ORIGINAL: Master Of Puppets
i heard NO2 was bad. creatine just retains water, but it also helps a little with short sprints. i would just say to eat a lot of food and lift hard. maybe make a homemade weight gainer...
Never base a decision on a "I heard that...." Wrong information easily get passed along this way. Sometimes the best healing and growth of ourselves is provided at the amino acid level. A connection at this level has it priorities just like a living mind has its priorities to its living body. It all depends on if you respond to said product and its design on how it is was engineered to work.
STAY AWAY FROM THE WEIGHTGAINER! Do not consume...... I dont think it is needed to put on quality mass.
ORIGINAL: edwhobbs
creatine is a good supplement, but i would not go with it for a size gain, and if he takes it he needs to stop taking three weeks before his football practices get intense, i did not do this, and full body cramps SUCK. For some if not most people who are on creatine, me included, creatine has a tendency to make you cramp up more.
Why not for size? Creatine is a great building block for starting the first phases of building muscle.
I would say that something else wasnt lining up for you and stomach cramps were the result. Perhaps not getting enough water before/during/after practice. Nutrtion could have been off. But if you use creatine while working hard under the sun and heat of preseason foobtall, saturating yourself with liquids before practice is not a wise decision. Take your creatine with a good amount of water, then before practice, drink a 2.5 serving gatorade or equivilent. You will want to keep you electrolights in balance during the mental/physical/emotional stess.
Riggsjr: My suggestions and input. 17 yrs old, very resilient and powerful but not very wise due to his continuing physical/emotion growth process. So he will be able to burn almost everything you feed him nututionally. However try to stay away from the less efficient foods like the protein bars. I dont suggest this unless absolutly necessary. As the ingrediants are not the best.
Old Navy has some valid points. Red meat has a lot more fat than a chicken weighted the same size before cooking. Eat red meat sparingly.
How many carbs does he get during the day? Simple sugar and complex?
To live by supplement list:
Antixoidant (vit c, vit e, green tea, cinnamon, cocoa)
Multi Vitamin
Fish Oil or Flax seed oil
Whey Protein ( 20-30gs a serving - first thing in morn, 1 hr before workout, immediately after, once more before bed)
Extra preformance supplements: (but require more maintenance & disicipline)
Amino Acid Based (creatine, NO, etc)
Positive Emotional Support from any one.
These Amino Acid Based supplements come in many difference forms, so personal research is required because if you are not optimized nutritional, mentallly ,emotionally, or receive positive feed back or have negative feelings. The product might not be able to do whats intended.
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Sorry for the long post...