Cellucor C4 Original - Blue Raspberry, 273g (30 Serves)

Cellucor C4 Original - Blue Raspberry, 273g (30 Serves) is a pre-workout powder built for anyone who trains hard and wants a dependable hit of energy before they walk into the gym. Each of the 30 scoops in this tub delivers 200mg of caffeine anhydrous alongside a full stack of performance ingredients, so if your current pre-workout leaves you flat by the second set, Cellucor C4 Original is worth a look.

How Cellucor Pre-Workout works

Caffeine anhydrous is a central nervous system stimulant that blocks adenosine receptors in the brain, the same receptors that build up over a session and make you feel tired. With 200mg per serve, Cellucor C4 Original gives you roughly the caffeine content of two cups of coffee in one scoop, timed to hit as you're loading your first working set rather than trickling in over an hour. Beta-alanine works differently: it raises carnosine levels inside muscle tissue, and carnosine buffers the hydrogen ions that build up during high-rep, high-intensity work. Dosed at 2g per serve as CarnoSyn beta-alanine, it's there to help you hold form and output through the back half of a set instead of folding early to burning legs or lungs.

The Velox blend inside this formula pairs 1.2g of L-citrulline with 1.2g of L-arginine, two amino acids that feed the nitric oxide pathway your body uses to dilate blood vessels and push more blood into working muscle, which is what a pump actually is under the skin. Sitting alongside that is 1g of creatine as creatine nitrate (NO3-T), a form that combines creatine's role in fast ATP regeneration for short, powerful efforts with a nitrate group that also supports blood flow. 500mg of L-tyrosine, an amino acid the brain uses as a building block for dopamine and noradrenaline, is included for mental focus under stress, backed by 225mg of choline plus vitamin B6, folate and B12 to round out the cognitive side of the formula.

Why choose Cellucor C4 Original

Cellucor C4 Original is one of Cellucor's best known pre-workout formulas, and Blue Raspberry mixes into a straightforward, sweet-tart drink that goes down clean in water. Each tub runs to 30 serves, so a single container covers a full month of single-scoop sessions before you need to reorder. A few details set this particular formula apart from a lot of entry-level stimulant powders on the shelf:

• Only 10 calories per serving, so it slots into a cut or a calorie-tracked block without eating into your daily numbers.
• 100mg of PeptiPump bioactive lentil peptides, an addition on top of the core caffeine, beta-alanine and Velox stack that a lot of budget pre-workouts leave out entirely.
• Vitamin B12 dosed at 250% DV and folate at 25% DV, sitting underneath the tyrosine and choline for a formula built around more than stimulant alone.

Cellucor C4 Original - Blue Raspberry uses artificial sweeteners rather than sugar, which is part of why a full scoop only costs you 10 calories, and malic acid and citric acid give the Blue Raspberry flavour its sharp, tart edge instead of a flat, syrupy sweetness.

Getting the most from it

Take Cellucor C4 Original 20 to 30 minutes before you train so the caffeine and the Velox blend have time to reach the bloodstream by the time you're warming up. If you're new to stimulant pre-workouts or training later in the day, start with half a scoop and assess your tolerance before moving to a full serve; at a full 9.1g scoop the caffeine load is high enough that most people don't need to double up. Because the creatine content here sits well under a standalone maintenance dose, lifters chasing a full creatine protocol often pair Cellucor C4 Original with a dedicated product from our creatine range and let the pre-workout carry energy and focus on training days.

This formula sits inside our wider pre-workout range if you want to compare it against other options, and it stacks cleanly with a shake from our protein range once the session is done and recovery starts. However you build the stack around it, Cellucor C4 Original is meant to be the energy and focus anchor of the session, not something you need to layer three other stimulant products on top of.

Nutrition per serving. Key ingredients: Caffeine, Beta-Alanine, L-Citrulline, L-Arginine, Creatine, L-Tyrosine. Flavour: Blue Raspberry.