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which creatine should i take to gain weight(18 year old)POLL

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Which Creatine will best suit my needs? (gaining mass)  

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  1. 1. Which Creatine will best suit my needs? (gaining mass)

    • Balance Effervescent Creatine (cheap)
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    • Gaspari Sizeon Max Performance (expensive)
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    • Inner Armour Creatine
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    • other (please specify and why i should choose :D)
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Phedder Veteran member

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The cheapest one, any Monohydrate, preferably micronised but doesn't matter too much. I will say the Effervescent isn't actually that cheap, it's mostly carbs and sodium to 'help deliver the creatine' and you actually only get 50 serves for your 1kg tub, whereas a 1kg tub of just pure creatine would give you 200 servings. However you're not going to gain huge amounts of weight off creatine, and you only gain weight off it through storing more water. It is very useful towards training though, one of the few somewhat proven supplements.

Brands like Eatme, Shotgun, Nutralife, Optimum Nutrition, Inner Armour etc offer basic Creatine Mono in decent amounts for a decent price and are trusted brands. Basically pick which amount/price/label you like best because they'll all be 99.99% the same product.

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bob26 Senior member

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Thanks phedder where can i get pure creatine from? on a completly different note i have had bad skin in the past, and i hear creatine can make skin flare up does anyone know about this?

that is what people that use AAS tell there girlfriend's when there skin flares up & they don't want them to know that they are using them.

They say "its this creatine hunny" :pfft:

http://www.shotgunsupplements.co.nz has shotgun creatine cheap man.

how long have you been training for ? have you made any gains as of yet?

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Just added a bit to my previous post, but I've never had issues with skin flare ups on creatine and I'm 19 so I suppose if it was going to happen it'd happen now. However as with most things people react differently, only way to find out for yourself is to try it haha.

Look around on http://www.punchsupplements.co.nz/ http://www.bodybuilding.co.nz/

and http://www.shotgunsupplements.co.nz/

All trusted nz suppliers with good prices and free delivery. They all have tabs for Creatine so just click and browse your options.

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SKD Junior member

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Thanks phedder where can i get pure creatine from? on a completly different note i have had bad skin in the past, and i hear creatine can make skin flare up does anyone know about this?

that is what people that use AAS tell there girlfriend's when there skin flares up & they don't want them to know that they are using them.

They say "its this creatine hunny" :pfft:

http://www.shotgunsupplements.co.nz has shotgun creatine cheap man.

how long have you been training for ? have you made any gains as of yet?

I will take you word for it :)

i have been going for about 6months and the last two months i have been trying to get serious i have changed my diet up a bit and have gained around 3kg i am around about 73kgs at 6foot

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bob26 Senior member

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Good stuff man, results come with good eating. 3kg is heaps!

I don't know if anyone on here has had really good results using creatine? I have found it to make no difference what so ever.

I think you would be better to by more food or protein powder with your extra $ man.

If you have unlimited funds then throw it in & see if it helps, not going to be any drastic changes there though man. Like for example if you you were to increase your calories by 500kcal a day you probably would get some changes pretty quick. :wink:

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SKD Junior member

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Thanks, thats partly my dilemma too many to choose from!

really? i have been told by my coaches it is a neccesity, i think i am going to try as i already am taking plenty of whey protein and see what happens. Would you recommend any other supplements for my needs?

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Bob makes a good point about diet being much more important than supplements. That's why they're called supplements, they support a good diet/training regime, don't expect them to replace one or the other.

But Creatine is one of the cheapest and potentially most effective supplements, you can get 3 months worth (500g at 5g servings a day) quite commonly for between $30-$40. That much isn't going to go very far on food over 3 months haha. I have read that some people don't have a specific receptor or enzyme (can't remember the details) that allows them to benefit from supplementing creatine, so for some it does have a nil affect.

Plenty of other topics on creatine, just use the search function and have a read. Probably a few discussions that you could learn from.

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Bob makes a good point about diet being much more important than supplements. That's why they're called supplements, they support a good diet/training regime, don't expect them to replace one or the other.

But Creatine is one of the cheapest and potentially most effective supplements, you can get 3 months worth (500g at 5g servings a day) quite commonly for between $30-$40. That much isn't going to go very far on food over 3 months haha. I have read that some people don't have a specific receptor or enzyme (can't remember the details) that allows them to benefit from supplementing creatine, so for some it does have a nil affect.

Plenty of other topics on creatine, just use the search function and have a read. Probably a few discussions that you could learn from.

I beleive the percentage is 30% for people that dont get any effect from creatine.

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Im using the Balance effervescent Creatine, it lasts for ages ive still got heaps left. It only cost me like 25 (30 at the most) bucks for a whole tub and free delivery off this site I use. Whereas the others cost like 120-150. Since your under 82kg all you need is one scoop.

It does the trick for me, im 17 and think it could be possibly flaring up my acne tho but the results are kinda worth it.

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PeterDolan Veteran member

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Hey man this site : http://www.sportnutrition.co.nz/shop/creatine/

I got the $30 in the top collum.

My skin has been low key for a year and a bit but in the past few weeks ive got a few on forehead and chin. I really hope its not the Creatine I guess you will have to take the risk and try it out.

It's called puberty :roll:

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Yeah-Buddy Member

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Hey deano whats your diet like and your routine? :D

diet - iv drip into his cephalic vein running down his bicep

routine -

monday: biceps

tuesday: biceps

wednesday: biceps

thursday: biceps

friday: biceps

saturday: biceps

sunday: biceps

LOL classic. Yeah dont take any advice from that idiot.

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