CBUM by Raw
Every pre-workout here is 200mg of caffeine or less, roughly two coffees, including stim-free options at zero. If your tolerance has climbed and nothing works any more, dropping down for a few weeks does more than moving up.
Why less caffeine often works better
Caffeine tolerance builds with regular exposure. If your everyday product runs 400mg, within a few months you will need more than 400mg to feel the same thing, and there is very little above that which is sensible to take.
You end up in a corner. Spending more, feeling less, with nothing left to escalate to.
The way out is not a stronger tub. It is a two week break from stimulants, or simply running something moderate most of the week and saving the strong one for the sessions that warrant it. Tolerance resets faster than people expect.
Who this range suits:
Anyone new to pre-workout. Start around 200mg and work up over months rather than weeks.
Anyone who already drinks coffee through the day, since the FDA cites 400mg daily for healthy adults and that figure includes everything.
Anyone training in the afternoon or evening, where a large dose is still circulating at bedtime.
Anyone resetting a tolerance that has crept up without them noticing.
Worth remembering that caffeine is the ingredient with by far the deepest evidence in sports nutrition, for power output, endurance and perceived exertion alike. Less of it still works. More of it stops working.
