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Creatine Anonymous
Creatine Phosphate.

I want to be more badass at rock climbing, mountain biking, and ultimate frisbee. Will this make that happen without shredding my liver/etc.?

inb4 hippie
>> Anonymous
OP here,

Btw, pic is not me.
>> Anonymous
Creatine is a very simple supplement that works but surely won't make you "more badass". All it does is help your muscles recover a slight bit faster.
>> Anonymous
Rock climbing you want to be as strong as possible at the lightest weight possible. Creatine makes your muscles swoll
>> Anonymous
I have given up all illusions of increasing my power to weight ratio by losing weight. I haven't lost more than 5lbs in over 4 years. Strength is the only way.

I read that creatine will give me extra energy, thus allowing me to work my muscles longer.
>> Anonymous
>>394765

Whats your size (height/weight) and how are you lifting (sets/reps/loads) to begin with? I'd like to see how you've been training first before saying go for it, because creatine is a supplement to hard work, not a magic pill. Perhaps this anon can point you to better exercise modalities
>> Anonymous
You want to be more badass at rock climbing, mountain biking, and ultimate frisbee?

GO ROCK CLIMBING, MOUNTAIN BIKING, AND PLAY ULTIMATE FRISBEE YOU STUPID HIPPIE
>> Anonymous
>>394774
5'6 205lbs, pretty cut
I do a 10x6 split, start my bench at 135lbs and work up to 250lbs
>> Anonymous
>>394795
oh and i do chest monday, back tuesday, legs wednesday, shoulder thursday, and arms friday, then sprint tabata on the weekend
>> Anonymous
>>394795

protip: you're not cut out to be a rock climber.

hell, i'm 6'2" 159# and I want to get down to 155# and see how I fair. I do some rock climbing, but mainly ice and mixed
>> Anonymous
>>394795

post pics or else you're fat.

5'10'', 150 pounds here.>>394813is fucking skinny
>> Anonymous
>>394823
kind of skinny, it all depends on how well I do this ice season. if I don't do well I can easily gain 10 pounds for more strength. trial and error my friend
>> Anonymous
>>394795
>>394800

5 feet 6 and 205 lbs?! Incredible. Creatine is totally inappropriate. I thought you'd be a skinny bastard already. You really need to cut down on your muscle mass if you want to get more badass at rock climbing. 205 lbs indicates to me that there's either 20+% body fat or ridiculous amounts of sarcoplasmic hypertrophy. I'd say 120-150 lbs is more appropriate for you height as a rock climber. Start eating a low carb diet like Atkins or South Beach and introduce a lot more HIIT. 3 days of HIIT sprinting a week. No more lifting until you cut your weight down to at least 180, just rock climbing and HIIT. Then start with more strength work. Don't worry about not getting any endurance out of your lifting, the conditioning should come from the rock climbing itself.

You need to sub out the 10x6's with something geared more towards strength. 6 reps should be 85% of your max, but I have a feeling that with 10 sets you're lifting more or less around 70% of your 1RM, or you're including your warm-up sets in with your work sets so I could be wrong. And the way you divide the workouts into body parts makes it seem like you're following a bodybuilder's routine, which would be totally inappropriate for a rock climber.

Start lifting when it's too cold or out of season to climb. A simple strength program like Rip's Practical Programming for beginners should suffice. Get your 1RM squat number up to 2x bodyweight and your 1RM weighted pull-ups to 1x bodyweight (ie if you weigh 150 lbs then you're attaching another 150 to your body), then begin some plyometric work. You want to be able to explode up the rock in some spots
>> Anonymous
Okay, OP back.
Other posters are fake.

I am 5'9", 180lbs, 32" waist, about 8-10% bodyfat.

I don't need verification about whether I'm built to be a climber. I regularly boulder around v7 and top rope 5.12 and up.

I climb to exhaustion (2-3 hours) 3 days a week and play ultimate frisbee 3-5 hours twice a week. I ride my bike a whole lot and do trails on weekend when time permits.

I absolutely fucking hate lifting weights and have noticed a large gain in muscle from bouldering instead. I only do some pull ups and tricep exercises after climbing.

I would post pics but I have no recent ones.
>> Anonymous
looking fake
>> Anonymous
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OP here.
Here's a pic that's a couple years old but relatively accurate. Ignore my loofah plz.
>> Anonymous
give up, you will never be muscular
>> Anonymous
you wouldn't happen to be from Portland...
>> Anonymous
Nope. Not from Portland.

Any advice /fit/ or should I just go straight for elephant testosterone?
>> PopularTripfagMaybe
>>394933


Forb?
>> Anonymous
>>394742
creatine won't help you
just do body-weight exercises
>> Anonymous
>>394999
>Forb?

What?
>> Anonymous
TROLL

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5'6 205 = fat as shit not even possible to be this size without being 30% fat i don't think even

supposed op pic is not 5'9 180 looks to be more like 5'9 150.....

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>> Anonymous
>>394742
use some bullshark testosterone.
>> Anonymous
OP back again.

Already said, these are not my dimensions:
>>394795

These are:
>>394895

The first picture in the thread is some black dude that comes up when you search for creatine, not me.

This is the only picture of me:
>>394933

At the time this photo was taken (about 2yrs ago), the absolute least I could have weighed was 175lbs. I haven't weighed less since early highschool. I weigh about 180 right now.

I'll tripfag next time to avoid random people posting that I'm Gimli Schwarzenegger.
>> Anonymous
>>395054
meh timestamp faggot......you are a liar that is not you.....you are a fat ass......
>> Anonymous
>>395119

Timestamp doesn't show anything other than some fag got inb4 me with some short fat dimensions.

Why would I double post with two different dimensions anyway? I would obviously give dimensions that are better than the fat guy.

If you look, all the posts that are actually me have punctuation after every sentence or fragment. The fake dude does not. Consistency. Get your detective bullshit off my internets.
>> Anonymous
OP is a fucking ginger, i know it because of the loofah, high rez picture and all the fuckin freckles

DON'T HELP THIS GINGER, HE SEEKS REVENGE ON HUMANKIND FOR HIS GINGERNESS
>> Proteinfag
You won't gain that much bulk + weight if you don't do a loading phase to begin with.
>> Anonymous
Just buy "training for climbing". If you're actually bouldering around v7 then the exercises you need to do are very climbing-specific. So campus boarding, fingerboard etc.
>> Sponge !!5qxfxHYSQxJ
Loading phase is a myth shut up
>> Anonymous
>>395174
Lolwut.

>>395190
I don't need ideas for exercising, I was wondering if creatine would be appropriate.
>> Anonymous
>>395233

The book also includes suggestions about supplements etc. My suggestion is that supplements aren't nearly as helpful as a more focused training regime.

Also, if you are leading ~5.12a then have you considered that you may be near your natural limit? We're not all Chris Sharma
>> Anonymous
>>395313
I'm probably close but I feel like I can step it up a little more. I can't do a one-armed pull up yet so I feel like my technique has surpassed my fitness. I want to flash the problems that I am having to work now.

I don't think I am getting very close to Sharma though, there's a pretty big gap between a 12 and 15.
>> Anonymous
>>395323

Again if we're talking strength then climbing-specific training is again helpful. You're a pretty advanced climber, so apparently (book again) your percentage of climbing should be about 65% against 30% of training and 5% of conditioning (stretching etc.).

Also, there's apparently about a year between the grades at that level. Maybe just patience? I really don't think supplements will be that helpful but idk