Legion Pulse Pre-Workout.

The gap this formula speaks to.

Public health figures the engine matched to this formula's ingredients. Reported by their source, cited and dated, never written by the brand.

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Every one of these is a fact the engine could ground.

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• Studied in people19 human studies on Beta-Alanine back this formula, each one cited.
• A mechanism that is settledHow Calcium and Sodium work is settled pharmacology.
• Studied together, not just separatelyCalcium and Potassium have been studied together, not only separately.
• Recent work on the recordThe most recent study on this record was published in 2026.
• Serving amount inside the studied rangeEach serving carries 8 g of L-Citrulline DL-Malate, inside the range the published research used.
• A stated daily maintenance amountL-Citrulline DL-Malate is here at a daily maintenance amount, which is what a daily supplement is for.
• Why this formatIt is a powder, so the serving scales to the amount you want and mixes into something you already drink.
• The exact form, describedThe label names its forms exactly: Calcium carbonate, Sodium chloride, table salt, sea salt, Potassium chloride. The record says what each one is and what it suits.
• Full label disclosureEvery ingredient on this label carries its own declared amount.
• Where it comes from and how it is madeCalcium is made by mineral.
• Positions this formula already qualifies forThis formula already qualifies for positions beyond the one it is sold into, on the evidence it carries.
• A position nobody is holding yetSome of those positions are ones almost nobody is selling to yet.
• Interaction screen on the recordEvery active on this label was screened against the interaction record, and the screen is published with it.

The size of the effect, in plain numbers.

Where a trial measured an actual number, we show it next to the claim. It is the average across the trials, never a promise about one person.

What the trials show about timing.

Time-to-effect windows the engine read from the trial record. Each is a window a named study measured, cited and dated, never written by the brand.

• Calciumwithin about one to six hours of a single doseMeasured within a day

  A randomised cross-over trial in ten women of mean age 69 gave a single 500 mg dose of calcium as citrate fasting, citrate with a meal, fortified juice or a dairy product meal, with blood drawn before and at 1, 2, 4 and 6 hours. Serum ionised and total calcium increased significantly from baseline over six hours, with the rise similar after fortified juice, delayed when citrate was taken with a meal and smaller after the dairy meal. A separate double-blind cross-over trial in 25 postmenopausal women measured parathyroid hormone and a bone resorption marker 12 hours after a single calcium dose. Ten participants is a small sample, and what moved was blood chemistry, not a sensation.

  Bristow et al., 2015 (Br J Nutr)PMID 25851635

  Thomas et al., 2008 (Calcif Tissue Int)PMID 18553042

  Promising
• Sodiumabout 3 days to 4 weeks of steady intakeBuilds with daily use

  In the excretion studies the EFSA reference opinion reviews, urinary output closely tracked dietary sodium once intake was held steady: 98% of dietary sodium appeared in 24-hour urine in a 3-day study, and 86% of sodium ingested over 4 weeks was recovered in 24-hour urine collected during the same period.

  EFSA Panel on Nutrition, Novel Foods and Food Allergens (NDA), 2019 (EFSA Journal)PMID 32626425

  Early
• Sodiumabout 29 days at each fixed intake levelBuilds with daily use

  In the controlled metabolic study the EFSA reference opinion reviews, young men held at constant sodium intakes for 29 days per level showed rising average daily urinary aldosterone excretion as intake was stepped down from 4.9 g/day to 2.5 g/day.

  EFSA Panel on Nutrition, Novel Foods and Food Allergens (NDA), 2019 (EFSA Journal)PMID 32626425

  Promising
• L-Citrulline DL-Malatewithin about 1 hour of a single doseMeasured within a day

  In a randomised double-blind crossover trial in 19 recreationally active women, a single 8 g dose of citrulline malate taken 60 minutes before testing raised total work in a 5-repetition isokinetic leg extension protocol compared with placebo, with no difference in peak torque and no difference in the 50-repetition protocol. A separate crossover trial in 10 well-trained men using 12 g 60 minutes before high-intensity cycling found no change in time to exhaustion or power.

  Gills et al., 2023 (J Strength Cond Res)PMID 34319940

  Cunniffe et al., 2016 (J Strength Cond Res)PMID 26808848

  Early
• Beta-Alanineabout 4 to 10 weeks of daily useBuilds with daily use

  In the trial record, muscle carnosine rises about 59% over 4 weeks of daily beta-alanine, with further gains, about 80%, by 10 weeks.

  Hill et al., 2006 (Amino Acids)PMID 16868650

  Promising
• Betaine Anhydrousat least 1 week of daily use, measured at 14 days in the trialBuilds with daily use

  In a randomised double-blind crossover trial in 12 resistance-trained men, 14 days of betaine at 1.25 g twice daily raised bench throw power and isometric bench press force compared with placebo, with no change in jump squat power or repetitions completed. A meta-analysis of 17 trials in 317 participants reported a modest pooled effect on maximal strength of 0.47 standardised mean difference for regimens of at least 7 days.

  Lee et al., 2010 (J Int Soc Sports Nutr)PMID 20642826

  Zawieja et al., 2024 (Journal of Sports Sciences)PMID 39514262

  Promising

Windows measured in the cited trials. Context for how the active behaves over time, not a statement about any individual and not a claim about this product.

How each ingredient usually behaves over time.

9 ingredients, from each one's own page.

• Calcium

  No acute sensation. Parathyroid hormone responds within hours, while bone density shifts over a year or more of steady intake, so this reads on a panel and a scan.

  Its own page, the plain answer on timing ↗

• Sodium

  Fast. Sodium shifts fluid within an hour or two, which is why an electrolyte drink lands quickly when you have been sweating.

  Its own page, the plain answer on timing ↗

• Potassium

  Cramp steadiness and hydration can shift within a day or two of raising intake. The blood pressure side, within the normal range, reads out over four to six weeks.

  Its own page, the plain answer on timing ↗

• L-Citrulline DL-Malate

  Plasma arginine peaks around an hour after a dose, which is when the fuller feeling in working muscle turns up. Performance changes build across one to two weeks.

  Its own page, the plain answer on timing ↗

• Beta-AlanineTwo to four weeks

  Before the extra buffering turns up in hard sets, and muscle carnosine keeps climbing for a couple of months after that.

  Its own page, the plain answer on timing ↗

• Betaine AnhydrousWeeks, not days

  Homocysteine shifts on a blood panel by around four weeks, and training changes gather over a couple of months.

  Its own page, the plain answer on timing ↗

How each ingredient usually behaves over time, from its own page on IngredientMD. General timing for the ingredient, not a measurement of this product.

The same ingredient, carried differently.

What each form is, and where it fits in a formula. Measured findings carry the study that reported them.

• Citrulline malate

  L-citrulline combined with malic acid, sold most often as a 2:1 or 1:1 blend by weight of citrulline to malate. The malate is the salt of the same acid found in tart fruit.

  Fits

  Suits pre-workout and endurance drink formulas, where the tart malic acid folds into a fruit-flavored mix, and it is the form most sports-performance dosing protocols were written around.

  Trade-off

  Part of each labelled gram is malic acid rather than citrulline, so a 2:1 gram delivers less citrulline than the same gram of free-form. The two common ratios (2:1 and 1:1) are not interchangeable on a label.

  In a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled crossover trial, 41 men took a single 8 g dose of citrulline malate before resistance training. Bench-press repetitions to fatigue rose across the later sets and reported muscle soreness at 24 and 48 hours was lower than placebo.

  Perez-Guisado & Jakeman, 2010 (J Strength Cond Res)
• Beta-alanine

  The free beta amino acid, freely water soluble, supplied as a crystalline powder

  Fits

  Divided daily doses spread through the day, and anyone who wants to control the amount per serving exactly

  Trade-off

  A single larger dose commonly produces transient skin tingling, which is why the total is usually split

• Betaine anhydrous

  Trimethylglycine, the amino acid glycine carrying three methyl groups on its nitrogen, supplied as a dry zwitterion with no bound water and no counter-ion.

  Fits

  Dissolves readily in water and blends into powders and pre-workout formulas at gram-scale doses, and it carries a high betaine content per gram because there is no bound water or acid weighing the compound down.

  Trade-off

  It is strongly hygroscopic, so it pulls in moisture and can clump or cake in humid conditions, which complicates tableting and storage, and it has a sweet-then-bitter taste that flavored products have to mask.

  In a double-blind randomised controlled trial, 23 untrained young women who took 2.5 g/day betaine anhydrous during 8 weeks of resistance training showed a greater reduction in fat mass and body fat percentage than a placebo group.

  Cholewa et al., 2018 (J Int Soc Sports Nutr)
• Caffeine anhydrous

  Dry crystalline free base with no water of crystallisation, close to a hundred percent caffeine by weight

  Fits

  Capsules, tablets and pre-workout powders where an exact milligram figure is needed

  Trade-off

  Potency by volume makes it unforgiving to measure by spoon and it dissolves slowly in cold water. The same potency is what makes accurate dosing possible on a scale

• L-theanine

  The single L-enantiomer as a free amino acid, the form found in tea leaf and the form used in essentially all human trials.

  Fits

  Anyone matching what the trial literature actually tested, and anyone formulating with caffeine.

  Trade-off

  Hygroscopic powder with a faint umami taste that can come through in unflavoured drink mixes.

Descriptions of the form itself, read from the cited studies. Not a comparison between products and not a statement about any individual.

Powder

It is a powder, so the serving scales to the amount you want and mixes into something you already drink.

Studied alongside this brand's other formulas

Where two of this brand's products carry actives the literature has read together, the pairing and its basis are below. The evidence word is the corpus row's own confidence, never a score.