MusclePharm® Scores 17 Bodybuilding.com Supplement Awards Nominations

DENVER, July 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- MusclePharm Corporation (OTCQB: MSLP), a nutritional supplement company focused on active lifestyles, has earned 17 Bodybuilding.com Supplement Awards nominations.  Starting today, fans can go online to Bodybuilding.com, the Internet's most-visited bodybuilding and fitness site and the largest online retailer of nutritional supplements, to vote for their favorite MusclePharm products.  Cast your votes now at www.Bodybuilding.com/Awards and receive 10% off your next purchase at Bodybuilding.com!

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The Bodybuilding.com Supplement Awards recognize superior products and brands in the fitness and supplement industry.  Nominations are based on sales among the 9,900+ products carried by the site. In the past four years, MusclePharm has won 14 Bodybuilding.com Awards, including 2012 Brand of the Year.

"It's an honor to have MusclePharm products and the brand recognized again this year by Bodybuilding.com," said Brad Pyatt, founder and CEO, MusclePharm.  "As athletes, scientists and fitness enthusiasts, we're committed to delivering the best products to consumers and proud to receive this seal of approval from our customers and fans."

"Being nominated for a Bodybuilding.com Supplement Award is quite an accomplishment," explains Bodybuilding.com CEO, Ryan DeLuca.  "Nominees are the most popular brands and products on our site and the public chooses the final winners.  A Bodybuilding.com Supplement Award is really the ultimate consumer vote of confidence as it means that the supplement users have deemed that brand or product the most trustworthy and effective of its kind."

MusclePharm has been nominated for the following 2013 Bodybuilding.com Awards:

• Brand Of the Year - MusclePharm
• Pre-Workout Supplement of the Year – Assault
• Recovery Supplement of the Year – AMINO1
• Amino Supplement of the Year - AMINO1
• Multi-Vitamin Supplement of the Year - Armor-V
• Supplement of the Year - Assault
• Men's Support Supplement of the Year - Battle Fuel XT
• Best Overall Protein Powder of the Year - Combat Powder
• Supplement of the Year - Combat Powder
• Best Packaging of the Year - MP
• Casein Supplement of the Year - MP CASEIN
• Creatine Supplement of the Year - MP Creatine
• Glutamine Supplement of the Year - MP Glutamine
• RTD Supplement of the Year - MuscleGel Shot
• Clothing Brand of The Year - MusclePharm Sportswear
• Breakout Supplement of the Year - Z-Core
• Fat-Loss Supplement of the Year – Shred Matrix

Winners will be determined via an online voting system that will live on Bodybuilding.com July 15, 2013 – August 12, 2013. Results will be announced live on the Olympia Main Stage as part of Joe Weider's Olympia Weekend in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 26-29, 2013.

ABOUT MUSCLEPHARM CORPORATION:      
Founded in 2008 by former NFL player Brad Pyatt, MusclePharm is a healthy lifestyle company that develops and manufactures scientific and safe nutritional supplements.  The company's products are designed for Active Lifestyles who seek muscle building, weight maintenance and general fitness through an internationally recognized daily nutritional supplement regimen.  The products are formulated through a six-stage research process designed by leading nutritional scientists at the MusclePharm Sports Science & Research Center in Denver.  MusclePharm's products are sold in more than 110 countries and available in 10,500+ U.S. retail outlets, including Dick's Sporting Goods, 24 Hour Fitness, Bally's, GNC, Vitamin Shoppe and Vitamin World.  MusclePharm products also are sold globally through more than 100 online channels, including Bodybuilding.com, Amazon.com and Vitacost.com.

For more information, visit www.MusclePharm.com.  Follow the company at www.Facebook.com/MusclePharm and www.Twitter.com/MusclePharm.

ABOUT BODYBUILDING.COM:      
Based in Meridian, Idaho, Bodybuilding.com is the world's largest online sports nutrition store. The site carries more than 9,900 health and fitness supplements and accessories, shipping to customers in more than 155 countries. Bodybuilding.com helps more than 26 million people every month achieve their health, fitness and appearance goals by offering over 28,000 pages of FREE information, including more than 20,000 articles and 8,000 videos, expert-designed online training programs, and new content added daily.  For more information, please visit www.bodybuilding.com

Forward Looking Statements      
The information contained herein includes forward-looking statements. These statements relate to future events or to our future financial performance, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance, or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements since they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which are, in some cases, beyond our control and which could, and likely will, materially affect actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. Any forward-looking statement reflects our current views with respect to future events and is subject to these and other risks, uncertainties and assumptions relating to our operations, results of operations, growth strategy and liquidity. We assume no obligation to publicly update or revise these forward-looking statements for any reason, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future.

MusclePharm PR Contact:     
Ivy Mollenkamp/Wendy Zaas    
Rogers & Cowan    
310-854-8131/310-854-8148    
[email protected]     
[email protected]

MusclePharm Investor Relations Contact:
The Del Mar Consulting Group, Inc.
Robert B. Prag
President
Telephone: 858-794-9500

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