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🏋️ We found the 6 best pre-workouts for running

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Erin Chancer
June 25, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes

Welcome to Home Gym Club! Remember Christmas of 2010-2011 when our well-meaning distant relatives or in-laws bought us all Shake Weights because “we’re into fitness?” We can’t help but wonder if there’s a landfill somewhere full of those things…

What’s in today’s newsletter:

  • We narrowed down the six best pre-workouts for running.

  • The GGR expert product testers tried out the NordicTrack Fusion CST Studio trainer.

  • An Olympic lifter helps you dial in your hang clean form.

  • Our honest look at Ritual vitamins.

Run Up That Hill

The Best Pre-Workouts For Running

The best pre-workout supplement can enhance energy, power, and cognition as you…run?

Although you might not associate your favorite gym juice with longer distances and faster paces, pre-workout powders aren’t just for bodybuilding. You may find that the best pre-workout for running lands in your training bag alongside intra-workout carbohydrates and a post-recovery protein shake.

We asked a registered dietitian to team up with our expert product testers—from a triathlete to a certified personal trainer to a USA Weightlifting L-2 coach—and evaluate dozens of pre-workouts for this list, narrowing it down to the 6 best.

We even go the extra mile and analyze factors such as:

  • Formulation

  • Third-party testing

  • Taste

  • Price per serving

Here’s what we found!

Train Station

NordicTrack Fusion CST Studio Review

Historically, the best functional trainers have been used primarily to increase strength. But what if there was a functional trainer that allowed you to combine both strength and cardio workouts?

The NordicTrack Fusion CST Studio makes that possible. This machine has cables and pulleys and offers 20 levels of magnetic resistance so you can strengthen all of your major muscle groups. Its integration with iFIT allows you to follow along with instructor-led, on-demand workouts to improve your overall fitness.

We’re big fans of NordicTrack equipment; however, this strength machine left us a bit underwhelmed. In this NordicTrack Fusion CST review, our expert testers will discuss everything we liked and didn’t like.

We also share our honest thoughts about who we think it’s best for and give a few key takeaways you should know before buying it.

Expert Technique Tips

Perfect Your Hang Clean Form

We once left the Olympic lifts to the Olympians, but thanks to CrossFit, a significantly wider audience has begun incorporating these advanced weightlifting maneuvers into their strength training. We here at GGR are all in favor of that; Olympic lifts build some big-time explosive power, helping strength athletes and weekend warriors worldwide accomplish their fitness goals and reach their full potential.

The only problem—let’s be honest—is they’re, like, really hard! You need your body to execute with precision to fling a heavy barbell from the floor to the overhead position. It’s a movement that embodies power and grace when performed with proper form, but it takes a lot of practice to get it right.

That’s why we have Caine Wilkes, OLY, USAW-L1, and GGR senior staff writer, sharing one of his favorite modified Olympic lifts that’ll help you get the hang of this super technical maneuver: the hang clean.

What’s Supp?

Ritual Essential Multivitamins Review

With their transparent ingredient sourcing and mesmerizing beadlet-in-oil multivitamin capsules, Ritual stands out in a sea of vitamin and mineral supplements. Their ads are gorgeous, touting impeccably-researched, clean ingredients to help you feel your best.

But are Ritual multivitamins really better than their competitors, and do they provide all the key nutrients your body needs? The GGR nutrition experts have personally tested and analyzed Ritual supplements to answer these questions and create the most comprehensive and honest Ritual vitamins review you’ll find anywhere.

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