Creatine Use in Weight Lifting

[Munkay]

Is your aim muscle mass or sculpting, or both?

A bit of both. Hopefully this will clearify:

My goal is not to be a hulking best. From prior conversations with my doctor (a former personal trainer before he went to med school . . . I got lucky :)) we discussed how much mass I could put on without putting strain on my internal organs. There really isn't a perfect answer for this, but when I said if 170 as a top range is good, he agreed that it shouldn't be a problem.

I've always been a small person, and I dont ever intend to be more than that. As I said to Chaerophon, I'm going for 'well defined fit guy' rather than 'hulking beast.'

Truthfully, my own personal goals are reaching 160, and then switching over into pure strength/endurance training (massive pullups, pushups, etc) so I can partake in sports like Rock Climbing, Gymnastics, Break Dancing, Carrying large objects long distances, just about anything I feel like doing.

I figure I will continue to gain weight, albeit much slower once I reach 160, leaving me hovering between 160-170 as a final weight.

I started this post originally for input about my own Creatine use, but since the start I've already shifted my feelings on it a bit. I plan on finishing the 20 oz's I have left without any 'uploading.' After that I'll (most likely) go back to regular weight training.

I still enjoy the input though, for as I mentioned I do want to do personal training, and the more experiences I can draw upon, and more possibilities I can offer to people intelligently, the better.

When my room mates and I tried to put on weight in college, we used protein powder.  And we ate a lot. (but not perhaps intelligently)  We also burned a hell of a lot of calories in a day.  Part of our problem was in eating three versus 5 or 6, meals a day.  Had a bit of trouble gaining "good weight" though when we went for pure intake, lots of milk and carbs and cheese and nuts and meat and everything, we'd put on weight.  It just wasn't the weight we were looking for.

I've never been able to put on any weight from eating. I suffer from an inability to eat consistently, due to an akward schedule at school. Some days I can down 4 massive meals or more. And then the next only really have time for 2 big ones and just a few snacks intermittently.

We did a lot of workouts with "negative resistance" to improve muscle tear down.  I'd say do it the old fashioned way, and build slow, but I am old.  :P

Negative resistance is a good way to go. Not everything old is bad. Well... Jury may still be out on a certain Rogue though. :P

What sort of diet regimen are you accompanying your pursuit of increased muscle mass with?  How you fuel the muscle while it repairs can have a significant impact on your ability to put on muscle mass efficiently rather than burning whatever you eat.

While at school I take protein suppliments since the meat here is rather bad grade. While at home on breaks I eat large quantities of red meat. There really is nothing better than a hearty meal of meat and potatoes, in my book.

Cheers,

Munk