A decider that is long overdue. BSN’s long time number one, CellMass had a sidekick a few years back, CellMass NT. To the majority of people NT was a series that took good products and made them worse. For some the CellMass NT was arguably better than the original however the extreme price that came with any supplement from that series was in the end the death of it. Sit back for a read into the differences between the two creatines and why one is left standing.
BSN tried to take on the post-workout world with CellMass NT. The original was and still is just a few creatine forms thrown in with some flavouring. It does have a few other ‘muscle building’ ingredients but the high quality creatines are the important thing. NT was a combination of BCAAs, amino acids, a range of glutamines and a few other bullshit bits (insulino-mimetic matrix, glycerol hydrating polymers, muscle cell uptake matrix). Basically they tried to supersize the power of CellMass by adding what should have been another supplement. In fact those extra ingredients, minus the rubbish, can be seen in BSN’s modern day hit, Amino X.
NT’s price was too big and to the untrained eye all you were getting was one tub for a single month. For the people that did invest, the results were not what BSN fans had become accustomed to. The ones that say NT was better, are the ones who had never tried the original first. The creatine was strong but when it comes to stacking products (cellmass formula + NT’s recovery complexes) the graph is not a straight line up. For example a protein powder may boost your growth 20% (example), stack with a creatine it might be 30%. Through in an amino acid cocktail growth might shoot to 35%. Go further, BCAAs, 38%, casein 42%, anabolics 45%.
The point is when you add another supplement to your stack you will not feel the effects as much as you would taking it without anything else. If you take nothing but amino acids, you will feel that recovery that the product promotes. Those that spent the extra cash on CellMass NT would have been stacking it with Syntha-6, N.O. Xplode and maybe even Epozine 02. The effects of BCAA’s and glutamine on top of all that would have been next to impossible to notice, and if the general public does not see results in a week or feel any different the new supplement is thrown into the no good bin.
The overall answer is that yes CellMass NT is/was better than the original. Take into consideration that it was a recovery supplement compared the original’s pure mass building formula. Two supplements for the price NT was charging actually worked out to be a good deal. The reason it dropped off the market was that BSN needed to do what they did in 2011 and make it a separate product. Market it’s amino acid ass to the novel, picky supplement enthusiasts and not to the everyday ‘3 meals a day is okay’ crowd. NT was promoted like crazy but due to the fail of the reformed CellMass and N.O. Xplode it has been lost forever. The NT brand was so badly destroyed that Epozine O2 has torn that silver styling right off. 2012 is the year of BSN and the time is coming for an upgrade on CellMass…
