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From: RichD on 14 Sep 2008 20:41

Anybody know anything about creatine?

I saw a can, it says one scoop before
a workout, one scoop after, builds lean
muscles, etc.

I will never take steroids, but is this stuff
worth anything?

--
Rich

From: Renli on 14 Sep 2008 20:59

On Sep 15, 8:41 am, RichD <r_delaney2...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> Anybody know anything about creatine?
>
> I saw a can, it says one scoop before
> a workout, one scoop after, builds lean
> muscles, etc.
>
> I will never take steroids, but is this stuff
> worth anything?
>
> --
> Rich

Creatine makes you retain water so it is not good for joggers,
dancers, form-performers unless you're just interested in burning
calories (and even then it's better not to use it since if you're
interested in burning calories you should use something which works on
metabolism?)

Anyways, what it is supposed to do is replace, replenish, or increase
the body's natural creatine, which is responsible for, basically,
getting rid of that burning feeling and ensuring your muscles are
ready to roar during weightlifting.

So I would imagine it has a very, very limited effect on sumo
wrestling, and zero effect for forms practice or sparring.

-

From: WannabeSomeoneCares on 14 Sep 2008 21:23

On Sep 14, 8:41 pm, RichD <r_delaney2...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> Anybody know anything about creatine?
>
> I saw a can, it says one scoop before
> a workout, one scoop after, builds lean
> muscles, etc.
>
> I will never take steroids, but is this stuff
> worth anything?
>
> --
> Rich

From: WannabeSomeoneCares on 14 Sep 2008 21:24

"RichD" <r_delaney2001(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:
6b0962cc-3d96-4b48-aa62-6e587a4dcfaa(a)a1g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
> Anybody know anything about creatine?
>
> I saw a can, it says one scoop before
> a workout, one scoop after, builds lean
> muscles, etc.
>
> I will never take steroids, but is this stuff
> worth anything?
>
>
> --
> Rich
>

I have used creatine on and off for quite many years. It provides you
with the energy for endurance in anaerobic respiration. It is legal
and harmless. The side-effort is water retention inside the muscle
cells (inside each individual cell instead of outside between cells).
This may be a desirable side-effect because it bulks up you muscle and
you look good in muscle-man competitions.

This website which sells body building products has very good articles
on creatine: http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/bbinfo.php?page=Creatine

This is what Wikipedia says about creatine:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatine#Function
Creatine, by way of conversion to and from phosphocreatine, functions
in all vertebrates and some invertebrates, in conjunction with the
enzyme creatine kinase. A similar system based on arginine/
phosphoarginine operates in many invertebrates via the action of
Arginine Kinase. The presence of this energy buffer system keeps the
ATP/ADP ratio high at subcellular places where ATP is needed, which
ensures that the free energy of ATP remains high and minimizes the
loss of adenosine nucleotides, which would cause cellular dysfunction.
Such high-energy phosphate buffers in the form of phosphocreatine or
phosphoarginine are known as phosphagens. In addition, due to the
presence of subcompartmentalized Creatine Kinase Isoforms at specific
sites of the cell, the phosphocreatine/creatine kinase system also
acts as an intracellular energy transport system from those places
where ATP is generated (mitochondria and glycolysis) to those places
where energy is needed and used, e.g., at the myofibrils for muscle
contraction, at the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) for calcium pumping,
and at the sites of many more biological processes that depend on
ATP..........................................

.......................

Wannabe

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From: number6 on 15 Sep 2008 11:13

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