… but I never said there was a relationship between muscle mass and strength gains.
Bodybuilding means nothing more than training to build muscle mass, reduce adipose tissue, and perhaps win bodybuilding competitions. An explicit relationship needn’t be stated. It’s implied by the definition of the identity you mentioned.
An answer like "just try and see" is nothing what i was looking for.
Why not? No matter what anyone would tell you, it would be based on their physiology, not yours. Therefore, the advice wouldn’t really be helpful unless you experimented with it for yourself. On the other hand, if you inquired into how well you might perform going into the gym drunk, no one would tell you to try it and see.
Nootropics in appropriate doses don’t alter your state of consciousness in dangerous ways. So if you’re thinking about taking a nootropic that you think might facilitate better learning, and given that nootropics negligibly alter brain states, it makes the most sense to simply just try it out and see what happens.
My statement was qualified with the indication that if you are closely connected with your neuromuscular system without a scientific laboratory, which is an attribute bodybuilders usually attain after at least three years of smart training, it’s easy to try new things and discern what’s working from what’s not.
When lifting i often get close to fainting, puking, etc doing some exercises (mainly legs) and having something new effecting me would not be beneficial if it pushed me over the edge.
No nootropic has enough power to affect your body negatively for longer than it takes to see if you felt a little sluggishness during a single training session. Bodybuilding and increasing cognition with nootropics are slow enough processes that making inconsequential tweaks like these are best observed through self-experimentation.