<p>jlazz, my favorite is chocolate mint.</p>
<p>alright, I havn't read through too much here, but I saw some weird ****....first of all someone said get muscles the natural way? creatine is natural...if you dont eat creatine that means you dont eat red meat, basically. Second, it doesnt make you directly stronger, I could go into detail about atp and such but I will briefly say it speeds up and enhances recovery. Protein supps and creatine are perfectly fine, and many hs athletes take them. Runners take creatine alot...neither are looked down on as unofficially banned substances, even in high school. For a week you take 10 grams, usually once in the middle of the day and once after your workout...this 'loads' the creatine into your body...then you go to a 5 week 'maintenance' phase in which 5 grams will suffice, usually after your workout. People usually stop noticing effects after 6 weeks, many think its because our bodies have adapted...so you get off for a couple weeks and do it over again. Dont buy Celltech either, too expensive, get plain monohydrate and a lb of dextrose, mix together with kool aid in a milk jug and you got home made celltech! </p>
<p>My fav optimum 100 whey flavor is fruit punch :)</p>
<p>Creatine isn't just for powerlifters or whatever...its for anyone that works out and wants to look good. Mainly if you're bulking and trying to put on lean body mass, which is what I'm trying to do. </p>
<p>The supplements I safely recommend taking are Creatine, Whey Protein, Multivitamins, and Flax Seed Oil. You don't need any other supplements.</p>
<p>But before any of that..like I said before, get your diet in check. Make sure you're eating clean foods and 5-6 times a day without skipping meals. The biggest meals being breakfast, pre and postworkout. You taper off at night and I recommend drinking 2-3 glasses of milk before bed...I usually go through a gallon in a day. Cottage cheese before bed is good too...you want to have a slow digesting protein when you sleep, wakeup and down a protein shake and have your big breakfast.</p>
<p>CONSISTENCY....here's how it breaks down. Getting fit involve 20% working out, 80% Diet and supplementation, 100% consistency. You can have the perfect diet and workout plan, but if you're on and off about it, you will see minimal results. </p>
<p>Cottage cheese is good, if you dont like that you can always buy Casein protein powder for nighttime protein</p>
<p>Ferst..you forgot an important thing to working out...REST / Sleep - you need at least 8 hours of sleep and rest in your workout routines to fully recover or else you'll be overtraining and that'll definitel hinder gains</p>
<p>ahhh, the one thing that hinders my own performance...yes 8-10 hours of sleep is optimal as is not working out the same muscle every day...usually one muscle group a day should suffice. Big muscle groups like chest and legs can take up to 5 days rest to recover</p>
<p>no do not take creatine. it just adds water weight to your body for the most part, not real muscle, and most strength gains you get from it immeadiatley disappear after you stop using it.</p>
<p>Those anti-creatine in here are absolute idiots.</p>
<p>its true you will lose about 5 lbs of water weight once you stop cycling creatine, but the results dont go away...creatine increases the energy of your muscles by increasing the amount of ATP. ATP is fuel for your muscle...when you contract your muscle on a lift, the energy produced by ATP only lasts a few seconds, creatine increases regeneration of ATP in your muscles, thus giving you more energy. Water is stored in your muscles when you cycle creatine but that does not mean your muscle gains you obtained from increase energy or more power goes away with it</p>
<p>ATP regeneration also helps to curb massive glycosis, which...simply put is lactic acid build up in your muscle...and everyone knows reduced lactic acid lets you work out harder. </p>
<p>When you first start on creatine, you'll gain alot, maybe 15-20lbs in 6 weeks...after you stop your cycle you'll lose about 5 of that</p>
<p>Creatine is good if you want to gain weight. It basically adds water straight to your muscles, so when you take it you'll want to be drinking more water than average and as a result you'll be making more restroom breaks. You'll want to take creatine before and after your workout. After two weeks of use, I gained about 12 lbs (and I'm not a small guy to start off with). And of course if you take too much as the same goes with protein, the excess will turn directly into stored fat. So make sure you take the right amount.</p>
<p>If you are looking for something that will give you the muscle while staying relatively at the same weight, try Nitrix.</p>
<p>I would recommend NO-XPLODE over Nitrix, just because of everything else that NO has in it that Nitrix doesn't. but, i think we're throwing out too much information for the OP right now. He should stick with good diet, whey, creatine, fish oil, & multi-vitamin to begin with, then move up to the NO supplements & other more intense supplements if he wants.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.t-nation.com;%5B/url%5D">www.t-nation.com;</a> All you need to know about Lifting, Diet, Supplementation. Bodybuilding.com is inferior to this site in my opinion. The guy who said it is 20% Routine/Lift and 80% Diet was completely right. If you take Whey and Creatine and BCAAs and eat a **** diet you aren't going to get anywhere fast.</p>
<p>babad bad bad bad bad bad evil bad creatine</p>
<p>Alot of you guys are also missing the main benefit to creatine is not that is adds water weight increasing size, but that it allows the muscles to rebuild faster, thereby allowing you to work out harder and therefore produce bigger and faster gains.</p>