Anytime you can get a muscle cell fully volumized or expanded, that muscle cell is a lot more apt to grow after being stimulated by a hard workout. This is one of the many advantages that steroids provide, increased nutrient and creatine loading makes the muscle much fuller even if the lifter doesn’t lift. But……what if you, like most lifters don’t want to do steroids? Well you can at least volumize the cell and one of the simplest cheapest ways to do so is with creatine and or taurine.

Everyone knows what creatine is and does, but most people are clueless about how to make it work. Many years ago after I had tried creatine I saw an article by Charles Poliquin where he stated that many people respond poorly to creatine unless they use LOTS. And by that he meant 2-3 times what most manufactures recommend. The standard 25-30 grams a day for 5 days and 5 grams a day works very poorly for many people. And LOTS of these same people get great results by merely upping the dose to 15-20 grams a day as Charles suggested. And you know what? It truly works wonders for many people. Now that we have creatine ethyl ester there is much less reason to use that much and many trainees are getting great results, including many that don’t respond to any amount by using anywhere from 3-8 grams a day of CEE. Some of you are no doubt balking about having to take so much of either of these products, but they are both dirt cheap and what’s better, taking a dose that doesn’t do jack and saving a few pennies, or having something that can really help your training?

Many non-responders do AWESOME with taurine as their primary cell volumizer. Like creatine it is dirt cheap and if you have done creatine and found it did little for you, give taurine a shot, for many people it simply blows creatine out of the water with it’s ability to enlarge the muscle cell. What doses for taurine? 5 grams 3 x a day works great. I often have guys put on 10 lbs or so within week of starting creatine and taurine together. Sure it’s only water, but in the long run, having the muscle cell volumized WILL help it grow in response to heavy workloads and a sound diet.

Iron Addict

Creatine doesn't do a whole lot for me, but I do find that it does more when I stack it with Taurine.