Creatine - anyone using it to enhance their meet performance?

If it is legal or OTC it ain't helping much, more of a placebo effect. Only drugs that are accepted into mainline use are slightly beneficial. Here are the phonies and hippie (Esalem) and "natural" drugs and their efficient medical counterparts: For sleeping problems or anxiety take passion fruit flowers or leaves tea, or eat lettuce or take some green tea or a warm cup of milk...if you really want to sleep or get rid of anxiety take some Valium, or any other benzodiazepine of your choice. For impotence problems you may eat quail eggs, rhinoceros husks dried and powdered (may be hard to find), eat oysters, various herbal teas. If you really want to solve your problem, get some Viagra or Cialis. Creatine falls in the in between cathegory, the stuff that isn't really a drug, but might help out. Such as Ginseng (got to be good Korean stuff), brazilian Guaraná (powder or pills, similiar effect of ginseng and/or coffee), coffee (american roast has more caffeine than others). These stimulants are okay, but the good stuff is the illegal stuff, the diet pills, the amphetamines, the ephedrines and so forth. Will stimulants make you swim faster? No, they just give you confidence and that might help. Will coffee make you swim faster? Probably statistically not, but it does help you concentrate more. I take a cup of strong coffee before I leave for my 18:30 (6:30 P.M.) practice. I drink coffee at the swim meet, and in between swims if there is some available. I drink coffee and eat chocolate when driving long distances, might be placebo, might be caffeine, but it helps. As for milk, why are you drinking that which belongs to the calf? Want calcium, eat cheese. The BIGGEST hoax ever, is the milk hoax, over 100 years of indoctrination by the milk producers. But I do take Latte because it tastes good, and will take a double expresso with whipped cream on top, if I may, billy fanstone :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: This thread has certainly reinforced my hatred of milk for the last few decades. No residual guilt left whatsoever. I do love cheese. Not sure the mold is good for allergies though. Donna: What did you do? Cold shower or giantic ice tub? I don't think I could do it. I have stuck an ankle and shin in a large bucket of ice water and ice and it was almost unbearable. But effective. The risk of water retention and other nasty side effects outweighs any possible benefits of creatine any day for me. But I'm sure there are many that disagree.

If it is legal or OTC it ain't helping much, more of a placebo effect. Only drugs that are accepted into mainline use are slightly beneficial. Here are the phonies and hippie (Esalem) and "natural" drugs and their efficient medical counterparts: For sleeping problems or anxiety take passion fruit flowers or leaves tea, or eat lettuce or take some green tea or a warm cup of milk...if you really want to sleep or get rid of anxiety take some Valium, or any other benzodiazepine of your choice. For impotence problems you may eat quail eggs, rhinoceros husks dried and powdered (may be hard to find), eat oysters, various herbal teas. If you really want to solve your problem, get some Viagra or Cialis. Creatine falls in the in between cathegory, the stuff that isn't really a drug, but might help out. Such as Ginseng (got to be good Korean stuff), brazilian Guaraná (powder or pills, similiar effect of ginseng and/or coffee), coffee (american roast has more caffeine than others). These stimulants are okay, but the good stuff is the illegal stuff, the diet pills, the amphetamines, the ephedrines and so forth. Will stimulants make you swim faster? No, they just give you confidence and that might help. Will coffee make you swim faster? Probably statistically not, but it does help you concentrate more. I take a cup of strong coffee before I leave for my 18:30 (6:30 P.M.) practice. I drink coffee at the swim meet, and in between swims if there is some available. I drink coffee and eat chocolate when driving long distances, might be placebo, might be caffeine, but it helps. As for milk, why are you drinking that which belongs to the calf? Want calcium, eat cheese. The BIGGEST hoax ever, is the milk hoax, over 100 years of indoctrination by the milk producers. But I do take Latte because it tastes good, and will take a double expresso with whipped cream on top, if I may, billy fanstone :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: This thread has certainly reinforced my hatred of milk for the last few decades. No residual guilt left whatsoever. I do love cheese. Not sure the mold is good for allergies though. Donna: What did you do? Cold shower or giantic ice tub? I don't think I could do it. I have stuck an ankle and shin in a large bucket of ice water and ice and it was almost unbearable. But effective. The risk of water retention and other nasty side effects outweighs any possible benefits of creatine any day for me. But I'm sure there are many that disagree.