Everything 'RIDETHEBIG...' said is 100% TRUTH!!!
Caffeine and Arginine doesnt agree with eachother and one is a constrictor and one is a dialator...they cancel eachother out...its hype, marketing, warm colors in their ads/labels and more hype.
'the mind-blowing pumps' is all in your head. A placebo effect. I was getting killer pumps and aching pumps waaaaay befor all these N-O products came out...now the marketing and labels and companies tell you over and over and over and even convince people...they never REALLY expierenced a pump...they just think they did but if you use this...you'll see rope like vascularity and extreme skin splitting pumps and this and that. It all submerges in your subconscious if you see and read the ads enough. It's all subliminal. Trust/Believe psychology doesnt play a HUGE role in marketing supps...
How does it 'increase focus'. Know why? It tells you it will so you THINK it does so therefore...'yea, I'm so much more focused...'. It has no neurological effect besides subliminally telling your sub-conscious it does on the label with the warm/hot colors and slick wording.
Want a killer pump that REALLY is noticable? 50mg of Viagra 30 minutes before training will really noticably make blood flow better. The 'more focus' is all within you...my buddy gets in a little argument with his girlfriend...he gets all fked up and cant train and checks his cell phone 10'xs and gets all worried and he cant get through the workout because he cant focus no matter how much NOXplode he drinks...a player like me can have his house catch fire, sugar poured in his gas-tank and dog killed and I will STILL block itout and have a killer leg routine uninterrupted...with NO noxplode...
Ya, heard!
Ah Block, it's breaking my heart but for the first time I do not agree with you...I can definitely focus on my work out without the stuff, that's when you said that people who are dedicated and allow no distraction come their way do but honestly I will stand by my claims that it is not in my head when I feel the stuff working. I remember you had posted on some other thread about being veiny and how that is also a BS coz you either are or you are not. But that is also something I don't agree on. I am very vascular for a girl, but the effect I get from say getting a sugar load or NO into my system blows them out of proportion and my whole body is so pumped and veins are stretch to the point where sometimes it is even uncomfortable feeling...The point being, I have experienced the rush and increased focus when taking the stuff. It's like with creatine. Some claim it's bomb, awesome, having huge gains and all. If I tried it and didn't notice anything like that, I will say the same thing as you did - the stuff does not work, end of story. So I don't think it is a matter of your own psychological perception, it's more about physiological effect one incurrs.