What Daily Use Changes, and How Long It Takes
Creatine accumulates in muscle over several weeks of daily use rather than acting from a single serving. The three points below cover the timeline, the setting it has been studied in, and where the difference turns up.
Three Things From The Research:
Three to five grams a day fills muscle stores gradually. A week of larger servings gets there sooner and ends up in the same place.
Almost all of the performance research pairs creatine with resistance training. It has not been studied as something that works on its own.
The differences measured in studies show up in later sets and repeated sprints rather than in one maximum lift.



