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Ntpadude
Creatine is the best thing you can do that is "not a steroid". The problem with creatine is if you have had caffiene in less then 5 hours before taking the creatine, then your body will pass it and not absorb any of it. Its difficult because so many of us like caffiene. I usually do creatine before bed at midnight because I've cut off the caffiene before sundown so that I can get to sleep when I want to.
Having creatine in your system can prevent you from having catabolism, but then again caffiene is also anti-catabolic so you have to weigh out which half of the day you will do which.
Also in the first 6 months to 1 year of weight training, you should be developing very fast. Typically the first 6 months will get you the most rapid natural development you can get in your life. The rate you develop during this period is very "steroid like", so just train, increase your weights you lift and eat lots of protein, but also make sure you are full of nutrients and vitamins of all types - no deficiencies.
As for steroids, you cant take them until you've had 1.5 to 2 years of natural weight training experience as a minimum. Otherwise you get unbalanced development in muscles where your arm muscles can rip itself from the bone to give you an example so dont do it without advanced training to strengthen up your tendens and muscle attachments to the bone,etc.
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