Klarrisa Arafa
If pre-workout is your secret to an intense workout, we feel you. In fact, we formulated our own Perform Pre-Workout Powder shortly after we launched our best-selling plant-based protein because we knew how crucial it can be for successful training. Nevertheless, if you run out before restocking, we recommend brewing your own cold brew and adding a few key ingredients to supercharge your brain.
Of course, there are a lot of fancy cold-brew kits on the market, but most of coffee-drinkers can make a batch in 2 simple steps using what they have in their kitchen.
But here are some things to consider if you want to take it one step further…
Obviously, coffee isn’t a pre-workout. The latter has a lot more ingredients in it that encourage the body to perform at its highest octane. But there are also coffee brands out there that promise to provide benefits beyond caffeine’s capabilities.
Here are the ingredients those brands may use to focus your brain, curb your appetite, and get you ready to crush your workout:
So for this bit, size does matter. To be exact for the cold brew to be strong and perfectly balanced the grounds should be coarse rather than fine. Think drip coffee thickness and not the powder-light grounds used to brew espresso. The reason why? Finer grounds can over-extract or clump up, staying dry, and resulting in weaker cold brew.
You can brew without straining if you use a cold brew bag. It will cost you roughly $9.99 to purchase 200 cold brew bags from Amazon. It’s not a bad deal. When your Perform Pre-Workout restocks arrive, you can keep the cold brew on tap, ready for that afternoon slump on rest days.
Concentrated Cold Brew Ratio
Probably the first thing we should have mentioned was your brew ratio, but we didn’t, so we’ll let you in on a small secret…
To make a super strong, super concentrated brew use 8 ounces (1 cup) of water for every two ounces (⅔ cup) of grounds.
That’s it, folks, your coffee can set in the fridge for as long as 7-10 days. Stay alert, live well, and restock your preworkout powder already!
Perform Preworkout Powder comes in four carefully crafted flavors: watermelon, grape, pina colada, and pink lemonade.