Just a mini-update as I have been taking 10 days inclusive of today (started mid-week last week on receiving the mail) and now have one full week of lifting (Monday-Friday) done while taking the stack.
As I did Chest on Monday (Day 6 of stack) and today (Day 10) I can somewhat compare...so while I am not about to go gung ho and say that the stack is amazing, I am pretty impressed. Today's workout was good and I lifted more on my bench today than at the end than I did on Monday...I don't think absolute strength is vastly different but I did feel stronger at the end of my bench sets than Monday.
I am probably pushing at the upper region of my natural strength on the big compound movements so how much my strength can actually increase over the stack is probably not as much as others who may not be at their natural limits.
Only a little over a week in so hard to quantify after only one full week of lifting while taking it but power output seems consistent across sets if that makes any sense!
This looks good to me. I think we get spoiled once we have taken some steroids or strong PH cycles and have become accustomed to a drug that makes you stronger acutely. I mean you can take an oral steroid an hour before training and be stronger by a good deal than if you didnt take the pill.
Follidrone doesnt work like this I dont think. While it seems for some there are some pretty significant acute results (referencing the dozen or so guys who increased poundage by 20-50lbs in the first week on some lifts) the effects of Follidrone are more subtle but in a way far more substantial.
The oral steroid for example you would get stronger yes but only for about 3 hours lol.
Follidrone appears to cause a dynamic upshift to a higher gear so to speak. We see greater endurance capacity, and, while I am unsure on this, Im starting to think that perhaps the increased endurance is what causes the more acute strength changes for some and here is why. If you can train with a 50% greater endurance capacity this means at 100% of normal failure point youll still have some juice in the tank. This may not make you acutely stronger that way we normally think of it but what it does do is make it so every set will feel like you have rested for 4 min instead of 30 sec or whatever. We all know if you rest 30 sec you wont be as strong as if you rest for 3 min. Follidrone gives you the ability to train even with 30 sec to a min rest periods and yet still feel like you have been taking 2-4 min rests. This = more strength during your sets which = you growing stronger over time with proper nutrition.
We have also seen that Follidrone increased protein synthesis so...greater weight lifted plus increased protein synthesis will =you growing at an abnormal rate so long as proper nutrition is achieved.
"(-)-epicatechin alone or in combination with exercise induces an integrated response that includes structural and metabolic changes in skeletal and cardiac muscles resulting in greater endurance capacity."
"Significant increases in treadmill performance (∼50%) and enhanced in situ muscle fatigue resistance (∼30%) were observed with (-)-epicatechin."
^^^ 50% increase in treadmill performance? Do you have any idea how huge that is. Ask Lance Armstrong if 50% increase in treadmill performance is significant?!?!.
The resulting changes are static for the duration of administration so even when your not training your body is in a "trained" state. This is part of why there is so much more potential for muscle mass accumulation while taking Follidrone.
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Training significantly increased capillary-to-fiber ratio (≈ 78.8%), cytochrome-c oxidase (≈ 35%), and activity (≈ 144%) compared to controls. This we already know and we expect things to change when your out of the gym for any sigificant amount of time but with Follidrone on board it doesnt return to normal. These adaptations returned to control levels for the DETRAINED group, whereas the DETRTAINED +(-)-Epi group was able to maintain capillary-to-fiber ratio (≈ 44%), CcO protein expression (≈ 45%), and activity (≈ 108%) above control levels"
At any rate I think some guys get discouraged because you dont "FEEL" Follidrone like you do a PH or DS or AAS.
The potential is there, however, and those who choose to train harder knowing they have added potential and eat like a bodybuilder with measured caloric and protein increases will be the guys we keep seeing who gain 10lbs and lose bodyfat.
