so i am clean bulking only trying to ain like 2-4 lbs monthly. i am in my third week nd today i weighed myself. the two weeks i gaineed .7, nd 1 lb. so i go and weight myself where b4 i was 172.6 and i ssee the scale nd it says 177.8!!!!!!! WTF!!! i am eating clean like other weeks nd doing cardio too. is it the water weight from creatine????? HELP!!!
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Thread: WTF....Creatine??!?
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06-02-2008, 03:39 AM #1
WTF....Creatine??!?
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06-02-2008, 03:41 AM #2
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06-02-2008, 04:26 AM #7
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creatine has the effect of drawing water in to ur cells thus volumizing ur muscles. thats why u need to drink a surplus of water when using creatine! but when u stop creatine the cells no longer have a more negative water potential and thus water is drawn from ur cells and lost from the body, thats why u experience a rapid decline in weights after stoping the creatine cyle
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06-02-2008, 05:43 AM #8
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06-02-2008, 05:47 AM #9
If you weigh yourself like that every single week, expect to see ridiculous fluctuation. You don't know exactly how much undigested food you still have in your intestines every time. You don't know exactly how much unpassed feces you have in your intestines every time. If you weigh yourself every single week and stress out about the numbers, you will put yourself through more trouble than it is worth. Your body is not going to grow in a smooth, linear pattern like that. Also, if you are gaining 4 pounds monthly know that it definitely will not all be muscle. Of course, when you are gaining muscle, it is also normal to add extra water and fat weight in order to maintain the same body fat percentage as you get larger.
Maybe some of it is from creatine, but from what i have seen, the water weight gain from creatine is largely exaggerated by teenagers who don't know what they're talking about. The gain should be basically minimal and certainly won't be more than a few pounds. One thing is for certain though, don't stress yourself out with the scale, especially not 2 weeks into your bulk. If you've been bulking for 3 months and you've lost weight, then there's a problem. But it is far too early to tell what is going on for someone in your situation. Whatever is going on is probably very normal and expected, so unless you look down tomorrow and see a 5.2 pound tumor in your buttox, i would simply not worry about it until you've actually been bulking for a reasonable amount of time.
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06-02-2008, 05:47 AM #10
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06-02-2008, 04:56 PM #19
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06-02-2008, 05:04 PM #20
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06-02-2008, 07:30 PM #21
its just initial water weight man... of courswe they are gonna stop... these aren't "gains" this is just extra water in your body... NOT MUSCLE. And cmon now think about it... if you kept increasing your weight that much each weak people who took creatine for years would be 1000lbs by now...
do yourself a favor and at least read some sort of article on creatine so you at least know what you are putting into your body.
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