#1. Instant Knockout
Instant Knockout earns our #1 ranking because it takes some of the best fat-burners out there and formulates them into a combination that makes a hell of a lot of sense… especially if you’re a fighter, an athlete, or if you’re combining intense training with your fat-loss efforts.
Instant Knockout supplies several of our top-ranked fat-burning ingredients: Green tea extract, green coffee extract, cayenne pepper, and caffeine. We like these because, with the exception of straight-up stimulant caffeine, they each bring multiple fat-burning bio-activities to the table.
Combine these leading fat-burners, and you’ve got a potent stack delivering a ton of diverse and powerful fat-loss effects working at the same time.
What pushes Instant Knockout over the top is the way its leading fat-burning ingredients are combined with synergistic “helper” nutrients, including:
- Glucomannan: Fat-loss fiber swells in the stomach to satisfy appetite; also balances blood sugar for stable energy & less fat storage.
- Chromium: Reliable multi-tasking mineral for weight loss in the preferred picolinate form.
- Black Pepper Extract: Multiplies synergy by burning fat and boosting absorption of ALL formula ingredients.
Instant KO’s fist-shaped bottle is so damn cool-looking, you’ll want it out all the time. The bottle itself motivates you to take it every day, and to train every day.
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Quality Points
Standardized black pepper extract, chromium picolinate, and label transparency (exact dosage of each ingredient is listed).
Unique Advantage
Formulation. It’s not loaded with space-age ingredients or anything; Instant Knockout gains its biggest advantage from reliable, science-backed fat burners that combine to promote shredding from multiple angles.
Best For…
Fighters. The formula is designed to help MMA fighters and boxers to get ripped without wasting muscle or tanking energy levels.
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#2. Legion Phoenix
Legion Phoenix makes our Best 5 because it is an intensely hot fat-burner supplement that’s balanced out with some sophisticated formulation strategies.
It starts with Synephrine, a super-potent, balls-out fat-burner that’s like a safer version of ephedra. (Don’t take ephedra. Under any circumstances!).
Legion Phoenix enhances synephrine even more by combining it into a synergistic stack with Naringin+Hesperidin. What you end up with is a triple-threat for stubborn fat that supercharges the burning, metabolism and mobilization of fat.
Add a hefty dosage of some straight EGCG – that’s right, just the active fat-burning compound of green tea – and Legion Phoenix’s metabolic effects get even more intense.
Legion Phoenix throws in a nootropic mini-stack for good measure – L-Tyrosine and 5-HTP to promote the mental energy and mood balance to help you stick to your weight loss regimen, excel at the gym, and more comfortably manage the overall formula’s intensity.
Quality Points
Isolated EGCG from green tea extract, clean label
Unique Advantage
3-Pronged synephrine stack. Legion Phoenix is skillfully formulated for maximum synergistic fat-burning activity.
Best For…
Overstimulated & jitter-prone people. If you want supercharged fat-burning activity without caffeine, this synephrine-potentiated formula might be for you: It gets its intense activity from sources other than stimulants.
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#3. Animal Cuts
Animal Cuts puts superhuman effort into creating a fat-burning formula that covers all possible bases with 40+ active ingredients. It’s HUGE. And while not all of its ingredients work, enough of them do to make Animal Cuts a shoo-in for our Best 5.
A side effect of having so many ingredients is that Animal Cuts can effectively optimize fat burning across more bio-pathways than any other formula. In fact, it fights the battle of the bulge on 8 fronts:
- Thermogenic activity
- Metabolism-boosting
- Diuretic activity
- Nootropic support
- Anti-cortisol
- Appetite control
- Thyroid hormone support
As if that weren’t intense enough, Animal Cuts throws in a Bioavailability Complex designed to enhance the absorption of its many ingredients.
In some ways, Animal Cuts is like “throwing so much shit at the wall that something sticks.” But the thing is, it’s not all shit they’re throwing… there are many smart ingredient choices supplied in premium forms.
The end result is a remarkably far-reaching fat-burner complex that unleashes powerful, industrial-strength activity.
Quality Points
Green tea extract standardized to 98% polyphenols & 45% EGCG, Olive leaf standardized to 15% oleuropein, Ashwagandha standardized to 1.5% withanolides, Rhodiola standardized for rosavins,
Unique Advantage
Diversity. Animal Cuts is designed to accelerate fat-burning in many ways. The total effects may add up to big fat-burning results.
Best For…
Hardcore bodybuilders. Animal Cuts is pretty much a professional strength formula, with 8 capsules for every serving. It’s not for casual gym-goers. This is for bodybuilders and athletes who are serious about getting ripped.
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#4. Vintage Burn
Vintage Burn is a clean formula with a transparent label that supplies 3 of our top-rated, tried-and-true fat burners, along with additional trending fat burners that are blazing new trails.
Vintage Burn makes our Best 5 because of their unique formula strategy. In addition to boosting thermogenesis and metabolism, its ingredients attack fat-burning from new angles that are rarely seen.
For example, Vintage Burn promotes fat-burning across cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP), thyroid hormone, and testosterone bio-pathways; a “wildcard” approach that could unlock impressive synergistic fat-burning activity.
Vintage Burn also provides some mental support in the form of Bacopa, one of our Best 5 Nootropic ingredients. Bacopa can boost training efforts by pathways other than muscle; it works to enhance motivation, focus and mood. We like that Vintage Burn picks ONE cognitive support compound; it helps the formula without steering it off course from the main fat-burning purpose.
Quality Points
Sparkling clean label – no BS artificial or synthetic ingredients.
Unique Advantage
Old-school approach. It’s an effective formula without using any ingredients that are even remotely suspect or risky.
Best For…
Natural bodybuilders. That’s the feeling of the brand, anyway. If you want natural ingredients and a ridiculously clean label, Vintage Burn might be the right fat-burner for you.
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#5. Hydroxycut SX-7 Black Onyx
In the past, Hydroxycut has been synonymous with “shitty fat burner supplements.” Not anymore.
They bounce back big-time with SX-7 Black Onyx, a formula featuring so many effective fat-burners and premium forms that we had to include it in our Best 5.
SX-7 Black Onyx supplies some of today’s most popular fat burners: Green coffee bean, caffeine, and yohimbine. That’s a great start.
But while past Hydroxycut incarnations have been suspect at best, you can tell that they give a shit this time around: The caffeine is a moderate 145 mg dose, which they combine with L-Theanine to “take the edge off” while boosting gym focus and athletic alertness – a smart formula strategy.
SX-7 Black Onyx then hits us with some cutting-edge fat burning strategies:
- Coleus to boost cAMP, spark cell energy & spike fat burning metabolism
- Satsuma mandarin to specifically target & regulate abdominal fat cells
Throw in some wildcard Salvia root extract for “sensory” benefits, and you’ve got a great formula for peak fat-burning and motivated gym performance.
Quality Points
Green coffee bean standardized to 45% chlorogenic acids, salvia standardized to 7% salvianolic acid, Yohimbe bark standardized to 6% yohimbine, Satsuma mandarin standardized to 0.2% beta-cryptoxanthin.
Unique Advantage
Sensory. Physically, this formula reliably promotes fat-burning with green coffee CGAs + caffeine. But SX-7 Black Onyx’s sex appeal lies in the salvia + satsuma + yohimbine + L-Theanine, an intriguing stack for unlocking next-level training intensity for greater fat-burning results.
Best For…
Pleasure-seekers. Hydroxycut SX-7 Black Onyx formula is for those who want fat-burning effects combined with that sensory nutritional support for more motivated & enjoyable physical performance. It’s not the most proven, but if you like promising wildcard fat-burners, it might be for you.
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There it is: Our Best 5 Fat Burners for 2016.
As you read through this list, you may have noticed a trend: Fat Burners don’t just burn fat anymore.
While this Best 5 list highlights quality, effective fat-burning first, it also reflects some of these new-and-emerging fat-burner supplement trends for 2016.
You want more focus to train harder and lose more fat at the gym? Some fat-burner formulas feature nootropics that will help with that.
Other fat-burners supply nutrients for appetite support, thyroid function, testosterone levels and more, effectively targeting fat from multiple angles.
Today’s fat-burner complexes are even supplying “sensory” support; a new fat-burner trend that is believed to help make training an exhilarating experience that yields better results.
This list offers a good cross-section of many other fat burning styles and strategies, including today’s incredibly complex & powerful fat-burner stacks.
Instant Knockout earns our #1 slot with its science-backed fat-burning ingredients that are combined into a highly effective and synergistic stack.
But all of the fat-burners featured on this Best 5 list are quality formulas, and each one has its own unique advantages. No matter one you choose, you’ll be in good shape for getting shredded, sliced & diced in 2016.
Alexandre Ferreira says
THX!