Adrenaline

Super-human power

Most of us are familiar with the TV series “The incredible Hulk” in which the bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno played the role of the Hulk.

The process by which the scientist Bruce Banner usually transforms into the Hulk is presumably the result of the chemical catalyst, adrenaline (a.k.a. epinephrine). As in normal human beings, Banner's adrenal medulla secretes large amounts of adrenaline in time of fear, rage, or stress, which hormonally stimulates the heart rate, increases blood-sugar levels, and inhibits sensations of fatigue. Whereas the secretion heightens normal physical abilities in normal human beings, in Banner's case it triggers the complex chemical-extra-physical process that transforms him into the Hulk. The total time of transformation falls anywhere between seconds to 5 minutes, depending on the initial adrenalin surge, which will be determined by the original stimulus. Soon after the transformation, the amount of adrenalin in the Hulk will return to more normal, reduced levels. When the Hulk transforms back into Banner, the excess muscle mass and energy is lost, presumably to the same place he derives it.

Superhuman Power

There are many cases known where ordinary people after an adrenaline rush were capable to a superhuman power effort.

In 1982, Tony Cavallo of Lawrenceville, was working on the suspension of his 1964 Chevy Impala when the car suddenly slipped off the jack and pinned him in the wheel well. His mom Angela dashed outside to see her unconscious son trapped under the car. She yelled for a neighbor to get help but it was taking too long, so she took matters into her own hands. Literally. She proceeded to lift the car—high enough to replace the jacks—and pull Tony out from beneath. Yep, you read that correctly. She lifted a 3,500-pound car from the ground.

There's not much more information to be found about Mrs. Cavallo aside from this incredible story, but I'll safely assume she wasn't a body builder. In fact, I'll bet the same for the other individuals who have also demonstrated this sort of "hysterical strength." But that's beside the point—if you were placed in a similar situation, you could probably lift a car, too! It's all thanks to the handy little hormone called adrenaline.

It was about 8:30 P.M. on a warm summer evening 2006 in Tucson. Tom Boyle, Jr., was sitting in the passenger's seat of his pickup truck, his wife Elizabeth at the wheel, waiting to pull out into traffic from the shopping mall where they'd just had dinner. The Camaro ahead of them hit the gas, spun his wheels, and jerked out onto the avenue with a squeal of rubber.

The Camaro had hit a cyclist, and the rider was pinned underneath the car. Boyle threw open the door of the truck and started running after the car.

One of 18-year-old Kyle Holtrust's legs was pinned between chassis of the car and the frame of his bike, the other jammed between the bike and the asphalt.

Without stopping to think, Boyle reached under the frame of the car and lifted. With a sound of groaning metal, the chassis eased upward .  The driver of the car, 40-year-old John Baggett, pulled Holtrust free. At last, about 45 seconds after he'd first heaved the car upward, Boyle set it back down.

Pre-work-out

I often search the net to look for interesting opinions and experiences people share on the discussion boards, nice ones:

“I have tried it twice. One time before a workout-it worked great. I gave me the sensation of about 5 effies. I couldn't calm down for hours though. The other time was just to experiment with it-it gave me such paranoia it wasn't funny. Think about it, if you use caffeine now, then try adrenaline, then what? Stick with coffee and effies.”

“Listen fellas, adrenaline can be purchased anywhere that is what they use in those OTC inhalers, although they use the chemical name, epinephrine. There is absolutely NO reason for you guys to take this stuff, why do you think they came out with ephedrine? They wanted a drug that had adrenaline's good effects without the bad side effects, ie. ephedrine, clenbuterol, salbutimol, albuterol etc. So duh! of course it was like "5 effies". besides, if you have a problem (drug OD) you would want that adrenaline shot to work wouldn't you (pulp fiction)?!?

sorry guy's don't mean to sound rude, i'm on day 8 of a 600mg/day DNP cycle and am taking fina too = bad temper! “

Olympic Weightlifters

In many sports events we witness Olympic lifters sniffing ammonia before lifting. You also see it with boxers, and it also used to wake them up after a knock out.

But you see it much more often when the big guys are getting prepared to maximize a lift. The powerlifters and strongman. They are mostly using a stronger version called “Nose Tork”, it makes the athlete mostly a bit aggressive, it’s for a short adrenaline rush. T heir body releases adrenaline as a reaction on the burning sensation in the nose. How strong this burning sensation is dependant on how far you keep your nose away from the bottle.

Adrenaline brings your body in “the fight or flight mode” only here its pure fight mode. The last decades inhalants expanded to all kind of sports like by example football but those ammonia caps are milder than Nose Tork.

There are many delivery systems, ampules, liquids, packets and wipes, the mix of chemicals really wakes you and gives you extreme focus and intensity. Most powerlifters use them every workout. Sometimes combined with other pre-workout supplements.

Greece

In Greece I spoke with a bodybuilder that used to inject Adrenaline ½ amp 30 minutes after his work-out combined with MT-DMN. He used it during his contest preparation and said he was really ripped to the bone. He also told me he sweated like hell. Mostly when I visit him something odd comes up and often inspires me to blog about. Shooting Adrenaline can be very dangerous and that why I also mentioned milder ways to reach your goals, but some of the really Hardcore experiment with low dosages of this ultimate "supplement." And of course Adrenaline is much more effective than a selective beta-2 agonist (clenbuterol/ephedrine) and will work on more receptors both direct and indirect.

Adrenaline has a short half-life, but during those 10-15 minutes be able to lift twice as much as what you normally lift. It will create an enormous growth stimuli, but it is also dangerous because your body structure is not used to handle so much weight and you can get a rupture in your tendons, ligaments etc.

Thus it is a drug that only the most hardcore use, it’s hard to find the right dose and weights to improve your best lifts without hurting yourself badly. But just look around, those are the people that are all around us and not only the people of the powersports, the Iron Warriors, though if you follow the media that’s what you should expect.

But experimenting with adrenaline is extremely dangerous thing if you don’t know exactly what you are doing, just like other hardcore means like insulin and DNP. You could actually induce tachycardia or a heart attack.

Science

Just like with testosterone, training increases endogenous hormones, logically exogenous administration will bring this to a higher level.

* Adrenaline increases skeletal muscle glycogenolysis, pyruvate dehydrogenase activation and carbohydrate oxidation during moderate exercise in human

*Strength training increases resting metabolic rate and norepinephrine levels in healthy 50- to 65-yr-old men

Abstract

Resting metabolic rate (RMR) decreases with age, largely because of an age-related decline in fat-free mass (FFM). We hypothesized that a strength-training program capable of eliciting increases in FFM would also increase RMR in older individuals. To test this hypothesis, RMR, body composition, and plasma concentrations of certain hormones known to affect RMR were measured before and after a 16-wk heavy-resistance strength-training program in 13 healthy men 50–65 yr of age.

Average strength levels, assessed by the three-repetition maximum test, increased 40% with training. Body weight did not change, but body fat decreased (25.6 vs. 23.7 kg) and FFM increased (60.6 vs. 62.2 kg). RMR, measured by indirect calorimetry, increased 7.7% with strength training (6,449 vs. 6,998 kJ/24 h). This increase remained significant even when RMR was expressed per kilogram of FFM. Strength training increased arterialized plasma norepinephrine levels 36% (1.1 vs. 1.5 nmol/l) but did not change fasting glucose, insulin, or thyroid hormone levels. These results indicate that a heavy-resistance strength-training program increases RMR in healthy older men, perhaps by increasing FFM and sympathetic nervous system activity.