Group: Health Supplements

Health Supplements
Created: 2012/01/01, Members: 102, Messages: 16613

Supplements can be a great aid with your health and fitness goals. Combined with the proper exercise and nutritional plan they can be quite effective.

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creatine cycle?

ady
ady
Posts: 25
Joined: 2001/11/13
Malaysia
2003/01/08, 10:03 PM
I've been through one week loading and continue for 3 weeks for maintainence.My coach said I have to stop a week and after that reloading again and repeat the cycle. I know some people said we don't need to cycle the creatine.What do you guys think?
bb1fit
bb1fit
Posts: 11,105
Joined: 2001/06/30
United States
2003/01/08, 10:25 PM
Cycling is a matter of preference I believe. I find that in the long run it may help. I don't think your timing as given is quite correct though. I think you can make gains for more than 3 weeks. 3 weeks is normally the amount of time to be off, letting your system dissapate all creatine stores, so when you reaload, you are "clean" of creatine. I feel it is more effective this way. You will experience an initial strength dropoff, but it will return upon reloading. Some people stay on it for quite a long time. I have myself stayed on it for 6-8 months before. There is no long term side effects of any kind.

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