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Originally Posted by Personality  Chimera Ive been told that creatine you only get big and fat i want to get big but ripped. ripped like brad pit in the film fight club as an example. |
The idea behind supplementing creatine is to saturate your muscles with extra creatine which can quickly be broken down and used to phosphorylate adenisone diphosphate (ADP) into adenisone triphosphate (ATP). The ATP-PCr (phosphogen creatine) system is used primarly in 5 - 15 second intense exercise (such as weight lifting). There are "gym rumours" that creatine will add on water weight, but I have not seen any of these supported by scientific research.
The hope with supplementing creatine is that by giving your muscles more sources of ATP, you will be able to give more forceful contractions prior to fatigue, and those extra contractions (maybe squeezing an extra repetition or increasing the weight a little) will give you increased muscle mass over time. Creatine will not make you big, nor fat; as those are heavily influenced by diet.
As far as looking like Brad Pitt from Fight Club, you will need to have your diet as well as training in tip-top shape, you can forget supplements. So in your first post it sounded like you wanted help bulking, but if your goal is to look like Brad Pitt then you will have to cut. Read this thread
here which is by Layne Norton towards pre-contest dieting, and even though you aren't aiming to step on stage this will bring you where you want to be.
Finally, if it is your goal to truly look like Brad Pitt... depending on where you are starting at in terms of bodyfat, expect to spend roughly 3 hours per day on your diet (cooking, preparing, packaging, and eating) combined with working out. And expect to do that for as long as 3 months, day in day out.
