Creatine - the real muscle builder - Anabolic steroids
June 3, 2008
The power of CREATINE
“The right utilisation of creatine supplements could help a muscle-builder to add 5 or 10 pounds of perfect muscle in no time”.
If protein supplements are on the first place, creatine is an very close, on the second place when it comes to supplements for musclebuilders. Proven safe and efficient, creatine is a derived function of amino acids and is hands down the most efficient supplement used by some athletes and bodybuilders to gain strength and muscle mass. Creatine citrate, phosphate and malate are just some of the formulations available today.
A few hundreds of reports have been publicised on the safety and effectiveness of creatine. Many of these written reports were done on creatine monohydrate, which was the primary formulation of creatine to hit the market. Creatine monohydrate was found to be safe, good and effective in almost any of these studies.
How does creatine operate?
Creatine has two significant functions for bodybuilders. First of all, creatine increases the size, or volume of muscle cells, which is the amount of water each cell can hold. The second important purpose of creatine is that it provides muscle cells with quick energy in the form of ATP (Adenosine triphosphate), which is absolutely indispensable to execute muscle building exercises. Having extra ATP within the muscle cells will permit to perform more repetitions than you normally could, which translates into better muscle growth.
Unfortunately, creatine is only efficient for about 70% of athletes and muscle-builders. Those who don’t react to creatine may already produce enough creatine phosphate in their muscles that supplementing with creatine does not make much difference.
Several types of Creatine Formulations.
Creatine Monohydrate, Anhydrous, Citrate, Phosphate, Malate, Creatine Ester, Effervescent Creatine, Magnesium Creatine.
Hopefully in our future articles will talk about each type of creatine, read more about creatine on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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