about  creatine  and the loading stage!!!?
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I AM DOING A LOADING STAGE AT THIS MOMENT. THE CONTAINER SUGGESTED A SERVING THAT IS TWICE THE NORMAL DAILY AMOUNT, FOR FIVE DAYS. I'VE HEARD THAT A LOADING STAGE IS NOT NECESSARY, HOWEVER.
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take it before and after nowadays creatine is cheap enough to use 2o grams per day if you wanted too..but 5 grams before and 5 grams following your workout is all you really need to experience benefits
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If you are trying to gain muscles mass, the answer is both, but more so, one in the morning, one after your workout and one 30 min before bed. If your workout is in the evening, take one mid afternoon.\n\nWithout doing much, you could start by reading Mens Health and Muscle & Fitness Magazines. Both are published by Joe Weider Inc. Both have great workout routines in them and advice on diet, fitness, health, supplementation.\n\nI would reccomend that you start by hitting the weight room, 4-5 times per week. Lifting with Compund exercies first, then isolation exercises. 4-5 sets of each, with 1-2 of them being warm up exercises. 9-12 rep range is good for muscle mass, and definition and stamina. Rest each body part 4-7 days. So if you do Chest on monday, dont do it till at least friday.\n\nWhen it comes to supplementation you will use the minimum:\n1 multi vitamin pill per day\ntribulus\nWhey protein or whey protein isolate. Depending on allergies, you may want to use a Soy protein. you should use 2-3 grams of protein per kilogram of bodyweight in your daily diet to gain muscle (you still need to lift weights though and stick with it. It takes a long long time. It took me 2 years to put on 35 pounds of muscle.) Take some in the morning when you wake up, mid day, and as part of your post workout drink.\nI would also reccomend taking L-Glutamine as part of your post workout routine.\nTake something with creatine. This stuff is well documented. I would reccomend BSN Nutrition NOxplode. IT has creatine, arginine, and others as well as nitric oxide. Take this for your pre workout routine, about 30-45 minutes before your workout. It takes awhile for your body to absorb the creatine.\n\nThat should be the core of your supplement routine. Do not rely on the protein powder to get you all of your protein in a day.\n\nRemember to do cardio at least 3 times a week 60-75% of your max heart rate (MHR) which is 220-your age. for about 30 min each session. If i do legs, I do cardio after. Sometimes I will split it, 15-20 min before, 15-20 min after. You have to burn the fat to show your hard work!!\n\nDo abs at least 3 times a week. focus more on form and crunching the muscle, than how many reps you do.\n\nTHis should help.\n\nIf you need more advice, feel free to email me, I would be glad to help you out.
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It is probably the only supplement on the market that can actually help you increase your loads, power and size in a realtively short period of time.  \n\nPROS\n- Increases the availability of energy for first 6-10s of power related movements\n- It increases muscle strength and power\n- May improve some endurance and delay fatigue. \n- Forces water into your muscles (cell volumization), making muscles bigger and firmer. Do not confuse this with water retention that happens outside the muscle cells, making the muscles look smooth. \n- Gain weight quickly (if that is a desired goal) 4-8 pounds is common in the first three (mostly due to increase of body fluids in the muscles). \n- Gain muscle faster since your able to lift greater loads longer due to reduced fatigue and leverage.\n\nCONS\n- Weight, strength and power gain are quickly lost approx 2-3 weeks after termination of last cycle\n- There have been some outrageous claims of Creatine causing everything from high blood pressure to cancer, but these have never been proven. There are no scientifically proven side effects from moderate Creatine supplementation.\n\nhttp://preventdisease.com/news/articles/creatine_boosts_brain_power.shtml\nhttp://preventdisease.com/news/articles/creatine_and_teens.shtml\n.\n.
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At fifteen years of age, creatin will not help you, and using ANY "steroids" is not smart as your body is still developing NATUARALLY. Using anything similar to a steroid can actually hinder the "natural growth" of your body...\n\nBut here's the info you were looking for:\n\nCreatine is a nitrogenous organic acid that naturally occurs in vertebrates and helps to supply energy to muscle cells.\n\nIt is public knowledge that meat (which has a lot of creatine) enhanced performance long before modern science discovered creatine. The big winner in the 480 B.C. Olympic Games said he ate nothing but meat for 10 months prior to the Games to get ready.\n\nIn 1832, the French scientist Michel Eugène Chevreul discovered a component of skeletal muscle that he later named creatine after the Greek word for flesh, Kreas.\n\nIn 1912, researchers found that ingesting creatine can dramatically boost the creatine content of the muscle. In the late 1920s, scientists found that the intramuscular stores of creatine can be increased by ingesting creatine in larger than normal amounts, discovered creatine phosphate, and determined that creatine is a key player in the metabolism of skeletal muscle.\n\nThe Russians and other Eastern Bloc countries may have used creatine as a sports supplement as far back as the 1970s, although this is a matter of debate.\n\nWhile creatine's influence on physical performance has been well documented since the early twentieth century, it only recently came into public view following the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. An August 7, 1992 article in The Times reported that Linford Christie, the gold medal winner at 100 meters, had utilized creatine prior to the Olympics, and an article in Bodybuilding Monthly named Sally Gunnell, gold medalist in the 400-meter hurdles, as another creatine user. Several medal-winning British rowers also used creatine during their preparations for the Barcelona games.\n\nAt the time, low-potency creatine supplements were available in Britain, but creatine supplements designed for strength enhancement were not commercially available until 1993 when a company called EAS (Exercise, Atheletics, Strength) introduced the compound to the sports nutrition market under the name Phosphagen. In 1998, the launch of the first creatine-carbohydrate-alpha lipoic acid supplement, Cell-Tech, by another company called MuscleTech Research and Development, took place. Alpha lipoic acid enhances muscle phosphocreatine levels and total muscle creatine concentrations. This approach to creatine supplementation was validated in a study performed in 2003 by Burke et al., of the Department of Human Kinetics at St. Francis Xavier University. Another important event in creatine supplementation occurred in 2004 when the first creatine ethyl ester supplements were launched. To date, the most extensively researched brand-name creatine supplement is Cell-Tech, with three published studies on the actual product (Parise, G., et al. 2000,. Kalman, D., et al., and 2000 Tarnopolsky et al, 2001). Both Phosphagen and Cell-Tech still remain widely used by athletes around the world.\n\nCreatine Ethyl Ester (CEE) is becoming a widely used form of creatine, with many companies now carrying both creatine monohydrate-based supplements and Creatine Ethyl Ester supplements, or combinations of both. CEE is touted to have absorbtion rates tens of times higher than regular creatine monohydrate by several supplement companies. Creatine monohydrate ($400 million in annual sales in the United States alone) remains the most used form of creatine.\n\nSynthesis\nIn the human body creatine is synthesized mainly in the liver by the use of parts from three different amino acids - arginine, glycine, and methionine. 95% of it is later stored in the skeletal muscles, with the rest in the brain, heart, and testes.\n\nThe enzyme GATM (Guanidinoacetate N-methyltransferase, also known as L-arginine:glycine amidinotransferase (AGAT),
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Creatine and Protein work when used properly.  \n\nMuscle Milk was originally developed as a dog food, and NO xplode is an arginine supplement.  So they aren't the best.\n\nI recommend AST's products \nhttp://www.ast-ss.com/\nand they offer some very good advice on how to work out on their website.\n\nAlso look for advice here:\nhttp://www.abcbodybuilding.com/
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The sport you play has some impact but not as much as you think on a diet. More depends on your intensity and level of play and your workout methods. Carb loading is still good before long extended sessions of worknig out. Past that a good balance of high quality protiens to repair and rebuild muscle. you really need to state some more info. ie purpose? problem? size and position, ie goalie less running, and your prep for a game and season.
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Creatine is a natural enzyme found in all our bodies. In the aerobic respiration within our muscles, it gives us that initial jolt of energy without using up any ATP's. However, this only last for 15-20 seconds. Also, as long as you aren't taking the supplement then the baby won't be exposed to it.
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More volume, less fatigue, faster recovering, more streght, but if you work out speed asweel you have bigger risk of muscle injury. They also say it affects your natural level of creatine...
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"Creatine is an important compound produced by the body. It combines with phosphorus to make a high-energy phosphate compound in the body. Creatine phosphate is used in skeletal muscle contraction.  The creatinine test is used to diagnose impaired kidney function and to determine renal (kidney) damage."\n\nhttp://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/ency/creatinine_test.jsp\n\n"Creatinine is a breakdown product of creatine, which is an important part of muscle. A serum creatinine test measures the amount of creatinine in the blood.  The test is performed to evaluate kidney function. If kidney function is abnormal, creatinine levels will increase in the blood, due to decreased excretion of creatinine in the urine. Creatinine levels also vary according to a person's size and muscle mass."\n\nhttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003475.htm
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whey protein powder and a multivitamin really....ive learnt (by experience) that most others are just a waste of money...you just need to ensure you're getting enough protein to heal your muscles, and a good multivitamin just for the sake of it.....i also take a zinc supplement to make sure my testosterone level is high enough, and a magnesium citrate (300mg) pill to relax muscles..dont bother with most of that fancy stuff....creatine will add some bulk though....but yeah, vitamin+protein would be adequate
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Creatine will dehydrate you so if you take it, make sure you drink enough water. Protein is always good. Without protein you can't build muscle.
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Your body uses Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) as you primary energy source especially when lifting very heavy, there are other energy systems but in regards to creatine i will limit this answer.\n\nWhey you perform you're repetitions the ATP breaks off into ADP (Adenosine Diphospate) this is when you get your energy burst which allows your muscle fibers to contract. When you get low on ATP/ADP your body will grab some of the naturally occuring creatine from your cells and throw them in with the ADP for the energy burst.\n\nSo by taking creatine as a suppliment you will improve upon your performance allowing you to eventually lift heavier weight and or for longer periods of time. Hence you will gain more muscle or endurance etc...\n\nNote:\n"Creatine Ethyl Ester" will promote a leaner ripped muscles.\n\n"Creatine Monohydrate" will promote a larger albiet more bloated or less lean type muscle.
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It helps the muscles retain water, which puts them in a greater muscle building state. Higher endurance and strength can also follow this.Creatine is not a steroid, hormone, vitamin, or a mineral. Creatine is a combination of three non-essential amino-acids, which are arginine, glycine, and methionine. The chemical name for creatine is methyl guanidine-acetic acid\n\nAn understanding of ATP is crucial to a full understanding of how creatine works. ATP is known as the energy compound in the body. When your muscles use ATP for energy, it breaks the ATP down into ADP and inorganic phosphate. Your muscles have only enough ATP to last about 10-15 seconds at maximum exertion. This is where creatine comes into play. Creatine helps muscles replenish ATP, causing you to train longer, more frequently, and at a higher intensity. Creatine has another effect on the body's muscles. Creatine helps draw water into the muscles, keeping them super-saturated with water, or volumizing the muscle. When muscles are super-hydrated like they are when one uses creatine, the muscles not only stay in an anti-catabolic (muscle building) state, but they help someone train longer and harder, leading to an increase in lean muscle mass\n\ni hope this helps, i wouldnt recommend anyone taking it because it's effect are temporary and will go away quite quickly if you dont maintain regular dosage daily
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Taking creatine should not be a problem. Creatine does nothing that would complicate your condition. Just don't overdo it; that goes for all creatine users. Your body only needs 3-5g of creatine phosphate per day, and in in the interest of keeping your system stable, do not follow the loading period sometimes recommended on the packaging - just start right off with the maintenance dose.\n\nA little background about creatine for those who are interested: creatine phosphate provides a quick way for muscle cells to regenerate ATP, the universal cellular energy source. However, creatine stores are depleted rapidly, usually within a few seconds tops. As far as comparisons to other athletic supplements, creatine usage is not considered doping and honestly is not anything to worry about. In fact, your liver actually makes a small amount of creatine, and for those of you who eat meat, you get a gram or two of the stuff from your diet everyday. You would get more, but cooking food denatures creatine to creatinine, the waste product of creatine. Your body is designed to absorb up to 3-5g daily from dietary intake though, so that is why supplementing with creatine will help most short-burst athletes. A quick final note about dosing: taking more than 5g per day will not give you any added benefits, and will only put your kidneys into overdrive.
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any type of pro hormones really mess u up in the long run, just take ur creatine ur protein, ur multivitamines, glutamine an flaxseed iols! and just pump iron like crazy! goodluck email me if anything
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Creatine causes muscle cells to absorb more water, causing them to stretch and look larger.  But the larger cell can also absorb protein better so that the increased size is retained.