Creatine Citrate

[Bill Hartman]

Just a note to creatine users...

Recently I've noticed a great deal of radio advertising for the "new" creatine citrate (it's not new ).

The claim is that this was the original form that is supposedly better than creatine monohydrate. Whether it's the chicken or the egg...who cares.

The real issue is that it takes twice as much creatine citrate to provide the same amount of creatine found in creatine monohydrate. Check your volumes and the price. If it costs the same for the citrate version and you bought it, you've been robbed.

Bill

[Bond007]

Thanks for the heads up, bro!

[mm1snapper]

Originally posted by Bond007:
Thanks for the heads up, bro!

Hey i have been told that creatine hollows out your bone marrow and weakens your bone! is it true email me.

Thnx,
Matt

[Bill Hartman]

A buddy of mine used so much creatine that he is now completely hollow...his voice sounds like an echo!

You have been mislead my friend.

Bill

P.S. I've also heard that you shouldn't lift weights because you might accidentally get strong.

[Jean-Paul]

I don't want to lift those weights because I don't want to bulk up and look like those bodybuilders! I just want to have ripped abz like Brad Pitt.

(if I had a nickel for everytime someone posts that EXACT message on MH I would be rich!)

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[FishrCutB8]

Thanks Bill...

Quick, somewhat naive question: Is there any reason NOT to take creatine? Side effects?

[wingsfan]

since we're on creatine, CIB posted an article over at MH on creatine facts. one of the things it stated was that it appears that taking creatine after a workout is better than before a workout and that actually taking it before can cause "interference." here was my basic disagreement with that and if anyone got any good cites/studies/links to actually show that taking creatine before a workout is not good, please let me know:

i was thinking of this the other day. when you exercise, ATP decreases. Creatine essentially "re-fuels" the ATP, which is the energy/fuel to move muscle. as a book i was reading put it "creatine is like giving oxygen to a high altitude climber."

so then why is the best time to take creatine after the workout instead of before the workout? logic would say that if you took it before a workout, then you would have that creatine "fuel" available for the ATP "fuel", thus helping you get those last couple of reps out. creatine simply helps the resynthesis of ATP, which you need while you are working out, not after you are done. so it would seem that taking it beforehand would be more helpful than afterwards.