Posted: 5/25/2013 8:51:36 PM EDT
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I have read a bunch about it, but wanted to see if anyone here has used it and what your experiences are.
Stomach issues? Make you gain water weight? Make you stronger? More energy? More endurance? No.change? Any other side effects ? |
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I have read a bunch about it, but wanted to see if anyone here has used it and what your experiences are. Stomach issues? This depends on the person, some do, some dont. I never did in about 15 years of it Make you gain water weight? Monohydrate should put water weight on, there are some out now like kre-alkalyn that say they do not Make you stronger? It will make you stronger but depending on your body type your results will vary More energy? I wouldnt consider it more energy, your cells will have more energy for exercise. Not the energy most people think of no More endurance?Absolutely No.change? Any other side effects ? Drink at least the amount of water it says, you may experience cramping if you are a runner. Do not do a loading phase if it says to. I would find pills and not powder. Sci-fit makes some really good cheap shit that will be just fine. I usually got mine from bodybuilding.com or dpsnutrition.net. It can be hard on your kidneys but everything I have ever read on it, which is a lot, is that if you have kidney issues with it, you had them to begin with. Just drink plenty of water. What are your goals and what is your workout like? |
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I have read a bunch about it, but wanted to see if anyone here has used it and what your experiences are. Stomach issues? Doses of > 5g yes, it can. If I bother to "load" I use 2 x 5g/day for week or so. Make you gain water weight? Less than 5lbs. Make you stronger? Yep, easier to get that last rep. More energy? It is not a stimulant. More endurance? Uh no. That isn't its use. No.change? N/A Any other side effects ? I'm more awesome. As if that was possible. Creatine monohydrate even has legitimate medical uses. Just be sure to use a micronized creatine. |
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I have read a bunch about it, but wanted to see if anyone here has used it and what your experiences are. Stomach issues? Make you gain water weight? Make you stronger? More energy? More endurance? No.change? Any other side effects ? No Kinda ~ you might be a little more bloated because it is a hydrate but it doesn't make you gain H20 water weight. However, it's advisable to always drink a lot of water and that is where water weight comes from. I've had no difference before and after because I've always maintained high levels of water intake. They say it has retention abilities which I believe is true but it doesn't just make you gain weight as that always takes work. No Yes ~ technically it is used to carry and replenish phospates to your Adenosine triphosphates within your cells. It isn't a HUGE improvement as it can only happen so quick and rest and recovery and nutrition is the only way to fully replenish ATP. However, it's enough to possibly replenish some ATP before you exhaust it all. Or as Hizzie put it "to get that one last push." Why he put that under strength and not energy is beyond me as it doesn't make your muscles stronger. 
No No side effects afaik. However, I have never noticed them doing much for me so I've quit using it. I've tried random times and also loading for long periods. YMMV. |
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I have read a bunch about it, but wanted to see if anyone here has used it and what your experiences are. Stomach issues? Make you gain water weight? Make you stronger? More energy? More endurance? No.change? Any other side effects ? No Kinda ~ you might be a little more bloated because it is a hydrate but it doesn't make you gain H20 water weight. However, it's advisable to always drink a lot of water and that is where water weight comes from. I've had no difference before and after because I've always maintained high levels of water intake. They say it has retention abilities which I believe is true but it doesn't just make you gain weight as that always takes work. No Yes ~ technically it is used to carry and replenish phospates to your Adenosine triphosphates within your cells. It isn't a HUGE improvement as it can only happen so quick and rest and recovery and nutrition is the only way to fully replenish ATP. However, it's enough to possibly replenish some ATP before you exhaust it all. Or as Hizzie put it "to get that one last push." Why he put that under strength and not energy is beyond me as it doesn't make your muscles stronger.
No No side effects afaik. However, I have never noticed them doing much for me so I've quit using it. I've tried random times and also loading for long periods. YMMV. So getting more reps with a given weight isn't stronger? I am gonna slap your skinny ass with a sack of kitty litter. |
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I have read a bunch about it, but wanted to see if anyone here has used it and what your experiences are. Stomach issues? Make you gain water weight? Make you stronger? More energy? More endurance? No.change? Any other side effects ? No Kinda ~ you might be a little more bloated because it is a hydrate but it doesn't make you gain H20 water weight. However, it's advisable to always drink a lot of water and that is where water weight comes from. I've had no difference before and after because I've always maintained high levels of water intake. They say it has retention abilities which I believe is true but it doesn't just make you gain weight as that always takes work. No Yes ~ technically it is used to carry and replenish phospates to your Adenosine triphosphates within your cells. It isn't a HUGE improvement as it can only happen so quick and rest and recovery and nutrition is the only way to fully replenish ATP. However, it's enough to possibly replenish some ATP before you exhaust it all. Or as Hizzie put it "to get that one last push." Why he put that under strength and not energy is beyond me as it doesn't make your muscles stronger.
No No side effects afaik. However, I have never noticed them doing much for me so I've quit using it. I've tried random times and also loading for long periods. YMMV. So getting more reps with a given weight isn't stronger? I am gonna slap your skinny ass with a sack of kitty litter. It doesn't MAKE you stronger, chemically. It gives you the energy to push your muscle that last bit, which in effect CAN lead to strength gain. Soooo, I'll look at it from my rose colored glasses while you look through your foggy granny glasses. 
Oh and try slappin' me as I gracefully dance away from your bulky self. 
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Stomach issues? - It depends. Varying tolerances for a given dosage.
Make you gain water weight? - You'll probably retain some extra water, but the amount is not huge. Water retention will be in the muscle cells so it's not a bloating type of water retention. Make you stronger? - Not directly. It's not a stimulant. Strength gains come from the incremental increase in accumulated exercise dose over time More energy? - Sort of. Your muscles have very small reserves of ATP - the fuel for all muscle contraction. The stores are very small because ATP is a very heavy molecule - you wouldn't want to have to lug enough of it around to function for extended periods. When ATP is used to fuel a muscle contraction, it sheds a phosphate molecule and becomes ADP. Since the muscles don't maintain large stores of ATP, our bodies have 3 main pathways to add a phosphate to the ADP to resynthesize ATP and allow fueling for subsequent contractions: 1)aerobically - the slowest pathway but also the pathway capable of producing the most ATP over longer durations (the majority of ATP from any maximal effort longer than about 1m15s come from aerobic processes). All 3 pathways are "on" at any given time, but this is the body's preferred method. As workload exceeds this pathway's ability to produce ATP, the body turns to the next two paths in increasing amounts 2)anaerobic glycolysis - uses glycogen (sugar) to produce ATP (lactate is a byproduct of this process). Can produce ATP faster than the aerobic process, but is limited by the amount of stored muscle glycogen. Provide the majority of ATP for maximal efforts from ~15 seconds to 1m15s in duration 3)creatine phosphate cycle - this is the "afterburner" of ATP production, capable of producing ATP very quickly, but for very short durations. This pathway is where creatine plays a role. Ingested creatine provides a reservoir of extra phosphates for synthesis of ATP from ADP which should allow an extra repetition or two prior to exceeding this cycle's ability to replenish ATP. Creatine doen't provide more "energy" in the way that stimulants do More endurance? - Not in the way endurance is typically defined i.e. aerobic function. If you mean an increase in anaerobic work capacity, yes. In other words, creatine is not going to improve your 5K time or even your mile time. It may get you an extra rep or two or help your 100M dash time. Any other side effects ? - No real adverse side effects noted for otherwise healthy people Creatine does not make you stronger or alter the hormonal balance of your body for muscular hypertrophy. What creatine does do is possibly allow you to train slightly harder every day. As you accumulate slightly more training over time, your body responds by getting stronger. If you're not training at or very close to your limits, creatine is not going to to anything for you. |