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WHAT HAPENED WITH CREATINE LOADING 3 DAYS AND 4 DAYS OFF.HAVE ANYONE TRY THIS AND WHAT THE CONCLUSION

jim268 wrote:WHAT HAPENED WITH CREATINE LOADING 3 DAYS AND 4 DAYS OFF.HAVE ANYONE TRY THIS AND WHAT THE CONCLUSION

Speaking personally, it's still ongoing, but I can say that it will be the regimen I use for Creatine from now on. I've made gains every workout since beginning as I generally did with the old way of taking it, but I also have no fear of the body acclimating to the creatine. I believe if we tested it side by side with the traditional "load and maintain" group the 3 on 3 off (or 3 on 4 off) group wouldn't eventually drop off as the others would after awhile.

Hi,.Creatine is actually a nutrient that is formed naturally in the body. It is amino acid based and is created by the amino's already in your body that you get from the food you eat. Creatine is present in the highest amounts in red meat.
Creatine is considered quite safe and is classed by the FDA as a food supplement.

I'm still deciding. I like the 3 days of not paying attention to taking the stuff.
20 grs a day in pieces is difficult, I don't care who has a great method, it still requires more attention than my previous way of 5gr before and after workout.

But the idea that my system has been given a rest for 3 days is nice.
But I also think I'm doubling for 3 days the dose from 10gr.
So I am mixed on this. I am planning on looking up the 2 studies that Mark quotes.
If the science says so, then I will follow that.
It's not a matter of it being a safe food supplement (well, kinda is) its a matter of is it helping get more reps?

Anyone try this and have any results to share?

I would be very suprised it there was. Mark originally tried this himself and saw no difference. Since he did his blog post asking for a bunch of people to give it a try nothing more has been said, so my guess is it made no difference. Here is a link to Lyle McDonalds forums where they discuss this very topic and how it really does not hold up. http://forums.lylemcdonald.com/showthread.php?t=4703

Good to know...thanks. I will keep that off of my list of things to experiment with.

The benifits to creatine is to reach saturation and stay there. When you body is fully saturated with creatine you are reaping all the advantages. People use to think you had to give your body a break and cycle off creatine but that has now been proven to not be the case and people just go on it and stay on now. Considering how cheap creatine monohydrate is at 5g a day its probably one of the cheapest and most effective supplements you can take.

Let me just start by saying i'm a huge fan of Creatine. For me it is without doubt one of the best supplements you can buy, and it's cheap too. For anyone who has ever taken a supplement and wondered if it was doing anything that just doesn't happen with creatine. Take and within a week you will start getting stronger, simple as that. However the throughts of loading 3 days a week and stopping for 4 days would not appeal to me. I always find the loading phase hard on my stoamch. Cramps and a fear of wandering to far from the nearest tolite would be too much to bear week after week. Once the loading phase is over (5 days) i'm grand and lifting more than i did the week before. Another point i would make is not to stay on it for long periods of time and my reasons have nothing to do with it being good or bad for you, they are as follows. Pushing for new strength is as much a psychological barrier as a phyisical one. Creatine will make you stronger but lets say you come of it after 2 months for, lets say 2 or 3 weeks. You won't want to get weaker, in fact you will push harder and harder to keep lifting the same because that is what you have got mentally used to lifting. This will force your body to become stronger with out the creatine. Then after your 2 or 3 week creatine break, you go back on it. Guess what happens, you get even stronger still, because not only do you expect the creatine to work, but it really does. This is a great way to stop plateaus.