The playbook
Mix it yourself.
Written like coursework — each guide teaches the dose math, the equipment and the safety lines before the recipe.
Fill your own capsules
Before the recipes, one principle worth learning: a capsule is a volume measurement that looks like a weight. Understand that, and a $20 machine plus $15 of empties turns any powder into a measured dose.
Read the guide →Make your own pre-workout
Before the recipes, two skills: reading a proprietary blend and checking a dose against the literature. Learn both and the case for mixing your own pre-workout makes itself — four ingredients, weighed, about $0.67 a serving.
Read the guide →Brew your own energy drinks
Lesson one is the can itself: five bulk actives, an acid blend and carbonated water, sold at $2–3.50. Learn to read that panel and the recipe below reads itself.
Read the guide →DIY electrolytes & sports drinks
Before the recipes, the principle: sweat is salty, and replacing it takes more sodium than most sports drinks provide — 500–1,000 mg per liter of fluid. Learn why each ingredient is there and every label in the category reads the same.
Read the guide →The $100 lab bench
Before the shopping list, one idea explains everything on it: doses come in two different units, and no single scale covers both. Once that clicks, the kit below reads as a logical consequence rather than a list to memorize.
Read the guide →The bench
Under $150, all in.
The seven-piece starter kit — a milligram scale, capsule machine, jars and desiccant. Costs less than two tubs of branded pre-workout; pays for itself inside a month.
- Milligram scale~$25
- Kitchen scale~$12
- Capsule machine$18–40
- Empty capsules~$15 / 1,000
- Mortar & sifter$5–15
- Amber jars + desiccant$15–25
- Labels + log~$5
- ~$75–120 all-in — under $150 with a first ingredient order
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