What Is Creatine Used For

Creatine is the most studied and proven sport supplement there is. There are many types but Creatine Monohydrate is the one that has years of clinical research and is proven safe and effective. Creatine is a natural substance in the human body. Your body uses creatine for fast power movements when your body doesn't have time to breakdown carbs or fats for energy. Creatine is the fuel of choice during high power movements like jumping, weight lifting, sprinting, punching and sports like football.

Creatine is part of your natural energy cycle in that it is the first fuel you body uses for 1-3 sec of activity. Therefore if you have more creatine in your system you will be able to lift more weight, sprint faster, jump higher and hit harder. It also extends the amount of time you body uses creatine so you get more repetitions from creatine leading to more total reps during workouts. Common misconception is that creatine gives you energy which it does but not in the common use of the term. Creatine only give you increase energy in power movements for the first few seconds of activity not all day long energy like carbs or fats do. Moreover, Creatine also helps increase muscle growth by hydrating the muscle cells. Many people say that creatine just gives water weight.

However, if you think about it muscle is much water and if you take creatine it pulls more water into your muscles. This means you have more muscle! That's not the end of it either, when your muscle are more hydrated with water the enzymes that control growth and metabolism are more active which means that you recover and grow faster and have a faster metabolism which can help lower body fat level too. Most of the Creatine monohydrate water retention and bloating talk comes from creatine powders that are loaded with sugar as you get fat from the sugar, not the creatine, you cannot get fat from creatine. Also Creatine doesn't hold water under your skin it hydrates the muscle and that is it.

Creatine Monohydrate can be hard on the stomach for digestion and this is why it is usually paired with fast acting carbs like sugar, and things like alpha lipoic acid to increase absorption. Creatine Monohydrate can be loaded for 5-7 day to drastically increase creatine concentrations in a week and gain large amounts of weight fast. This is done by taking 20-30g split up through the day for a week followed by 5g per day maintenance dose. Or you can take as little as 3g per day and will have the same benefit after 1 month. Somewhere in between is probably optimal but depends on your goal. 5g before and after your workout on workout days and 3-5 g on non workout days could be a good plan. Also if you are loading 2 month on and 1 month of would be a good plan, whereas with lower dosing 3 month on and 1 month off would be a good plan as once you get full creatine load you will want 2 months of full creatine benefit. Moreover, it is vital to take every day that you are on cycle as each day you miss your creatine stores will drop.

Take Creatine Monohydrate For:

• Strength
• Power
• Muscle Building
• Weight Gain
• Muscle recovery
• Life extension
• Anabolic / Anti-Catabolic
• Muscle Volume

Do you want to learn more about specific types of Creatine?

• Read more on Creatine HCL
• Read more on Buffered Creatine
• Read more on Creatine Ethyl Ester