"Creatine is golden. It gives you more energy to lift which makes you bigger, faster and stronger. As of now, their are no know risks. Spectics think their maybe long term affects because Creatine has only been on the market for a couple of years, yet these people are clearly wrong." Menlo Student, 18

"I couldn't tell much of a difference. It might help a little bit so I will probably take it during the off season." Menlo Student, 17

Creatine is found throughout the body in red meat tissue. Creatine helps provide energy to muscle building cells. Creatine can be taken by eating food such as some red meats or fish as well as a synthetic form. Creatine increases muscle strength, provides more energy and fills the muscle cells with water to make an athelete look "large". Creatine also creates more ATP, your bodies energy sources, which allows the muscle to recover in less time so you can workout more and become bigger. Similerly, with more ATPs, an athelete could be more effective by having a higher intesity workout. The body can only store up so many ATPs. Therefore, if all the ATPs are used up at practice, their would be nothing left to go towards lifting in the gym. This would make an athelete smaller in size; therefore, if the athelete took Creatine he or she could maintain the high intensity energy at practice as well as in the gym; therefore, size wouldn't be lost.

Two phases exsist when taking Creatine, a loading phase and a maintnance phase. In the loading phase, you take one teaspoon of Creatine four to six times a day with water or juice, or you can dounle the amount and take two teaspoons of Creatine two to four times a day. An athelete will do the loading phase for five days. Then, once the loading is complete, an athelete will focus on the maintnance phase which is one teaspoon one or two times a day. This is a safe way to get very big in the weightroom, with no side affects. Nevertheless, an athelete should only take the recommended dosages for optimal preformance. (Strength and Size with Creatine)

Creatine enhances muscle by two means: muscle volumizing as well as protien synthesis. In muscle volumizing, allows for fluid to go into the blood stream, which increases miuscle growth. In protien synthesis, Creatine allows for increased muscle energy capacity. These two traits of Creatine allows one to become bigger. (4Creatine.com)

When the goal is to get as big as possible in the schortest amount of time, Creatne is the ultimate fix for you. If this is your problem, it will ultimately lead to you success. As well as building muscle mass, and increased speed, no reason exsists not to take it. Similarly, your strenght and power would improve which would ultimately lead to you becoming a better athelete. If you are a football player, strenghth and power are at the heart of your competition. Although you can achieve the same results by not using creatine, it takes a lot more reps and much more time, because more isn't always better. More reps and more weight always causes a greater risk for injury which is never desired.

Since Creatine is so new to the market, I was unable to find any tables and charts.

Strength and Size with Creatine: This qarticle addressed the benefits of Creatine. It discussed how Creatine works and it discusses the loading and maintnance phases as well.

www.4Creatine.com: This website discussed how Creatine worked. It discussed how Creatine was a muscle volumizer and a protien syntheser. These two ways allow one to become big.

http://www.gnc.com/index.html: This is a health store where you could get state of the art information and buy the product.

www.creatine.com: This website discussed how Creatine worked, and addressed questions and answers for worried consumers. It also discusses the affects it will have on teens and women.