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Buying a Non Stim Pre Workout, A Plain Guide
The problem with training on a stimulant clock
Plenty of people pick their training time around their coffee, not the other way around. If a pre workout is loaded with caffeine and you train at seven in the evening, you end up lying awake at midnight thinking about your to-do list. Shift the session earlier and life gets in the way. So you skip the pre workout entirely, or you take it and pay for it later.
That is the gap a caffeine free pre workout is meant to fill. Instead of a stimulant hit, you get a flavoured drink mix you take before training, built around ingredients that do not sit on the nervous system the way caffeine does. For evening lifters, shift workers, people who already drink three coffees before lunch, or anyone who just does not enjoy the jittery feeling, a stimulant free pre workout powder is a sensible swap.
This page covers the Non Stim Pre Workout Blueberry 300 g tub. Thirty serves, blueberry flavour, mixed into cold water. Below is what is actually in it, how to use it, and how to think about choosing one.
What is in the tub
The maker lists the ingredients as flavour, L-Citrulline, creatine monohydrate, beta alanine, food acids (citric acid and malic), L-Arginine Alpha Ketoglutarate (AAKG), fibre in the form of acacia gum, sucralose as the sweetener, Himalayan pink salt, L-theanine, Huperzia serrata standardised for Huperzine A, and colour (Brilliant Blue FCF).
That is the whole list as supplied. Notice what is not on it. There is no caffeine, which is the defining feature of this category. The sweetener is sucralose rather than sugar. The blue tint in the glass comes from the listed colour, so do not be surprised when the water turns a bright shade.
A quick word on honesty here. We are describing a food. We are not going to tell you what any of those ingredients will do for you, because that is not our place and it would not be accurate. What we can tell you is what is in the pack, how much is in it, and how the maker says to use it. The printed label on the tub is the final word on ingredients, allergens and directions, and it is worth two minutes of your time before the first serve.
Serve size, scoop, and why weighing helps
The tub holds 300 g. The maker counts that as 30 serves, with a serve being 10 g, which is described as one heaped scoop. A scoop comes in the tub.
Here is the part people miss. The maker states plainly that the scoop is a guide only and recommends weighing the serve if accuracy matters to you. That is a more honest instruction than most. Powder density changes depending on how compacted it is, and a tub that has bounced around in a courier van is packed tighter at the bottom than at the top. A heaped scoop in week one and a heaped scoop in week four are not necessarily the same 10 g.
If you care about consistency, a cheap kitchen scale sorts it out in five seconds. If you do not, the scoop is fine. Just know that your 30 serves might come out as 27 or 33 depending on how generously you heap it.
While we are on settling, the maker also notes that the product settles over time. That means the tub may look under-filled when you open it. The weight printed on the pack is the real measure.
How to mix it so it tastes good
The directions are simple. One heaped 10 g scoop into 300 mL of cold water. Stir or shake, then drink it immediately.
A few practical notes from people who use powders daily. Cold water genuinely mixes better than room temperature water with most formulas, and it tastes better too. A shaker bottle with a wire ball or a plastic mixing disc beats a spoon in a glass by a wide margin. Put the water in first and the powder in second, which cuts down on clumps stuck to the bottom.
Drink it straight after mixing. That is not a sales line, it is in the maker's directions, and it is there because a powder left sitting in liquid will start to separate. If you are the type to mix something at home and sip it across a 40 minute drive, you will find a layer of sediment at the bottom. Better to take the shaker and the powder separately and mix at the gym.
On water volume, 300 mL is the listed amount. Some people prefer a stronger blueberry pre workout and use 250 mL. Others stretch it to 400 mL so they are drinking more through the session. The powder quantity stays at one serve either way, and the recommended daily intake is one serve.
Who this suits, and who should leave it alone
A non stim pre workout makes the most sense for a few groups. Evening trainers are the obvious one. If your session finishes at nine and you want to be asleep by eleven, a caffeine free pre workout powder removes one obstacle. People who are already heavy coffee drinkers are another. Adding a big stimulant dose on top of four coffees is not a plan, it is a headache waiting to happen.
Some people simply do not like how stimulants feel. The racing heart, the restlessness, the crash afterwards. A stimulant free pre workout gives you a pre training ritual without that part of the experience.
Then there are the people who should not use this at all. Sports foods are not suitable for children under 15. They are not recommended for pregnant women. This product is designed to sit alongside a balanced diet, not stand in for meals. If you are on medication or managing a health condition, talk to a qualified health professional before you add any supplement to your routine. That is the sensible route regardless of what the tub says.
How to choose between options
When you compare a 300 g pre workout tub against other products on a shelf, a few things are worth checking rather than guessing.
Start with the serve count and the serve size together. A tub that says 30 serves at 10 g is a different proposition from a tub that says 30 serves at 5 g. Price per serve is the number that matters, not price per tub.
Next, read the ingredient list rather than the front of the pack. The front tells you what the marketing team wants you to notice. The list tells you what is actually inside and in roughly what order, since ingredients are listed by quantity.
Check the sweetener and the flavour. If sucralose does not agree with you, that is useful to know before you buy 30 serves of it. If you are fussy about artificial colours, this one lists Brilliant Blue FCF.
Finally, think about how fast you will get through it. The maker says to use the contents within 60 days from opening. At one serve a day, a 30 serve tub is comfortably inside that. If you only train twice a week, you will want to plan around it.
Looking after the tub
Keep it well sealed when you are not using it and keep moisture away from it. Those two instructions cover most of what goes wrong with powders. A tub left open on a kitchen bench near a kettle will take on steam and start to clump. A scoop put back in wet does the same thing from the inside.
Store it somewhere cool and dry. A pantry shelf is ideal. The boot of a car in summer is the worst place you could pick. Keep the lid screwed on properly, use a dry scoop, and put it back in the cupboard rather than leaving it in a gym bag.
Keep it out of reach of young children, both because of the warning on the pack and because a 300 g tub of blue powder is exactly the sort of thing a curious four year old will investigate.
Delivery and returns
We dispatch within 2 working days, and delivery then takes up to 7 working days by tracked courier. Delivery is Australia only.
Change of mind returns are accepted within 14 days of delivery, on unopened and sealed packs only. That restriction is standard for food products and exists for hygiene reasons. If something arrives faulty or damaged in transit, that is handled under the Australian Consumer Law, and we will put it right. Send us a photo with your order number and we will take it from there. No separate warranty is sold with this product.
The short version
This is a blueberry flavoured powder in a 300 g tub, listed at 30 serves of 10 g each. You mix one heaped scoop into 300 mL of cold water and drink it immediately, once a day, before training. Caffeine is not on the ingredient list, which is the whole reason to pick a non stim pre workout over a standard one.
The ingredients are listed in full on this page and on the pack. The pack label is the authority on allergens, directions and warnings, so read it. It is a sports food, so it is not for children under 15 or for pregnant women, and it works alongside a normal diet rather than replacing part of it.
Use the tub within 60 days of opening, keep it sealed and dry, and weigh your serve if you want the scoop count to come out exactly right.