Skip to main content
Verified by IngredientMD/Legion Athletics/Legion Recharge Post-Workout
VERIFIED BYingredientMD

Legion Recharge Post-Workout.

Strong evidence, strong doseLegion Athletics, verified Oct 2026Formula verified. Independently reviewed.Independent review. Not commissioned by Legion Athletics.

Micronized Creatine Monohydrate is the lead active here, studied most for strength. 15 human studies on Micronized Creatine Monohydrate back this formula, each one cited. Each serving carries 5 g of Micronized Creatine Monohydrate, inside the range the published research used. Who it fits: for everyone, adults.

Full label disclosure
3Active ingredientsWell studiedResearch base28Human studies
Legion Recharge Post-WorkoutVerified by IngredientMD
Legion AthleticsIngredientMD
The verdict
Strong evidence, strong dose
For everyone, adults.
How we verify

The brand submits the formula. We read the supplement facts panel and weigh dose, form and synergy against the clinical evidence. Labs test. IngredientMD verifies. The fee pays for review time, never for the outcome.

The formula
Micronized Creatine Monohydrate: StrengthKey driver
L-Carnitine L-Tartrate: Handling more training volumeWell studied
Corosolic Acid: Steadier blood sugar after mealsWell studied

How we read this product

Source: Supplement facts
Supplement Facts panel for Legion Recharge Post-Workout
  1. 01
    We read the label.

    The panel on the left is the one we evaluated, line by line.

  2. 02
    Every active, separately.

    All 3 actives checked against the clinical evidence: dose, form, and what the research actually shows.

  3. 03
    Then the formula as a whole.

    Doses, ratios, and how the ingredients work together. That assessment is the verdict above: "Strong evidence, strong dose".

  4. 04
    Earned, not bought.

    The verdict is public and identical whether or not a brand pays. A formula that does not clear the bar gets nothing.

Read by the engine against 2.1 million data points from clinical trials, PubMed and more than a hundred vetted sources. No individual reviewer is named or implied.

The receipts

Well studied
Research base
28
Human studies
5 g
Micronized Creatine Monohydrate
2.1 g
L-Carnitine L-Tartrate
5 g per serving sits inside the studied 2 g-5 g range
Micronized Creatine Monohydrate, Kreider et al. 2017 ISSN Position Stand
2.1 g per serving clears the studied 500 mg minimum
L-Carnitine L-Tartrate, Fielding 2018 + Ruggenenti 2009 kidney study

Cross-checked against 218 documented interactions for these actives.

Read the evidenceMicronized Creatine Monohydrate, the evidence →L-Carnitine L-Tartrate, the evidence →Corosolic Acid, the evidence →

Inside the formula

Micronized Creatine Monohydrate
15 studies
Strength
Studied 2 g to 10 g a day
Key driver
L-Carnitine L-Tartrate
10 studies
Handling more training volume
Well studied
Corosolic Acid
Steadier blood sugar after meals
Well studied
In context

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.

The people it speaks toFieldwork 2023

21.1% of the US population

aged 15 and over took part in sports, exercise, or recreation on an average day in 2023, in the American Time Use Survey.

US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024
This formulaNHANES 2017-2018, published 2021

57.6%

During 2017 to 2018, 57.6% of US adults aged 20 and over reported using a dietary supplement in the past 30 days.

CDC National Center for Health Statistics
16 more
Daily use

59 to 66 days

was the median time it took adults to make a new daily health habit automatic across the studies a 2024 review pooled, with individuals ranging from 4 to 335 days.

Systematic review and meta-analysis, 2024
Micronized Creatine Monohydrate

Systematic review and meta-analysis, 2017

Across 53 trials, creatine gave a small boost to upper-body strength versus placebo, about 0.32 standardized, including a real gain in bench press.

Sports Medicine
Micronized Creatine Monohydrate

A small improvement in memory (standardized effect 0.29)

Also gives healthy adults a small memory benefit. Measured in healthy people, pooled across 8 randomised trials (0.04 to 0.53).

Meta-analysis
Micronized Creatine Monohydrate

Meta-analysis, 2025

Across 69 trials in 1,937 adults, creatine with resistance training added about 1.43 kg to bench press and 5.64 kg to squat, with no change in grip strength.

Nutrients
Micronized Creatine Monohydrate

Meta-analysis, 2025

Pooling trials of creatine alongside resistance training, creatine groups gained more muscle strength than controls, with larger gains in untrained people and at low to moderate doses.

PeerJ
L-Carnitine L-Tartrate

Randomised trial, 2010

L-carnitine L-tartrate was associated with more favourable biochemical markers of recovery from physical exertion in both younger and older participants. The endpoints are blood markers rather than function.

Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental
Micronized Creatine Monohydrate

Systematic review and meta-analysis, 2022

This review of 35 randomized trials found creatine combined with resistance training increased lean body mass by about 1.1 kg beyond training alone.

Nutrition
L-Carnitine L-Tartrate

Systematic review, 2021

Pooling acute and chronic oral L-carnitine trials, benefits to exercise performance and recovery showed up mainly with longer dosing and depended on exercise intensity, with little effect on short high-intensity efforts.

Nutrients
Corosolic Acid

Narrative review, 2026

The review maps the described pharmacology of corosolic acid across glucose transporter movement, enzyme inhibition and signalling pathways, drawing mainly on cell and animal work.

Frontiers in Pharmacology
L-Carnitine L-Tartrate

Randomised trial, 2003

L-carnitine L-tartrate supplementation was associated with differences in hormonal responses and markers of tissue disruption after resistance exercise. These are biochemical markers, not performance outcomes.

Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research
Corosolic Acid

Open-label trial, 2025

Myo-inositol combined with banaba standardised to one percent corosolic acid improved HOMA-IR and a hepatic insulin extraction index. Both are calculated markers of insulin handling rather than clinical outcomes.

Gynecological Endocrinology
Corosolic Acid

Randomised trial, 2014

A placebo-controlled trial of soybean leaf extract in adults with elevated blood sugar markers. Banaba and corosolic acid are named only as comparators inside the discussion, so this is context and not evidence for the ingredient itself.

Food and Function
L-Carnitine L-Tartrate

Randomised trial, 2025

Oral acetylcarnitine and carnitine showed low bioavailability with substantial conversion to TMAO, indicating that most of an oral dose does not arrive as intact carnitine.

Molecular Nutrition and Food Research
L-Carnitine L-Tartrate

Randomised trial, 2025

A single acute dose of L-carnitine before a CrossFit workout did not produce a detectable performance difference against placebo, which is a failure to detect an effect rather than evidence there is none.

Nutrients

Population figures from public health data. Context for the category, not a statement about any individual and not a claim about this product.

What this formula earned

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

Each line below was derived from this formula's own record at the time of verification. Nothing here was written by the brand, and nothing can be added that the evidence does not carry.

  • Studied in people15 human studies on Micronized Creatine Monohydrate back this formula, each one cited.
  • A mechanism that is settledHow Micronized Creatine Monohydrate and L-Carnitine L-Tartrate work is settled pharmacology.
  • Recent work on the recordThe most recent study on this record was published in 2012.
  • Serving amount inside the studied rangeEach serving carries 5 g of Micronized Creatine Monohydrate, inside the range the published research used.
  • A stated daily maintenance amountMicronized Creatine Monohydrate 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: Creatine monohydrate, LCLT, Banaba 1% CA. 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 madeMicronized Creatine Monohydrate is made by synthetic.
  • 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.
How much it moves the numbers

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.

Micronized Creatine Monohydratelean body mass
Average change in the trials

About 1.4 kg more lean mass than the same resistance training without it.

Measured in
older adults (about 57 to 70 years) training 2 to 3 days a week
Confidence interval
1.0 to 1.8 kg

Read at the source. The magnitude sits beside the same trial the claim already cites. It describes what the trials measured, never what any one person will feel.

What the trials show

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.

  • Micronized Creatine Monohydrateabout 4 weeks of daily useBuilds with daily use

    In the trial record, muscle creatine stores rise to a loaded level over about 4 weeks at 3 g daily, or about 1 week with a higher loading dose, and return toward baseline about 4 weeks after stopping.

    Strong

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.

General timing

How each ingredient usually behaves over time.

Three ingredients, from each one's own page.

  • Micronized Creatine MonohydrateTwo to four weeks

    Before muscle stores are full and training shows it. A front-loaded first week gets there in about five to seven days.

    Its own page, the plain answer on timing

  • L-Carnitine L-TartrateAbout three weeks

    Soreness after hard sessions eases over roughly three weeks of daily use. Muscle carnitine content builds slowly, so this is a repeated-dose ingredient rather than an acute one.

    Its own page, the plain answer on timing

  • Corosolic AcidWithin days

    Post-meal readings on a glucose meter can shift within days. The steadier fasting picture takes four to twelve weeks of daily use to settle.

    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.

Chemical form

The same ingredient, carried differently.

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

  • Creatine monohydrate

    Creatine complexed with one molecule of water in a crystalline powder. It is the most widely manufactured and most studied form of creatine, and the form sold as Creapure.

    Fits
    The reference form behind the large majority of creatine research, so a formula built on it inherits that deep body of characterisation.
    Trade-off
    Cold-water solubility is modest, so it can settle as grit at the bottom of a cold drink, and the neutral powder needs mixing into a flavoured liquid.

    In a seven-week double-blind randomised trial in untrained men, creatine monohydrate raised total muscle creatine content relative to placebo alongside a matched resistance-training programme.

  • L-carnitine L-tartrate

    A crystalline salt pairing L-carnitine with L-tartaric acid. Roughly two-thirds of the weight is carnitine and the balance is the tartrate counter-ion.

    Fits
    Stable and free-flowing as a dry powder, which suits tablets, capsules and powder blends, and it is the form used in most sports-nutrition carnitine research.
    Trade-off
    Because about a third of each gram is tartaric acid, a gram of the salt supplies less carnitine by weight than the free base.

    In placebo-controlled crossover trials in resistance-trained men, 2 g per day of L-carnitine as the tartrate for three weeks was accompanied by less MRI-detected muscle tissue disruption after squat exercise and higher IGFBP-3 than placebo.

  • Corosolic acid

    The single triterpene separated from the leaf matrix by chromatography or repeated recrystallisation, typically above ninety percent purity.

    Fits
    Research use and formulas that want one defined molecule with no botanical background.
    Trade-off
    The tannins and other leaf compounds are gone, so anything they contributed is gone with them, and the purified acid is even harder to dissolve without a lipid or solubilising carrier.

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

Format

Powder

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

Best forGram-scale actives: creatine, collagen, protein, electrolytes, beta-alanine.
From the same shelf

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.

Legion Recharge Post-Workout + Whey+ Protein IsolateEstablished

The two hydroxylases in the carnitine pathway are iron dependent enzymes that also need ascorbate to keep the iron in its active state. Iron status is part of the same requirement.

cofactor for carnitine biosynthesis. No combination trial has tested this exact pairing.

Recurring supply suggested

Because the effect builds and holds only with continued daily use, a steady recurring supply is the practical way to keep it going.

Questions shoppers ask

Is Legion Recharge Post-Workout independently verified?
Yes. IngredientMD reviewed this formula independently and verified it in Oct 2026. The verdict is earned, not bought: brands can't edit or purchase it.
What's in Legion Recharge Post-Workout?
Legion Recharge Post-Workout is built on Micronized Creatine Monohydrate, L-Carnitine L-Tartrate, Corosolic Acid. Each ingredient links to its own evidence page on IngredientMD.
Were ingredient interactions checked?
Yes. The combination was screened against 218 documented interactions for these actives in IngredientMD's interaction database.
Who is IngredientMD?
IngredientMD is an independent supplement-science platform. We analyze ingredients and formulas against clinical research, and we verify products only when they clear our bar. Labs run the tests. We review the results.
Sell a formula this good?

Put an earned verification on your own product page.

Get verified

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. This record is not medical advice. Always consult your healthcare provider before starting any supplement regimen.

Independent review by IngredientMD, not commissioned by Legion AthleticsWork at Legion Athletics? This verification is yours to claim →