the leucine, 250 of
the isoleucine and 250 of the valine.
Branched chain amino acids can't be
produced by the body therefore they need
to come from food sources. Then these
amino acids are broken down in the
muscles instead of the liver, helping to
enhance energy production and muscle
synthesis during exercise. Leucine is the
preferred amino acid, because it's broken down
and processed more quickly allowing it
to be used more readily than the other
types isoleucine and valine. Overall
leucine has the most amount of benefits.
Those benefits include building muscle,
preventing muscle loss, improving
athletic performance, it helps in fat
loss, it promotes muscle recovery and
even stabilizes blood sugar. That's a lot of stuff.
Isoleucine. Compared to the
other two BCAAs, isoleucine falls in the
middle for its ability to cause muscle
protein synthesis because it's stronger
than valine but weaker than leucine. Its
primary benefit is that it lowers
glucose, decreases muscle damage and soreness, as well as reducing fatigue and boosting performance.
Valine. Workout enthusiasts love this amino acid due to its ability to prevent muscle breakdown and boost
athletic performance. How does it accomplish this?
It helps supply the muscles with extra
glucose for energy production during
intense exercise.
So how much caffeine is in these drinks? These drinks have 320 milligrams of caffeine. That's right! 320!
That surpasses Bang and Reign by 20
milligrams and puts it pretty high up
there. But it's still not the highest.
There's still pre-workout such as Hyde
and Spike that are at the 350 mark for
the same 16-ounce can. But no matter what
when you add 300, 320 or 350, you're all
pretty darn high. Not sure if you'll
really be able to feel the difference
when you get to those levels. Now let's
jump right on into the taste test. So which order am I gonna be going in? I'm
gonna try the strawberry lemonade first,
because I'm not a huge fan lemonade;
Followed by the tropical punch. I like
tropical punch but given the other
flavors, this one's fourth; Then on to
some bubble gum blast, which just sounds
delicious; Followed by the twisted lime,
because I've been having some really
good limes lately.
Limes good stuff. Finishing with a brand
new one on the market, birthday cake! How
can you not think birthday cake is gonna
be the best? Who doesn't like birthday
cake? I hope it's not the cheap birthday
cake, you know those people that cheap
out on the birthday cake? I hate that.
Gotta get a good birthday cake, I mean
you only have a birthday once a year,
make it a good birthday cake people.
Cheap birthday cake people!
Let's taste these things. First up is the strawberry
lemonade.
oh, here we go again. You know, I started
using clear cups because you guys
requested clear cups! Next thing you know,
they're all clear beverages! this one's
got a little... nope, it's clear alright. I'm
trying guys - trying to take care of
your requests, but I can't help it if
they're all clear. Wonder if all the pre
workouts are clear? We'll find out.
*gulp*
OOF!!!
That is lemonade! OOF!!!  I get hit with that lemon I
mean I'm not a fan of lemonade in
general usually because the acidity is
too high for me, but I do know what a
good lemonade tastes like and I like a
lemonade that has a bit of sugar in it
as well. Now these drinks don't have any
sugar, but this does have a decent
sweetness to it.
It's definitely get a strong lemon
flavor. And it's not just like a
lemon flavor, like some of the other
lemon flavors, this is actually like a
lemon lemonade flavor which it should be
because it's lemonade. As for the
strawberry, I'm not really getting much
strawberry out of this. That lemonade
flavor is so strong, I'm not getting much
strawberry at all it's being overpowered
by it. They should really just call this
one lemonade. If you guys have tried
these before let me know if there's
strawberry in it. If you haven't tried it
and you like lemonade pick one of these
up. Tell me if you guys taste strawberry
because I don't taste it. That lemonade
is hitting me hard. So I'm not
complaining that it's not a good
strawberry lemonade, I'm saying it's a
great lemonade flavor.
I just don't taste the strawberry.
Let's move on.  Next up is the tropical punched.
Punched. Funny. Clever. it's gonna be weird
if this one's clear. I'm used to a fruit
punch being, like, red. Can red. My shirts
red. It's gonna be clear though isn't it?
yeah it's clear. Not too big of a shock
but a little bit of a letdown. I like my
fruit punch to be red. And this is tropical
punched. I point that out because I
see red and I see punch and I think fruit
punch. This is tropical punch so there
could be some tropical mixes in here.
Anyway I'm going for fruit punch we'll find out.
Wow. It doesn't really have a fruit punch
flavor so my suspicions were true that
they're going with a tropical punch. They
didn't want to go yellow with the can
because they went yellow with the
lemonade but it's got a decent tropical
flavor to it. I get a little bit of lemon,
I get a little bit of pineapple, I get a
little bit of orange in there but, in
general, it's a fairly good tropical
flavor. The sweetness is a medium to low
sweetness and what I like about these is
that the carbonation is a medium
carbonation too. It's not too high, it's
not too low. Actually there's no such
thing as too low for me. If it had no
carbonation that would be low
carbonation. No carbonation and Id be happy
because I don't like carbonation but
these have a medium to low carbonation
as well. That's a plus in CaffeineMan's
book. But so far so good medium to high
flavor, medium to low sugar, and medium to
low carbonation. Moving on!
Next up is the Bubblegum Blast. Obviously it's pretty
straightforward from the name bubblegum
blast that its going to be a bubblegum
flavor. I'm guessing this is to kind of
compete with the other cotton candy
flavors but in general I would think
people would like bubblegum more than they
like cotton candy. Maybe that's what they
were going with? I know I prefer
bubblegum more than cotton candy. I was
never much of a cotton candy person even
as a kid. I mean who doesn't like sugar
as a kid? I like sugar as a kid. I like
sugar now, but sometimes it just gets way too
much sugar. Cotton candy is like pure sugar.
And they give you so much. It's like
that big huge hornet's nest of cotton
candy. Way overpowering if you try and
eat all that. I might, like, pick a piece
off or something like that.
Bubblegum blast! Let's get to it!
It's
clear again yeah maybe I'll actually
edit out the opening of the cans. I know
some people like the sound of the
opening of the cans, and then I pour it
in here and it's clear, but really I'm
taking up extra valuable time with that.
Who knows how long this video is going
to be, especially if I keep babbling the
babble of babble babble. Let's drink it!
Hmmmm I don't really like it too much.
Im getting a hint of sucralose flavor and
I'm not really getting much bubblegum
flavor. I'm not really getting any kind
candy flavor because it's not cotton
candy. I'm not really getting much
sweetness either. I know with the other
two drinks they were like a medium to
low sweetness and this is also kind of a
low sweetness but with something like
bubble gum you'd want a little bit more
sweetness I would think. All I'm getting is a
little bit of sucralose flavor. I'm not
really tasting the bubblegum. I'm not
really tasting much flavor at all from
this. it's very strange.
I mean if someone handed this to me and
said hey taste this, what's it taste like?
I would never come up with bubblegum. I
would never come up with candy. I'd say
it tastes like something that has a
little bit of sucralose in it and
unfortunately, this ones moving to the
bottom of my list, going right below
the lemonade. But the lemonade was
still good. This is not so good. Once
again these are just my opinions. If you
guys want to try it out feel free to go
ahead and try out the Bubblegum and if
you'd like it
say "hey CaffeineMan! I like that bubble
gum! I don't know what you're talking
about!" in the comments down below.
I won't be mad. Everyone's got a right to
their opinion. You got it right to yours.
Moving on to the next one.
Next up is the Twisted Lime. Come on Twister Lime don't
let me down. I was let down by the Bubblegum a
little bit but I've been having good
luck with some limes lately.
This is twisted lime, got a good feeling
about it good feeling.
I can smell the lime from here! Good sign!
Ah yeah, that's a good lime. It's got a
decent lime flavor,
I taste got a medium to high lime flavor.
I've tasted stronger limes but this one
is still fairly powerful. Got a medium
sweetness to it, it's got a medium to low
carbonation, you  know I'm fond of that. I just
said it a couple seconds ago. And overall
I think it's a really good twisted lime.
Twisted lime by Scorpion. Gotta try it
out if you like lime, you'll like the
twisted lime.
All right here we go! We got ourselves some birthday cake!
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday....no
copyright infringement happy birthday?
Everyone sings happy birthday. I'm so worried
about copyright infringement.
I gotta get over it but you go on YouTube and
you read this stuff and like any kind of
music or song can be copyright claimed
even if you sing it poorly at that. I'm
good at poorly singing.
Birthday cake.
Let's get to it.
MMMmmmm...
That was good! Right before I even went
to right... oooff...right before I even went to
drink it I had a little sniff and I
could smell the vanilla right up my nose
while I drank it. It was pretty awesome.
okay so yeah this is really good! it's
got a heavy sweetness to it, unlike those
other ones that had a medium sweetness
to it, this has got a little bit more
sweetness to it, which it should because
it's birthday cake!
it's got some vanilla flavor to it. It
actually has birthday cake flavor to it.
I don't know how they did it because
there are so many different kinds of
vanilla that you can have. you have a
french vanilla, you can have some other
kind of vanilla, you can have a, I don't
know, there's a lot of vanilla.
But how do you replicate a cake vanilla?
I don't know if I've ever found anyone that can replicate a cake vanilla.
Tastes almost like a buttercream maybe,
maybe they put a little buttercream
flavoring in there? Either way, I saved
this for last and it's the best one. If
you like birthday cake, you gonna wanna
get some of this one. This is a good
birthday cake. I got so many songs going
through my head right now
about   cake   cake   cake
meh..... I didnt sing it.
Wow and then just a couple of quick
little announcements, nothing big, next
week
I'm gonna be doing a very popular energy
drink that I haven't had a chance to get
to yet but it's been requested a lot on
my channel and it ranks right up there
with some of the big boys. Not only that
but it's gonna be the pre-workout
version of that energy drink because
they got a regular one, and they got
pre-workout one. It's a big company.
I'm doing the energy drink and doing the
pre-workout drink it's like I'm killing
two birds with one stone in one review.
Also in that video next week, I'm gonna
be making another announcement about an
event I'll be attending in August and
you can potentially be there as well. Get
to meet CaffeineMan for those of you
who don't already know me. Also next week
on Friday July 12th I plan on uploading
another bonus video for you guys but
this just isn't any bonus video. I'm
gonna be having a big announcement in
there. Well it's a big announcement for
me. Dont know how big it is for you guys.
I think you'll like it, it's a nice
announcement. You'll you might enjoy it.
yeah. I think you'll like it so stay
tuned for that announcement that I'm
gonna be doing a whole video on Friday
July 12th. Man, I'm gonna be having a busy
summer. A lot of recording, a lot of editing,
new studio coming, so stay tuned for
those announcements I'm also gonna be
posting it on my social media. If you
don't follow me on social media, why not?
You can find me on Instagram, Twitter,
Facebook, all at CaffeineMan1. You can
also find me on LinkedIn but that really
doesn't do much for me. Thanks for
joining me today I hope you enjoyed the
video. I enjoyed making them for you guys.
I hope you're gonna try and pick these
up. I'll include a link down below to take
you to Amazon. I'm an affiliate for
Amazon. I'll make an itty-bitty
commission on every purchase that you
make and trust me with these energy
drinks its an itty-bitty Commission. And
until next time you guys have yourselves
a great day ....
or night.
I don't think I have any outtakes... this
was pretty much straight to the point.
Did I mess up in the video? I don't know
if I messed up. You can't always have outtakes.
You can also find me on LinkedIn but that really doesn't do much for me. Not like I'm looking for a job.
I got a job. I got a second job I don't got time for another job. Stop sending me offers -
"so-and-so was looking at your prof" No they weren't!!! You're just sending me junk mail LinkedIn! No one's
looking at my page. How do you even know
CaffeineMan's a graphic designer?
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