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I tried Creatine for 2 months - Magnus Midtbø
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I tried Creatine for 2 months - Magnus Midtbø
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00:00This is not chalk, this is day one of taking creatine.
00:05I've spent the majority of my life
00:06as a professional climber,
00:08and as you might expect, I've trained a lot.
00:11But the focus has always been on climbing, not the gym.
00:14In fact, I've never really been
00:16into traditional gym training or supplements.
00:19And that is why this is so exciting to me.
00:21Over the next few months,
00:23I'll be trying creatine for the first time ever
00:25to see if it can make a difference
00:27in my climbing performance, my strength,
00:29and just how I feel in general.
00:31I'm gonna find out exactly how it affects me
00:33and how my body reacts.
00:35And hopefully, along the way,
00:36I'm gonna set some new personal records in the gym.
00:39Does creatine really live up to the hype?
00:42And should climbers use it?
00:43I'm about to find out.
00:49It's currently November 13th.
00:53This is the first time trying this.
00:58Hopefully, I don't ruin my climbing by doing this
01:00because I am gonna get a little bit heavier.
01:02I'm excited.
01:03I'm excited to change my body
01:05and I'm excited to see the effect that it might have.
01:09I've heard around 10%, which is crazy.
01:12That's a lot.
01:14I've just eaten food because I know
01:15that it can upset your stomach
01:17if you do it on an empty stomach.
01:19I think this is supposed to be like seven grams of creatine.
01:24So I'm gonna use this for around two months, I think.
01:28That's my goal.
01:28But I'll start with one month to see how I feel.
01:30If I don't feel good, obviously, I'm gonna stop doing it.
01:36Hopefully, I've done it right.
01:42Doesn't taste like anything, really.
01:44So I weighed myself this morning
01:45and I weighed around 70, like 70.2 or three or something.
01:50If anyone has a foot fetish, this one is for free.
01:54I'm really excited about this though
01:55because it's like, I feel like I have a project, you know?
01:58Trying something new,
01:58seeing how my body will respond to it.
02:00And I guess the reason I'm doing this
02:03is maybe not to become a better climber,
02:05but I don't know if a lot of climbers are doing this.
02:07There are a few benchmarks that I wanna improve.
02:09Like I wanna improve my max weighted pull-up
02:12and I also wanna improve my bench press.
02:17Wonder what creatine really is.
02:19Naturally occurring substance
02:22that's found in meat and fish
02:24and also made by the human body and the liver,
02:27kidneys and pancreas.
02:32I don't know what is that, pancreas?
02:34It is converted into creatine phosphate
02:37and stored in the muscles where it is used for energy.
02:43Sounds interesting.
02:53Okay, so this is day one.
02:54Not that the physical side, that's not important to me.
02:58I don't really care about getting bigger or leaner, whatever.
03:01I just wanna become stronger.
03:03That's my only priority.
03:04Okay, so I wanna have some measurements too
03:06because weight is one thing,
03:08but most of the weight that I'll gain is water weight.
03:10So I also wanna check, I don't know, biceps.
03:14Okay, so if I flex 36 centimeters,
03:18my guess is that my left foot is 36.
03:21My guess is that my left foot is smaller, 34.5.
03:26Let's see my chest, I guess, too.
03:29One meter and three centimeters.
03:33Now let's just check my waist too, 83 centimeters.
03:37So I'm gonna try this for 30 days
03:39and see if I feel any improvement.
03:41If I do, I might even go for another 30 days.
03:45So it's currently November 17th, 2024.
03:49This is the fifth day of doing creatine.
03:51I don't expect to see any results yet,
03:53but I just wanna kinda see.
03:55This is gonna be more as a reference session for later.
03:59Larry Wheels taught me to first like pull up, engage,
04:05breathe in, hold my breath.
04:08Breathe in, hold my breath.
04:15I also did a little bit more research on creatine
04:17and I found out that I can possibly up my dose.
04:21I've upped it to around 14 grams.
04:24Sometimes I feel a bit queasy after taking it,
04:26like a little bit sick,
04:28but I think that if you wanna try it yourself,
04:30you should do your own research
04:32and find out how much you should try
04:34because there could be some side effects
04:36if you take too much.
04:38I'm actually gonna go up to 80 kilos.
04:40By the end of this, I wanna do 110.
04:45That is my goal.
04:46If that happens within the next couple of months,
04:48then I'm a believer.
04:49I'm a believer of creatine.
04:51I don't recommend anyone doing bench press on their own
04:55like I am now.
04:56This is very, very dangerous, but I don't have friends,
05:00so I have to lift alone.
05:03Now it is 95 kilos.
05:06This is where I usually top out.
05:11Okay, as I'm sure you saw, that was very close to my max.
05:14I'm just gonna add a 1.25 on each side.
05:17So now it's 97.5.
05:19I haven't lifted this in at least like a year,
05:22so do you say lift or push?
05:24It's kind of, you don't lift it, push it.
05:27I think it says something about how much I know
05:29about weight lifting.
05:34Okay, that was definitely my max though.
05:42But I'm gonna try 100.
05:43It's just a little bit sketchy when I'm alone.
06:01Nope.
06:03But I wasn't too far away though.
06:04No, I'm excited to keep trying this
06:06and to get to 110 hopefully.
06:09I wonder how long it's gonna take me.
06:16Start with 38 kilos.
06:18I wish that we had steel plates in this gym,
06:21like the narrow ones, because this is just so bulky.
06:2538 should be easy.
06:29Yep, that was okay.
06:3052 kilos, that should still feel pretty light.
06:36I'm not gonna train this.
06:37I mean, I'm gonna train it a little bit more
06:39than I usually would, but not that much more
06:41because then it would be the training, not the creatine.
06:44And I wanna test the creatine.
06:48If I add another 14, that's gonna be 66, right?
06:51I think so.
06:54Not quite.
06:55Almost, like two centimeters or something.
06:58I think that was enough from today five.
07:00I'll see you guys sometime in the future,
07:03where I'm hopefully a lot stronger than I am right now.
07:13Hey, how's it going?
07:14Hey, Jason, how are you, man?
07:15You're probably the biggest expert I know
07:18when it comes to both injuries and training
07:20and nutrition for climbing as well.
07:22So it'd be interesting to hear your take on this.
07:25Do you take creatine yourself?
07:27I do.
07:27I've taken creatine for years.
07:30I do believe that in the scientific research
07:33that it is very well supported and useful.
07:36So do you think that is gonna be beneficial for me
07:38for my climbing?
07:39Do you think I'll feel stronger or weaker taking this?
07:42It can provide a slight boost in power or explosiveness,
07:45but you probably won't notice
07:47a dramatic difference on the wall.
07:48I read somewhere that you can expect
07:51around a 10% increase in power.
07:54Do you think that's true?
07:55I think that might be a little excessive.
07:58I think the effects generally are more subtle and mild.
08:01I don't think expecting a huge performance advantage
08:05is going to be the right take on it.
08:07It is probably going to be pretty subtle.
08:09I'll keep you updated on my journey.
08:12Yeah, absolutely.
08:13I mean, hope you notice some positive improvements.
08:15So hopefully the added little water weight
08:17doesn't negatively impact your performance.
08:19Yeah.
08:28Strong, but heavy.
08:29That's how I feel today.
08:30I'm gonna try a few of the purple ones.
08:33Those are the hardest ones here.
08:38Oh, it feels good though.
08:40It's strange, like some things feel easy.
08:43Some things feel very hard right now.
08:46I don't know, maybe I'm just making a big deal out of it.
08:48You know, I'm only a couple of kilos heavier.
08:51Maybe it's more in my mind than anything.
08:58Oh, my elbow though.
09:03That's a hard elbow.
09:05That's a really dumb ass player that I am.
09:15The top looks hard too though.
09:16Okay, I'll try something else.
09:19I've got a few squats to go.
09:21I'm going to try something else.
09:22I'm going to try a deadlift from the top the whole time.
09:24looks hard too though. Okay, try something else. Orange holds, that's purple tag, the hardest tag
09:33here.
09:47I feel strong today, or stronger than I have been, but still like a little bit
09:53clumsy on the wall, like the way I elbow stuff, and just like I'm not really used
09:58to my body yet. I'm so curious to see how the next weeks are gonna go.
10:06All right, so it's day eight. I've taken creatine every single day for eight days straight now.
10:26Feel a bit different. I'm gonna weigh myself after drinking this, and I'm gonna see if
10:32I've gained some weight in the last eight days. I do think so. I do feel a little bit heavier,
10:36but I also feel stronger. This still tastes like soap, by the way. I'm not getting used to this
10:41taste. I feel like it's almost just getting worse. The last one is terrible, but I actually, I kind
10:48of do prefer it just natural. If they added any flavor to this, it might just be like more gross.
10:54Okay, time to weigh myself. I haven't weighed myself in eight days. That was more than I thought.
11:0272.5. Well, I do have a t-shirt and shorts, but the thing is, it's gonna take a while
11:08to get rid of this extra water weight, because I think they say it takes about a month for it
11:15to leave the body. So even if I stopped taking creatine today, I would still carry around this
11:20extra weight for another month. So I am on my way to the gym. It's December 5th,
11:32and I'm feeling a little bit sick, so I'm not sure if I'm gonna
11:36feel that strong today, but hopefully I can do better than last time.
11:51So my goal is to do 100 today. Chalk. I don't think chalk makes a big difference on this stuff,
11:59but I don't want to take any chances. Oh yeah, I feel strong today. I don't know why I'm grinning.
12:10It's just, I don't get this feeling while climbing ever really. So just having progression
12:14and something is like really nice. My voice cracked, so really nice.
12:25Hell yeah. Oh, that feels good. 100 kilos. Should I go for a PR? Okay, 105 kilos.
12:33I mean, I have to go through failure every time, so.
12:45Well, I don't know. That wasn't, didn't feel too far away. Maybe in a couple weeks from now,
12:53I'm gonna do this weight. I think so. I mean, I definitely think I can do this weight.
12:57Just need a little bit more time.
13:03So this today is not really a training session. I guess it's more of a testing session. I just
13:09want to see where I am now after three weeks. I feel like I struggle a bit with the upper part of
13:14the pull-up, so I think I'll focus more on that part in my next sessions. But I'm already feeling
13:20a lot stronger. It is December 7th, and I'm gonna check my weight. I got a new scale actually. This
13:30one measures body fat percentages as well. Okay, let's see. Come on, turn on you piece of shit.
13:40There we go. 72.5. That's a lot for being in the morning like this. Other metrics. BMI of 24.2.
13:49Body fat percentage of 20. Oh, and something new that happened too is that I started taking,
13:55what am I, half naked? I also started taking a different type of creatine, and this one doesn't
14:03taste bad really. It's almost like I'm wondering, does it have to taste bad
14:08in order to be effective? But I've been feeling strong lately.
14:12Been feeling good and healthy and just like overall, yeah, I don't know.
14:18I don't know. It might just be placebo, but I kind of like the creatine.
14:25Good morning, guys. So it is December 20th. I got back from the French Foreign Legion
14:34like five days ago or something, and I was just wrecked. I lost a lot of weight, I think,
14:40during the tests and stuff. But after I got back, I ate so much food that I feel
14:46heavier than I've ever felt before. And I did some climbing, and I don't think I felt so weak in years.
14:55It almost feels unsafe right now, you know, landing with this much weight. I've never been
15:12this heavy before, and I think I'm going to get a lot heavier too. This is just a start,
15:18but I'm embracing this experience. I want to get heavier. I want to get stronger.
15:23That is the goal of this whole thing. So I'm not going to get frustrated. I'm going to believe in
15:28the process. I'm going to keep going. So now I'm going to weigh myself, and this might be a shock
15:32because I think that I'm going to weigh a lot. 74.8 kilos. This is definitely the heaviest I've
15:40been in so, so long. Look at this. Water 60. That's good. And 74.8. But that is the goal,
15:47you know, to gain weight. I knew that was going to happen with the creatine. And the thing is,
15:52in the beginning it was just water, but I think actually I've gained a little bit of muscle now
15:56too. So even if I stop taking creatine and the water leaves my body, which takes around two
16:04months or something, I still think that I've gained muscle weight as well. But it's good,
16:11you know. I'm 37 now, soon. Wait, am I 36 or am I 37? No, I'm 36. Yeah, no, I'm 36.
16:23All right. Yeah, and you know, as you get older, maintaining muscle mass is important, and I think
16:31this is the right time to start doing that. I'm excited about weighing more than I've ever done
16:35before. Even though my climbing has suffered a little bit, I think the long-term effect of this
16:40is going to be great. I'm excited to see if this creatine is actually working. Right now I'm the
16:49heaviest I've ever been, and I feel pretty strong. I have high hopes for today's session.
16:56I haven't felt that great up until now, but today I feel really great. My body feels younger again.
17:02I think that's the best way to explain it. And also I feel like the explosive power,
17:05I feel more muscular and I have more power and just more energy in general.
17:10So black is the hardest problem, or the hardest tag. I feel a little bit stronger today.
17:17So
17:37that's crazy. Even though I'm like 74, 75 kilos right now, I feel pretty light.
17:47So
18:06I felt so clumsy the first couple of weeks, and now I just feel like I have a lot of energy,
18:13and I just feel really, really strong. Maybe my endurance is not the greatest,
18:18probably not, but I think my max power has gone up a lot. So yeah, I don't know. So far I feel
18:24like this has been very successful, and I don't know, maybe it's something I want to keep doing
18:28even after these two months. It feels really good.
18:42Okay, so it's been two months now exactly. It's the 13th of January. I take my creatine a little
18:50bit differently now. I don't have like a schedule of when I take it. So I just take a little scoop
18:57like that. I think that was about five grams, and then I do another five.
19:16Usually I take it before working out, so it depends on when I work out. If I work out in
19:21the evening, I take it in the evening. If I work out in the morning, I take it in the morning.
19:27Jeez, 75.2 kilograms. So it looks like I'm still gaining a little bit of weight, but it's not as
19:35crazy as it was in the beginning. And today I'm also gonna measure my arms because it's the last
19:42day. I'm gonna measure my arms, my chest, everything to see if I've gotten any bigger.
19:49That was not really the goal, but I don't know. It's just interesting to see if I've gotten any
19:54bigger. And I'm gonna test my max bench press and also weighted pull-ups.
20:03So the moment you've all been waiting for.
20:08It feels so awkward. I don't even know how to post really. Like how do you do it? Is this it?
20:14This. I've seen this. People do this. But yeah, pretty big difference. I'm at my heaviest ever
20:20right now. So I'm gonna see if it's all fat or if I actually gain some muscle. We're gonna start
20:25with my right biceps. Last time it was 36. I'm really curious. I have not measured myself since
20:32last time. So it is 39 centimeters. So I've gained three centimeters just on my biceps. Maybe it's
20:41not biceps only. It could have been my triceps too, you know, from all the benching that I've
20:46done. I guess my arms are more accurate than calling it my biceps. Last time my left biceps
20:52was 34.5. Now it is 37.5. That is a big difference. And now the chest. This is probably gonna be the
21:03most interesting because I've done a lot of benching. Also my girlfriend has said that
21:07your back and your chest looks a lot bigger. Okay, nipples like last time, like two months ago.
21:14Okay, last time it was 103. Now it is 111. Oh my god, that is crazy. That is a big difference.
21:27103 and 111. Eight centimeters difference. That is massive. Okay, now the last measurement is
21:34gonna be the waist. Last time it was 83. I mean there's not really any reason for my waist to
21:41grow, I guess, but probably has with everything else. So it's 80, 85. It was 83, so two centimeters
21:50bigger. That was a massive difference. Arms and chest especially gotten a lot bigger. Now I'm
21:56gonna see if I can set a new PR in bench press and weighted pull-ups. At the beginning of this,
22:03the goal was to do 110 kilos in bench press. By the end of this, I wanna do 110. I think that was
22:10a pretty high goal for only training two months and not doing it like a lot. I think that was a
22:16pretty high goal that I set myself and hopefully I can do it tonight. I do have a few clips that
22:21I shot with my phone of me failing on 110. I do feel like I'm close though, so I hope that I can
22:30do 110 tonight.
22:41So it's all been leading up to this moment right here. I'm a little bit nervous. I have tried 110
22:47kilos before, but I failed. Looking back at the first time doing this, that was my fifth day of
22:55taking creatine. I failed on 100. I wasn't even close to doing 100 and now that is not my warm-up
23:00but it's something that I think should be pretty easy. The thing is I only have a few good attempts,
23:13so if I don't do 110 on the first lift or second lift, I think it's done. I don't have enough power
23:20and I don't recommend anyone else doing this when you're alone. This is very dangerous. If I broke
23:27an arm or something and got that weight on my chest and there's no one else here to save me,
23:31it's like super dangerous. So do not try this at home or anywhere else for that matter.
23:38It's the first time I actually feel a little bit of nerves. You know it's the last chance,
23:41it's the last day of doing this. It's taken quite a lot of effort to film this video
23:47and it's all led up to this moment and also the weighted pull-ups afterwards. Okay, perfect lift.
23:58Oh, that was easy too. Yes. Oh, that was good. That felt super, super easy. You know what,
24:10I'm going to go up a little bit. I'm going to do 112.5. God damn, that felt so easy that time.
24:17I'm honestly like super surprised that it went so easy.
24:28Oh, that's amazing. What the hell? I got to show you too that, look, this is 20 kilos.
24:39That is incredible. 112.5, the new PR. It makes me almost want to keep going, you know. I think
24:47it'd be really cool to do twice my body weight. It's something that I miss about climbing, you
24:51know, the fact that I will never be as good as I once was. But with this sort of stuff, I have so
24:58much, like I can still improve so much. I'm going to try weighted pull-ups now and see if I've had
25:03any progression with that. So the thing about this though is that I now weigh five kilos more.
25:15The total weight now, even if I'm pulling the same, I'm pulling seven, eight percent
25:20more than I used to. I am pretty sure that this is more than I've ever lifted.
25:35Oh yeah, easy. I'm pretty sure that was over. Okay, now I got to try 70 kilos.
25:41I never thought I would be close to this weight.
25:46That maybe not quite. That was very close. I think that was as close as I was doing 65 before.
26:01That's really cool. It's been fun the last two months. It was a little bit frustrating in the
26:06beginning because I felt heavy. I didn't feel strong climbing. But then my body started getting
26:11used to the weight and I progressively felt stronger and stronger. And now I feel really,
26:18really strong. So after two months of taking creatine, my conclusion is that I do think that
26:29creatine can be beneficial for any climber who are looking to get physically stronger.
26:35If you want me to make similar videos in the future, please comment down below.
26:39And thank you guys so much for watching.