Creatine?

[VERT]

I just want to know people's thoughts on it, do you use it? can you recomend its use? or condem it?

ps Im refering to the suppliment

[BobOmega]

i just know that if you stop working out it ruins your musles. all the water it puts in goes away when you stop.

[Mike]

It does ruin your muscles?? All I know is that it is foul tasting.

[BobOmega]

well thats what my friend says anyway. he used to use it. then he went back to protien stuff.

http://www.primev.com/Creatine.htm
http://www.berkeleywellness.com/html/ds/dsCreatine.php
http://www.absolute-creatine.com/4.htm (links at bottom also)

Martoch gave me these sites. i thought about using it. but there wasn't really alot of ideas what it will do to you when your older. plus when you get off the stuff. the muscle you gain won't stay very long. im lifting the old fashion way and like the improvements.

eat right
sleep
lift properly

With Creatine you will need to drink MASSIVE amounts of water. If not you can cause serious problems to your kidney and other organs

[RedFury]

I'd much rather see people build muscle naturally. My brother had a friend that I saw the difference and unfortunate result of using steroids to build muscle. The kid was 5'10" and about 145lbs when I left for the Army. I came back 3 years later and the kid was huge. Well, huge everywhere except his chicken legs and neck. Looked like a damn cartoon character. And no muscle definition. Looked like he was wearing inflatable muscles.

[ocit]

i use whey protein when i can keep it down, i have a finicy stomach lately.

[daveleau]

It is not recommended for use. It causes some joint problems, from what I have heard.

[muno]

I used it while back in combination with err... I don't remember but it was something that helped creatine absorb into body.
I don't recall any help because of it, but no harm done either. Our laws prohibit the correct dosing of the thing. (it says on the package to take this and that much which is way too little).

Some of my friends, though, claimed it was of help to them. It's supposed to help burst strength.

Now I don't eat anything extra, I still have that 1kg pack of protein (about a year old) in my cupboard.

Last week they showed the episode of 'Fear factor' here that featured eating the cow brains. I'm sure the winner has huge muscles the next week
-M

[VERT]

hmmmm, I think I might just continue to build my muscles the natural way