I actually hate IDS as a company, they are shady with most of their products. Ripped Tabs was Garbage, mass, grow tabs were straight up gear marketed to high school kids. However, they got this right. The Smart Gainer is a solid gaining shake. I recently broke my leg (tibia) from getting hit by a car (got into a fight overseas, kid was half my size so he plowed into me) i went from a solid lean around 5-7% bf 175lbs to high 150s. As soon as the doc said i could start lifting, thats what i did upperbody at least. (lifting in a caste blows but you gotta do it) since my muscles had gone through such terrible atrophy the weight and size literally was packed on. With the help of a generic creatine, solid diet and Smart Gainer i put on 34lbs in around 8 weeks. (My body reacted very well due to the lifting, diet, and high protein intake) right now im 194ish lbs. even though it wasnt all pure muscle, a bulk is a bulk. and a gainer is a gainer.

Pros: IDS Smart Gainer is a good product. It's not in the same class as the Russian Bear or other top level weight gainers. This proudct will help put on lean mass averaging 1-1 1/2lbs per two weeks with a good diet and workout plan. The taste is decent if it's mixed with milk in a blender. The ingredients in IDS Smart Gainer is R-ALA, Creatine Malate and L-Glutamine.

Cons: It will give you horrible gas! (Beware!) IDS Smart Gainer taste bad if mixed with water.

THIS IS A HEADS UP TO ALL FUTURE IDS SMARTGAINER USERS! The product used to have 7g of sugar in it, now it had 85G!!!! they took out the RLA which shuttles glutamine and BCAA's to your mslces, added cheap sugar and thats why the flavor sucks. Tis used to be an awesome product, now its like drinking a 2l of coke everytime you use a serving...not the right product if your looking to avoid losing your lower abs!

I've been taking Smart Gainer for 8 weeks, in addition to simple amino's and Amplified Creatine. I've put on about 13 pounds since starting. The only downside is the taste isn't as great as other proteins/gainers.

cant go wrong with the product its got carbs creatine and all essential aminos plus more the 10 lb bucket is a great value ive gone through several buckets and will continue to buy more not to mention vanilla cinemon is the greatest flavor on the planed

Great taste, and actually works! I'm a "hard gainer", I take this once a day to help me maintain my size. I add an extra scoop while I'm bulking. Great results overall and recovery is phenomenal. Best gainer I've ever tried. Only bad side-effect is gas, but your body gets use to it. Also, using 8oz Fat Free/Skim milk and 2 oz of water reduces gas/bloating significantly.

First of all 10lbs for $50!! Sweet! I've used this product for over 6 weeks. I started at 6'5" 260lbs and ended at 282lbs, obviously a little being fat gain, but this is a weight gainer so it did exactly what it was supposed to do. I upped every exercise weight and reps nearly every single workout. I've never made such steady progress without slightly stagnating in 4 years of training. The taste was awesome, Vanilla Cinnamon, and it's packed with BCAA's and other solid nutrients that aid muscle growth and increased weight. The serving sizes are larger than what i would call "average". But in two scoops you get over 650 calories!! and 88g of carbs and 51g of protein, this product is ideal for pre and postworkout supplementation because most people tend to loose gains simply because of undereating. This is a great product!

This is by far the best gainer I have used. The vanilla cinnamon is delicious! It also mixes extremely easily, and the price is very economical(I can actually afford to use this gainer 3 times a day). The only downside is the horrible gas I have from time to time.