Coach I was thinking that it's very easy to mistake caffeine powder for other powders, especially bought in bulk. Like using the whey scoop or shooting for a 10gram scoop of bcaa but grabbing the wrong bag. And it has killed people (I think).
No, none of us would ever do that but some aspiring young bro.....or really early in the morning...
From post #436 in the Supplements thread: "I don't think it matters really until you're into really high doses (900mg+). In fact, the efficacy range for caffeine is 3-9mg/kg if I remember correctly."
Based on this I calculated my caffeine intake range from about 400-1200mg per day. (BW 289). I have regularly taken 600mg prior to WO for the past six months. Combining that with coffee intake (usually around 48oz of coffee per day) puts me well over the 1g limit. Is this going to kill me soon? FWIW, I sleep like a baby, except after heavy/volume day.
Why are people not just using cocaine?
I think you'll be alright given the BW, as this effects the volume of distribution of the "drug" (caffeine). Still, you might play with some coffee holidays to see if you feel better, worse, the same.
Coffee holidays? That would be incredible worse. Caffeine withdrawal headaches at this point is inadvisable. Picture Bradley Cooper coming off those limitless pills.
1g caffeine a day. hrm.. Days I take Cannibal Ferrox probably means I shouldn't have 8 cups a day. I think i'm flirting with 800-1200mg on some days.
Ha! That's pretty good.
I know what you mean. I just don't like to rely on caffeine for all things. Sometimes there are things (training sessions/projects) where an extra kick is the bee's knees and I like caffeine for that. For everyday mundane things, I don't want to waste my "ace in the hole" unless I'm overcoming a big sleep deficit. Just my 0.02
This is how I feel, I stopped doing my preworkout stack all together.
On a side note, Paul Erdős a famous mathematician was known for being a regular user of amphetamines and you get gems like this
Not that I suggest using amphetamines.His colleague Alfréd Rényi said, "a mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems",[15] and Erdős drank copious quantities. (This quotation is often attributed incorrectly to Erdős,[16] but Erdős himself ascribed it to Rényi.[17]) After 1971 he also took amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham) bet him $500 that he could not stop taking the drug for a month.[18] Erdős won the bet, but complained that during his abstinence, mathematics had been set back by a month: "Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper." After he won the bet, he promptly resumed his amphetamine use.