Special
Report
Bodybuilding Benefits From Creatine
Kent Fischer - 31 December 2008
Flick through the muscle mags, and you'll see increasingly slick advertisements, They promise
amazing results, with little effort, just by mixing up the latest Dr.Jekyll elixir. Luckily
for those who are willing to do investigate, a lot of these nebulous products can be avoided, just
by focusing on proven research. Rather than “change” for the
sake of change, which seems to have captured the minds of the unthinking of late, focus on the plethora of evidence
surrounding creatine.
Micronized creatine monohydrate provides no unwanted side effects, is incredibly
effective at accelerating muscle mass and strength gains, and best of all inexpensive!
For packing on muscle, nothing beats creatine monohydrate. Nothing comes close.
Science has just scratched the surface of the true potential of this supplement.
POWERFUL
ANTI-INFLAMMATORY
Consistent bombing and blitzing of your muscles day-in/day-out
results in a chronic inflammatory response throughout the entire body. This unrelenting omniscient
inflammation can really impede progress and lead to over training.
Minimizing the inflammatory response from exercise will speed
recovery and keep the quality gains coming. A recent study has shown that loading with
creatine monohydrate can actually help exercise induced inflammation.
A study was done on a group of triatheletes (a combination of running,
swimming, and bicycling) in which the competitors were each given 20 grams of monohydrate 5 days
prior to their event. A placebo group was given plain sugar. Blood tests revealed the creatine-treated group
possessed much lower levels of pro-inflammatory cytokine after the race.
The researchers concluded the creatine group showed increased
performance and and better recovery by reducing inflammation.
WHAT THIS
MEANS TO YOU
Short-term loading with creatine appears to reduce
exercise-induced inflammation, but there is a better way. CREATINE CYCLING is a strategy that will
accelerate muscle building gains and reduce recovery time.
NEUROPROACTIVE
POTENTIAL
Due to the ability to regulate energy production pathways and muscle
metabolism creatine supplementation has been used to successfully ameloriate
neurodegenerative diseases such as muscular Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s disease.
Supplementation not only increases muscle concentrations, it also increases
brain phophocreatine concentrations. Increasing this important energy reservoir is thought to protect
against neural degeneration. A recent study has supported this theory.
Results of the study show a regeneration of spinal cord nerve cells against a
well known anti-toxin (3-NP). In fact the study indicates creatine plays an important role in
spinal cord neuron development. Creatine has a double benefit: Protects against neurotoxins that
promote nerve degeneration and promotes the health of spinal cord cells. Creatine will
play a important rule in future spinal cord injury treatments
3-DAY LOADING PHASE ACTIVATES GENES THAT BUILD
MUSCLE
Creatine supplementations promotes muscle mass, strength, and
power. These Herculean effects are thought to trigger increases in cell volume. Increasing cell
volume (fluid content) is a potent anabolic signal that triggers protein synthesis, glycogen accumulation
and the expression of genes that increase size and strength.
Canadian scientists have recently shown a 3-day loading phase (20 grams per
day), followed by a 7 day maintenance phase 5 grams per day) was enough to ensure a powerful stimulus that
triggered an increase in the expression of many genes responsible for increasing cell volume and
muscle growth.
Here’s the incredible part. This study included no exercise program and yet a
simple 3-day loading phase increased muscle growth by stimulating genes associated with increasing
muscle size.
WHAT THIS MEANS
FOR YOU
Many sports scientists believe we have only scratched the surface, of
achieving and documenting the effects of micronized creatine. Unfortunately many body builders do
not use the creatine, and don’t achieve the mind blowing Hercules muscle building effects.
Creatine has literally been put under the microscope by sports
scientists, and has been deemed both safe and extremely effective. It is also an extremely
economical supplement and can be considered the HOLY GRAIL of
sports supplements.
For best results, we will examine a strategy outlined to create a
synergy between intense training and cell metabolism, to trigger an potent anabolic response
at the cellular level that produces rapid strength and muscle development. For those who have obtained
no results, poor results, or even good results from using creatine, hold on to your seats.
Follow this strategy exactly as outlined and reap phenomenal results.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: BRINGING YOU UP TO
SPEED…
The traditional way of creatine cycling involves a 5-7 day
loading phase of 20 to 25 grams a day followed by a daily maintenace dose of 2 to 5 grams of creatine per
day. These standards are considered by many to be set in stone but there is a better way. What athletes
and coaches don’t realize, is that this old fashioned approach is based on limited research and in
actuality wastes 70-80% of the potential results. So while the scatter gun approach will
produce results it won’t produce maximum results.
Most studies of creatine have lasted only 6 to 12
weeks and the results have already begun to diminish by the end of the six weeks. Some may continue this
course for years. Taking creatine without proper knowledge is a sure way to short circuit
results. It‘s like performing surgery after completing a first aid course.
RESEARCH CLUES TO OBTAIN A BETTER GREATER ANABOLIC
EFFECT
Research shows that if you can get a high concentration of
creatine in the muscles you greatly magnify the efficacy of any additional
supplelments you utiilize. High concentrations of creatine in the muscle results in increased
energy in the cells along with several physiological benefits: up-regulation of the muscle genes
responsible for rapid size increases, increased muscle cell volume and accelerated protein synthesis rates
as well greater glycogen (carbohydrates) storage for future workouts.
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