Got mine in time for the gym tonight!
Put on 2ml about 45 min before the gym - one pump on the inside of each arm (one of my few places without hair lol). This is 200mg total of the carnitine combo.
I definitely had a good sweat going, and a good pump, doing lots of light sets of 12 on some leg stuff and lots of chin-ups. I did also feel like endurance was better - certainly better than my last lower day on Sunday. One of my chin-up sets might be a PR actually (15 reps weighing ~246lbs). Also, when doing some Cat Camel for warmup, my forearms got so pumped just holding my upper body in position over the floor I had to take a break before continuing on to Bird Dogs! I took no other pump agents. My preWO was a normal mild nootropic blend I often use, so L-Carn gel was the only new variable there. Another strange thing - I never put my earbuds in the entire time, and I was at the commercial gym! That just doesn’t happen for me, but I was in a decidedly good, relaxed mood with great focus on what I doing. I know I said I use that nootropic often, but I don’t get that effect to that degree normally. A very good session & I didn’t want to leave.
Injectable L-Carn from a preWO standpoint, 200mg is your entry level and people routinely go up to 500mg. Personally, I see a noticeable difference as a preWO with 3-400mg over 200, but 500 doesn’t really do anything more for me. The more L-carn you inject, the more acute benefit you will have for fat mobilization/transport (and more sweating) - but this is only relevant if you are in a scenario where you will be actively liberating fats. You must be working hard & in a deficit to actually burn that fat you mobilize into circulation, or it will just go back into storage.
You will hear of some bodybuilders deep in prep or CrossFit athletes injecting even a gram at a time sometimes, but for a lifter not in a deficit most of the global benefits of L-carn use will be realized by 200mg/day. Others like the androgen receptor scrubbing (making your test/hormone levels get more bang for buck because they can rebind elsewhere sooner) will be realized under even something like 70mg injected. So a little bit used routinely can be a cost effective, healthy way to help skew things positively in your favor, natural or enhanced. It’s not dramatic, but it is a worthwhile supplement.
We don’t know how much this gel absorption will compare to injectable, but I can say from one session I did actually appear to get some performance benefits from only 2ml. Which surprised me given the total dosage applied, but that’s certainly a positive surprise. Looking forward to more experiments with it!
