Pre-Workout Supplements

Pre & Intra workout is most easily thought of as the energy system your body uses to get through strenuous activity.

Certainly not a necessity but one of the most useful tools you can use to improve your focus, energy and recovery. When it comes to pre-workout decide between two categories.

Pre-workout types:

Stimulant based - Usually caffeinated, hardcore focus based around the central nervous system a majority of the time.
Non-stimulant based - Used for swelling of the muscle cell increases energy but more of a natural system.

Notable Pre-Workout Products

• Total War by RedCon1
• Gold Standard Pre-Workout by Optimum Nutrition
• Ghost Legend by Ghost Lifestyle

What is a Pre-Workout?

The basic definition is something that you take before your start to exercise in order to help you with your results.

What does a Pre-Workout do?

Pre-workouts help you to workout better for longer. They do this by utilising the effects of several ingredients.

What are the most common ingredients?

Caffeine

• Thermogenic properties (burns fat)
• Produces heat in your body and increases metabolism
• Increased wakefulness, better focus, better body coordination
• Better muscle endurance and strength improvement

Creatine

• Increase muscle mass and strength
• Provides energy to your muscles

Isolated Amino Acids

• Integral part of the muscle tissue
• Building blocks of protein
• Transports nutrients to cells
• Increase strength performance
• Reduce catabolic effect that training and dieting have on muscles

Nitric Oxide

• Vascular dilator
• Increases strength, endurance and even recovery after a workout
• Increases flow and circulation of nutrients and oxygen in blood

Beta-Alanine

• Promotes muscle strength
• Acts as a buffer for your muscle tissue
• Combats acidity that is secreted in muscles

Citrulline Malate

• Increases release of Human Growth Hormone
• Improves use of BCAAs
• Reduces blood ammonia levels and lactic acid formation
• Improvers energy levels in general