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Im a little late in seeing the thread, but I'll offer my opinion. Something to consider with supplements is this most of what is purchased at supplement shops is in the grey area of the FDA. THey are things the FDA would not rather have out on the market but because of legal boundries arent able to fully maniplute.
There is allot of claims made by supplement developers, but in truth if some of these products truly had the effect of what they claimed they would be considered a drug and regulated. Thats not to say they dont work. When I see poeple in threads tell someone else they're wrong I ask myself if that person ever considered the fact that everyone is built genetically different. Disputing the validity of scientific data is one thing, but informing others of their inforamtion shortcoming based on self experience or articles put out by bodybuilders in FLEX is questionable practice in itself.
I know you understand the mechanism behind Creatine. In my experience in relation to weight training I did make temporary gains that were lost after coming off of it.
I was more imress with its ablilty to raise my performance in cardio. One of the times I was on it was when I was in Basic Underwater Demolition school in the Navy. We had l;ong grueling runs on deep soft sand wearing jungle boots. My running was horrible I was usually in the rear struggling with pains in my side, and my legs cramping. After a month on creatine I was in front with no pain and feeling good. I attribute this to my muscles being better hydrated and a good supply of glycogen due to cell volumization.
THe load up period in the first week is a scam. A complete waste of money. By the third week your equally saturated whether you loaded ir not, it just helps you get to the store quicker to have to buy more.
I came to the conclusion that outside of good food and hard training (with vitamins) that I perwsonally didnt want to use things that were only temporary if I wasnt gearing up for an event (which is a different scenerio)
Not to mention the fact that supplements cost allot and I felt that if I was going for occsasional gains, asethetic enhancement, or platue breakers (all of which admittingly are great for self esteem)
The money was better spent on supplements that undeniably work better and were cheaper. I didnt have any moral issues about making a trip down south.
For those that havent tried Creatine its worth experimenting with
as long as its understood that on a general note not everyone is genetically gifted and will lose most of what gains they made from using the substance.
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