Beta-Alanine Free Form 360 g

Some people love it, others hate it.

Do you know that feeling when your skin starts to tingle a few minutes after drinking a pre-workout? That’s beta-alanine making its presence known. People often assume that the supplement is working because of the tingling sensation. But that’s not proof.

It’s just a side effect of beta-alanine that gets stronger with higher doses. Judging the supplement’s effectiveness based on that is nonsense—a stronger tingling sensation doesn’t mean a better product, just as the absence of it doesn’t mean your bottle is filled with flour.

Just taking it before your workout isn’t enough.

With pre-workout supplements, you decide whether to drink them fifteen or thirty minutes before your workout. With beta-alanine, that’s not the way it works. Anyone expecting a caffeine-like energy boost from it is using the wrong dosage. It belongs in your daily routine, just like creatine. To be clear, it’s not a waste to include it in your pre-workout, but if you don’t take it regularly, don’t expect much from it.

The reason is simple: beta-alanine, together with the amino acid histidine, creates carnosine in your muscles—and that doesn’t happen in a single afternoon, but gradually. Week after week. Increased carnosine stores come in handy especially when your muscles start to hate you and scream, “Enough already!” At that moment, you decide whether to give up. Beta-alanine will help you keep going.

Appetite grows with food. So does carnosine.

How to take it? Feel free to mix the powder into your food. And if you’re drinking it, don’t take it on an empty stomach. Studies show that when taken with food, beta-alanine produces more carnosine in the muscles than when taken between meals. (1)

The daily dose is 4–6 g, or roughly 1/2 to 3/4 of a scoop. Want to saturate your muscles faster? Aim for the upper end of the range. And if the tingling bothers you, split your daily dose into several smaller portions (e.g., 4× 1–1.5 g).

When to use BETA-ALANINE FREE FORM?

• Bodybuilding and fitness —sets with a higher number of repetitions and short rest periods between them.
• Combat sports —rounds decided by the bell, not muscle fatigue.
• Swimming and water sports – intervals lasting several minutes where you can’t slow down.
• Team sports – a game where the pace constantly shifts: sprint, battle, slow down, and repeat.

BETA-ALANINE FREE FORM – measure it in weeks, not minutes.

EXTRIFIT® – Made in the Czech Republic since 2010

We manufacture the product under one roof in Dolní Újezd: in-house development, in-house technology, and our responsibility for every gram. We keep the entire process firmly in our hands—from the careful selection of raw materials, through testing and mixing, to packaging and shipping. No anonymous factories, no outsourcing. Just precise manufacturing and a result we stand behind.

Sources:

1. Stegen, S., Blancquaert, L., Everaert, I., Bex, T., Taes, Y., Calders, P., Achten, E., & Derave, W. (2013). Meal and beta-alanine coingestion enhances muscle carnosine loading. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 45(8), 1478–1485.

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