Ghost Legend Pre-Workout Review (2024 Upd) Is It Good? (2024)

Last updated: November 14, 2024

Most of us fitness junkies strive to become legends in our workouts, and I’ve recently come across a certain pre-workout that claims it can get us closer to that status.

The supplement is called Ghost Legend Pre-Workout, and as a certified personal trainer with over five years of experience, I decided to take a deep dive into this product and test it out with my colleagues at TotalShape along with some curious clients.

This Ghost Legend Pre-Workout review will detail ingredients, effectiveness, and how this supplement stacks against the competition, hopefully giving you an answer to the question, “Is the Ghost lifestyle for me?”

Let’s dig in.

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Ghost Legend Pre-Workout is a supplement that aims to deliver more energy, focus, and pumps to your workout.

The flagship formula from Ghost Legend Pre-Workout hit the gym in 2016 with the company wanting to “empower legends far beyond the walls of the gym.”

In 2021 we saw a revamped formula that adjusted, added, and removed some ingredients, i.e., eliminating olive leaf extract and increasing caffeine from 202 mg to 250 mg.

The Ghost Legend V2 offers a variety of licensed flavors like Sour Patch Kids®, Swedish Fish®, and Sonic® Cherry Limeade.

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Fully transparent labeling with no proprietary blend description allowed a close look at Ghost Legend ingredients.

Offering a wide variety of flavors causes each bottle's “other ingredients” portion to vary slightly, but the core ingredients remain the same.

The label breaks down the main ingredient list into two blends, Ghost Legend and Ghost Smart Energy. We will do the same for this pre-workout review.

• L-Citrulline: Vegan-Fermented (4000 mg) - You want things pumping during your workout, and L-Citrulline works with your body to improve blood flow by boosting nitric oxide (NO) production. This has been proven by different studies from the PubMed and WebMD website [1] [2].
• Beta-Alanine (3200 mg) - Fatigue can bring your workout to a screeching halt. According to another study initially found on the National Center for Biotechnology Information website, beta-alanine can reduce overall fatigue by helping your muscles lower their acid levels during exercise [3]. Including beta-alanine in a pre-workout supplement, as Ghost does, should ensure your workout will end when you want it to and not a minute before.
• Nitrosigine® (1500 mg) - Nitrosigine® also boosts NO production in the body, thus increasing blood flow and improving workout performance [4]. Most of my colleagues definitely noticed visible veins even before the peak of their workout.
• Senactiv® (50 mg) - Senactiv® is a patented ingredient that is designed to increase muscle energy production and aid in recovery by speeding up muscle repair after high-intensity exercise, resulting in improved exercise performance.

We definitely felt some of those effects, but we cannot pinpoint them to any particular ingredient.

L-Tyrosine (1000 mg) - Many will agree that a workout encompasses both your mind and body. L-Tyrosine works for your mind, helping your body conserve energy, thus, improving focus and your body’s reaction to stress [5].

Taurine (1000 mg) - Probably the most important thing in the whole workout process is recovery. Taurine’s antioxidant properties aid the recovery of muscles, keeping you ready for your next training [6].
Although my clients did notice a slightly faster recovery, it wasn’t that huge of a difference.

“Taurine, a powerful endogenous antioxidant, has previously been shown to have a beneficial effect on muscle damage markers and recovery when taken for a few days to several weeks prior to eccentric exercise.”

- Yanita McLeay. Ph.D. Sport & Exercise Science

Ghost Legend Pre-Workout doesn’t seem to have any major unwanted side effects that aren’t commonly experienced with other stimulant-heavy pre-workout products.

My colleagues and clients didn’t report any worrying side effects, but for this Ghost Legend review, I will list some common user complaints that what we came across in our research:

I wanted to test how Ghost Legend competes with other pre-workouts, so I looked at Gorilla Mode and 4 Gauge for this review.

Gorilla Mode

Compared to Ghost Legend, Gorilla Mode took pumps and focus seriously in their formula incorporating 4500 mg of L-Citrulline into one scoop of their pre-workout, along with these other core ingredients:

• Creatine for a considerable performance boost
• Glycerpump for massive hydration
• Agmatine Sulfate so you can power through the intensity
• Premium ingredients to boost energy, power, focus, and performance

During our testing, I felt more energized, and I could focus better during my workouts.

4 Gauge

Topping the ingredient list for this pre-workout is 6000 mg of L-Citrulline DL-Malate (malic acid) to get serious pumps and reduce muscle soreness.

A bit less caffeine at only 150 mg, but 4 Gauge pairs it with L-theanine so you can focus that energy.

Rhodiola Rosea for focus and mood and red beet to boost muscle pumps and oxygen use finish off the core ingredient list.

Overall, our tests prove this supplement to be highly efficient at what it does.

You can buy this pre-workout product directly on the Ghost Lifestyle website. However, it's pricier there, so I recommend buying it on Amazon because you might catch some discounts, and the shipping experience is faster and smoother.

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“Not bad but a little on the expensive side. The flavors are good as well.”

- u/Specialist-Action-33 on Reddit

“It’s not great. Beta-Alanine is pretty much the only clinically dosed ingredient. It’s got 250mg of caffeine which could be sufficient if you’re sensitive to caffeine or new to pre-workouts, but there are many better options”.

- u/lukediedyesterday on Reddit

While Ghost Legend is considered a good pre-workout, as far as I’m concerned, there are less expensive and no less effective options to get the muscle preservation, endurance, and muscle growth you are looking for. You’ll just have to sacrifice that cherry limeade flavor, though.

The product I’ve been using for a few years now and that has never failed to deliver on its promises is Gorilla Mode.

I always recommend this product to my colleagues and clients because the ingredients in Gorilla Mode reliably do what they are intended to do at a reasonable price point.

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