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FitnessFrk
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some say daily. I say only on training days post workout, this is the optimum time for the creatine to be delivered to skeletal muscle with the aid of a high GI transport system. Since one of the major benefits of creatine is it's aid in restoring ATP stores, the Krebs Cycle and in lactic acid buffering there is really no need to take it on non-training days.
Check out www.absolute-creatine.com. Its rather informative and contains some relatively new information. It actually recommends taking creatine about an hour before your workout.
captaintude
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I found after taking a few bottles, that
1. taking it with grape juice made me want to puke(and actually did a couple times) and
2. that after a few bottles painfully taken with grape juice, on a whim I tried it with grapefruit juice, and got better results.
Don't know why, or it if it was just mental, since it didn't make me want to puke, but I had more energy, and felt like I was getting better pumps leading me to believe better absorption by the ole body.
I would take it everyday, didn't worry about the loading phase, I would just take it once in the morning, and then about an hour before working out. I would also nuke my juice so that it was room temperature before adding creatine and drinking, I think trying to slam it down before the creatine could settle to the bottom when the juice was cold, helped make me puke. Didn't have that problem when I warmed it up with the grapefruit juice, although taking it with grape still did.( I like grape juice, but drinking it fast is something my body just did not like at all)
of course your weight may dictate how much ya wanna take, but I only took twice a day and my weight was 230 last time I took it, and I think the recommendation dosage is about twice that, so you may have to experiment with what your body responds to...
Hope this helps.
1. taking it with grape juice made me want to puke(and actually did a couple times) and
2. that after a few bottles painfully taken with grape juice, on a whim I tried it with grapefruit juice, and got better results.
Don't know why, or it if it was just mental, since it didn't make me want to puke, but I had more energy, and felt like I was getting better pumps leading me to believe better absorption by the ole body.
I would take it everyday, didn't worry about the loading phase, I would just take it once in the morning, and then about an hour before working out. I would also nuke my juice so that it was room temperature before adding creatine and drinking, I think trying to slam it down before the creatine could settle to the bottom when the juice was cold, helped make me puke. Didn't have that problem when I warmed it up with the grapefruit juice, although taking it with grape still did.( I like grape juice, but drinking it fast is something my body just did not like at all)
of course your weight may dictate how much ya wanna take, but I only took twice a day and my weight was 230 last time I took it, and I think the recommendation dosage is about twice that, so you may have to experiment with what your body responds to...
Hope this helps.
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riskybizz007
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absorbed into the muscle you just exercised sounds like b.s., creatine is more absorbed after a workout b/c of glycogen depletion. And is further enhanced if you take it w/ dextrose/protein for the insulin spike.
