Creatine has long been vilified in bodybuilding and physique competitions for its water retentive properties and perceived associated “soft” look that comes along with the water weight. It is very true that creatine causes water retention. Water retention, in and of itself, however is not the enemy. The enemy is water under the skin, in and around the subcutaneous fat layer. Indiscriminately cutting water is not necessarily a good move. Reason being, muscle is actually made u

The vast majority of diets fail within the first few weeks. Once we start a diet, any diet, just the fact that it is a decrease in calories and a change from what we were used to doing, we will invariably drop some pounds within the first few days. But after that first week, and once the body adapts to the new diet is when the real diet begins. The same is true of contest diets but on a much more complicated level. We cut our calories, we start cardio, we start taking fat bur