Xenadrine Maximum Hardcore RIPPED Product Review

Ladies–you may have used Xenadrine in the past.  They used to have a pretty good product years ago when ephedra was legal.  Made me buzz like a bee and spring around like a grasshopper.

(These days I’m more like a slug.)

Xenadrine RIPPED (I can’t be bothered with the ‘Maximum Hardcore’ bit–although it does say that on the bottle) may be the product for you if you’re thinking about buffing up and causing bar fights.  (Or oiling yourself down and hitting a Ms. Universe contest.) 

Or it could be advantageous if you have a couch potato partner who was once the captain of the football team and now plays a defensive position from the couch.

It uses ingredients proven to cause impressive weight loss in test subjects who took them synergistically (but I’ll get to that next.)

Besides beefcake photography (that may have distracted me away from this review for a bit) and hyped up marketing, here are the Xenadrine RIPPED claims:

• Lose 8 Times the Weight Loss as Shown in Clinical Studies
• Lose Weight to Reveal Razor-Sharp Definition
• Extreme Energy for Amplified Intensity

Now a friendly warning here–I did manage to find one customer testimonial for this product, and the lady wasn’t impressed.  She was your average dieting individual–noti nterested in bulking up, and she PUT ON WEIGHT using Xenadrine RIPPED!  Oops!  She was also left feeling bloated and irritable. 

Feed it to your man.  He’s bloated and irritable anyway…

Xenadrine Maximum Hardcore RIPPED Ingredients

The ingredients in Xenadrine Ripped read like a phone book.  Only they’re more boring.  I’m going to do this–for your sanity and mine.  I’ll list them, and then talk to you about the four ingredients that caused 8 times more weight loss–because that’s the interesting stuff anyway. 

• vitamin c
• thiamin
• riboflavin
• niacin
• vitamin B6
• vitamin B12
• pantothenic acid
• calcium, primostim
• caffeine anhydrous
• L-ornithine alpha ketoglutarate
• serenoa repens fruit
• inositol
• L-lysine
• armicut
• alchemilla vulgaris leaf extract
• olea europaea leaf extract
• cuminum cyminum seed extract
• mentha longifolia leaf extract
• ampli FX
• GABA
• medicago sativa leaf and stem
• L-histidine
• myodrene ripped
• ginkgo biloba leaf extract

Phew!  Told you.  I swear fat burner manufacturers put so many ingredients in a pill just to knock us off guard.  After all, if it sounds good it must be good, right?  

Wrong!

Consider this–most of these ingredients are thrown into a small 434 mg proprietary blend.  Yikes!  Blends hide ineffective ingredient quantity.  You simply don’t know how much of what you’re getting. 

Now let’s talk about that clinical trial.  Test subjects were either given the following four ingredients–Alchemilla vulgaris extract, Olea europaea extract, Cuminum cyminum extract, Mentha longifolia extract–or a placebo over a 12-week period.  The subjects using the active ingredients lost an average of 20.94 lbs versus 1.70 lbs in the placebo group.

But now consider this–the test subjects weren’t actually using Xenadrine RIPPED.  And I’m betting all the change in my purse (don’t get too excited) that you’re not getting anywhere close to clinical dose in a 434 mg blend.

Nope.  Just aint happenin’ I’m afraid.

The Skinny On Xenadrine Maximum Hardcore RIPPED

If you’re determined to use this product just know that it’s probably not going to work effectively enough to warrant its $50 price tag.  There’s no money-back guarantee so you’ll want to be smart and find it cheaper on-line.  I discovered it for as low as $23 on a well-known website.

And if they’re selling it, that should tell you something.

Sorry ladies–don’t plan on this product levitating your man from his horizontal TV-trolling position.  (Divorce works.)