The Canadian Military (specifically, Defence Research and Development Canada, formerly the Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine) recommends 4.0 mg/kg of caffeine and 0.8 mg/kg of ephedrine to boost high intensity exercise performance. They initially began testing with 5.0 and 1.0 mg/kg, respectively, but cut it back a bit due to reports of nausea.
The studies are on PubMED if anybody feels like looking them up.
Abnheel: I am not an authority but I recommend three dozes per day. Try to coordinate your timing so that you are taking your dosages +/- 30 minutes before your cardio or workouts. IMPORTANT!!! Your third dosage shouldn’t be too late in the day or you may have problems sleeping. BE ADVISED… QUALITY SLEEPING IS VERY VERY VERY IMPORTANT FOR PEAK PERFORMANCE!
I personally would start off on lower dosage. Why start off on 25mg of ephedrine if 12.5 mg works just as well. I recommend you start off by cutting your tabs in half. You will know soon enough if it is working or not. If not, obviously increase the dosage. See how your body responds to this stimulant, everbody is different, 25 mg is fine for some and 25 mg will send others through the roof. Experiment and find out what is right for YOU. (25mg worked real good for me but keep in mind I weigh + 220 lb.)
Also, keep in mind that sooner or later your body will adapt to the stimulant and you will have to increase the dosage in order to maintain the same effect. That’s when you may want to up your dosage to a full 25mg tab.
I personally know a guy at my gym who cannot function without his ECA stack. He works crazy around the clock hours and is literally sucking back a whole bottle of ephedrine based stimulants per day. FUCKING NUTS!!! On top of this, I don’t know how many ‘POTS’ of coffee a day he consumes but it is VERY scary. It’s kind of sad really as he has encountered some serious health issues and still refuses to give up his little crutch. He recently ended up in the hospital with numerous bleeding ulcers. Like I think he was bleeding from his ears or eyes or something crazy like that. He told me that when he stopped using his stack he felt literally dead, absolutley no energy for weeks, just drained!!! He is currently back on them. Keep in mind this is ONE EXTREME CASE and not the norm, so don’t get freaked out. I am just passing on a little of my experience and knowledge.
In closing and don’t get me wrong… I am not advocating that ephedrine is bad or dangerous or anything like that. The truth of the matter is that “I” really don’t know if the stuff is truely bad or safe. I personally “USE TO” love the stuff! I loved getting cranked up and training while on, I loved the upbeat and positive feeling I experience while I was on, the energy, the get up and go blah, blah, blah… I won’t go into detail regarding the negative side effects as that has already been discussed on this forum. I personally am no longer using any ephedrine based stimulants.
My experience has taught me that taking this stimulant is really just “FALSE ENERGY” and I don’t think that this is a good thing. Eat right, train right and get plenty of quality sleep and fuck the stimulants… do you really need em?
Do what you may…
DS2003
Jesus Christ, you can’t get anything with ephedra here anymore(except in gas stations). Ever since that lawsuit with that baseball guy. It’s bullshit…every year 300 people die from taking too much asprin. I don’t see Bayer™ taking their shit off the shelves?
I heard the kid who died was out of shape, wearing layers of clothes (to lose weight, I guess) and didn’t eat solid food in days or something.
but I guess it’s hard to tell the parents that their kid died because he was doing something rather dumb.
and politicians want the votes, so naturally, they’ll ban it “for the kids”
Johnnylaw: I don’t know where you live but I think here in Canada ephedrine is banned, that is in larger dozes (25mg). You can still purchase ephed. as a nasal decongestant in 8mg dozes.
Also, my experience has been that most supplement/bodybuilding/fitness shops ussually have a stash under the counter. Just be discrete when inquiring.
Reminds me of a classic A-dog article.
it’s all politics…ephedrine has been shown to be more effective than any pharmaceutical weight loss drug on the market, so how do you protect the interest of pharmaceutical companies? You create hype with the government and the media. Politicians pocket lobby money, pharmaceutical companies end up putting ephedrine on the market and jacking up the price. Just like they did with GHB. Typical American business.