Creatine Bulking and the outlash of the community
August 18th, 2009
Before Creatine
Today’s post I want to talk about a thread that I read on T-Nation.com. Read the full thread here.
The user posting has been trying to bulk up for about 2 months now. His main addition to his diet has been creatine. You can see the before and after pics in the thread or to the right.
Now obviously as mentioned in the posts 2 months is really not a long enough period for results. The user has put 14 pounds, no idea if this is just water weight from the consumption of creatine or actual muscle bulk. All the same this point is irrelevant to me here.
What I want to focus on is the responses the user got. If you read the post you can see all the negativity going on. People continually call the user names like, ‘Kid’ in a degrading fashion. In addition they continually stress how he is foolish for even asking for results after 2 months, etc.
After Creatine
It’s never made much sense to me why people on forums get so upset at people asking for feedback. The user obviously was asking if he was doing it correctly and if the creatine was working the way it should. He probably has no experience with it and just wants to make sure everything is going properly. Why would people get so angry at him?
Things like these now create another danger of creatine, peer pressure. People refused to offer constructive advice and just cut him down… hopefully he doesn’t feel the need to fight back against these posters by taking additional creatine to bulk even more. Everyone starts somewhere, please remember that if anyone asks you for advice with supplements!