Do You NEED Pre Workout? — Pre Workout Guide

Christian Stewart ✔️
2 min readJun 21, 2022
Photo by Anastase Maragos on Unsplash

Fitness supplements can be a sketchy industry. Companies obviously want to sell more product, so they make claims about their supplements that may or may not be backed by science. So I hear this question a lot about protein powder, BCAAs, hydration products, and pre workout. So do you need pre workout? The quickest, easy answer is NO. You definitely don’t need pre workout to have great training sessions in the gym and to make progress.

Pre Workout is a SUPPLEMENT

To actually understand the benefits of pre workout we need to start at the most basic level. Pre workout is a supplement, which means it is supplemental to all of the other parts of health and wellness.

To make progress and meet your goals in the gym you need to have the main pillars of health locked in. These are diet, training, recovery, and sleep. These probably account for 90 percent of your progress. To put this in perspective, the benefit you gain from pre workout is probably less than 5 percent.

Get Your Diet and Training Dialed First

If I were giving someone advice about which supplements they should take, I would say if your diet and training aren’t optimal then don’t worry about supplements at all. When I was younger I would do intense training five or…

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