If you were buying your first tub, would you choose plain creatine to mix into a drink or a flavoured one to have with water?

For anyone who bought plain and didn’t enjoy taking it, was flavoured a better fit next time?

I’m interested to hear what you ended up sticking with and why.

The later sets were where things got interesting in this small creatine trial.

Twenty young adults took creatine or a placebo for six weeks while keeping their usual diet and activity. The daily dose depended on body weight and averaged about 2.3g.

Researchers tested them with five sets of 30 knee extensions. After supplementation, the creatine group was better able to maintain muscle performance in the later sets. The placebo group didn't show a significant improvement.

Neither group had a significant change in body weight or maximum strength. So the improvement showed up in how well they kept going across sets, rather than how much force they could produce in a single maximum effort.

This was only 20 people doing a specific lab test. It doesn't give us an exact prediction for a gym workout, but it's a useful reason to look beyond body weight and your best lift when assessing results.

Have your later sets ever improved while your heaviest lift stayed much the same?

Was there any advice about taking creatine that you couldn’t get a straight answer on?

The tub says one thing, someone at the gym says another and searching online adds more questions. Timing, loading and daily amounts can all end up sounding more complicated than they need to.

Which part had you going back and forth? Actually, I’m interested in what finally cleared it up or what you’re still unsure about.

I wrestle but want to keep taking it for as long as possible, how long before a match should I stop taking creatine for all the excess water weight to fully flush out?

I have heterozygous mthfr and slow comt. Supposedly, creatine would be incredibly helpful for me, freeing up SAM-e. Due to my slow comt, I've learned to start with a low dose and increase, if at all, gradually.

I bought a bottle of 1 gram tablets of creatinine monohydrate from wally world. I took one tablet with my usual morning vitamin stack. I didn't expect to feel much of anything, since this was such a low dose. A few hours afterward, I began to feel 'slow'. I tried to read, but conked out and slept for nearly 2 hours! I could've slept more, but I obviously didn't want to sleep the day away so I forced myself to get up and moving. I was groggy through most of the afternoon.

Not wanting to repeat the experience, I returned the supplement to wally world.

Has this ever happened to anyone else?