Are pre-workouts safe?

There is no doubt that some manufacturing companies have added headlines for the wrong reasons in recent years. And pretty much every athlete can tell you a story about a time when they conducted an intense workout, which was a little more intense than they expected. However, if you follow a few simple rules, you can conduct a safe and productive workout after a workout.

First of all, keep on opening your eyes! Know what you are taking. Make sure you have purchased a pre-training from a reputable, established company, preferably one whose products have been tested and approved by an independent third party. Informed-Choice is one such testing organization. Informed Choice checks about 18,000 samples a year for pollution by prohibited substances and checks that the label of your training matches indicates exactly what is in the bottle.

If you know what you are doing, the next step is to know yourself, and why you train first. Do you need to get a specific additional advantage for your specific workouts, or is it just a way to try to motivate yourself to workout? Are you comfortable with stimulants, or do you know that they make you feel anxious and unpleasant, or fight insomnia? Is your training and nutrition okay, or are you hoping that pre-training will magically give you results? Answer these questions before clicking “buy”, and remember that preliminary training is just icing on the cake. Training consistently and proper nutrition – these are the real keys.

In particular, for young athletes there is no legal age limit for the use of preliminary training or any other supplements associated with the exercises. And, of course, preliminary training can be “safe”, for example, for a teenager athlete, but this does not mean that it is necessary or even useful. A teen athlete or athlete will gain more from proper nutrition and exercise than from taking a particular supplement, especially one that can cause fast heart rate and other side effects that can interfere with potentially productive training.

And regardless of your age, if you have heart problems, be sure to consult your doctor before starting a workout or any other supplement.