Gnarly Sports Nutrition—helps you excel
Gnarly is a sports nutrition company that makes products for all levels of performance, whether you are a weekend warrior or a serious professional athlete. But how is Gnarly different and what makes it better you may be asking yourself? Well, Gnarly not only offers a great product mix but they pride themselves on using only natural ingredients, which means no GMOs, artificial colours or flavours and they don’t use gluten or soy in any of their products. They use researched based formulations that only include quality ingredients which results in their products tasting delicious, and mixing up smoothly without any stomach irritation. Their product line includes Whey or Vegan Protein, Performance Greens, Pre-workout, Fuel₂O, Hydrate, Branch Chain Amino Acids (BCAA’s), Creatine, Collagen, Vitamin D3, and Magnesium Glycinate—essentially everything you need to fuel your workouts or adventures. We’ve featured a few of Gnarly’s products in our Best Summer Accessories 2022 and 2023 articles, so be sure to give those a read.
To back up all of these amazing claims Gnarly has obtained 3rd party certification from NSF which is recognized by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) as the gold standard in third-party testing. NSF Certified Gnarly products are tested for true label claims, microbe content, heavy metals and pesticides as well as undergoing a toxicology review to certify product formulation. They are also tested with a second standard called ‘NSF for Sport certification’ which tests for over 270 substances that are on the WADA banned substances list such as stimulants, steroids, narcotics, and diuretics and are prohibited by most major sporting organizations like the NFL and MLB which only allows athletes to consume products with NSF for Sport certification. Marketing hyperbole and misleading labels easily mask the truth whereas scientific data and rigorous testing tell you exactly what you are ingesting, this is why Gnarly has invested the time and resources into obtaining these certifications. The NSF logo on the Gnarly product labels indicates that their products contain safe and high-quality ingredients and it conveys the transparency, honesty and trustworthiness which we all deserve.
Gnarly also takes sustainability into consideration and uses steel cans instead of plastic for all of their tubbed products. With less than 8% of all plastic being recycled, it makes sense to use steel which has a recycling rate of 70%. Plastic can also only be recycled 2-3 times before it’s no longer usable and ends up in a landfill (or worse, in the ocean) and the process of recycling it is very energy intensive. Steel on the other hand is infinitely recyclable and 2/3 of all new steel comes from recycled steel. In the United States, the average person creates more than four pounds of waste every day with 25% of that being packaging. This number is only climbing higher which is why Gnarly has committed to remove all plastic from their product line by 2025.
If you want to give Gnarly a try one of the best ways to do this is by ordering a few sample boxes which allows you to try a variety of their products without committing to a large volume and cost. Each sample box contains 4 single-serve stick packs of Gnarly products customized for your diet and lifestyle and they are priced at $9.99US which includes free shipping. The sample box options are:
▪ The Everyday Sample Box includes Performance Greens, Whey or Vegan Protein (Vanilla and Chocolate) and Hydrate with a choice between their BCAA's or Collagen product.
▪ The Strength Sample Box contains their Pre-Workout, BCAA’s, Whey or Vegan Protein (Vanilla and Chocolate) and a choice of Hydrate or Collagen products.
▪ The Endurance Sample Box contains Fuel2O, Hydrate, Whey or Vegan Protein (Vanilla and Chocolate) and a choice between BCAA's or Collagen.
▪ The Adventure Sample Box contains Fuel2O, Hydrate, Performance Greens and Whey or Vegan Protein (Vanilla and Chocolate).
In each of the following months, I’ll be featuring a different Gnarly product to explain what they are all about and why they might work for you and your training or adventure goals. Be sure to follow along. If you want to learn more about Gnarly’s Vegan Protein, Performance Greens, Fuel₂O, Collagen, BCAAs and Creatine then click on the product link that interests you most and get more informed about all their great products.