Cut Creatine?

[pt923]

I would like to here some thoughts on how creatine should be used during the last week before contest. Do you drop it because you hold water and when do you cut it? Or would you keep it all the way through the show because I've heard that the water is in the muscles not underneath the skin?

 

[brocksamson]

i dropped it two weeks before my show in 2008 and noticed a significant difference in the water that i was holding under my skin. I would drop it sooner than a couple days out

 

[pt923]

i dropped it two weeks before my show in 2008 and noticed a significant difference in the water that i was holding under my skin. I would drop it sooner than a couple days out

Did you think your muscles still looked full and not flat? I know its probably not going to matter much, and I don't really want to make a big deal out of creatine, and your body might look close to the same either way, but another thing that could be close is 1st place and 2nd place.

 

[pt923]

I would really like to know what other people think about this and what you guys have done in the past. I'm not a natural bodybuilder, but I do think that creatine does have some benifits for bodybuilding; I just don't know when to or if I should stop its use during prep for show.

 

[BigTazz]

Anytime I have used it, I dropped it 2-3 weeks out. You will drop a good amount of water as soon as you do stop taking it and I like to give myself sufficient time before the show.

 

[pt923]

Anytime I have used it, I dropped it 2-3 weeks out. You will drop a good amount of water as soon as you do stop taking it and I like to give myself sufficient time before the show.

Did you think you still looked full for the show or did it just come out from under the skin?