Is Creating loading worthless?

[Azure]

My roomate told me last night that the loading phase for Creatine is a bull**** marketing tactic, and that you will just piss any extra out of your body. He claims that say you should do it to just make you use more of it. Is this true?

[NoExcuses]

Read the stickys!!

Facts On Creatine

[BiggerGuns=LongerDrives]

Your buddy is pretty much right.
It's not needed, just take regurlarly and in 5 days time you'll be saturated and you wont lose excess creatine in the process.

[Azure]

You can however achieve the same results by not loading and only taking 5 grams a day and it will take about 21 days to achieve the same muscle saturation as the loading phase. The 5 day loading phase will just get you saturated quicker.

I did read them, and it is saying that said that it will saturate you faster by loading. My friend is saying that it wont saturate you faster, and that it's only a way to get you to use more...

[jlozan84]

loading isn't going to hurt you.........creatine mono is dirt cheap anyway. you are overthinking this way too much. all in all, it really doesn't matter that much.

[narcsarge]

Originally Posted by jlozan84

loading isn't going to hurt you.........creatine mono is dirt cheap anyway. you are overthinking this way too much. all in all, it really doesn't matter that much.

Quite right Jlo. Old school was that a loading phase was required to increase available creatine. Time and studies have shown that there is not a measurable difference if a person loads vs. a person that did not load.

[aikurushii]

You can only saturate something (in this case, muscle) 100%... unless you boil yourself or heat yourself in the big**s microwave.

[HammerTech]

Originally Posted by aikurushii

You can only saturate something (in this case, muscle) 100%... unless you boil yourself or heat yourself in the big**s microwave.

They don't make a microwave big enough for me...

[schmichael]

thats a macrowave!!

[vassille]

Creatine loading is not needed IMO
I've front loaded in the past and now I just take it after workouts only....Honestly I like the way I feel better now than taking it daily

I'm never tired in the gym...the stuff is awesome!

[hrpiii]

I moved away from creatine, never did much for me.


stranger: hey man, I bench 245lbs, how about you
me: I bench 450
stranger: I take creatine
me: I don't
...I walk away with beer in hand.

[liftnw8z]

Exactly. Nice story. LOL.

Loading is useless, only because creatine itself is useless.

[BiggerGuns=LongerDrives]

Originally Posted by liftnw8z

Exactly. Nice story. LOL.

Loading is useless, only because creatine itself is useless.

I only cycle it maybe once or twice a year and I do agree that Creatine may be overhyped, but it IS NOT worthless.

[musclesntx]

Originally Posted by hrpiii

I moved away from creatine, never did much for me.


stranger: hey man, I bench 245lbs, how about you
me: I bench 450
stranger: I take creatine
me: I don't
...I walk away with beer in hand.

Nah man, he said "215, 225", how about you? ANd you said "More than you" and he said "Well, I take creatine".

But I'm with you. I haven't taken it in quite a while.

[Renegade68]

I only use it for leg workouts.

[jlozan84]

Originally Posted by Renegade68

I only use it for leg workouts.

You need it with how sorry that squat is compared to your bench. As Ryan pointed out BTW. Props to Ryan.

[aikurushii]

Originally Posted by Renegade68

I only use it for leg workouts.

Must be worthless, eh? considering your squat's....

[musclesntx]

Originally Posted by aikurushii

Must be worthless, eh? considering your squat's....

Renegade, just STFU. You are now under lease to Aikisushi... Dude, we're going to have to slice you up and pass your no squatting @ss around to whoever wants a piece. I love it.

[musclesntx]

Originally Posted by jlozan84

You need it with how sorry that squat is compared to your bench. As Ryan pointed out BTW. Props to Ryan.

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