Explaning the Creatine Experiment

About a month ago I began to take Creatine, which has been determined a safe supplement and approved by the NCAA. Basically all it does is raise your ATP levels. I'm trying to think of ways possible to test its effectiveness. I don't have a large enough sample size to run an experiment that would be recognized as official, of course, but I want to see what I can do partly for practice, and also just because I'm curious. I think my best option is to not use a control, and just ask people how they feel their performance has changed. Without the control, we wont be able to see how they would have progressed without the supplement. It doesn't matter too much for my project though because the goal is to help people move towards their goals, and if it helps one person a lot, then great. But if it doesn't help another person so much, but they think it does, it doesn't really matter as there is no negative or anything we give up by taking creatine.

I'm recommending using Optimum Nutrition's supplement of creatine because they are a very well known and respected brand that is NSF certified. With Optimum Nutrition you know what you are getting, and there will be no "secret ingredients" added.