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2004/08/05, 02:28 AM
how much times a day do i take creatine after loading?
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2004/08/08, 08:55 PM
Wow, did you write that all in one sentence? I'm not going to make this comment long as there are 100 other posts to go through. The health issue with creatine is the lack of water. Drink enough water, creatine has no health issue. Past issues were due to lack of research.
Now, to answer your question. Personally I take 10g per day after load. Use what works for you as this question is very debatable. Some believe you should take specific amounts based off your weight. I don't think it matters considering the
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2004/08/08, 08:58 PM
Internet hiccuped in the middle of that. To complete the sentence I said, "I don't think it matters considering the absorption rate. Well, longer thatn expected, hope this doesn't confuse you :)."
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2004/08/08, 10:48 PM
How big are your biceps currently? They are going to be proportioned to the rest of your body. Go to failure every set and keep your # of reps low for mass. Use shocking methods when you hit a plateau. My biceps tend to grow immediately after breaking a plateau on chest, back, and legs using different shocking methods. All your muscles will grow through patience and the use of shocking methods to stimulate new growth.
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2004/08/10, 10:35 PM
You can shock your muscles by training with more weight than usual, doing more reps and/or sets, speeding up your training, cutting down your rest time between sets, doing unfamiliar exercises, doing your exercises in an unfamiliar order, or by using different techniques. Here are a few techniques that I use which I read in one of Arnold's books. Keep in mind that to shock the muscles there has to be a change. If you always put the same kind of stress on the body, in the same way, it gets used to this, and even very intense training will have less response.
Forced Reps - Use fairly heavy weight and go to failure in the set. Pause, letting the weight hang for just a few seconds. Then force out an extra rep. Or you can use a spotter to force out more but then you rely on them knowing how much to spot you.
Partial Reps - When you are too tired to complete full-range-of-motion reps continue by doing partial reps.
Isolation Training - A good example would be to do dumbbell flys instead of barbell bench press. This isolates the chest muscle.
Negative Reps - Always bring the weight down very slowly. You can accomplish this better by having a spotter help you get the heavier weight up then bring the weight down very slowly.
The cheating method - This doesn't mean doing sloppy technique. A good example is biceps. After doing maybe 6 reps strictly you become tired. You can accomplish another 4 - 5 reps by cheating the weight up. Do not swing the weight, slowly bring it up helping with the shoulders and back slightly.
Heavy-Duty Method - Instead of gradually increasing weight, warm-up, and go right to the heaviest weight you can handle with strict reps. Say you can do strict Dumbbell curls with 30 pounds, rather than slowly working up to that weight, do a light warm-up set and then immediately pick up the 30 pounds and do your normal amount of reps and sets with that heavy poundage.
There are many more which you can research such as staggered sets, priority principle, supersets, stripping method (my favorite), and many more.
Oh, and no reason for me to laugh. I'm more than happy to help :big_smile:.
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2004/08/10, 11:33 PM
Apt? its ATP acording to my human anatomy class, and it has nothing to do with nuts or whey man, its a kinda of broken down engery from glucose. Which ios the "drive shaft" used by all body cells. However on in limited reserves,4-6secs worth, just enough to get you going. It must be regenerated as fast as being broken down. And is regenerated with the help of interaction of ADP with creatine phosphate, from stored muscle glycogen( aerobic respiration) and ana erobic respiration.
And on another note, theres only like 2g of creatine in like 1lb of meat........so krystyfer EAT UP!
as for the orgainal question, I don't load mine, i take 5g before I work out, and 5 after. On none workout days i take 5g in the morning if that at all.
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2004/08/11, 02:05 PM
baskey,
This is not the case as you get older. The body produces less and less creatine the older you get which is why the supplement exist.
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2004/08/11, 04:26 PM
This is in fact very true. Creatine is but to supplement declining supplies by your system(the liver).
You can though build a fine physique at any age without it. I am 52, and do fine without it, even in competition. It will simply help increase your explosiveness, you will be able to use a greater amount of weight, and this should be where the gains come from. Heavier weights, more intensity, thus more gains. It is a cell volumizer, so water is essential to it working properly.
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baskey,
This is not the case as you get older. The body produces less and less creatine the older you get which is why the supplement exist.
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2004/08/11, 06:44 PM
baskey,
Thank you for the compliment :). Yes bb1 is a very good example of why supplements (other than protein) are not necessary.
The pictures you see of me are last years pictures. Never once took creatine until this year. It is not necessary to use creatine, especially at a very young age. Diet is at least 95% (if not more) of the muscle we make, so creatine will not push me much further if at all, but it will not hurt either.
Thanks again baskey! :big_smile:
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