Stim Vs Pump Pre-Workouts

As it's a question that can be frequently asked, what is better?

In this post I will go over the advantages to both types and hopefully make your decision process easier.

First off, lets cover the obvious differences, Stimulant pre workouts provide energy and can help strength athletes or advanced trainers power through high volume sessions or competitions.

Providing the pump products have focus ingredients included into their formulas which all good ones usually do, the main difference is stimulants will negate blood flow slightly due to constriction of the blood vessels and the stimulant formulas also contain less nitrates & salt usually due to the extra cost going towards energy & anti crash matrixs.

Pump pre-workouts are typically used by bodybuilders, their main goal is to maximise blood flow and cell volume AKA pump.

It is quite common for trainers to mix stimulants with pump products as it's a way of maximising blood flow and yet still achieving some energy benefits without losing too much blood flow from the constriction of the vessels.
they typically do this by full dosing the pump & half dosing the stimulants.

A lot of users of Pump formulas also do so because of late night training sessions or caffeine sensitivity & trying to get copious amounts of food in which can be hindered by stimulants suppressing their appetite.

For most, disrupted sleep isn't beneficial to recovery either so they choose to train earlier or use stimulant free formulas later on in the day.

Hopefully this helps & feel free to contact us for anything else you would like covered.

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