Paladin
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Suareezy
To clarify: I'm not awesome. I was looking to see if anyone had similar results.
So, you use creatine post-workout? I was under the impression that creatine pre-workout gave better results. Consider this: the loading phase. You take a much higher dosage for a week to saturate your muscles with creatine. When you do this, your body has excess creatine to burn--allowing you to use more of it for energy--which is why many people feel more energized and are able to push out sets stronger when used pre-workout. The stable concentration of creatine monohydrate after the loading phase is simply to keep it in your system and available so that your body can take larger loads of stress during workout. Creatine does aid in preventing muscle catabolism and therefore it's common for it to be taken post-workout. However, glutamine is much better at preventing this. So it's best to take creatine, at least a large portion of your dosage, 30min to hour pre-workout so it has time to work into your body and be available. And then it's best to eat or drink your protein (only some of it, not all obviously, but I ate about 60-80g of it post-workout) with glutamine. That way the protein you just ate or drank isn't all tossed out of your body before your body has time to utilize it and glutamine for protein synthesis, which is mostly done while you sleep.
To clarify: I'm not awesome. I was looking to see if anyone had similar results.
So, you use creatine post-workout? I was under the impression that creatine pre-workout gave better results. Consider this: the loading phase. You take a much higher dosage for a week to saturate your muscles with creatine. When you do this, your body has excess creatine to burn--allowing you to use more of it for energy--which is why many people feel more energized and are able to push out sets stronger when used pre-workout. The stable concentration of creatine monohydrate after the loading phase is simply to keep it in your system and available so that your body can take larger loads of stress during workout. Creatine does aid in preventing muscle catabolism and therefore it's common for it to be taken post-workout. However, glutamine is much better at preventing this. So it's best to take creatine, at least a large portion of your dosage, 30min to hour pre-workout so it has time to work into your body and be available. And then it's best to eat or drink your protein (only some of it, not all obviously, but I ate about 60-80g of it post-workout) with glutamine. That way the protein you just ate or drank isn't all tossed out of your body before your body has time to utilize it and glutamine for protein synthesis, which is mostly done while you sleep.
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