Optimum Nutrition is notorious for their gigantic line of solid, full proof supplements. From essentials to non-essentials.

I see their Fish Oil product as an essential staple in any athletes supplement arsenal. In one softgel you get 1,000mg of Fish Oil containing Omega 3s, EPA, and DHA.

Fish Oil is all round good for the body. It's good for joints, heart health, and is perfect to add to any fat loss stack. The benefits of Fish Oil is an endless list.
I stacked/am still stacking this with CLA, Green Tea Extract, Opti-Men, and Flax Seed Oil to promote overall health and weight loss. I take 1 softgel with my 3 major meals of the day- Breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I got it for just over 6 bucks off ProSource.net.

ON delivers here with a cheap and effective supplement and i will continue to use it.
I highly recommend it.

Love fish oil and optimum is a solid brand. I take 7g of this every day. Great for overall health, joint lubrication, and cholesterol. I know a product made by Optimum is going to be good so I had no doubts when purchasing this and no regrets. I give it a 10 over all. Fish oil is something that every person should take.

I’ve always subscribed to the notion that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” (perhaps more); that’s why I’ve been taking fish oil supplements as a staple ever since I started seriously pounding the weights.

My 2 primary goals for taking fish oil has always been to 1) lubricate my joints to prevent strain and injury from intense weight training and submission wrestling and, 2) to support my filtering organs and blood pressure that may come have under stress from those awesome pre-workout stimulants. I got a 100 capsule bottle of ON’s Fish Oil as a free gift along with ON’s Gold Standard Whey when I purchased it from bb.com.

-------Ingredients 5/10
When judging the quality of fish oil, I’m not so much concerned about the specific brand as I am about the contents of Omega 3 essential fatty acids contained in each capsule. ON’s Fish Oil is average at best; it contains a total of 1000mg of fish oil, of which there are only 300mg of omega 3 fatty acids (180mg of EPA + 120mg of DHA). This leaves about 700mg of fillers per pill that, in my mind, I am consuming for no reason and result in extra calories. If I take 10 caps a day, this results in an unnecessary 70 extra calories a day, which may be something to look out for if you are on a cut.

-------Dosing 7/10
Because my joints are constantly under heavy stress from lifting 4 times a week and jujitsu twice a week, I typically shoot for between 2-3g of EFA a day. On average I took about 9 caps of this product per day: with three in the morning, 3 at lunch and 3 at dinner. This way, the 100-capsule bottle lasted me a bit less than 2 weeks.

-------Taste 3/10
IMO, the specific kind of enteric coating that ON used was a massive fail. The original intent was to eliminate the fishy smell of the caps, which it did; however, the trade off was that the coating itself had a very bitter and plastic taste. I would do my best to not let the caps touch my tongue when washing them down.

-------Effectiveness 8.5/10
It is difficult to quantify the effectiveness of an overall health and wellness product, I will give this a high rating here because at the dosage I took it at, it accomplished the main goal of keeping my joints healthy and lubricated through the torture I put it through.

To put things in perspective, this was a period of time when I was bulking and was training ball off the wall: I was loading over 400lb on the smith machine for calf raises, 40lbs of additional weight for weighted pull-ups and 185lbs on my shoulder presses. As for the jujitsu, I’ve always trained at a real old-school dojo and every class contains at least 20 mins of hardcore full strength rolling with dude 150-250lbs, with nobody tapping until they’ve put up a good struggle! Through all of this I took fish oil stacked with a vitamin D supplement, and I did not have any pains with my joints at all; so in my books, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure so ON’s fish oil gets a high rating in this department.

-------Value 7/10
I got this thrown in as a free gift, but you can get the 100-cap bottle for $7.00 online; if you dose like me with 7-10 pills a day, this bottle will last a bit less than 2 weeks which boils down to a bit over 50 cents a day. This is good value, but considering that GNC’s fish oil 1000 is virtually identical in content, and 500 caps I can get for $10.99, there are better value products out there.

-------Overall 6/10
Overall, although I enjoyed this as a free gift and much appreciate it, I would not buy this individually because there are both better quality fish oils out there with more essential fatty acids per serving, and there are virtually identical products for cheaper. I actually find it rather odd that Optimum would create such an average product considering their reputation of high quality premium products.

For me this product was a big disappointment. It gave me one of the worst acne breakouts i have ever had. I discontinued its use and then took it again after 2 weeks, but then again it gave me another acne breakout. I have been without any acne for a long time, so i believe this product was the only cause of it. So if you had acne problems in your past, take care with this product.

Obviously the price on these gels are awesome but as you can see I rated the value pretty low. This is an entry level fish oil which you can tell from the ingredients with its 180epa and 120dha. The gels do what they say in the fact that they lubricate the joints. The downside to these pills is how many are recommended for daily intake compared to how many you'll actually want to take to see good results. If you're just starting into fish oils or are young and don't have joint pain this may work well for you in or to just keep joints lubricated in order to prevent injury and pain.

hey everyone yet another ON review. this time its the fishoil, I chose this one because of price but you get what you pay for. I was highly disappointed in this product.

Price=10 ok its the best thing about this product. you get 200 gels for around 12bucks. thats better than walmart lol.

profile=4 ok not much to say here. its 180epa and 120dha, thats just down right sad. for a company as respected as ON i expected a better quality product. it says 1000mg of omegas but most of that is filler. the one good thing is that it does have an entric coating which helps fish burps. but with any quality fishoil this is no longer an issue. also another good thing about this product is that it is mercury free which they are finding to be a big problem with farmed based fishoils.

Overall I wouldnt recommend this to anyone unless you are just starting to take fishoil and looking for a cheap first run. there are a ton of better fishoil out there, almost anything from nordic naturals is better with price considering on the quality of the product.

SO I buy the 200 capsule bottle of The Optimum Fish Oil with Omega 3's for only $13 and I am really satisfied with the thicker gel caplet, the kind I was using before I had to keep them in the fridge otherwise I would burp up a little fish taste which was just nasty and uncalled for.But with On Fish Oil I keep them in my backpack that I take to the gym and they are just fine to take as long as you keep it out of extreme heats.

I would recommend this for everybody,old and young this and a Multi-Vitamin should be staples in your diet and nutrition.

This is very much a 'does what it says on the tin' product by Optimum Nutrition.

Contains those essential fatty acids in a convenient tab. Due to the coating of the tabs, there should be no fishy burps or after taste that everyone hates. This is a nice, added bonus.

Overall, not much to be said about this product. It does the job. There ARE cheaper alternatives, however, with the reliability of Optimum Nutrition; you know you're getting accurate nutritional values and a solid product.

If you want to see a full discussion on my odyssey with ON Fish Oil, check out my link on this forum here:
http://www.supplementreviews.com/forum/index.php?topic=10357.0
First off, it isn't expensive and there is no fishy aftertaste and the nutritional components are all fine. My problem arose when I became suspicious that they advertise, "Mercury Free" but not heavy metal or toxin free. Being Fish Oil, this concerned me.
Long story short, after being ignored for a month and only after I mentioned that I'd file a complaint with the FTC, ON finally responded to my request for documentation to prove their Fish Oil was contaminant/toxin free, not just mercury free. The letter was carefully worded to say a lot and absolutely nothing at the same time.
I'm not convinced at all that the Fish Oil is toxin free, and this is a big deal to me. It might not be to you.
I would say if you want a good Fish Oil, get Nordic Naturals or just use Flaxseed Oil. I'm not boycotting ON or anything...this is the only product of theirs that isn't top of the line that I've tried.
One would think they'd pride themselves on purity and all that when toxins in Fish Oil are something that's almost always mentioned. ON customer service, after unsuccessfully ignoring me, was evasive and shifty.
And that leads me to err on the side of caution and assume that there are toxins other than mercury. I could be wrong, but there's no harm in NOT taking ON Fish Oil and just going with some other brand or Flaxseed Oil.
As a disclaimer, I did not finish the bottle after I received their non-answer.

For me, Fish Oil is an essential not just for lifting but for everyday health. Two weeks after I started taking it I felt like my eyesight was a lot better which may be caused from this because it supports eye, hair, and join health. My joints definitely were effected in a good way. I had an injury with my shoulder and it would pop out all the time but since I've been taking this my shoulder has been great. The only downside I had to this was after a month my hair would start to smell like Fish Oil which kind of freaked me out a little bit but it went away after I took a shower