I have used creatine before and it has it's uses if done correctly and for the right reasons. I lifted and lifted heavy weights until I seemed to have plateaued. I was getting bigger, but I could not get more weight up. I had a goal for the bench and seemed to need something to get me there. Steroids were not an answer. Instead I loaded on creatine and easily hit my goals. I gained 20 pounds of mass and looked huge. Much of that went away in the next few weeks when I was off creatine, but all the lifting I did was still of benefit (and that is the key, the extra amount you lift on it is what you gain). Creatine gave me energy like you would not believe. If a weight gave you problems on your seventh rep, on the stuff you could do another ten reps.
Creatine is not and won't ever be something of value in a protein bar or without the loading phase. Trust me on that. If you use it, it is a major thing, not just a scoop here and there.
I forget the exact details of how to load, but I think it was five to ten times greater consumption than what it said on the side of the container bucket thing. I seemed to get lots of farts, had to pee a lot and if I drank the stuff too quickly I would literally pass out. I was training to be a bob sledder alternate and needed serious power. That all fell through and never happened.
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