Creatine - cutting through the myths
Cutting through the myths
Can CREATINE safely boost performance, reduce fatigue and speed recovery?
Read this new guide to find out…
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Creatine is a performance-enhancing supplement used by famous athletes to boost short-term performance. Recent research has discovered that it aids endurance athletes too, even helping produce a final kick at the end of the race.
Some important questions, however, have been raised about Creatine and its effect on the body. A timely new book, Creatine - Cutting Through the Myths reviews the scientific research as well as the evidence of practical athletes to establish what Creatine actually does and doesn't do.
Creatine - Cutting Through the Myths is written by experts and includes the findings of one of the world's leading authorities. It is recommended that we sell this book at $59.99, but we are offering it to you at a 33% discount. You pay only $39.99!
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Here is a chapter by chapter summary of what you can find in this insightful guide:
BACKGROUND (1): Before we get to the nitty gritty, here’s a short history of creatine as an ergogenic supplement
BACKGROUND (2): OK, so exactly what is creatine, and how does it work in the body?
THE ERGOGENIC EFFECT: Why does creatine supplementation work when so many other sports supplements don’t?
TECHNICALLY SPEAKING: Factors modifying creatine accumulation in human skeletal muscle
WHO BENEFITS?: First it was power athletes and sprinters. Now creatine seems to work for endurance athletes as well
MORE ON ENDURANCE EXERCISE: Endurance cyclists improve their performance after taking creatine
POWER BOOSTS: Low doses of creatine can help endurance athletes when they need to surge or kick for the line
SIDE-EFFECTS: Are we to believe the recent scare stories about creatine?
MORE RESEARCH: Could caffeine take the buzz out of your creatine?
HOW MUCH TO TAKE: If you want to improve your performance, get the dosage right and maximise creatine uptake. Combine it with carbo!
ANOTHER ERGOGENIC SUPPLEMENT: HMB does wonders for chickens and pigs, but does it really work for human athletes?
TWO MORE ERGOGENIC SUPPLEMENTS: These three short reports look at two other performance boosters – caffeine and sodium bicarbonate
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY
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Creatine - three ways to boost performance
Tests carried out at the Karolinska Institute in Denmark in the 1970s and 1980s found that increasing the amount of Creatine - or methyl guanidine-acetic acid - stored in the muscles improves muscle function and energetics. High levels of Creatine phosphate are thought to boost performance in three ways:
- 1. Providing an instant source of energy
- 2. Mopping up some of the fatigue-causing acid that builds up during high-intensity exercise
- 3. Directly stimulating muscle proteins to contract
Why does Creatine work when so many other sports supplements don't?
The history of sport is littered with supplements that promise the earth yet deliver nothing more than a placebo affect. But Creatine is different.
Numerous double blind scientific studies have shown that supplementing Creatine produces a significant increase in maximal or high-intensity exercise performance in events such as running, swimming and cycling. Not only does oral Creatine boost maximal performance, but the greater the increase in Creatine uptake, the greater the performance increases.
Creatine not only helps sustain a high-intensity burst for longer, it speeds recovery enabling you to repeat those bursts sooner.
Endurance athletes
There is no doubt that Creatine is of great benefit to power and strength athletes such as sprinters and throwers. This has been confirmed beyond doubt by numerous scientific studies.
But recent research has found that endurance athletes can also benefit from Creatine supplementation by:
- Improving the quality of interval training
- Increasing strength
- Staving off injury
Review copies now available
A limited number of review copies of Creatine - Cutting Through the Myths are now available at a special price of $39.99, a 33% discount on the recommended retail price of $59.99. (A5 size, spiral bound; 13 chapters, 89 pages).
The book explains who should try Creatine, how much to take and how to gain the maximum performance boost. It examines recent scare stories concerning weight gain, muscle cramping or liver and kidney problems.
Your questions answered
All of these topics, with almost every other relevant question have been investigated and analysed in the light of the most relevant scientific studies. Topics include:
- What dosage should you take to start?
- How much a day is needed to maintain muscle saturation?
- Should I take Creatine monohydrate or one of the newer versions such as Creatine phosphate, Creatine citrate or Creatine syrum?
- What seven checks for purity should be undertaken?
- What are the best sources of Creatine in the diet?
- Why do some people soak up Creatine far more easily than others do?
- What are the strategies for maximising the efficiency of Creatine uptake?
- What is the effect of combining Creatine with a carbohydrate diet?
- When should you stop taking Creatine?
- Does caffeine help with the uptake of Creatine or counteract its effects?
- Is the overall composition of the diet relevant?
- How much Creatine can be taken before the excess gets shunted to the kidneys?
Other performance boosters every athlete needs to know about
HMB (beta-hydroxy beta-methylbutyrate), sometimes referred to as metabolite of leucine was first widely heard of during the 1996 Olympic Games when American swimmers were quoted as saying that they had used HMB during training to enhance performance.
HMB is thought to increase muscle mass by preventing protein breakdown caused by resistance training and enhancing the repair process.
Current research on HMB examines how it increases muscle mass, by how much and over what period it should be taken.
The final chapter looks at two other performance boosters - caffeine and bicarbonate of soda - and explains how they work.
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"This book is the best information source on creatine."
Jacob DeClute, Assistant Men's Soccer Coach, Wheaton College, Illinois