Hormonal ups and downs ?!

[Markus]

Hi there,

Does this ever happened to you ?! You know...you're in the gym, every thing is fine for several months now. You grow and your weights get bigger and bigger every workout and you don't have any trouble getting IT up (yes you understand right). Now you say... I won't overtrain, so I take 1 week off every 2 months ! But one day.. BOOM everything is falling apart. You can't do the same reps with the same weight than last week. You don't want to train as hard as before... you are TIRED when you get out of the gym and...well...your newly made girlfriend just can't wait to see if you're a match to your physique, but you can't :S Test is low... energy depletion.. or body's own creatine production shutted down ?!

Anyway the point is that it is happening to me right now. I've notice this often happens when I stop creatine (to cycle) but I've always had that kind of hormonal ups and downs. Does anyone ever noticed this creatine side effect ?! I mean TOTAL lack of energy and drive..

Anyway ... bought some Tribulus to try help out but.. is it really potent ?! or will this only make my prostate grow to baseball size :P ?!

[PowerSwede]

Hi there,

Does this ever happened to you ?! You know...you're in the gym, every thing is fine for several months now. You grow and your weights get bigger and bigger every workout and you don't have any trouble getting IT up (yes you understand right). Now you say... I won't overtrain, so I take 1 week off every 2 months ! But one day.. BOOM everything is falling apart. You can't do the same reps with the same weight than last week. You don't want to train as hard as before... you are TIRED when you get out of the gym and...well...your newly made girlfriend just can't wait to see if you're a match to your physique, but you can't :S Test is low... energy depletion.. or body's own creatine production shutted down ?!

Anyway the point is that it is happening to me right now. I've notice this often happens when I stop creatine (to cycle) but I've always had that kind of hormonal ups and downs. Does anyone ever noticed this creatine side effect ?! I mean TOTAL lack of energy and drive..

Anyway ... bought some Tribulus to try help out but.. is it really potent ?! or will this only make my prostate grow to baseball size :P ?!

Well, i never cycled creatine, i just keep taking it with a reloading phase every six weeks, why would you want to cycle creatine? It's not all that expensive.

Tribulus will help if it really is your test that is low (even at your young age), you should get some blood work done to see what it really is.

I'd take KS Attack before trib though. (shamelessly trying to get everyone else to try it out before i do :D )

[Markus]

Well, i never cycled creatine, i just keep taking it with a reloading phase every six weeks, why would you want to cycle creatine? It's not all that expensive.

cycling creatine isnt about money but efficiency ...right ?! don't you lose the extra "edge" when taking it year long ?!


I'd take KS Attack before trib though. (shamelessly trying to get everyone else to try it out before i do :D )

lol well better test it on other to stay safe and out of harms way ;) anyway was thinking about it...pretty sure it's my workload/stress... i mean... i wake up at 4h30 am and come back from work at 4h30 pm :P ah could use a break

thx ! gonna do a search on that ks attack thing

take care

Markus

[gaberox]

There really is no need to cycle creatine.Maybe your just working out too hard too often.I go through the same thing where I think Im invincible and am
making great progress and decide to push harder thats where Im at rite now
except last nite I had a very dissapointing work out just didnt have the same
energy or strength so I decided to take the next few days off.today was supposed to be a back and shoulders day.But the first sign of overtraining is
decreased energy and performance strength.Im interested it trib myself but
dont really want to mess with my hormones.If you try let us know how it goes.I havent been able to find much feedback on it.

[PowerSwede]

cycling creatine isnt about money but efficiency ...right ?! don't you lose the extra "edge" when taking it year long ?!

Not for me, i have been using it for several years without stopping, i lost count of how many years but it's more than three now.

Creatine works by saturating your muscles with... creatine. You have ~3,5g of creatine/lb of muscle weight without supplementing it, when you saturate your muscles you have ~5g/lb of muscle weight, if you supplement it for years you are still going to have those same ~5g/lb of muscle weight.




lol well better test it on other to stay safe and out of harms way ;) anyway was thinking about it...pretty sure it's my workload/stress... i mean... i wake up at 4h30 am and come back from work at 4h30 pm :P ah could use a break

Actually i wouldn't mind taking it if i was sure that it wouldn't get banned anytime soon, i am to old to go through something like that again. Stress and lack of sleep almost always leads to overtraining, my workout sessions are very intense but very short, 30-40 minutes max.


thx ! gonna do a search on that ks attack thing

take care

Markus

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