What You Should Know About Creatine Muscle Building.

By Roxane Zaragoza


For muscle building and enhancing athletic performance, creatine is probably the most effective, research-proven supplement that we'll ever saw until now. Once inside the muscle, creatine increases muscle cell volume and stimulates contractile protein production to provide better and faster results. Popular misconception among many weight lifters and other athletes is that creatine prevents fat loss if used regularly. You can read opinions that for building muscle, creatine is a great supplement but if you want to get lean, creatine supplementation is something you don't want around you.

Creatine muscle building is a well known way to gain the edge from every workout. While creatine isn't really the magic bullet that some people claim, understanding how it works in your body can help you achieve the most benefit from this well researched supplement.

Creatine contains zero calories, no fat and 0 carbohydrates. How can supplementation with creatine provide additional calories to the diet and impede fat loss? The actual reality is that in an indirect way, creatine supplementation probably speeds fat loss! Over 67 well-controlled studies have shown that longer term creatine supplementation (8-12 weeks) increases lean muscle mass with little or no change in fat mass. And the increase in lean mass will provide an increase in a person's metabolic rate that, in turn, burns more body fat.

It is just due to influence of poor quality of bodybuilding magazines that over the time people start to think (and act) in compeatly wrong ways. It appears that the topic of creatine and fat loss has become a part of the bodybuilding folk-law for ignoramuses. I'll give short comments just to show you how they manipulate with information and make people think (buy) what they want. The findings from a one creatine study ( Huso, M.E., et al. Creatine supplementation influences substrate utilization at rest. J Appl Physiol. 2002). have been interpreted by many in the bodybuilding media to suggest that creatine supplementation somehow prevents fat loss.

Make sure that you follow the dosage guidelines carefully so that you get the best results. Also you will need to drink extra water, as one of the side products is increased levels of creatinine which is filtered from the body by the kidneys, so you need to drink extra water especially if you have kidney problems, as creatinine is not good for your health and body.

The highest concentrations are found, naturally, in muscle tissue such as red meat and fish. Creatine creates energy in muscle tissue and the main benefit, therefore, in higher creatine levels is increased stamina during fast, high endurance work outs.

This study used a "crossover design"; the assessment period between creatine use and non-creatine use was very close. In this study, the authors suggest that creatine may prevent fat loss and this is a puzzling notion.

Because the energy created by creatine is quickly spent, the benefits are largely contained to high intensity sports such as football that generally consist of shorter periods of intense movement followed by resting. Sprinters also felt a dramatic increase in performance when using creatine muscle building.

The aspects I have raised are not meant to detract from the research study I have just discussed. These points merely stress the importance of the way in which the results are interpreted. Also, remember that not all bodybuilding journalists are interested in the little details that may influence the results.




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