Here’s what I know about creatine – it helps you gain weight, strength and size. Creatine supplements help improving energy during workouts and makes you see weight gain in just weeks. It’s the quick results that make it exciting. Especially for people who are unable to gain weight at the same pace as others creatine works. Apparently one can expect something like 15 pounds during the first month of taking creatine, and some really huge people even gain 30 pounds. ( I wouldn’t want to meet them down a dark alley, though! – not yet, anyway!)
Prolab Creatine shows immediate benefits especially when you take it properly with regular workouts. One hassle is the water retention – so you have to watch out for that. But by and large, you’ll gain muscle weight and feel much stronger and look it. Even though Prolab Creatine costs a little more than its competition, it is very effective. Creatine is very popular among body builders today. Our body gets most of its creatine from food and supplements and this is absorbed with ease through the intestinal tract into the bloodstream. Another advantage with creatine is it encourages your body to produce more protein. The best thing is to take creatine about twenty minutes before your workout. The powder form of creatine stays in your blood stream for a an hour or two. If your muscles are to grow, it must be absorbed into your muscles. When your muscles get saturated, then the creatine gets converted into creatine and excreted.
Tuesday 9 January 2007
Creatine - Need to Know
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We know that creatine is effective. But I want to share what I read about the side effects of using creatine for a short time. Apparently short-term use causes nausea, stomach upset, dizziness or weakness, loose stools, diarrhea, muscle cramping, weight gain and dehydration. This mostly happens when your dosage is more than 5 grams per day. So it is better not to get too carried away by its effectiveness – I mean, creatine is supposed to build muscle, not make you spend all day on the pot with the runs! You can also develop sprains and muscle tear if you get too enthusiastic and make an unreasonable increase in your workout before your muscles can handle it. That’s not nice at all. Dehydration can be minimized if you drink lots of water when you are on Creatine, but you don’t need a rocket scientist to tell you that. Invariably it’s the powder form of creatine that causes the side effects rather than the serum or effervescent powder. Thankfully, there’s no hair loss or effect on blood pressure, cardiac rate and kidney functioning. Its okay if you have a peg of your favorite drink once in a rare while. Also (ahem!) it does not affect your hormone levels. And before you assume what I am talking about – I meant you don’t develop bad skin, mood swings, etc. But then, it all depends on the individual constitution. Long-term use of creatine appears to be okay since there’s no data available.
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