Creatine will help your muscles store more water which will make you look bigger and puffier. The added water weight will make you heavier, but only temporarily. Once the water is gone, the weight is gone.
Yes, but you’ll get a little thicker in the middle as well. What a lot of professional body-builders do is they’ll bulk up for months and get as big as they can with the help of weight-gainers. Then, a few weeks before the competition they’ll stop the weight-gain and concentrate on cutting down. They lose some of the muscle size, but in the end it seems to be the best balance of size and trim for them. So now you know, those body-builders don’t look that perfect all year round. Anyway, yeah, it will help you gain weight.
Creatine is pretty cool stuff as it help your cells utilize water more efficiently. Water brings all the good stuff in and takes all the waste products out and it does it without making you hold water subcutaneously which would make you look puffy or bloated.
The good news is it has very few side effects. Increased acne is one of them, but it doesn’t seem to have that effect on everyone. It can also cause diarrhea. If you get diarrhea from it you are taking too much. In fact most of the labels tell you to use wayyy too much. I weigh about 220 and I usually take half of what the label says or less.
It will also help you shorten your recovery periods.
It will help you gain a little weight, but that weight will go away as soon as you stop using it and to get the best results you need to cycle off it after eight weeks or so, or the benefits will start to subside.
If you use it to help shorten your recovery periods and you work out harder as a result and gain more muscle, then of course you get to keep that extra muscle.
Not everyone needs more creatine. If you eat a lot of red meat already, extra creatine might not do all that much for you as you are probably getting enough in your diet already.
If you are a vegan or eat a lot of chicken and fish and not red meat, then you might get some cool results from creatine for a while and it’s relatively cheap to buy so I think it is worth a shot.
Creatine, wont physically put weight on you due to its nature as a combination of three amino acids
Arginine, Glycine and Methionine, in a sense they have less than a calorie per gram. However creatine will help you convert ADP to ATP, (the energy provider while working out), faster which will allow you to get a bonus of extra strength and extra reps vs failure, which can aid in hypertrophy and muscle growth. Creatine also will draw water into your muscle cells which will volumize them, and will make you gain a good 5-10 lbs in a few days, however when you stop taking creatine the water weight will unfortunately come off. Try to take creatine ethyl ester or creatine hydrochloride instead of monohydrate to avoid kidney problems.
Also make sure you drink lots of water a gallon + a day
Creatine will help your muscles store more water which will make you look bigger and puffier. The added water weight will make you heavier, but only temporarily. Once the water is gone, the weight is gone.
Yes, but you’ll get a little thicker in the middle as well. What a lot of professional body-builders do is they’ll bulk up for months and get as big as they can with the help of weight-gainers. Then, a few weeks before the competition they’ll stop the weight-gain and concentrate on cutting down. They lose some of the muscle size, but in the end it seems to be the best balance of size and trim for them. So now you know, those body-builders don’t look that perfect all year round. Anyway, yeah, it will help you gain weight.
Creatine is pretty cool stuff as it help your cells utilize water more efficiently. Water brings all the good stuff in and takes all the waste products out and it does it without making you hold water subcutaneously which would make you look puffy or bloated.
The good news is it has very few side effects. Increased acne is one of them, but it doesn’t seem to have that effect on everyone. It can also cause diarrhea. If you get diarrhea from it you are taking too much. In fact most of the labels tell you to use wayyy too much. I weigh about 220 and I usually take half of what the label says or less.
It will also help you shorten your recovery periods.
It will help you gain a little weight, but that weight will go away as soon as you stop using it and to get the best results you need to cycle off it after eight weeks or so, or the benefits will start to subside.
If you use it to help shorten your recovery periods and you work out harder as a result and gain more muscle, then of course you get to keep that extra muscle.
Not everyone needs more creatine. If you eat a lot of red meat already, extra creatine might not do all that much for you as you are probably getting enough in your diet already.
If you are a vegan or eat a lot of chicken and fish and not red meat, then you might get some cool results from creatine for a while and it’s relatively cheap to buy so I think it is worth a shot.
Creatine, wont physically put weight on you due to its nature as a combination of three amino acids
Arginine, Glycine and Methionine, in a sense they have less than a calorie per gram. However creatine will help you convert ADP to ATP, (the energy provider while working out), faster which will allow you to get a bonus of extra strength and extra reps vs failure, which can aid in hypertrophy and muscle growth. Creatine also will draw water into your muscle cells which will volumize them, and will make you gain a good 5-10 lbs in a few days, however when you stop taking creatine the water weight will unfortunately come off. Try to take creatine ethyl ester or creatine hydrochloride instead of monohydrate to avoid kidney problems.
Also make sure you drink lots of water a gallon + a day
Good luck