Ok, I bought my first Creatine... Need Advice

[jcoleman7]

I bought my first Creatine today... I got GNC Pro Performance Creatine Monohydrate(21$ for 100 servings) and I need some advice.

I'm going to start Monday so...

Should I load up, if so how much and for how long?
When should I take it?

[Bako Lifter]

Ugh............

5g a day. Everyday.

No loading, doesn't matter when you take it.

5g a day. Everyday.

There is also a search function that you could have used to find the answer to this question.

[BFGUITAR]

You should have read about taking creatine before buying it IMO.

[jcoleman7]

You should have read about taking creatine before buying it IMO.

I did read about it but I was wanting opinions on whether I should load or just take regular. It said you can do both but nothing else really other than that.

[jdeity]

I do the jdeity load - two heavy servings for the first, I dunno, 3 days to a week maybe? Then 1X daily afterwards. Loading is simply getting your muscles' creatine stores as full as they're gonna get. If you just start the 5g/day on day 1, you won't be fully loaded by day 2. But of course, if you're taking 20g/day for 5 days, you're wasting creatine.

Given how cheap creatine is, I usually load, but I dislike taking such huge servings (can't specify why, I don't like to is all I can really offer you there, no solid logic lol). I'll do a half assed load that's gonna get my muscles to full creatine storage levels quicker than if I had taken just 1X/day. But not as quick as a full load, whatever the hell that even is (ask 10 people what a proper load is and you'll prolly get at least 5 different answers lol!)

[Hatred]

Advice?

[Hatred]

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[Hatred]

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[Keith]

^ Lol, that should be a sticky.

[jdeity]

****ING LOL!! sigged

[jdeity]

hmmm, not showing, tried twice...

laughed out loud tho!

<edit - there it is!>

[Keith]

Lol that's actually a pretty informative sig!

[jdeity]

I just looked at it and realized how gay pride it looks. I am completely indifferent to the sexual preferences of anybody, but I'm not gay and thought maybe to change it - then realized it's clearly a quote, and a quote from hatred, so anyone who's been here for a bit will get it