Do I need to supplement everyday or do I just take creatine on workout days?
The effects you are after with supplementation are based on the accumulation of creatine within your muscle tissue. If you do not load it can take as long as 28 days for your muscles to reach their maximum levels, the point where you derive the maximum benefits of use. Supplementing only on workout days, while a common practice, will not be the most effective way to use creatine. Whether it has value at all is questionable. This practice is based on the belief that creatine will be readily available in muscle tissue post-supplementation. Therefore trainers take it only before a workout in an attempt to influence that workout. In fact, there is little evidence that taking it before a workout will immediately improve that workout. You must feed your muscles a daily dose for them to both maintain and increase to high creatine levels.
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