jack3d and creatine back from the gym

thegame

bought jack3d and bccas and creatine yesterday..took jack3d and one teaspoon of creatine 30mins before the gym and brought a bottle of bcaas with me to drink during the workout..started training and couldnt even get past 4 reps..maybe i had too much creatine..or maybe it was the jack3d..i had eggs before i went to the gym 30mins before..

would like peoples opinons on what i was doing wrong.

Dermighty

thegame wrote: »

bought jack3d and bccas and creatine yesterday..took jack3d and one teaspoon of creatine 30mins before the gym and brought a bottle of bcaas with me to drink during the workout..started training and couldnt even get past 4 reps..maybe i had too much creatine..or maybe it was the jack3d..i had eggs before i went to the gym 30mins before..

would like peoples opinons on what i was doing wrong.

Creatine is accumulative, so if you take 20g of it today it wont affect you 4 times as much as 5g, your body needs to store creatine, unlike caffeine etc which stimulates creatine doesn't. So if you'd just started taking creatine yesterday it'd have an almost zero effect.

Jack3d contains creatine, so why take it with creatine.

Just because you take a load of supplements before the gym doesn't mean they'll hit you like Red Bull does in the ads. Maybe you were lifting heavier than you should have, maybe you didn't recover from your previous workout, maybe you overloaded yourself with food and supplements and your body was busy dealing with that :P

john_cappa

Creatine has no acute effect so does not need to be taken pre-workout can be taken anytime. Creatine did not cause the issue anyway.

Jack3d doesnt give enough of a pump in order to inhibit training from what I can see so possible you just had an off day?

thegame

thanks appreciate the feedback

john_cappa

Dermighty wrote: »

Jack3d contains creatine, so why take it with creatine.

Its in a fairly small dose though, 2g i am guessing??. So extra creatine (especially on on training days when no jack3d" is being consumed) would really be required.

*2g per scoop that is!

Dermighty

john_cappa wrote: »

Its in a fairly small dose though, 2g i am guessing??. So extra creatine (especially on on training days when no jack3d" is being consumed) would really be required.

*2g per scoop that is!

I know Jack3d has creatine, don't know the dosage. NOXplode has 5g, so I was expecting something comparable.

*EDIT: just read that Jack3d is a less than 5g serving, so it obviously has less than 5g of creatine.

john_cappa

Dermighty wrote: »

I know Jack3d has creatine, don't know the dosage. NOXplode has 5g, so I was expecting something comparable.

*EDIT: just read that Jack3d is a less than 5g serving, so it obviously has less than 5g of creatine.

Yup! Prop blend! Plus it has AAKG, BA, etc! All underdosed but included for the sake of it basically.

Dermighty

john_cappa wrote: »

Yup! Prop blend! Plus it has AAKG, BA, etc! All underdosed but included for the sake of it basically.

Besides significant research, how is this supposedly better than NOXplode?!

john_cappa

Dermighty wrote: »

Besides significant research, how is this supposedly better than NOXplode?!

It is not better in any way IMO.

NOexplode is also a prop blend so you have no idea how much of each ingredient you are getting.

Da Za

Maybe you only got 4 reps because that's how strong you are.

Do people actually think creatine and this jack3d ****e make you the hulk instantly??!

Dermighty

Da Za wrote: »

Maybe you only got 4 reps because that's how strong you are.

Do people actually think creatine and this jack3d ****e make you the hulk instantly??!

That's my line of thinking.

Creatine really helps, but it takes time, the same as most resistance training it takes time to build and adapt. So if you don't have strength to begin with creatine won't give you that strength.

Creatine is useful but it's not a magic potion.

Jack3d and NOXplode are crutches in my opinion, having taken NOXplode I have to say I don't need it, I don't need to get 110% from my workouts, I train with strong guys and they push me to do the extra reps and go to the extent of my ability. Get a good training partner and you wont need a pre-workout shake.

That's a subjective thing though, it works for me.

Gummy Panda

Da Za wrote: »

Maybe you only got 4 reps because that's how strong you are.

Do people actually think creatine and this jack3d ****e make you the hulk instantly??!

Maybe :P

Dermighty

Ha.

Diabetes and immunity to stimulants I'd say :P