Creatine use

hess51 · 09-06-2007, 10:17 PM

Should you take creatine before or after you lift? Does it matter?

**nni** · 09-07-2007, 10:04 AM

i always recommend pre workout.

PreMier · 09-07-2007, 10:29 AM

I always say post workout..

what kind of creatine are you taking?

nni why pre?

**nni** · 09-07-2007, 11:56 AM

makes more sense to me to load up your creatine stores before depleting them. not depleting them, the refreshing them

ideally i would say full dose pre workout, then a half dose post workout.

hess51 · 09-07-2007, 12:00 PM

creatine burst

**nni** · 09-07-2007, 12:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hess51

creatine burst

did you even read the question?

PreMier · 09-07-2007, 04:20 PM

but if your muscles are already saturated with creatine.. how can more get in there?

Post workout you can do it with an insulin spike, where it shuttles the creatine into the muscles more effectively.. along with some R-ALA then you have the best combo there IMO.

**nni** · 09-08-2007, 09:08 AM

same works creatine. how to you know you are saturated pre workout? you dont. so taking pre makes sense, as well as a dose post to replenish.

PreMier · 09-08-2007, 09:44 AM

you dont know if your saturated.. but if your taking it every day, and you havent done any strenous activity to use the creatine and atp stores, then one would think that the levels would be at a high.

so really its all theory, unless there has been a case study? so hess i would try it both ways, and see what you prefer.. or wha tworks best for you

09-06-2007, 10:17 PM	#1
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PreMier happy sumo Elite Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 21,308 Photos: 2	I always say post workout.. what kind of creatine are you taking? nni why pre?
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09-07-2007, 11:56 AM	#4
nni Designer Supplements Moderator Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,228 Blog Entries: 1	makes more sense to me to load up your creatine stores before depleting them. not depleting them, the refreshing them ideally i would say full dose pre workout, then a half dose post workout.
	www.getds.com

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09-07-2007, 04:20 PM	#7
PreMier happy sumo Elite Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 21,308 Photos: 2	but if your muscles are already saturated with creatine.. how can more get in there? Post workout you can do it with an insulin spike, where it shuttles the creatine into the muscles more effectively.. along with some R-ALA then you have the best combo there IMO.
	P-side Inc. "the post-workout high is more profound than any drug-induced rush imaginable." -Dante B.

09-08-2007, 09:08 AM	#8
nni Designer Supplements Moderator Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,228 Blog Entries: 1	same works creatine. how to you know you are saturated pre workout? you dont. so taking pre makes sense, as well as a dose post to replenish.
	www.getds.com

09-08-2007, 09:44 AM	#9
PreMier happy sumo Elite Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 21,308 Photos: 2	you dont know if your saturated.. but if your taking it every day, and you havent done any strenous activity to use the creatine and atp stores, then one would think that the levels would be at a high. so really its all theory, unless there has been a case study? so hess i would try it both ways, and see what you prefer.. or wha tworks best for you
	P-side Inc. "the post-workout high is more profound than any drug-induced rush imaginable." -Dante B.

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