Cycling creatine

[New Jack]

Do you guys cycle creatine? I heard you should use it 2 months on, 1 month off. What would happen if you don't cycle it and use it straight through? Would you no longer make gains because your body's use to it?

 

[Liftbig]

i woulndt worry about it, i would take time off though. the way i do it is i just take creatine leading up to a meet for 5 weeks or so. i just buy one of the 20 serving cell techs and use one serving after each main workout a week. the funny thing is i used to take creatine religiously, but now that i stopped worrying about supplement BS i am getting stronger. l wouldnt worry about the supps as much as your training.

 

[natural-mike]

No need to stay on it constantly. Eventually you will become saturated and the benefits will trail off. I usually go 2 on 1 off.
One thing, for me at least, creatine screwed up my blood work I had done for a routine check up from the doctor. It threw my thyroid levels off. We tested my blood 2 more times after that once more to be sure there existed a thyroid problem, the test came back bad again. Then I came off for 2 months and re-took the test and it was fine. It was most likely the creatine, however, it just effected the blood test, I had no real symptoms of any thryoid problems..

Mike