creatine gains

[muscledog95]

Does one lose what they gained on creatine?

 

[muscledog95]

after they stop taking it...haha sorry forgot the last part

 

[spatts]

Well, the "gain" from creatine is IM water and other fluids. So yeah, you lose it. Creatine doesn't put muscle on you, it just helps you do more work so that you may put on more muscle through training. It's not like a steroid.

 

[jeremys]

when i first used creatine, i JUST started doing squats and deads and i started eating as much as i could. i went from flex magazine crap to smart training and eating. needless to say i gained 30 lbs with only a little bit of fat, but i'm pretty damn sure it wasnt the creatine. lol..

oh yeah, i used it again and it didnt do much. maybe a little extra strength endurance

 

[WarriorPL]

PURE water... i gained 15 pounds on it and lost about 12 after stopping it.

 

[jeremys]

well the funny thing for me is that when i used it, i didnt lose anything after i stopped. i wonder where that water went

 

[revexrevex]

I gained 10 lbs of water on it first time, and about 6 pounds of water second time. Somehow I never lost it. NO idea where all the weight went

 

[pwr_machine]

A muscle contraction is fueled by energy coming from dephosphorylation of ATP to ADP. ATP is depleted quickly and must be resynthesized. Shorts burst of exercise lasting for mere seconds primarily involves the phosphocreatine system. As PCr stores are depleted, muscular performance decreases.

Hence, we have the need for creatine supplementation which has been shown to effectively increase muscular PCr stores. That's the energy Spatts was referring too that allows us to do more work. More work means more potential for muscle mass and increased strength.

Typically, the strength gains stick around while the associated water weight is lost. Creatine supplementation may only increase strength by a small percent, but that could percent could mean the difference between winning and losing.

 

[spatts]

C R E A T I N E

 

[casualbb]

Spatts... the link you posted contradicts your own view on creatine:

Volek et al. (1999) found after 12 weeks of resistance training in men, Cr supplementation increased muscle fiber diameter in both Type 1 and Type 2 muscle fibers by 35% (Fig. 3). Resistance-trained subjects not supplemented with Cr had fiber-type increases of 6 to 15%. Subjects both trained and supplemented had fat-free mass increases of 1.5 kg after 1 week and 4.3 kg after 12 weeks compared with the trained-only group that had a fat-free mass increase of 2.1 kg after 12 weeks.

You said: "Creatine doesn't put muscle on you..."

One can't claim that the additional muscle experienced by the Cr supplemented group was due to increased intensity or workload; both groups performed the same routine.