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| Board Supporter Join Date: Apr 2004 Age: 26
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I still have another full bottle of RPM so I'm willing to try whatever will work best. Is there anyway to prevent the "quick adapation to stimulants" effect? Or some certain nutrient that needs to be kept high which may be a limiting factor in getting the most out of stimulants like RPM? | |
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I discontinued RPM 1-2 days before I started taking Drive, so that probably explains why I didn't feel it too dramatically in the first couple of days. Might consider stacking, we'll see. | |
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| Board Sponsor Board Sponsor Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Charlotte
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| Registered User | Monday Not much to report today. I only had a half hour to workout which is probably good as my body is still recovering. I treated it like a deload day. I was really tired throughout the morning as I will explain. • Strength: I can't comment much on this, but I did do a few heavy (near max) squat reps (without going to failure) which felt very solid. Good considering my adductors are still sore. • Bodyweight/Body Comp: same • Pumps/Vascularity: Didn't do enough reps to get any sort of pump, but I could tell there was enhanced blood flow as my sore adductors relaxed and stretched quickly after a short warmup. • Endurance: nothing to comment on today • Aggression: nope • Focus: ok, a little off as I was tired • Libido: being a 21 year old male I'm not sure how much this is supposed to apply to me as say a middle aged man, but it certainly hasn't gone down and may be up a bit. • Muscle Density/Hardening: I'm feeling pretty solid, but I can't tell how much of a change there is • Overall Energy: This is what lacked today. I felt pretty awake at 6:20 this morning when my alarm went off, and then I hit snooze. I must have gone into REM sleep or something because when I finally needed to get up I was much more tired. The whole morning all I could think about was going back to sleep until I finally took an 1.5 hour nap as soon as I got home from school at 2:30. • Personal Commentary: Its going on a week and I have to say I'm not sure what to make of Drive yet. I will be stacking with RPM tommorow and possibly increasing the Drive dosage a bit from 4 caps a day to 5-6. So far it seems the pumps have been great, the focus and work capacity when i took it with RPM were also good, but nothing to report in terms of anything different throughout the day. |
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| Registered User | Tuesday I took 3 Drive plus 3 RPM preworkout, and 2 Drive again later in the day. Despite not taking any stimulants on Sunday or Monday, I still didn't get much out of the RPM. I could certainly feel a buzz, increase in energy and focus, and what not, but nothing like the first times taking it. Hoping someone more knowledgable than me can explain why I adapt so quickly to stimulants or the specific ingredients in RPM. • Strength: Up another 5 pounds on my incline bench. • Bodyweight/Body Comp: same • Pumps/Vascularity: Pretty extreme pumps as usual. Nothing to complain about here. I can see my veins well when I work out • Endurance: Ok, nothing special that I noticed today • Aggression: good during my workout, probably from the RPM • Focus: good • Libido: still seems like whats its been before, that is equal to or a little higher than pre-Drive • Muscle Density/Hardening: Nothing that stands out • Overall Energy: I had good energy during my workout, but it wasn't great. Later in the day I got kind of tired. After my second dose of Drive I did ok, not super energized but not ready to fall asleep. • Personal Commentary: Still am waiting to see the effects of Drive. I'm a little worried as to why I don't get anything out of RPM. I'm almost through my first bottle and only a handful of doses have actually been anything special. Its seems like my body just can't take it on a regular basis and get energized. If it has anything to do with the same ingredients found in Drive, I wonder if that means my body just stops reacting to them or something. Its probably more likely the stimulants in RPM than the other stuff though. |
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Could be a lot of different things- I would try upping it to 6 per day, and you also might be a little stimmed out- the effects of Drive are more anabolic than anything, and the "pumped" feeling and strength gains you are getting means that the Drive/RPM is working in an anabolic context- the gains from this stack in terms of lean muscle mass/body comp will be very noticeable, but they will take more than just a few days to manifest themselves ![]() I would be more consistent with taking the RPM every day, b/c it does have components that need stable blood levels to work consistently.... M.S. EXERCISE SCIENCE AND SPORT NUTRITION, APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY ....... | |
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Yeah, I took 3 amp today just to see if it was simply a matter of stimulants. I didn't feel anything whatsoever, so if my dilemma is that I'm stimmed out, then should I keep taking RPM or could that make things worse? The only reason I stopped taking RPM everyday was fear that I was adapting to stimulants too much. In fact, I really can't feel anything from RPM usage on a daily basis (energy wise) unless I take time off from it in between doses. So my body is either deficient in something or just can't handle regular stim usage without adapting in about a days time. I'll bump up my Drive to 6 a day, and I mainly wanted the anabolic effects of Drive anyways as I knew that is what it was designed for. When using RPM regularly 6 days a week before starting this log, I certainly was having great gains which may mean the other ingredients were doing their job. I'll be running this log through my entire Drive bottle to get a good guage on any anabolic effects as, like you said, its really hard to tell in a matter of days. | |
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| Might need to lay off RPM for a few days and use some Reset AD. Reset really does "reset" my adrenals in just a few days..though I seem to be pretty sensitive to many supps, particularly stims. I AM watching you. Pirate, Poet, King of Despair. |
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| Registered User | I took 3 drive in the morning plus 3 drive this afternoon. I also took 3 amp before my workout. I don't want to add anything else to the mix to throw off results, but I thought it would be interesting to just try another energy supplement to see how it affected me. It did nothing. I didn't even feel like working out. Nevertheless, my strength was good. I took my second dose and felt pretty good, but then I took a nap. As of now I have more energy. This is off topic, but after a little research on stimulant tolerance, it looks like I'll be upping my magnesium intake as that may be beneficial. I've long been a believer in magnesium, but now even more I'll make sure to get plenty in the form of ZMA and topical magnesium oil. I'll be adding some mag-citrate and mag-taurate as well. I didn't feel like working out today, so I focused on getting in a few good sets for deadlifts plus auxillary work. • Strength: Despite being tired, I really improved in my deadlifts from previous weeks. • Bodyweight/Body Comp: looking good in the mirror, measurements seem about the same • Pumps/Vascularity: Nothing much today just because of the lack of volume in my workout. I threw in a couple sets for forearms and despite not doing much they were pumped as I left the gym. • Endurance: Not really applicable today • Aggression: none • Focus: actually pretty good, I just psyched myself for three quality sets of deadlifts and really managed to push myself • Libido: today I actually felt this may be up even more • Muscle Density/Hardening: nothing I've noticed • Overall Energy: Poor, despite close to 8 hours of sleep, taking a nap this afternoon really helped. • Personal Commentary: The seeming libido increase today may be a sign something is happening. It was only a few moments, but it seems like something could be happening there. I'm going to be going up to 6 drive a day. Plus increasing my magnesium intake orally and topically to possibly help any stimulant use problems. |
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| Registered User | Friday This forum was down when I tried to post this on Friday. I took 3 Drive this morning on an emtpy stomach. - Strength: Very good. I did a bunch of singles for more sets and weight than last week with more consistent shorter rest periods and a closer stance in squats. Basically a total improvement. - Bodyweight/Body Comp: weight is 165-166. Looking good, hard to visually see a difference but there may be one. - Pumps/Vascularity: Rediculous. Did arms and it was insane. They felt and looked so huge. Rock hard. - Endurance: Hard to tell, seemed good for higher rep stuff - Aggression: nothing to note - Focus: good for squats, I ended up spacing out a little bit for like 5 minutes just watching other people before doing shoulders and occasionally while stretching, but after that it was all good - Libido: nothing to note today - Muscle Density/Hardening: during my workout it was great via pumps, but nothing out of the ordinary during the day - Overall Energy: Good, solid during workout. I had some caffeine and nootropics pre workout so that helped. I'm going to be taking my second Drive dose with RPM tonight before I go out - Personal Commentary: Strength has been steadily increasing very well for my legs. Shoulders also felt strong today but I often switch up my routine for them so its a little harder to compare to previous weeks. I can't say for sure whether Drive is what is helping me get stronger, but I certainly have nothing to complain about. I seem to have a good routine and diet but these strength increases are very good. I'll probably post an update after two weeks comparing my starting weights and current weights lifted. |
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| Registered User | Weekend No workouts over the weekend. I did however take some RPM and 3 Drive each night before going out with friends as well as 3 Drive in the mornings. I felt pretty good energy wise and in terms of alpha maleness. I do feel like my libido is going up as well. Also, every now and then, I noticed the veins in my arms popping out. I usually have pretty good vascualarity anyways, but sometimes it has caught my eye. I may be reaching a point where I can actually start to attribute things to Drive. On a side note, I didn't eat a whole lot being out of town this weekend. I'm not sure how that will affect my workouts this coming week. |
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| Registered User | I took 3 Drive this morning on an emtpy stomach and 3 later in the afternoon on an empty stomach. Tommorow I'll take my 3 Drive pre-workout (with RPM) rather than in the morning. - Strength: Still setting personal bests in squats. I felt very strong today. Deloading a little last week means my work capacity went down so I wasn't as strong as the sets went on. - Bodyweight/Body Comp: weight is 165. Good for not eating much over the weekend. - Pumps/Vascularity: I don't usually get pumps in my legs without high reps. I could really feel my legs, but I'm not sure if it was a pump or fatigue. - Endurance: Not great. That is expected after a deload week. I didn't recover as well between sets and the little cardio I did wore me out pretty quickly. However, this has more to do with cardiovascular endurance. I can't say much in terms of muscular endurance. - Aggression: really pushed myself during squats. Not an angry agression, but maybe worth noting the mean faces made pushing out those hard to get reps. - Focus: Good all around. - Libido: really getting up there - Muscle Density/Hardening: still not sure what to make of this, I think they're the same but I don't really feel myself up very much - Overall Energy: Good, took a "nap" this afternoon but didn't really fall asleep. I had good energy throughout the morning and now. - Personal Commentary: As I thought, things like libido seem to be indicating that this may be starting to kick in. Strength has been good and energy is getting better. |
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| Registered User | I took 3 Drive and 2 RPM pre-workout but I did have a little food in my stomach which probably hindered the energy results a little. I then took 3 Drive later on an empty stomach. - Strength: Went up in weight, got the same reps (or more, can't find last weeks record), with shorter rest and the weight felt easier. Can't complain about that. - Bodyweight/Body Comp: weight is 165. - Pumps/Vascularity: I could really see my veins popping out in the mirror. Good pumps on arm exercises. Its very easy to get a pump. - Endurance: I was able to rest less between sets and maintain strength. Other than that I didn't do anything high rep. - Aggression: not much - Focus: pretty good - Libido: high, its easy to tell its higher than when I started the log - Muscle Density/Hardening: looks good, don't know if theres a difference or not - Overall Energy: Good all day - Personal Commentary: Libido still pretty high, pumps are good, strength is up. So far it looks like Drive may be doing its thing. I won't be getting as much sleep tonight so hopefully that won't affect tommorows workout too much. |
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| Registered User | Wednesday 3 Drive in the morning on an empty stomach and 3 in the afternoon on an empty stomach. - Strength: Rediculously good. Added 20lbs to my 10 rep deadlift and the weight felt as easy if not easier than last week. - Bodyweight/Body Comp: weight is 166. - Pumps/Vascularity: My neck veins were popping out like crazy. Good as usual. - Endurance: Seemed ok - Aggression: nothing in the typical sense of aggresion, I was able to push myself when lifting, but nothing worth noting - Focus: solid - Libido: ok, this is getting higher than I can recall in a while. This includes random blood flow to a certain area multiple times today. - Muscle Density/Hardening: looks about the same - Overall Energy: tired in the morning from lack of sleep, but good during my workout and through afternoon, got tired later in the day - Personal Commentary: The libido effect seems pretty obvious now. Great strength gains. |
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| Registered User | Thursday 3 Drive and 3RPM preworkout on an empty stomach and 3 in the afternoon on an empty stomach. - Strength: My back work was not as strong. I'm still trying to find the right volume. My bench press is continuing to go up and still feel easier. - Bodyweight/Body Comp: weight is 163. Probably from liquid meals all afternoon yesterday. - Pumps/Vascularity: Noticed my veins popping out. Today was a rushed workout but I could feel a good pump after a few sets for back. - Endurance: Nothing to note - Aggression: Nothing special - Focus: Pretty good - Libido: Not as high as yesterday. I was pretty tired today - Muscle Density/Hardening: nothing to note - Overall Energy: pretty tired, but I managed to get in a good workout. The RPM probably helped, but being somewhat stim tolerant as of now its effects were minimal. - Personal Commentary: Strength still going up. Looking in the mirror tonight, it looks like my chest is filling out more. Should get close to 7.5 hours of sleep tonight. |
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