Hey guys! Just wanted to share what I've been using in the last couple of weeks while having interviews with the best of the best tech companies. As a former heavy coffee drinker in the past I know what caffeine tolerance look like. Just before I started to quit coffee I have been consuming three double shot espressos daily. Without the morning shot, I couldn't function at all. So the first dose is just for returning me to my baseline. The second one is to avoid the after lunch crash and the third one I usually took around 5pm and helped me to stay up with the demanding work at my job. If I skip the first morning shot, I would have very intense headaches for the rest of the day. Even if I make up later and take 2 shots around 1pm it wouldn't help. So I decided to quit. Cold turkey would just be unimaginable to me, so I phased it out gradually. It took a month to completely get rid of caffeine. Currently I do take decaffeinated green tea capsules in the morning, few times a week. From time to time when I really needed the kick I would drink coffee and it would put me in the 6th gear for the next 5 - 6 hours.
Ok, back to the topic. On the interview days I have been taking (and doing) the following:
* 2 days prior: 30 minutes LLT session mostly over the forehead
* night prior: 300mg time release melatonin + 400mg Mg malate
* 2 - 3 hours prior the interview (usually just after waking): homemade liposomal vitamin C; beside vit C it also provides sufficient amount of choline
* 30 minutes after that: 100 - 150mg modafinil; oh boy, this thing really makes you AWAKE; no mental fatigue even after 6 hours of hard core interviewing (it takes 2 hours for plasma concentration to peak)
* 5 minutes of HIT; 10 seconds sprint at 90% intensity; 20 seconds off; repeat for 10 times; 2-3 series of pushups, squats, ab crunches (one after another without a break)
* light breakfast without starches: usually 2 - 3 boiled eggs with berries + a heaping spoon of organic virgin coconut oil + omega 3 capsule
* cold shower for 3 minutes, followed by the 2 min hot - cold water cycle
* while in shower B12 + NADH sublingual lozenges
* 1 hour prior to the interview :
ginkgo biloba (+ vinpocetine) capsule
100mg alcar
3g creatine
2g D-ribose
decaffeinated green tea capsule (mainly for L-theanine)
500mg artichoke + 3mg forskolin (semi CILTEP stack)
* 45 mins prior: double shot espresso (~200mg caffeine) bottoms up, followed with 15 minutes meditation (with meditating music through the headphones)
* 4mg methylene blue (works best for me; tried 60mcg upto 6mg)
* 30 mins prior: 1g piracetam taken sublingually (another dose after 4 hours if on site)
* 20 mins prior: nicotine gum with (2mg nicotine) (repeated multiple times throughout the day if onsite)
* 15 mins prior:
hands-full of raisins (and throughout the day if onsite)
white noise through headphones, until interview starts (and while on breaks if onsite)
* 5 mins prior: 2 minutes of deep breathing technique for relaxation and increased oxygen intake
Works VERY good! The key is not to be caffeine and modafinil addicted / tolerant. Otherwise you wont get their full benefits. Mental stamina and ability to focus is insane. You are at your best, even better. And relaxed.
I tried mixing oxiracetam with piracetam, and it works well for the first hour or so, but after that I do feel slight mental fatigue, and aniracetam doesn't work at all.
Hope someone will find this stack useful. Any feedback and suggestion is very welcomed!
Edited by rikelme, 02 December 2013 - 08:26 PM.
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