Creatine

[Mighty Thor]

Re: Creatine

Creatine destroys your liver and kidneys... If you take too much. My brother's body is really messed up from it. His college baseball coach put him on meal supplements and creatine, 4x a day workouts, and now he has to take a bunch of meds to fix his body. I'd be wary.

That's too much. Like I said, Creatine would not work for aerobic, non-intense activities like baseball, basketball, or even golf (Tiger Woods took it too). The research I looked at showed that it didn't work that well even for football players. Go figure, I thought it would work for them. Since it is a very physical sport.

Research did find out that it worked very good for greco-wrestlers.

BTW.. the researchers were actual scientist who were not backed by any supplement industries. So they are credible.

Thor, I'm pretty sure the loading phase doesn't have to be that intense. Everything I have seen says that it is more like 10 days of the higher end of the recommended dose. Thats with the standard Creatine Monohydrate.

Yeah, when I first took it in 1993 when it first came out many of us were sorta clueless about that loading phase. I not doing the loading phase at all. I just take as is.

I use to take creatine , but found out after about 2 months it starts to wear off since the body adjusts to it. The body creates its own creatine so after awhile it will adapt, so I found out use it for 2 months then stop and then after 2-3 months use it again, worked pretty well, this was back when I was 23-24. When I was 30 in the PD academy I use something like creatine (don't remember the name) and found it work well. I did go from 250lbs to alittle over 315lbS on the bench and 240+ on military,curls 210 and dumb bells 65lbs, all free weights and gained 3 sec. on my 1.5 mile run on the final PT test. Also gained 40 LBS in weight. It payedd off though on the red man suit guy coming ater me I threw him around when trying to get him to comply. LOL

Eventually all supplements would become steady in our system. It's like vitamins. It present in your body now and your body expects it all the time. BTW.. you would have to eat 30lbs of beef to get the same dose of creatine you get from one scoop.

[2.8 Bird]

Re: Creatine

:tup:People tend to forget that muscles are 80-90% water. And Creatine binds to water which helps volumize it.

[Mogobs30th]

Re: Creatine

Eat candy, tastes better than Creatine.

[Mighty Thor]

Re: Creatine

:tup:People tend to forget that muscles are 80-90% water. And Creatine binds to water which helps volumize it.

Creatine does bind into water and it is Intracellular. That's why it's great to take it with it something sweet, esp. after a workout when the muscles are glycogen depleted. It helps get rid of the acidic waste inside the cell. This is also the reason why people get sick or feel nausated with this product at the start, but eventually they'll get used to it.