Archive for February 2008

Answer:

Creatine is a very powerful supplement for both bodybuilders, but regular athletes as well like sprinters and throwers. It’s been confirmed beyond any reasonable doubt by numerous scientific studies available online.

The three most beneficial benefits to bodybuilders are:

- Improved quality of interval training
- Increased strength
- Starving off injury

Creatine ethyl ester, (or creatine ester or cre-ester) is a substance that works as an aid in athletic performance and muscle development in bodybuilding. It’s an ethyl ester derivative of creatine, which is what it comes from. Once in the body, creatine ethyl ester is converted into creatine.

Creatine monohydrate has a much slower absorption rate than ethyl ester, as well as a shorter half-life. This is because ethyl ester is a little more lipophilic. The ethyl group of creatine reduces acid celebrity and accelerates the breakdown of creatine. It’s been concluded that after all the benefits of creatine ethyl ester, it’s not as good of a source of creatine as creatine monohydrate is.

If you’re looking to produce optimal results with creatine, your muscle stores must be satured with it.  To do this, you need to load the creatine for 5 days at about 20-25 grams.  Spread this throughout the day into 4 or 5 services.  This is the quickest and probably (arguably) the best way to saturate your muscles with creatine.

After you go through this inital 5 day phase,  you need to take 5-10 grams a day to maintain your levels of saturation.  Any creatine you take after this will be excreted as creatinine.