Choosing the right pre-workout booster

There are a multitude of supplements to take before training to optimize your performance and give your best. Nutrimuscle accompanies you and helps you make the most appropriate choice.

What is a pre-workout booster?

A pre-workout booster is a type of supplement used before training to improve performance during the session. Some boosters contain stimulants: caffeine, guarana or green tea. Others do not contain them but, through other mechanisms of action, lead to an improvement in endurance, strength or pump.

Do you need a boost to start your training? Do you want a big, fast source of energy? Do you need to improve your endurance in preparation for the session? Are you looking for a gain in strength or do you want to optimize your muscle building?

For every need or objective, there is a suitable booster. We guide you to make the best choice.

How to choose your pre-workout booster?

As you will have understood, by clearly identifying your objectives and needs, you will be able to choose the booster that suits you.

You are looking for a boost in your energy and concentration:

Supplements containing natural stimulants are a good choice to give you a boost at the beginning of your training. These boosters will provide you with the energy and concentration necessary for the proper execution of your exercises.

Caffeine is the ideal booster thanks to its powerful effects on physical and cerebral performance. Caffeine stimulates concentration and reduces the perception of effort. It is preferable to turn to a caffeine-based booster. Indeed, it does not cause unpleasant palpitation effects, unlike synthetic caffeine.

• Green Caffeine Bio Booster: this booster is organic unroasted green coffee rich in natural caffeine (around 45%). Its benefits for you: reduction of the perception of effort and pain and improvement of the level of concentration.
• Natural Caffeine: this booster contains 95% natural and pure caffeine. It is an ideal supplement to take before training. Its caffeine level is stable and meticulously controlled to avoid any overdose (80 mg of organic caffeine per capsule).
• Organic Guarana: This booster has a gentler effect than green caffeine, but has a more prolonged action. Guarana naturally contains caffeine as well as other beneficial ingredients for heart health, such as polyphenols. These molecules counteract the harmful effects of caffeine to retain only its benefits. They facilitate the heart's work during training and prevent sudden drops in energy.

You are looking to gain strength and build more muscle:

If you are looking to gain strength and optimize your muscle building, several supplements are interesting.

• BCAAs: BCAAs (branched-chain amino acids: Leucine, Isoleucine and Valine) belong to the family of essential amino acids. Taking BCAAs just before training helps to better resist fatigue. During physical exertion, the level of Tryptophan entering the brain increases, thus causing physiological and psychological fatigue. BCAA supplementation limits the influx of Tryptophan into the brain. This results in a reduction in the feeling of fatigue and an increase in strength.
• Peptopro: this supplement is ideal to take before training because it requires no assimilation and digestion effort. Indeed, Peptopro is a casein hydrolysate, a booster protein whose effects are immediate. Peptopro also stimulates muscle gain.
• Whey Isolate comes from milk and contains 90% protein. Taking this protein before training helps stimulate muscle growth. Its very rapid assimilation gives it the advantage of not weighing down the digestive system during training.

You are looking to improve your pump:

To increase your muscle pump, we recommend that you turn to supplements that stimulate the secretion of NO (nitric oxide). NO is a gas that promotes oxygenation and muscle pump. Here are some examples of supplements that increase pump:

• Arginine is a semi-essential amino acid and a direct precursor of nitric oxide. Taking arginine boosts NO secretion, leading to better anabolism and muscle pump.
• Citrulline is also a semi-essential amino acid. Taking citrulline doubles the level of arginine in the blood. This boosts nitric oxide (NO) secretion, allowing blood vessel dilation and muscle pump. Arginine and citrulline therefore work synergistically.
• Tribulus Terrestris is a plant that stimulates the secretion of hormones favorable to muscle growth. Tribulus Terrestris also acts as an NO booster promoting muscle pump.

You are looking to improve your endurance:

To increase your resistance to fatigue, you need a large source of readily available energy. We recommend that you turn to quality carbohydrates to fuel your muscles before starting your workout. You can also take Beta-Alanine, an amino acid that helps delay the onset of fatigue during training.

• Dextrose is a simple carbohydrate that is assimilated very quickly (almost immediately). It therefore provides instant energy to the muscles.
• Maltodextrin is a complex carbohydrate that is assimilated quickly and helps prevent fatigue and hypoglycemia during training.
• Oat flakes or Barley flakes are an excellent source of low glycemic index carbohydrates and fiber. They provide a good source of energy for training.
• Nutri-Fibers provide an excellent supply of fiber and carbohydrates, leading to a prolonged release of energy.
• Beta-Alanine Carnosyn®: this amino acid allows muscles to produce carnosine. This has a neutralizing action on lactic acid accumulated with training. Thus, Beta-Alanine helps delay muscle fatigue and be more enduring during the session.

If you want to combine the different benefits of the boosters above with a practical and all-in-one supplement:

Nutrimuscle's Musclepump Pre-workout - with caffeine combines essential supplements to increase performance before training and delay the perception of effort.

Nutrimuscle's Musclepump Pre-workout - without caffeine is a blend of amino acids specially designed to be taken before training. It allows, among other things:

• An energy boost during the session, without a brutal crash effect
• An increase in strength
• Better muscle pump
• A delay in the onset of fatigue.

The Musclepump Pre-workout - without caffeine (20g) contains:

• 10g of BCAA 2.1.2 Resistance;
• 3g of L-Arginine Base;
• 3g of L-Citrulline Base;
• 2.5g of Beta-Alanine Carnosyn®;
• 1.5g of prebiotics and Strawberry flavor

The Musclepump Pre-workout - without caffeine has been designed to be used flexibly according to your needs. It does not contain caffeine to give you the choice to add it during the day, depending on your training time. It does not contain carbohydrates to give you the choice to add them or not according to your objectives: mass gain or cutting.

When to take your pre-workout?

Ideally, a pre-workout should be consumed 20 to 30 minutes before training. However, some boosters can be consumed during training. This is the case for Peptopro, the fastest anabolic supplement to assimilate.

Refer to the dosage indicated for each product mentioned above.