Lets say that I start taking creatine and then stop taking it after a while. What exactly happens to your muscles? I’ve heard horror stories but Im not sure if they were just bullshit. Anyone have any good or bad experiences after taking creatine for a while and then stopping?
Edit: Oh also, Is shaking it in a shaker bottle alright? Shaking rather than stirring that is (Obviously I’m new to the creatine scene). I don’t see why not but u never know…
They turn into fat!
Actually man, after using creatine, I’ve kept almost all of my gains, maybe a total of 2 pounds lost. I think people just stop training hard after it sometimes. Why would you stop though?
I only did when I was a young dude (16) thinking by the Bill Phillips’s methods.
I have to be off for about a week before noticing my muscles deflating ever so slightly. It’s small, but it’s there. I’ll lose anywhere from 3-5 pounds when off for about 2-3 weeeks.
Let’s just say… don’t ever stop taking it… you don’t want your muscles to turn into, well – nevermind.
if you never stop taking it you dont have anything to worry about
AFAIK essentially you just lose water weight from not having to use it to store excess creatine… there may also be a lapse in overall amount of work you can do, which you will spend the next short amount of time “gaining back” (eg your only real gains will be back to “before the stop”)… there’s no actual muscle massacre…
Creatine never dissolves that well in much anyway, and usually shaking dissolves a lot better than stirring. I have never heard of there being some bizarre reason for needing to stir, but it might exist… just beware that (apparently) creatine can begin to break down pretty fast if left in water.
[quote]Bizmark wrote:
Lets say that I start taking creatine and then stop taking it after a while. What exactly happens to your muscles? I’ve heard horror stories but Im not sure if they were just bullshit. Anyone have any good or bad experiences after taking creatine for a while and then stopping?
Edit: Oh also, Is shaking it in a shaker bottle alright? Shaking rather than stirring that is (Obviously I’m new to the creatine scene). I don’t see why not but u never know…[/quote]
doesn’t your cock fall off?
[quote]B rocK wrote:
Bizmark wrote:
Lets say that I start taking creatine and then stop taking it after a while. What exactly happens to your muscles? I’ve heard horror stories but Im not sure if they were just bullshit. Anyone have any good or bad experiences after taking creatine for a while and then stopping?
Edit: Oh also, Is shaking it in a shaker bottle alright? Shaking rather than stirring that is (Obviously I’m new to the creatine scene). I don’t see why not but u never know…
doesn’t your cock fall off?
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yep there have been numerous studies where this happens.
Creatine for the most part contributes to two areas. Cell volumization and ATP muscle cell energy. It can make your muscle swell with water a bit more then usual and it can give you the muscle cell energy to crank out one or two more reps.
When you stop supplementing with it you aren’t going to have any drastic negative effects as if one were coming off a steroid cycle with no PCT.
You still get creatine from food sources like meat and cheese. It is good to supplement with it for the benefits stated above however. There isn’t anything wrong with coming off or staying on.
Take care,
D
Read this:
http://www.T-Nation.com/findArticle.do?article=05-156-diet
Oh, and do anouther search for “creatine” and “barr” and you’ll turn up some other good info.
In today’s Washington Post there was an article about young athletes being safe in the summer heat. Amoung the tips was to hydrate more when supplementing with whey protein and creatine because they “may contain extra salt”. BULL. SHIT. Just anouther way to get the public freaked out.
DD
[quote]Devil0351Dog wrote:
Read this:
http://www.T-Nation.com/findArticle.do?article=05-156-diet
Oh, and do anouther search for “creatine” and “barr” and you’ll turn up some other good info.
In today’s Washington Post there was an article about young athletes being safe in the summer heat. Amoung the tips was to hydrate more when supplementing with whey protein and creatine because they “may contain extra salt”. BULL. SHIT. Just anouther way to get the public freaked out.
DD[/quote]
Creatine can dehydrate you if you don’t drink enough water, as it pulls water that would be in other parts of your body to your muscles. That advice was good and would help someone in that situation (not whey, but creatine) but it is not because it contains extra salt.
[quote]KombatAthlete wrote:
Devil0351Dog wrote:
Read this:
http://www.T-Nation.com/findArticle.do?article=05-156-diet
Oh, and do anouther search for “creatine” and “barr” and you’ll turn up some other good info.
In today’s Washington Post there was an article about young athletes being safe in the summer heat. Amoung the tips was to hydrate more when supplementing with whey protein and creatine because they “may contain extra salt”. BULL. SHIT. Just anouther way to get the public freaked out.
DD
Creatine can dehydrate you if you don’t drink enough water, as it pulls water that would be in other parts of your body to your muscles. That advice was good and would help someone in that situation (not whey, but creatine) but it is not because it contains extra salt.
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True. It was the comment about salt that got me pissed and that they lumped whey in there too. People are too scared of supplements and are worried about the wrong thing in their diets.
The 2 hotdogs I ate for lunch had a shitload more salt than the shake I had earlier, ya know? Personally though, I can’t recall ever being “dehydrated” due to creatine consumption, but then again I drink a lot of water.
DD