I Was Mixing Four Pre-Workouts to Get One Good Pump — So I Built My Own

Before Ransom Labs, I was the guy in the gym with three different tubs in his bag.

I train and compete seriously — that side of things lives on my page, @jnransom — and for me the pump is everything. But no single pre-workout on the shelf actually had it all. One had real citrulline but skimped on beta-alanine. Another had the pump ingredients at a dose that was basically a rounding error. So I did what a lot of us end up doing: I started stacking. Two, three, sometimes four pre-workouts mixed into one shaker just to hit the amounts that actually work.

And it worked — the pump was unreal. But there was a catch. To get there I was slamming way too much caffeine and stimulants, because every one of those tubs brought its own. Great pump, wired out of my mind, heart pounding. That's not a formula. That's a workaround.

So I stopped working around the problem and built the thing I actually wanted: one scoop with everything that matters, each ingredient at the dose the research supports — 10g of citrulline, real beta-alanine, betaine, glycerol, nitrates — with caffeine kept sensible at 175mg instead of stacked into the red. Everything fully dosed. Everything printed on the label. Nothing hidden in a blend.

That's PUMP. It's the pre-workout I was trying to build in my gym bag — done right, and in one scoop.

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