Final Review
I've gone through my entire bottle now - took the last two caps before today's lifting session. These are my thoughts:
1. Strength took a while to increase, but by the third week, large jumps in load were made in just about every movement. For example:
At workout 1 on T-Force:
Squat 315x3
Bench 295x3
By the end of the bottle:
Squat 355x3
Bench 325x3
That's a significant increase in two major lifts. Now, some of that increase is probably muscle memory, as I'm coming back from an injury, but a 40lb increase on Squat and 30 on bench is significant either way.
2. For the first couple of weeks, I experienced a serious increase in libido. This tapered after that and by the end of the bottle, it had returned to normal.
3. Large mood elevation. Though this too seemed to fade as T-Force use continued, it was nevertheless very enjoyable to go through life pretty much unaffected by any set-back or hardship.
What I was looking for but didn't experience:
1. No increase in aggression. Rather than being more aggressive - I was much more laid back, both in the gym and out of it. However, this doesn't mean I wasn't focused or driven in the gym. It just meant that while I lifted I felt fantastic - happy, excited to be there and for the first week or so I was "lusting for more weight" (that's really the only way to describe it).
2. Only small increase in appetite. I have been eating right around maintenance during my log - focusing primarily on getting my strength up more than on increasing or decreasing my bodyweight. Still, typically, when I am on a test booster, I usually have random bouts of hunger strike me. This was not really the case.
3. No significant change in my measurements - but this is undoubtedly due to my diet being only at maintenance. If I'd eaten more, this could easily have turned out differently. And, I was focused on increasing strength, not size.
Overall Synopsis:
Of the herbal test boosters I have used (DTHC (old version), Battle Fuel, Stoked, couple others I'm forgetting right now...) I think I prefer T-Force. While the others typically gave me far more aggression, they also had a tendency to make me more irritable. Being in a good mood and simultaneously gaining strength substantially was far better.
I additionally am a big fan of supplementing with pure substances - i.e. a large dose of just one specific, effective ingredient rather than a formula of many ingredients at less potent dosages.
I do have to add the caveat that T-Force does not compare with the hormonal AIs I have used. But the whole ball-game changes as soon as you bring in hormones - you can't expect an herbal to beat a steroidal compound. For non-hormonal substances, T-Force was fantastic.