Thread: Creatine

I had a chest workout, and then drank a drink with the recommended serving of creatine monohydrate, and to be honest I'm feeling really overly pumped. Is this a normal feeling for the first time taking it?

Anyone else have a similar feeling like this on their first time taking creatine?

The recommended serving is I think two scoops post workout, which seems like a shitload of the stuff.

Its an advanced Creatine Monohydrate Blend from Muscle Tech called Cell-Tech along with all of these other weird carbohydrates and stuff.

It recommends 2 scoops after I work out but 1 scoop contains the 5 grams of Creatine I just noticed that.

Should I do what the container tells me, or should I just go 5grams now instead of 10. The loading phase recommends 2 scoops of creatine when I wake up and after I workout which is like 20 grams of Creatine a day. Glad I didn't do what it told me to in the loading phase...

I think it might have been these other carbs that were giving me pump as well, there might be sugar or something alike in it in a different form... heres the ingredients...

Ingredients: Each scoop 50grams contains: Pharmaceutical-grade dextrose, 5 grams of HPLC-tested pure micronized creatine monohydrate, calcium sillcate, naitural and aritifical flavours, malic acid, red beet powder, dipotassium phosphate, disodium phosphate, magnesuium phosphate, 100mg pharmaceutical-grade alpha lipoic acid colour.

Directions 1. For the first five days (loading stage): Take 2 scoops of Cell-Tech in the morning and 2 scoops twelve hours after or immidately after your workout. 2. Maintenance stage: Take 2 scoops of Cell-Tech, drink after your workouts or upon wakening on non-workout days.