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You've done the sets, the intervals, the long run in the heat, and somewhere around the hour mark your legs go flat. It usually isn't willpower. Hard training runs on carbohydrate, and your muscles only store so much of it. When the store runs low, the session runs out of road.
VITALIX KarboMax 3X Fast Fuel is a carbohydrate powder made for that problem. It comes in a 1 kg tub with about 36 scoops, and this guide uses the Pineapple flavour. Below we go through what one scoop contains, then five practical ways to use it, and who should skip it.
What's in one scoop
One scoop is 28 g of powder. This is the nutrition panel from the tub:
| Ingredient | Per scoop (28 g) | % Daily Value |
|---|---|---|
| Calories | 96 kcal | 5% |
| Total fat | 0 g | 0% |
| Total carbohydrate | 24 g | 9% |
| Homopolysaccharide | 14.4 g | - |
| Maltodextrin | 8 g | - |
| Dextrose | 1.6 g | - |
| Total sugars | 1.6 g | 1.5% |
| Creatine HCL | 0.8 g | - |
| HMB-Ca | 0.8 g | - |
| Sodium chloride | 228 mg | 4% |
| Calcium carbonate | 128 mg | 4% |
| Magnesium citrate | 38.8 mg | 1% |
| Zinc gluconate | 4 mg | 5% |
| Vitamin B3 (niacin) | 24 mg | 150% |
| Vitamin B6 | 2.08 mg | 122% |
| Vitamin B12 | 4 mcg | 167% |
% Daily Value is based on a 2,000-calorie diet. Where the panel shows a dash, no daily value has been set.
The carbs: three sources in one scoop
Each scoop gives you 24 g of carbohydrate and 96 calories, with no fat. The carbohydrate comes from three sources:
- Homopolysaccharide (14.4 g): the biggest share, a long-chain carbohydrate built from one type of sugar unit.
- Maltodextrin (8 g): shorter chains of glucose that digest quickly.
- Dextrose (1.6 g): plain glucose, the form your body uses directly.
Only 1.6 g of the 24 g counts as sugar. The rest is starch-type carbohydrate, so you get a lot of fuel without a sugary drink.
B vitamins, electrolytes, creatine and HMB
Each scoop also has three B vitamins above 100% of the daily value: niacin (B3, 24 mg), vitamin B6 (2.08 mg) and vitamin B12 (4 mcg). All three contribute to normal energy-yielding metabolism and to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue.
The electrolytes are salt (228 mg of sodium chloride, about 90 mg of sodium), calcium, magnesium and zinc. These are small amounts, between 1 and 5% of the daily value. They help the drink taste and feel like a sports drink, but they won't replace what you lose in a long, heavy sweat in summer heat.
Finally, there's 0.8 g of creatine HCL and 0.8 g of HMB-Ca per scoop. That's a useful extra, but we'd rather be straight with you: studies on creatine and HMB usually use bigger daily amounts, around 3 g or more of each. If creatine is part of your plan, take a full dose on its own, for example from our CR5 creatine range.
Five ways KarboMax 3X can help
1. Before an early or hard session
Training at 6 am, or four hours after your last meal? A scoop in water 30 to 60 minutes before you start gives your body 24 g of carbs to work with, without a heavy meal sitting in your stomach. This is the idea behind our earlier article, why fast carbs are the missing piece in your pre-workout.
2. During long sessions
For sessions longer than about an hour, such as long runs, rides, football, padel tournaments or a two-hour leg day, carbohydrate taken during exercise keeps fuel coming in. Mix a scoop into your bottle and sip it through the session instead of drinking it all at once.
3. After training, with your protein
After a hard session your muscles start refilling their carbohydrate store. A scoop of KarboMax 3X alongside your protein shake or post-workout meal adds 24 g of carbs quickly. This matters most if you train twice a day or train again the next morning.
4. For hard gainers
If you struggle to eat enough to gain weight, drinking some of your carbs is easier than eating another plate of rice. Two scoops add 48 g of carbs and 192 calories, and they won't fill you up the way food does.
5. Training twice a day
Athletes and fight-camp schedules with two sessions a day have little time to refuel between them. A scoop after the first session and another during the second helps you start the second one with something in the tank.
How to take it
Mix one scoop (28 g) with 400 ml of cold water in a shaker, as the tub directs, and don't take more than two scoops a day. At one scoop per training day, five days a week, a tub lasts about seven weeks.
Who should skip it
KarboMax 3X is fuel for training days. If you're on a low-carb or keto diet, or you want to cut calories on rest days, leave it on the shelf. The tub also asks pregnant or nursing women, anyone under 18, and people with a medical condition such as diabetes, insulin-related disorders, anxiety, mental disorders or heart conditions to check with a doctor before use.
Frequently asked questions
How many carbs and calories are in one scoop?
24 g of carbohydrate and 96 calories per 28 g scoop, with 0 g of fat.
How much water do I mix it with?
One scoop in 400 ml of water. Don't take more than two scoops a day.
Is KarboMax 3X sugar-free?
Not quite. One scoop has 1.6 g of sugars, from the dextrose. The other 22.4 g of carbohydrate comes from maltodextrin and homopolysaccharide.
Can it replace my creatine?
No. Each scoop has 0.8 g of creatine HCL, which is less than the daily amount most studies use. Take your creatine separately if it's part of your plan.
Can I mix it with protein?
Yes. After training you can mix it into your protein shake or take it alongside your meal.
Do you deliver outside the UAE?
Yes. We ship KarboMax from the UAE to customers around the world, and checkout shows the delivery cost for your country.
Get KarboMax 3X Fast Fuel Pineapple, 1 kg (36 scoops) or see every KarboMax flavour and the ready-to-drink bottles.
