Attaboy Review: What's in the Scoop and What It Costs

Attaboy Labs is an Austin, Texas brand selling one product: Every Damn Day, a 23-gram all-in-one daily scoop. Creatine, citrulline, glycine, a couple of nootropics, magnesium, and electrolytes in a single serving. The 30-day powder pouch is $49.50 a month on subscription, which their own page works out to $1.65 a day. Sticks cost more.

If you're reading this you've probably seen their ads and you're trying to work out whether one scoop can genuinely replace a shelf of tubs. The honest answer depends almost entirely on one thing most reviews skip: there's no caffeine in it, at all, by design.

Here's the rundown.

The Short Answer

Attaboy is a well-built, fully-disclosed formula with real doses at a fair price — but it has zero caffeine, and you can't unbundle it.

Is the formula legit? Yes. 5g creatine monohydrate, 4g L-citrulline, 3g glycine, 1.5g acetyl-L-carnitine, 300mg alpha-GPC, 300mg L-theanine. Every amount printed, no proprietary blends. Those are real doses, not label decoration.

So what's the catch? No caffeine. If your shift starts at 4:45am, this scoop does nothing for that, and you're still buying coffee or a can on top. You also can't drop the parts you already own — if you've got creatine in the cupboard, you're paying to re-buy it every month. And the bundling costs you: their 5g of creatine comes inside a $1.65 daily scoop, while the same 5g bought on its own from us is 57 cents a serving.

What's the honest alternative? Buy the pieces you actually need, or take the pack that covers the two windows that matter on a jobsite:

Overtime Pack — Before Work Fuel and Refuel, 70 servings, plus free gear on your first order
Before Work Fuel — the powdered energy drink Attaboy has no answer for
Creatine — 5g monohydrate, 60 servings, two months a tub
Hydrate — 500mg sodium for long shifts in the heat

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What's Actually In Attaboy Every Damn Day

Per their published supplement facts panel, one scoop or stick — about 23 grams, 30 servings per container:

Ingredient	Amount per serving
Creatine Monohydrate	5 g
L-Citrulline	4 g
Glycine	3 g
Acetyl-L-Carnitine	1.5 g
Alpha-GPC	300 mg
L-Theanine	300 mg
Magnesium (as magnesium glycinate)	180 mg (43% DV)
Sodium (as sodium citrate)	811 mg (35% DV)
Potassium (as potassium citrate and chloride)	195 mg (4% DV)
Calories	5

Give them credit where it's earned. Nothing is hidden behind a blend, and the amounts are not window dressing. 5g of creatine monohydrate is the standard maintenance dose. 4g of citrulline is a real amount. Magnesium glycinate is a well-absorbed form and a more considered choice than the cheap options.

One note on reading the electrolyte line. The panel declares elemental minerals — 811mg of sodium (35% DV) and 195mg of potassium (4% DV) — while other sections of their page describe the compound amounts those come from. Compound weight and elemental weight are different measures, so the figures look inconsistent at a glance without necessarily being so. If electrolytes are the reason you're buying, read the panel line rather than the marketing copy.

The Thing Nobody Mentions: There's No Caffeine

This is the whole review, so let's not bury it.

Attaboy contains no caffeine and no stimulants of any kind. That's deliberate on their part, and for some people it's genuinely the right call — if you're caffeine-sensitive, if you already drink three cups of coffee, or if you want something you can take at 4pm without wrecking your sleep, a stimulant-free scoop makes sense.

But think about how your day actually runs.

If you're up at 4:15 and on site by 5:30, the thing you need at that hour is not creatine. Creatine works by saturating your muscles over weeks; it doesn't do anything for you in the truck. What you need at 5am is caffeine, B vitamins, and electrolytes in the same glass.

Attaboy doesn't do that. So you take the scoop, and then you still stop at the gas station. The scoop was never the thing replacing the can.

Before Work Fuel is built for exactly that window. One 10g scoop in cold water 15 to 30 minutes before clock-in:

150mg caffeine, listed on its own line on the panel rather than buried in a blend
Seven B vitamins — B1, B2, B3, B6, B12, folate, and pantothenic acid
80mg sodium, 75mg potassium, 170mg calcium, 48mg magnesium
Dicreatine Malate 1,500mg, L-Arginine AKG 1,500mg, Beta-Alanine 750mg
No sugar, 30 servings a jar

Beta-alanine can cause a brief harmless tingle, more noticeable at two scoops than one. Two scoops is 300mg of caffeine and the label caps you there in any 24-hour period. Start on one.

You Can't Unbundle An All-In-One

Here's the structural problem with a single-scoop product, and it has nothing to do with formula quality.

If you already take creatine — and plenty of guys do, because it's the cheapest, most-studied supplement on the shelf — then $49.50 a month buys you creatine you already own. Same if you already run an electrolyte powder in the summer.

An all-in-one only makes economic sense if you want every single component. The moment you want five of the seven, you're subsidizing the two you don't.

Attaboy's own pricing, taken from their product page:

Option	Price	Per day
Powder pouch, 30-day supply	$49.50/mo	$1.65
Powder pouch, 90-day supply	$124.50	$1.38
Stick packs, 28-day supply	$59.50/mo	$2.12

The powder is meaningfully cheaper than the sticks, and a longer commitment drops the daily cost further. A one-time purchase option is also offered, and they run promotional codes for new subscriptions plus a discount for military, first responders, government employees and teachers. They back it with a 90-day money-back guarantee, which is longer than ours at 30 days — credit where it's due. Pricing and promotions in this category change constantly, so check their site rather than trusting any figure here.

Now put that $1.65 a day next to what the same things cost bought individually:

Product	Servings	Subscription price	Per serving
Attaboy Every Damn Day	30	$49.50	$1.65
Creatine — 5g monohydrate	60	$34.00	$0.57
Hydrate	40	$33.96	$0.85
Overtime Pack	70	$74.97	$1.07
Before Work Fuel	30	$39.97	$1.33

Every single one of them costs less per serving than the all-in-one. And the sharpest comparison is creatine, because it's the same ingredient at the same dose. Attaboy gives you 5g of creatine monohydrate as part of a $1.65 daily scoop. Our Creatine is the same 5g of monohydrate for 57 cents a serving — close to a third of the price, and one tub runs two months instead of one.

That's the cost of bundling. You're not paying $1.65 for creatine; you're paying $1.65 for creatine plus six other things whether or not you wanted all six. If you want the whole set, that's fine value. If you want two of them, you're paying triple for one and full price for a stack of ingredients you didn't ask for.

Buying the pieces separately looks like this:

Product	Servings	One-time	Subscription
Creatine — 5g monohydrate	60	$40.00	$34.00
Before Work Fuel	30	$49.99	$39.97
Hydrate	40	$39.95	$33.96

Note the creatine tub is 60 servings, so it's a two-month supply — about $0.57 a serving on subscription. Buy it once and it outlasts two Attaboy boxes.

The Comparison That Actually Matters

If what you want is one decision instead of four, the honest head-to-head isn't Attaboy against a single tub. It's Attaboy against the Overtime Pack.

	Attaboy Every Damn Day	Overtime Pack
Monthly price	$49.50 (powder)	$74.97
Servings	30	70
Cost per day	$1.65	$2.50
Cost per serving	$1.65	$1.07
Same 5g creatine bought alone	Not sold separately	$0.57/serving
Money-back guarantee	90 days	30 days
Caffeine	None	275mg/day at one scoop of each
Creatine	5g monohydrate	1,500mg dicreatine malate
Amino acids	Glycine 3g, ALCAR 1.5g	5,000mg blend, 12 aminos incl. all three BCAAs
Timed for	One dose, any time	Two windows — pre-shift and post-lunch
First-order extras	None	32oz bottle, travel funnel, sticker pack, $20 gift card, free shipping

Read that table honestly, because the two price lines measure different things. Per serving the pack is well cheaper — $1.07 against $1.65 — because $74.97 buys 70 servings against their 30. Per calendar day the pack costs more, $2.50 against $1.65, because you're taking two servings a day instead of one.

Which number matters depends on what you're comparing. If you want one scoop a day and nothing else, theirs is the cheaper daily habit and we'll say so. If you're comparing what you actually get for the money, the pack delivers more than twice the servings, covers two windows of the workday instead of one, and includes caffeine and a 5,000mg amino blend that the scoop has no version of. And if all you want is the creatine, neither bundle makes sense — buy the tub at 57 cents a serving.

The pack is two jars covering two different parts of the day. Before Work Fuel before you clock in. Refuel right after lunch — 125mg caffeine and a 5,000mg amino blend, so the recovery support is already in your system while you're still working instead of starting from zero when you get home.

Be fair about where Attaboy wins: their creatine dose is higher and it's straight monohydrate, and they include alpha-GPC and glycine that we don't carry in these products. If those specific ingredients are what you're after, buy theirs. If you want 5g of monohydrate alongside the pack, our Creatine tub covers two months for $34.

On the free gear: the first Overtime Pack order ships with a 32oz wide-mouth Tritan bottle, a travel funnel for pre-loading a scoop so you're not measuring powder at 5am, a sticker four-pack, a $20 gift card toward your next order, and free shipping that normally requires a $99 cart. First order only — later deliveries are the two jars.

Your daily caffeine at one scoop of each is 275mg. The FDA has cited 400mg a day as an amount not generally associated with negative effects in healthy adults, which leaves room for a morning coffee. Two scoops of each would put you at 550mg. Count every source.

What About Hydration?

Attaboy includes electrolytes, and their magnesium glycinate is a good form. But an all-in-one scoop is not a hydration product, and neither is Before Work Fuel.

If you're framing in July or working a hot warehouse, you need a lot more sodium than either delivers. Hydrate carries 500mg sodium and 340mg potassium citrate per scoop, plus magnesium, calcium, vitamin C, B6, and lemon juice powder. Forty servings a jar. That's a different job from a daily scoop, and on a hot day it's the one that actually matters.

We went into how much you actually need in our guide to electrolyte powder per day.

Will Either Of These Fail A Drug Test?

We can only speak for our own products, and this matters enormously to our customers — CDL drivers, oilfield crews, military, first responders, and anyone in a safety-sensitive role where one positive result ends a career.

Absolutely not. All products are natural, hormone-free, and do not contain any amphetamines or substances that would trigger a failed drug test — whether for bodybuilding, employment, or any other purpose.

For any supplement from any brand, ours included: if testing is a factor at work, verify the policy, ask the manufacturer directly, and get the answer in writing.

So Who Is Attaboy Actually For?

Attaboy is a solid pick if you want a stimulant-free daily scoop, you don't already own creatine or an electrolyte powder, and you value one decision over four. The formula is transparent and the doses are real. If caffeine is something you're deliberately avoiding, this is a legitimately good product and we'd rather say so than pretend otherwise.

It's the wrong fit if your shift starts before sunrise and you need something that actually works at that hour, if you already take creatine and don't want to pay for it twice, or if you'd rather buy the two or three things you use than a bundle of seven.

We're the better fit if you want caffeine and electrolytes and B vitamins in the same glass before clock-in, if you want something timed to the afternoon crash as well as the morning, or if you want more servings for less per serving with gear thrown in on the first order.

One honest note either way: if you're sleeping five hours a night, no scoop from anybody fixes that. Sleep and water move more than any tub on any shelf.

If You Want To Try Ours

Buy the pieces you actually use — or take the pack that covers both windows of the workday.

Before Work Fuel — 150mg caffeine, pre-shift	$49.99 · $39.97 subscribe
Creatine — 5g monohydrate, 60 servings	$40.00 · $34.00 subscribe
Hydrate — 500mg sodium, for the heat	$39.95 · $33.96 subscribe
Overtime Pack — both windows, 70 servings, free gear first order	$74.97/mo

If it's only the creatine you're after, that's 57 cents a serving and one tub runs two months. Everything is made in the USA in an FDA-registered, GMP-certified facility, third-party tested, hormone-free and drug-test safe. Backed by our 30-day money-back guarantee.

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Attaboy Review: Frequently Asked Questions

What is in Attaboy Every Damn Day?

Per the published supplement facts panel, one 23-gram scoop contains creatine monohydrate 5g, L-citrulline 4g, glycine 3g, acetyl-L-carnitine HCl 1.5g, alpha-GPC 300mg, L-theanine 300mg, magnesium as magnesium glycinate 180mg (43% DV), sodium as sodium citrate 811mg (35% DV), and potassium as potassium citrate and chloride 195mg (4% DV), at 5 calories and 1g total carbohydrate per serving. There are 30 servings per container.

Does Attaboy have caffeine?

No. Attaboy contains no caffeine and no stimulants of any kind. That is intentional on the brand's part. If you need something for an early shift start, you would still need a separate caffeine source such as Before Work Fuel, which contains 150mg per scoop listed on its own line.

How much does Attaboy cost?

When we checked, the 30-day powder pouch was $49.50 a month on subscription, which their page states as $1.65 a day. A 90-day supply was $124.50, or $1.38 a day. Stick packs are priced higher, starting at $59.50 for 28 days. A one-time purchase option is also offered, along with promotional codes for new subscriptions and a discount for military, first responders, government employees and teachers. They list a 90-day money-back guarantee. Pricing is promotional and changes often, so check their site.

Does Attaboy use proprietary blends?

No. Every active ingredient has a stated amount on the label. There are no undisclosed blends.

Is Attaboy worth it?

It depends on whether you want every component. The formula is well dosed and fully disclosed, and at $1.65 a day it's fairly priced for the full set — so if you want all of it and don't already own creatine or an electrolyte powder, it's a reasonable purchase. If you only want part of it, the economics turn against you fast: the same 5g of creatine monohydrate bought on its own runs about 57 cents a serving, and an electrolyte powder about 85 cents, against $1.65 a day for the bundle. An all-in-one can't be unbundled, so you pay for all seven ingredients whether you use them or not.

What is the difference between Attaboy and the Overtime Pack?

Attaboy is one stimulant-free scoop, 30 servings, $49.50 a month for the powder. The Overtime Pack is two products covering two windows of the workday — Before Work Fuel pre-shift and Refuel after lunch — with 70 total servings, 275mg of caffeine a day at one scoop of each, and free gear on the first order.

Is there a caffeine-free option at Blue Collar Nutrition?

Yes. Creatine, Hydrate, and After Work Recovery are all caffeine-free. After Work Recovery is fully disclosed with 4,000mg of BCAAs at a 2:1:1 ratio, 1,000mg L-glutamine, and 2.5mg vitamin B6, with no proprietary blends.

How much creatine should you take a day?

Five grams a day is the standard maintenance amount used in most research, and it's what both Attaboy and our Creatine deliver per serving. Creatine works by saturating over weeks rather than acting immediately, so consistency matters more than timing. More detail is in our guide to what creatine monohydrate does.

Do Attaboy and Before Work Fuel do the same thing?

No. Attaboy is a stimulant-free daily scoop built around creatine and amino acids. Before Work Fuel is a powdered energy drink built for the window right before a shift, with caffeine, B vitamins and electrolytes. They cover different jobs and could be taken alongside each other.

Will Blue Collar Nutrition supplements cause a failed drug test?

How much caffeine is too much in a day?

The FDA has cited 400mg per day as an amount not generally associated with negative effects in healthy adults. One scoop each of Before Work Fuel and Refuel is 275mg, leaving room for a morning coffee. Count every source, including cans and coffee, and start on one scoop rather than two.