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Supplement Dosing Calculator

Calculate evidence-based dosing for creatine, caffeine, beta-alanine, and citrulline based on body weight and phase.

About this calculator

This calculator applies a supplement-specific grams-per-kilogram rule after converting body weight from pounds to kilograms. The supplement choice changes much more than a label: it selects separate loading and maintenance rates, phase lengths, and pre-workout timing values for creatine, caffeine, beta-alanine, or citrulline. Phase then chooses the loading or maintenance rate for creatine, beta-alanine, and citrulline. Creatine receives an additional range guard, with loading doses constrained to 15–25 grams and maintenance doses constrained to 3–10 grams. Caffeine is represented in grams but limited to the engine's six-milligram-per-kilogram ceiling; because both of caffeine's loading and maintenance rates translate to well above that ceiling at any valid body weight, the six-milligram-per-kilogram cap always binds and caffeine's daily dose is the same regardless of which phase is selected (phase still changes caffeine's displayed phase-duration label). Beta-alanine and citrulline use their weight-based results without those creatine bounds.

Body weight generally raises the calculated dose because it is multiplied by the selected rate, although a creatine bound can flatten that relationship near an endpoint. Timing and duration are lookup values, not quantities derived from weight: creatine displays “Anytime,” while the other choices show fixed minutes before exercise. A zero-day loading schedule appears as “Ongoing,” whereas maintenance duration depends on the supplement table. This tool does not consider medications, medical conditions, total caffeine from other sources, product concentration, serving size, or individual tolerance. Its output describes the formula encoded here, not a personalized safety clearance or prescription.

Inputs

lbs

Results

Daily Dose

3.85 g

Take Before WorkoutAnytime
Phase Duration30
SupplementCreatine
How to Use This Calculator
  1. Enter body weight in pounds.
  2. Choose creatine, caffeine, beta-alanine, or citrulline.
  3. Select loading or maintenance to use that phase's rate and duration.
  4. Review the daily dose, fixed timing guidance, phase duration, and supplement name.

How the result changes with Body Weight

Body WeightDaily Dose
853 g
1283 g
2555.78 g
4009.07 g

What each input means

Body Weight
Your current body weight
Supplement
Which supplement to dose
Phase
Loading phase (higher dose, shorter duration) or maintenance

How this is calculated

Worked example, using the default values

  1. Identify Input Parameters
    Body Weight = 170, Supplement = 1, Phase = 2 = 3 input(s) provided
  2. Calculate Daily Dose
    3.85 = 3.85
  3. Calculate Take Before Workout
    Anytime = Anytime
  4. Calculate Phase Duration
    30 = 30

Engine last updated . Checked against 3 independently-derived tests — how we verify calculators. Built by Paul Gunder, a software engineer, not a licensed financial, medical, or legal professional.

Frequently Asked Questions

How does selecting a different supplement change the result?

The selection swaps the dose rates, timing, phase duration, and displayed supplement name together. It therefore changes several outputs at once rather than merely relabeling one weight-based calculation.

Why might changing body weight leave a creatine dose unchanged?

Creatine uses bounded ranges after the weight calculation. Maintenance is held between 3 and 10 grams, while loading is held between 15 and 25 grams, so values near either bound can plateau.

What does the phase control do?

Loading selects each supplement's loading rate and loading-day entry; maintenance selects its maintenance rate and duration. Supplements with zero loading days display an ongoing duration instead of a numeric day count. Caffeine is the exception: its loading and maintenance rates both exceed the six-milligram-per-kilogram safety cap at any valid body weight, so the cap always binds and caffeine's daily dose is identical in both phases (only its phase-duration label changes).

How is caffeine limited in this calculator?

The caffeine branch converts its gram result to milligrams, limits that amount to six milligrams per kilogram of body weight, and then converts the capped value back to grams for display.

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