Beyond Raw LIT Review

Pro’s

• Creatine Monohydrate boosts strength and endurance
• Caffeine raises energy levels
• L-Citrulline can enhance muscle pumps

Con’s

• Beta-Alanine causes paresthesia
• High caffeine dosage can cause side effects (over 200mg per serving)
• Contains numerous ineffective ingredients
• Not good value for money

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About The Product

LIT is a pre-workout supplement made by Beyond Raw Labs. It costs $39.99 for 30 serving containers, and comes in 4 flavors – Blue Raspberry Fruit Punch, Gummy Worm, and Icy Fireworks.

That last flavor sounds pretty interesting, but we played it safe and went for ‘Gummy Worm’ (because who doesn’t like gummy worms?! Don’t trust anyone who doesn’t…). Anyway, we’ll tell you a bit about the company behind LIT pre-workout before analyzing what’s inside this product.

Who are Beyond Raw Labs? 

Beyond Raw Labs is a supplements company that claim they’re ‘obsessed’ with results. They market a few other products – such as a mass gainer protein powder, and a fat burner supplement.

However, you’re here to learn about their pre-workout, LIT; and this is exactly what we’ll give you below.

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Beyond Raw LIT Ingredients Explained

LIT pre-workout contains 8 ingredients, which is a good amount to have in a supplement – however, we’ll analyze whether these ingredients are effective, or can cause side effects.

From first glance, we noticed that LIT doesn’t contain any proprietary blends, which is a great thing; so we’ll take you through each ingredient inside LIT – to show you how good this pre-workout really is.

Here’s Everything You Need To Know:

Beta Alanine 

We always have mixed opinions when it comes to Beta Alanine. Simply put, this ingredient has shown to raise muscular endurance – but it’s also proven to cause a side effect called Paresthesia.

What’s Paresthesia?

Basically, this side effect is a tingling on the skin of your face and body; something distracting enough to ruin your workout. We were itchying all through our session when experiencing paresthesia – it’s not great looking like you gave nits or fleas while trying to make gains…

It’s up to you whether this is a bad enough side effect to avoid Beta Alanine, but we stay away from it; especially when Creatine Monohydrate offers the same benefit without causing any side effects (we’ll expand on this below).

Creatine Monohydrate 

As we mentioned above, Creatine Monohydrate is one of our favorite pre-workout ingredients for one reason – it works. In fact, Creatine has been used by bodybuilders and athletes since the 1980’s; Olympic athletics were known to use it during the 1992 Barcelona Olympic games in particular.

Anyway, most importantly, it’s proven to improve your strength and endurance in the gym; ultimately, this helps you break your personal weight lifting records, make more muscle gains, or get shredded – which is why we train in the gym right?!

For these reasons, we always look for pre-workout supplements containing Creatine Monohydrate.

Caffeine Anhydrous

Caffeine is the best stimulant you can find in gym supplements – if you’ve consumed tea or coffee before, you know that Caffeine has a positive impact on your energy levels almost immediately.

Anyway, this is why it’s great in pre-workout supplements; this instant energy boosts help you perform at your best in the gym, which always helps you make more progress on your dream physique.

As well as raising your energy levels, studies have proven that Caffeine also raises your focus, endurance and strength levels too. For these reasons, Caffeine plays an important role in pre-workouts – just make sure that you’re consuming less than 200mg per serving to avoid side effects.

This is where the problems start; as Beyond Raw LIT contains 250mg Caffeine per serving, you’re at risk of suffering from jitters and energy crashes here.

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elevATP

This is a patented ingredient made up of Ancient Peat and Apple Extract. If you’re not sure what these are, all you need to know is that they haven’t shown to improve your performance in the gym, in any studies.

As a result, elavATP is an ineffective ingredient inside BEYOND RAW LIT. We would’ve preferred to see Beetroot Extract instead here (as this has shown to promote muscle pumps in the gym due to containing high amounts of nitrates).

Coffee Fruit Extract 

This is an interesting addition to Beyond Raw LIT pre-workout, but not a good one. Basically, this is a stimulant that offers the same effects as caffeine; but as we’ve mentioned, this product already contains high amounts of Caffeine per serving – with Coffee Fruit Exract in the mix, this makes it almost certain that you’ll experience jitters or energy crashes after taking this pre-workout.

As we’ve mentioned, it’s important to stay under 200mg Caffeine per serving when it comes to pre-workouts (after you’ve taken this amount and are free from side effects, you can begin to raise the dosage, but it’s not good to start with 250mg Caffeine per serving).

L-Citrulline 

This is part of one of our favorite pre-workout ingredients, Citrulline Malate (the latter is basically L-Citrulline mixed with Malic Acid which has proven to raise your strength levels too). As this is just L-Citrulline, it’ll only boost your muscle pumps, but this is still a key benefit of taking these supplements.

For this reason, we always like seeing L-Citrulline or Citrulline Malate on pre-workout ingredient lists – who doesn’t like seeing their biceps expand in the gym?!.

Arginine Silicate Inositol 

If you don’t know what this ingredient is, all you need to know is that Arginine Silicate Inositol hasn’t shown to improve your gym sessions in any studies.

Simply put, any ingredient (or supplement) containing Arginine is ineffective; Arginine has a poor absorption rate, meaning it won’t work when orally supplemented. For this reason, we avoid this nutrient.

Not only that, Citrulline converts into Arginine inside your kidneys; this resolves the issue of Arginine’s poor absorption rate – also meaning there’s no need for this inside Beyond Raw LIT pre-workout.

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Side Effects

There are 2 things in Beyond Raw LIT that can cause side effects – the high dosage of Caffeine, and Beta Alanine.

As we’ve mentioned in the above section, the high 250mg Caffeine per serving along with the addition of Coffee Fruit Extract can cause jitters and energy crashes – especially to those sensitive to it. Also, Beta Alanine has proven to cause paresthesia in numerous studies (which is the tingling on the skin of your face and body – something we always try to avoid).

Here’s the potential side effects from taking Beyond Raw LIT: 

• Paresthesia (Beta Alanine)
• Jitters (over 200mg Caffeine per serving)
• Energy Crashes (over 200mg Caffeine per serving)

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Beyond Raw LIT Review Conclusion

Beyond Raw LIT contains 3 key pre-workout ingredients, which is more than other pre-workouts we’ve reviewed – but it’s still not able to compete with our favorite products on the market, as it’s been reported to cause some side effects.

We’ll give it credit where it’s due; it’s Gummy Worm flavor tasted good, but at the end of the day, you don’t buy a supplement simply because it tastes nice.

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