Creatine Supplements – Information & Buying Information
Creatine is a naturally occurring amino acid sound within skeletal muscle tissue. It plays a vital role in the phosphate system, whereby ADP is regenerated into ATP.
If you are unaware of the phosphate system, let’s go over it briefly so you have an idea of a primary role that creatine plays in the human body when exercising. When you exercise, you expend energy. Force is generated by your muscles by breaking down ATP molecules (adenosine-triphosphate) into ADP (adenosine-diphosphate). During this reaction, energy is given off and thus muscles are provided with the required energy to produce force.
Note here that one phosphate atom is lost (going from triphosphate to diphosphate) from the ATP molecule. Creatine’s role is to assist in collecting a phosphate ion and re-attaching it to an ADP, in order to create a new ATP for more muscular force to be generated.
By using creatine supplements, you are able to saturate the muscle fibres with creatine. A greater abundance of creatine allows for an increased potential force to be generated in a relatively short period of time. Particularly if you are focused on power, strength, hypertrophy (gaining muscle) or sprinting ability, creatine supplements can be of great benefit. Not only will your force output increase, but the amount of overload will also increase, resulting in a greater degree of adaptation experienced by your body when recovering.
There is a bit of confusion about creatine supplements when it comes to gaining muscle. The true benefit of using creatine supplements is to increase your potential maximal force, thus increasing the overload which will instill additional muscular gains whilst recovering from training. Creatine supplements will not directly increase the amount of muscle that you are carrying. However it is worth noting that upon loading with creatine, you will most likely experience a weight increase due to a greater degree of fluid retention within muscle fibres.
We have a range of creatine supplements available in our store at the best prices in Australia!
