The muscle building supplement creatine is actually a natural substance which is most commonly found in foods such as red meat. However it has become a staple supplement for many bodybuilders who use creatine for building muscle, as it has been shown to help bodybuilders in a number of ways. Before you think about taking creatine make sure you speak to your doctor.
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.
The first thing to address is what creatine is not. There is much misinformation surrounding performance enhancing supplements. Contrary to what some people may think, creatine is not a steroid. Steroids act within the body's hormonal system and creatine is a derived from an amino acid that already functions in the body.
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.
Facts behind The subjects in this study were not bodybuilders, they were active but physically untrained, college males. Untrained college men would not be nearly as disciplined or motivated as bodybuilders with regard to their eating, sleeping patterns or training intensity.
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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