Peak Body Creatine Monohydrate

Why Take Supplements?

It’s no secret that for maximum muscle mass, strength and fat loss gains, training and nutrition are without doubt, the two most important factors you need to consider. Well, let’s put it this way: all the supplements in the world will not maximize your progress if you haven’t implemented an optimal training and nutrition plan.

While supplements can ‘fill in the gaps’ and offer ‘additive’ benefits on top of an already great training and nutrition protocol, they cannot act as a full replacement. But, once you have got your nutrition and training in order, supplements can certainly help! Even with everything on point, it might still be difficult to give your body everything it needs and in the quantities your body requires. Especially when you start training and growing, then your body needs much more of everything! This makes it even more difficult to get everything you need from simply wholefoods. So, supplements come in handy. What supplements then, should you be looking to incorporate to maximize your performance and progress? Well, a major one with lots of scientific backing is creatine. Keep reading to find out why.

Creatine: The Driver of More Size and Strength

This one is a no brainer, creatine is an absolute must for anyone looking to maximize their size and strength gains and, the science backs this up! Although creatine can be obtained from meats and dairy products, dietary or lifestyle restrictions might limit the amount of creatine you can get from wholefood. Luckily, Peak Body Creatine Monohydrate makes it easy for you to give your body the creatine it needs to optimize muscle size and strength. However, there is more to creatine than first meets the eye, with creatine demonstrating a multi-functional role in the body in order to enhance muscular function.

Creatines main function

Creatines main function is as a ‘phosphate donor’ to ADP (an intermediate), which in turn leads to the formation of the ATP (the bodies energy currency) in your muscle cells. With access to sufficient ATP, your muscles have the energy necessary to produce optimal amounts of force. Since heavy weight lifting (high-intensity training) relies largely on this source of phosphate for energy, creatine is essential to ensuring your muscles operate with maximum force production efficiency during weight training. Of course, research has shown that through creatine supplementation, performance to high-intensity weight training can be significantly improved (Brosnan and Brosnan, 2007). But, it doesn’t just stop with strength increases, as creatine has also been found to enhance muscle mass. A potential explanation for this is that creatine might act to upregulate a range of ‘regulators’ involved in protein synthesis (muscle growth) (Brosnan and Brosnan, 2007).

Creatine may also play an important role in increasing muscle glycogen content. This is important because glycogen is the major store of energy for muscle cells. Really, glycogen is simply a store of glucose. More glucose means more energy. Research has suggested that creatine supplementation might cause an upregulation of a specific glucose transporter known as GLUT-4 on the muscle cells. GLUT-4 simply allows glucose to flow into the muscle cells from the bloodstream. So, more creatine, more GLUT-4 and hence more glucose into your muscles for energy! (Brosnan and Brosnan, 2007).

I think it is safe to say that the science is pretty clear cut when it comes to creatine and its positive effects on muscular size and strength! So, if your goal is to build maximum amounts of muscle and strength, then adding Peak Body creatine monohydrate to your daily ritual seems like the smart thing to do. Especially if you are looking to take your gains to the next level.

Article written by Stephen Moreton.