The Future of the Pre-Workout: Supplement Commentary
We live in a world where people who use pre-workouts are focused only on one thing — stimulants. That’s right, they want to feel jacked up. They want to feel as if ants are crawling under their skin, that tingly sensation telling them their pre-workout product is working. If they don’t feel it, it’s not working—right? This mentality is what’s going to get people in a lot of trouble. Let me explain the future pre-workout.
Addiction
When you are addicted to something, you crave it, you need it. And after using something for so long, the effects at the same dosage no longer give you the same feeling. It’s no different with pre-workouts. You start taking a product that has 200mg of caffeine in it. Then all of a sudden after using the product for a while, you no longer feel the energy from that 200mg of caffeine so you up the dose. Rather than taking one scoop, now it’s two scoops….and then three and so on. Eventually, it will get to the point where your adrenals are so fatigued that you’re taking 1g or more of a product to get that same feeling. Similar to a high that drug addicts look for.
This can cause serious health risks. And let’s be honest here, have you spoken to your doctor about the supplements you take? My guess would be no. There’s a chance you have an underlying health condition that hasn’t come to the surface, exposing you to great danger with unsupervised use of high dosed stimulants. This could have grave consequences on some.
That Was Me
Years ago, everything I said above was a spitting image of me. I worked for MET-Rx and I pushed the limits in terms of stimulants and I wanted to see what effects high dosages would have on my body in a pre-workout. I was able to get to around 1g before I really felt anything from the products. At the time, we had an energy shot called the MET-Rx Amplified Shooter. It was packaged in one of those test tube looking containers where the lid would unscrew and you could slam it down. Each one of those was 2.9 ounces of fluid and contained 200mg of caffeine along with synephrine, taurine, tyrosine, and other ingredients. At a trade show, I slammed five bottles at once. Needless to say, I wasn’t feeling too great a little while later. This was ultimately the point where I asked myself, “What am I doing?”
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