[bitexploder]

The standard advice I have seen regarding Creatine as a fitness supplement is to basically just take 5g / day. I have never seen guidance to use it for a few weeks only. Creatine helps replace things that get used up during hard workouts and supports the cellular energy cycle. It wouldn't make sense to just take it for a few weeks because it doesn't do a one-time effect.

[xzel]

Creatine cycling has been a thing since I started lifting more seriously, at least 15+ years ago. There was often a loading period, where you would take more, and a maintenance period, both normally given as a g/kg or mg/kg value of creatine to body weight. I believe the idea was either your body became less responsive to the increase creatine in your system of time or your stores become saturated. I'm not sure what research now shows or how seriously cycling/loading not taken these as I'm not a trainer nor a nutritionist, but it something I did when I first started lifting and that's what I remember learning about taking it.

[lvturner]

I always thought the old advice was to cycle creatine "Just in case" and that more recent advice was that there wasn't much research backed evidence that mandated the need to cycle it

For reference: https://supplementclarity.com/do-you-need-to-cycle-creatine/