Benefits of creatine:

[GrumpyTX]

What are the benefits of creatine?

Just curious. I started using creatine for the first time 5 days ago and now I have gained 6 pounds and I look like someone stuck an air hose up my butt and blew me up. I think that 6 pounds is nothing but water cause I feel sea sick just walking around.

What are the long term benefits of it? Will I deflate when I get off it? Since I am trying to cut right now, would it be better to not use the creatine?


I probably could have found out the info but the search turned up too many results to mess with.

thanks.

[Dedicated]

I'm cutting and using creatine, and so far my cut is going good. I'm not sure if it's the diet or the creatine, but my lifts are all the same and I've even made some small improvements.

[ogarchamplin]

you will retain water while using creatine so make sure that you drink extra water

[Veritas]

http://www.absolute-creatine.com/1.htm

its in the Creatine Sticky

[GrumpyTX]

Yeah, I heard you retained some water but damn I feel like a sponge. I drink about 2 gallons a day and sometimes more so water consumption is not an issue.

I will run out of the small jug I bought to test sometime next week so I will probably lay off the creatine until my next bulk cycle.

[PiKappaWRX]

piss more often! and remember sauna's r good too.

[GrumpyTX]

Hell, I feel like I spend half the day pissing in the bathroom. Also noticed that I am sweating a hell of alot more since starting creatine.

[iLUDEd]

maybe your taking in too much?
how much do u take a day?

[Shao-LiN]

I dunno why you would sweat more, other than when you started taking it probably correlated with summer weather.

[daemonjs]

great stuff, give u more energy

[latinomasfino]

great stuff, give u more energy

does it decese ur definition in ur abs?

[TheGimp]

does it decese ur definition in ur abs?

It increases muscular water retention, so I would guess they would increase it size.

[GrumpyTX]

Ilude, 5 mg a day.

Shao, it is still the same temp in the gym but I sweat more now than I did before taking creatine.

Latino, I dont know, still holding too much bf to see more than a faint 4 pack.