Tradies working on site in Australian heat

Built for Australian tradies

That 3pm crash

isn't caffeine.

It's sodium. You've been sweating it out all day and nobody's replaced it. Water doesn't cut it. Coffee makes it worse. There's a fix, and it's not another Red Bull.

Grab Your Sticks — $65 How It Works

500mg

Sodium per stick

5×

A supermarket tablet

3 cal

Per serve. Zero sugar.

The real problem

You're working hard in the Queensland heat, drinking water all day, and still hitting a wall by 2pm. It's not your fitness. It's not your sleep. It's what you're not replacing.

Problem 01

You're losing 1,000mg of sodium an hour

When you sweat hard in the heat, sodium leaves with it. Sodium is what pulls fluid into your cells and keeps your brain sharp. When it drops, your blood volume drops. That's the wall. That's the fog.

Problem 02

Supermarket tabs are dosed for toddlers

Effervescent tablets have 80–120mg sodium per serve. You'd need five of them to match one Pulse stick. They're made to sit on a shelf and look the part. Not there to actually replace what a working tradesman loses.

Problem 03

More coffee just kicks the problem down the road

Caffeine masks the crash for an hour, then pushes back your ability to sleep. You wake up already behind. Need more coffee. The cycle repeats. You're not tired. You're depleted.

Why it works

The ingredients that actually matter.

Most hydration products get the formula wrong on two things. Pulse fixes both, and shows you the dose so you can see exactly what you're getting.

01

Pink Himalayan salt, not table salt
Table salt is stripped and refined. Pink Himalayan salt keeps its naturally occurring trace minerals. Exactly what your body is sweating out. At 500mg per stick, it's actually replacing what you lose.
02

Monk fruit, not stevia
Stevia ferments in your large intestine instead of being absorbed. That fermentation produces gas. On a long shift that bloating is brutal. Monk fruit doesn't do that. No bloat, no aftertaste.
03

The full electrolyte profile, not just sodium
500mg sodium, 200mg potassium, 70mg magnesium per stick. All three work together to pull fluid into cells and keep muscles firing. Most products only hit sodium. That's half the job.

"Replace what you lose. Nothing more. Nothing less."

We built Pulse Hydration Sticks after realising every product on the market was cutting corners on cheap sweeteners, table salt, trace doses of electrolytes. Rip a stick, tip it in your water bottle at smoko. That's it.

Alex Forbes

Founder, Pulse Nutrition

Why we're different

What we use and why it matters.

Every ingredient in Pulse Hydration Sticks was chosen to replace what a working Aussie actually loses. Here's how we compare to what's on the shelf.

We use

Monk Fruit

No bloat. No aftertaste.

They use

Stevia

Ferments in gut. Causes bloating.

We use

Pink Himalayan Salt

Trace minerals intact. Unrefined.

They use

Table Salt

Stripped. Refined. Missing minerals.

Our dose

500mg sodium / stick

Replaces real sweat loss.

Their dose

80–120mg / tablet

Not even close to enough.

Real results

What the crew say.

5.0

★★★★★

73 verified reviews

★★★★★

"Working concreting all day in Queensland heat. Used to get cramps every arvo. Started using Pulse Hydration Sticks and haven't had a single one since. Game changer."

Dave M.

Concretor, QLD

★★★★★

"Chuck one in the water bottle at smoko, another after lunch. No more 3pm zombie mode. Doesn't taste like chemicals either, which is a bonus."

Mick T.

Site supervisor, NSW

★★★★★

"Used to drink 3 Red Bulls a day just to get through. Now I carry Pulse Hydration Sticks to site. Actually feel human by the time I get home."

Jayden R.

Electrician, VIC

That 3pm crash

The ingredients that actually matter.

What we use and why it matters.

Rip it. Tip it. Get on with it.

What the crew say.