Is Betancourt’s B-Nox Testosterone Boosting Pre-Workout The New King?

There’s no need to get into why so many supplement reviews suck. Everyone knows they’re not real, the person writing it uses generic pics, generic words and gives a generically positive rating.

We explained most in more detail in our “Why 90% of Supplement Reviews Really Aren’t That Helpful” post. Skinny Yoked is different.

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Up for today we have a real review that we hope will actually be of use to you if you are planning to try a new pre-workout and are comparing B-Nox Androrush by Betancourt Nutrition against it’s competitors like ON’s Gold Pre, Nitraflex by GAT (read full review here) Pre Jym or any other “fully loaded” pre-workout mix.

New Name; Same Great Test-boosting PWO

First of all, when searching on Amazon or Bodybuilding.com you may see two different types of Bullnox.

This is because the old name for this supplement was Bullnox Androrush which they’ve now shortened to just “B-Nox”. So the question of B-Nox vs Bullnox is a false one; they are the same thing.

The label also got a new more fresh design. Both are still being sold though and they’re the same thing, so if you can find the old one at a discount price, pick it up!

As you can see from the label, B-Nox is not just your average run-of-the-mill pre-workout.

It also bills itself as a full functioning “Testosterone Igniter”. This makes sense giving their raging bull branding.

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Obviously, the only way to significantly increase your testosterone levels is with steroids. If you DON’T know your current testosterone levels it’s worth getting those measured. You can either go to your doctor or get a home test kit mailed to you. Either way it’s important to make sure you’re T-levels are healthy otherwise you could be spinning your wheels in the gym.

To maintain your natural LEVELS of test you simply need to eat healthy whole foods, get a good amount of sleep (8+ hours if you’re a natural bodybuilder), reduce stress and stay active, at least that’s what the doctors (Webmd) say.

B-Nox Ingredients

Still, that’s not to say the added ingredients here aren’t appreciated or that they don’t provide some added benefit. I mean common, who doesn’t love a little horny goat weed once and a while eh?

Overall we love the design of the product. It’s clean, professional, and comes in a substantially large tub with a huge scoop.

This is not a pre-workout concentrate like Musclepharm Assault Black or O.N Pre-Gold. No, this is a full pre-workout igniter and test booster all in one!

This means it’s not just about providing the essential BCAA dosing, some caffeine and maybe some creatine and beta-alanine.

No, this badboy is packed full of vasodilators, muscle supporting minerals and energy sustaining plant derived compounds like beet root extract (a proven vasodilator), tribulus (testosterone support) and black pepper extract also called “Bioperine” (kickstart thermogenisis).

On top of that factor in this has 3 forms of creatine, a solid dosing of endurance-boosting beta-alanine (read our in-depth guide to this popular supplement here) in the form of Carnosyn, Glutamine, Co-Enzyme Q10 and ZMA and you start to realize just how much sh*t is packed into this stuff!

The addition of ZMA is particularly interesting as many bodybuilders stack this supplement alone for improved sleep quality and muscle repair during sleep.

What does this mean for you? It means you can save money by not having to buy 3 different types of pre-workout powders (your energy mix, your creatine powder and your nitric oxide/vasodilator mix) and instead can just throw down for one tub of this magical stuff.

Look below at how Bullnox stacks up against other pre-workout types. You are literally getting 4 supplements all in one, which helps justify the massive scoop size (double normal pre-workouts) as well as the slightly higher total price.

How Well Does It Mix?

Some people roll their eyes at the mixing question, but for us it’s a pretty important factor.

We don’t always have a spare clean shaker bottle to do super thorough pre-workout blending.

Furthermore, we like blending our pre-workouts with fruit juices in the morning for early-morning gym sessions, or with Gatorade for added electrolytes in late day workouts.

Being able to spoon-stir a pre-workout is just nice and definitely worth covering.

Thankfully, given how much stuff is actually in B-Nox, it mixes surprisingly well.

It wasn’t perfect, like O.N’s Amino Energy, we suspect this may be due to Amino Energy being super-fine (micronized) vs B-Nox which was a more course powder.

Overall it mixed good enough and the little bits at the bottom were swallowed with a little bit of extra water.

Sure, in a perfect world these clumps wouldn’t exist but whatever, no big deal.

How Does It Taste?

Pretty f*ckin good to be honest. We haven’t had many bad tasting pre-workouts though..(besides EAN’s Myoenergy which tastes like a Barney the Dinosaur playdough fart) they usually have some moderately fruity flavor and acidic sour taste.

B-Nox is available in 7 different flavors, including the perennial favorites like watermelon, grape, fruit punch, blue razz etc.

Like most pre-workouts they always taste better when mixed with ice cold water vs room temperature water.

Also, given how much stuff is packed into this stuff and how big the scoops are, you’re going to need a FULL glass of water, none of that glass-half-full b.s.

How Was The Energy?

Energy was good. Definitely hits and hits pretty hard. Pre-workouts are usually taken on an empty stomach to increase absorption rates (and who wants to workout on a full stomach) but this stuff is pretty powerful even with food in the stomach.

A few times in the afternoon we needed to drink a little extra water to keep ourselves from burping it up (on leg day naturally), but overall it wasn’t bad.

Compared to our regular everyday go-to pre-workout Amino Energy by O.N, the energy was definitely more intense.

However it was never “too” intense and we never felt jittery. We suspect this is because the caffeine content was kept at or below 200mg per serving.

The closest energy/focus comparable preworkout would actually something like a red or green strain of kratom. Think more slow burning focus than fire-up-your-ass energy storm.

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We don’t like companies that go extreme on the caffeine like 250, 300mg per serving, it is just too much, causes jitters which distracts from forming a solid mind-muscle connection and only serve to increase your caffeine tolerance/threshold to higher and higher levels to the point where you can’t operate normally without boatloads of the stuff.

No, B-Nox get’s it right with the energy formula, enough to kick you in the pants but not enough to make you feel like a tweaking meth-head on shrooms.

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