Would you please explain to me a few things about what you told me?You are suggesting 2 to 3 Powerful? Correct? Two on an empty stomach pre workout is pretty damn awesome. The idea of three gives me a chubby just thinking about it
Exactly. Three caps
sans calorie intake does produce some pretty incredible effects; not only from the dopaminergic/GH release aspect, but I feel the steroidal saponins have heightened activity in this respect.
AP pre workout followed by no carbohydrates before workout? What gives? Explain to me what I am achieving or what is going on when I do this?
Yes, forgive me as I work through this mentally, and I promise at the end you will have your answer!
As much as Anabolic Pump is a supplement meant to achieve glucosehomeostasis, and thought of as such, its success is due to its ability to mitigate energy expenditure pathways within the body. Specifically, Berberine's direct stimulation of AMPk, a master regulatory 'switch', so to speak, of intracellular energy metabolism. In normal (i.e., non-supplemented) states of exercise, AMPk plays a vital role in maintaining cellular energy, via both a glycolytic and oxidative role - that is, initially inducing glycolysis to assist adapting contractile tissue to provide energy for movement, and for longer bouts, oxidizing fatty acids (such as the ones I spoke of earlier which are used for 2/3 of energy metabolism in exercise).
This occurs due to an increase in the extracellular AMP:ATP ratio. As ATP increases, the body is in extreme demand for cellular energy during exercise. At this point, AMPk upregulates energy producing mechanisms (translocation of GLUT4, FFA oxidation) and downregulates energy consuming pathways (protein and fatty acid synthesis). This is all part of a very complex process meant to provide mitochondria - who lack the ability to due so on their own - energy.
This glycolytic and oxidative manners of energy exchange is why AP provides tangible body composition changes - delivering intracellular messages, at the genetic level (via PPAR family) for adipocytes to oxidize and expend energy, while signaling for myocytes to do the complete opposite.
In shorthand: Berberine is the ****.
BCAA intra w/o - with or without the mono, leucine and BA that I already use?
Most definitely add Creatine. The additional ATP synthesis will only assist AMPk's role in energy metabolism!
P-Slin post workout? How do I, or do I at all, adjust my post workout carb and protein intake? Double up my eliminated pre workout carbs into my post workout carbs?
Yes, I would subsume your intended Pre-WO carbohydrate dosage into your Post-WO, P-Slin mitigated, meal. In a Post-WO environment, essentially a period of rest, we are more concerned with energy production (glucose transport and so on) than consumption; therefore, a massive glucose glutton such as P-Slin is the appropriate choice here!
I am always experimenting and always grateful for the innovative methods to optimize these great products. I just want to understand better what it is I am doing because this alters quite a bit what I am already have great success with.
To the OP and others...don't let my love for Mullet be a thread killer.
Haha, it is a non-issue. This is my job, I had better do it well!
