Are pre-workout supplements worth the hype? Here's what you need to know
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The average amount of caffeine in an espresso shot is between 50-65mg. It is recommended that the amount of caffeine for adults through a day should not exceed 400mg.
Coffee is also not the only source of caffeine. Fizzy drinks and sodas, chocolate, pain-killers, and of course tea (including green tea), are other items that add to the caffeine intake. If you’ve been going to the gym, there is a chance you might be consuming a pre-workout supplement as well.
These usually have between 150-300mg of caffeine. It’s basically a booster, a wake-up call to the system, to workout. But it’s like consuming three cups of coffee in a very short time rather than over the course of the day.
I have never used a pre-workout supplement. It’s not like I’ve not been curious about it, but I prefer a real cup of coffee than a grape flavoured powder with caffeine in it. But everybody reacts differently to caffeine.
It took a couple of years for me to realise that I would get a small spasm in the stomach if I had more than a cup of coffee in a short space of time. And a long while to realise that skipping the 11am cup of joe might be making me cranky. So it’s important to find the sweet spot.
Which should ideally also be the case with a pre-workout supplement. There is also the more layered selection of supplements these days, whether it is protein powder or BCAA, which means it is important to know which type of pre-workout powder you might want. “Blends generally fall into two categories: stim and non-stim.
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