Use it. Like it. No crazy ‘rush’ though. More like a more awake kind of thing. I only use it on training days, and at night I’m still awake enough to do some reading or studying. Before I would crash at night.
Been using Spike for a few months, and I really like it. The new formula is good also, as I was afraid it would be completely different. But no, the yohimbine in it is a plus.
i think it’s just ‘ok’. just like any other supplement, it doesn’t do the work for you. i took it for lifting, and didn’t really notice anything different, but i’ve been chasing PR’s a lot so was pretty intense anyway and really wanted to be in the gym.
but when studying i found it “slowed” down my brain (as opposed to the thoughts just flying around my head) and i would focus very much on whatever i was doing. i usually have 10 things on the go at a time, so the focus was good. But if I didn’t apply myself while taking Spike, I found I’d just be walking around with a slight “hummmm” in the background. But there is no supplement or subsitute for basic hardwork and concentration.
But it was really good for intense study by myself.
However, about 3 hours after taking 2 pills, I went for lunch with a classmate. It was very annoying, I so much wanted to concentrate on something, anything, prefereably the Master’s thesis I was writing. But sitting at the table listening to my classmate ramble on about something or other, it was difficult not to be rude and get up and run back to the library to read…something, anything, my mind just wanted to focus on something that wasn’t her story about her laundry.
However, the very same girl took one pill and was “superman”, super focused with ideas coming out in a clear stream, rather than the usual jumble of thoughts.
So for me, sometimes i take it when i study, but actually i prefer coffee, especially in the morning. At a higher dose I lose a bit of social grace as I’d rather be focused on something (intense focus on a person who is rambling about their laundry is kind of weird), but for other people it’s fantastic.
With that said, I’d really like to try the non-caffeine variety, hopefully I can sip my coffee while also taking Spike, that’d be perfect.
sounds more like possession to me than a pill.
lol, jk. heck, i’m sold. think i might at least buy a little 2 dollar 2 pill packet that they sell at gnc before tomorrow’s workout or something.
Been taking it for about 6 weeks and I’m still not sure if works (still on the first bottle) I usually take it before work and before I lift. I think it may help on the focus factor but I’m a lot like one of the previous posters - I don’t get the “rush” people talk about.
When I first started taking it I was taking 2 tabs and the shit noided me out. I can do two now without any negative side effects but normally do one. When I say “noided me out” I mean I could not stand to be around people and I found that I had no patience for them. The jury is still out on the next bottle, I might try HRX instead.
[quote]relativelyfunguy wrote:
sounds more like possession to me than a pill.[/quote]
Self-possession. I’d say from my experience that you really own yourself fully.
( Hence the umbearable sex drive which is why I if I take Spike when I don’t need it just intensifies a body and a mind which are already intense - but notice that I am already intense by nature. You may be more high energy and will get a different effect, like becoming even more talkative or extroverted and social )
[quote]BFBullpup wrote:
Alpha F wrote:
Only use it when completely depleted.
Zero side effects
Powerful sexual drives.
Please feel free to elaborate on the latter. 
And wouldn’t that be a side effect?[/quote]
No, that would be a wholesome (and awesome) effect. It affects the wholeness of my nature as a sexual being. I feel the same way men describe their sexual nature: I can think of nothing else, I want nothing else but sex.
I don’t feel a rush [i]I am the rush[/i]. I experience pure wild sexual energy, raw sexual power…I want to climb walls or trees like a wild panther in her natural habitat…
I don’t even want to lift - so it doesn’t actually help in the gym. But only if I take it when I don’t need it, when my drive is still on and my tank is even half full and I am comfortably shifting gears.
Compare it to the engine of a car. Fueled and shifting gears to having an empty tank and/or on a neutral gear.
Spike doesn’t stimulate me. It intensifies my experience so if I am stimulated I become intensily stimulated - like going onto 6th gear when my car only operates at 5.
I feel like I want to “push the outside of the envelope”.
If I were trainning like an elite athlete it would be perfect but I no longer train 5 hrs a day (I used to be a competitive swimmer).
Does that make sense?
[quote]BFBullpup wrote:
“Completely depleted” how? As in not having any energy to even walk normally?[/quote]
No.
How, as in having an empty tank, operating on neutral gear, experiencing an emptiness in my gut, knowing I am empty, not feeling that I am empty - it’s different. It’s an abscence as opposed to a presence of energy. “I am not here” as opposed to “I am here” “I am present” as opposed to “I am abscent from my life”…it’s when I go on automatic pilot and cannot care and do not want to care. When I experience sloth becuase I know my love for life, my passion for lifting/living is missing.
I am completely depleted when I lose my self-possession and I don’t feel anything. I don’t feel lost.
I am lost.
Spike under those circumnstances brings me back momentarily and a days work flows when I myself am not present and flowing.
When I don’t take Spike I still go through the day but like a zombie. In a kind of livind death.
That is how I experience myself when “completely depetled”, I can even lift, and lift heavy but I am not connected to my power and I gain nothing from my experience. It’s a kind of “f#ck it. I am not showing up for my life today. I am not responding to the world’s demands.”
I am very selfish.
yes, what matt88 said about being “noided out”, i gett that sometimes when taking 2-3 pills. i haven’t a clue what Alpha F is on about though. The first post made a bit of sense, the second one i didn’t get. Intensifying yourself, i can relate. It was the “living dead” part that I got lost on.
[quote]kakugo wrote:
yes, what matt88 said about being “noided out”, i gett that sometimes when taking 2-3 pills. i haven’t a clue what Alpha F is on about though. The first post made a bit of sense, the second one i didn’t get. Intensifying yourself, i can relate. It was the “living dead” part that I got lost on.[/quote]
You become “vanilla”.
Sounds like he needs a shrink, maybe ?
[quote]chrisfoxnyc wrote:
Sounds like he needs a shrink, maybe ?[/quote]
I am female, honey. That’s how we describe things. Drama and over the top.
I’ve been taking it off and on for a year…
Great for days when you just didn’t get enough sleep.
If you are going out at night but are dragging.
Awesome for better focus during workouts.
[quote]Alpha F wrote:
chrisfoxnyc wrote:
Sounds like he needs a shrink, maybe ?
I am female…
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Well thats one way to get 500 profile views on here!
Technically any effect of a drug is considered a side-effect. There are no good or bad effects only desirable and undesirable side-effects. Make sense?
Sounds to me like Alpha F is just an intense and creative woman. Spike might be somewhat superfluous for her. [But I suspect that won’t stop her :*].
I’m a non-responder to Spike. Power Drive does the trick though (and it’s cheaper and more orangey).
[quote]Kruiser wrote:
Sounds to me like Alpha F is just an intense and creative woman. Spike might be somewhat superfluous for her. [But I suspect that won’t stop her :*].
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You are lovely!
I feel understood…aaawwhh, ; )