Most guys don’t need much help losing the first 20 pounds.
Cut calories, get your steps in, stay consistent. The fat comes off.
But then something changes.
You get close, maybe 5-10 pounds away from the physique you’ve been working toward, and suddenly it gets harder.
Not just harder to lose fat, it’s harder to hold onto muscle.
Here’s why.
When you have a lot of fat to lose, your body has plenty of stored energy to pull from.
It’s relatively happy burning fat while leaving muscle alone.
But as you get leaner, that changes: Your body starts treating muscle tissue as a viable fuel source, and if you’re not protecting it, you start losing the muscle you’ve spent months building.
This is where most guys go wrong.
They get lean, but they don’t look the way they thought they would.
They wind up looking Flat, depleted, and smaller than before.
They lost the fat, but they lost muscle with it.
This is exactly why I created Kino Aminos.
* Kino Aminos is a complete Essential Amino Acid formula with HMB. And when you’re deep in a cut, it does a few things better than anything else I’ve tried.
It protects muscle. HMB specifically signals your body to stop breaking down muscle tissue for fuel. So even in a significant deficit, you hold onto what you’ve built.
It takes the pressure off protein. If you come up a little short on protein for the day, the most critical amino acids for muscle preservation are already covered. No stress.
It blunts hunger. I take a scoop a few hours into my fast and cravings just disappear. The chocolate flavor is insanely satisfying. More like a treat than a supplement.
Now here’s what makes the HMB in Kino Aminos particularly special.
Most guys have never heard of HMB, but the research[1] on it is f*ckn impressive.
- Doubles muscle protein synthesis: HMB has been shown to double muscle protein synthesis (MPS) while cutting muscle protein breakdown in half. That’s the exact combination you need when you’re pushing to get truly shredded.
- Stays in your system for up to 12 hours: HMB peaks in the blood 2-3 hours after taking it and stays elevated for up to 12 hours. One scoop and you’re covered all day.
- Accelerates fat loss when combined with lifting: HMB in combination with resistance training has been shown to result in meaningfully lower whole body fat. The training you’re already doing makes it more effective.
- Calcium HMB is the superior form: Kino Aminos uses Calcium HMB, which research confirms is better absorbed than the free acid form found in most cheap supplements. Don’t settle for the inferior version.
And you can’t get meaningful amounts of it from food.
You’d have to eat 5,000+ avocados to get just a few grams, so you have to supplement it.
The result of all this?
You get leaner without getting smaller. You come out the other side looking hard, full, and chiseled, not flat and depleted.
That’s the difference between a good transformation and a great one.
The leaner you get, the more you’ll benefit from Kino Aminos.
Talk Soon,
Greg O’Gallagher