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If u never heard of creatine you are probably new to the health and fitness industry.However,even if u have heard about it, how much actually do you understand and know what really does creatine do to yourbody?You might be taking it because your friend or your trainer have asked to do so.Never put something into your body without knowing what it will does to your body.
Role of Creatine:
1. Provide extra energy for your muscles
This probably is the biggy.When performing high intensity exercise such as weight training,ATP(Adenosine Triphosphate), is a key fuel for muscle contraction, the repetition exercises you perform when weight lifting. When your muscles use ATP for energy , ATP is broken down into ADP(Adenosine Diphosphate) which releases the energy which gives your muscles the ability to contract. Unfortunately, we do not have an endless supply of ATP.Our body muscle only have enough ATP to last about 15-20 sec.In order to recharge back the ATP we need creatine,or more specifically the creatine phosphate.
2.Maximize Muscle Gain
Note :No supplement is magic.Creatine only to enhance your already existing training and nutritional program.It is used to increase your muscle’s work capacity.Creatine makes available the extra muscle-building energy(ATP) you need .This also mean ,more energy=more workload =muscle gain.Beside this, creatine has been shown to pull water into your muscle cells and thus increasing the volume of the muscles.This is different from the bloated look that causes by excessive water underneath the skin.The water will be pulled into muscle cells rather than underneath our skin by creatine.This creates a bigger and fuller appearance to the muscle and may help stimulate protein synthesis as well.
3.Buffer Lactic Acid build-up
ATP-PCr------>Glycolytic------->Aerobic
(15-20sec) (30-50sec) (60sec-2hours)
Process above show the rough idea of which energy system we are using during exercise.By understanding the process above, we can use creatine to delay the lactic acid build-up.Lactic acid is a byproduct of glycolysis.This is when u feel the burning sensation, soreness that your body ask you to stop .By improving the rate of ATP regeneration by taking creatine, glycolysis is postponed and lactic acid build-up is reduced.
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