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I feel like ephedrine makes me less efficient at doing the same work, which I guess is part of the attraction to dieters.
I'm not sure that ECA turns off hunger, either.
One thing to consider about the use of stimulants to increase (endurance) exercise performance (caffeine definitely helps me) - you could probably do the same if you felt your life depended on it - this article on [Jure Robic] suggests that extreme endurance athletes may only be better in that they can force their body to use all its reserves.
Big enough dose of ECA significantly reduces hunger on pretty much everyone. You can easily try it on yourself.
Professional athletes undergo years of training, special diets, various legal and illegal performance enhancement, are brainwashed into performing better, and are selected from people genetically predisposed into their sport. That's a long list of differences.
Things like ECA and modafinil work on an average healthy adult.
Also the most interesting athletic performance enhancing drugs don't work on CNS, but to enlarge muscle cells or increase their number (HGH, steroids), increase blood capacity to carry oxygen (EPA), reduce body fat (different steroids), or water (diuretics) etc. CNS-affecting drugs seem to be a minor issue.