What I actually take, when, and how it feels.
One person's log. First-person, dated, subjective. Not medical advice — the opposite end of the table from the Blog's neutral guides.
Restarting — a week of stomach flu, 79 kg, and rethinking iron
One week of porridge and soup. No training, no supplements, weight down to 79 kg. Restarting today, and thinking about adding iron.
3 min readDay 12 — adding blueberries, and the daily boxing + 5K grind
Creatine is clearly doing something. Boxing plus a 5K almost every day is wrecking my mornings, so I'm adding blueberries for the inflammation.
2 min readDay 11 — 5K at 4.90 pace, and the pump still holds
Pasta for lunch, 300 g chicken and 200 g rice for dinner. Ran the 5K at a 4.90 pace — fitness and speed are clearly moving.
2 min readDay 10 — humidity, sweat, and a 5K test
Sweated buckets today. Was it the weather, or is creatine pulling more water than I realized? 5K test tonight will tell me something.
2 min readDay 6 — hangovers, water weight, and a multivitamin dilemma
Drank way too much last night. Woke up feeling like all the water creatine had pulled into my muscles had evaporated.
3 min readDay 5 — the pump is real, but so are the rumors
Push-ups and squats felt different today. The pump is definitely there. But I also read some things about creatine that made me pause.
2 min readDay 4 — pizza for lunch, chicken and rice for dinner, and the first real pump
First day with the post-boxing lift block. I felt a real pump today — maybe creatine, maybe not, but I'm writing it down.
2 min readDay 3 — three rounds instead of two, and a small pump test tonight
Stack unchanged. Boxing went one round longer than usual, and I can't tell yet if that's fitness or the pills.
2 min readDay 2 — swapped vitamin C for a multivitamin, kept the creatine
Ate like a normal person, took two pills, and I'm curious how tomorrow morning feels.
2 min readDay 1 — 35, zero supplements, and a boxing habit that humbled me
First pills of my life. Day one, no claims, just a baseline.
2 min read