UK Study: Creatine Protects Against Traumatic Brain Injury

[YB2]

Because the creatine is just water filled into the muscle. Let's say a boer who weights 130 wants to get to 150. They workout, eat slightly more to gain the weight and use creatine. They get to 150 but the added weight is mostly water from the creatine. Once you get off it, you'll lose the weight. But if you don't take creatine and just try to gain the weight by lifting with no creatine, that 20 lbs. can be most muscle without added temporary water.

Yes, but when using the creatine you will gain more muscle that will stay than if you didn't, so if you can gain 20 lbs without creatine you can (for example, this information is an example and isn't accurate because it differs by regime and people) gain 30 lbs of muscle using creatine as it will make your muscles recover faster and therefore give you the ability to have more growth.

[hemichromis]

Because the creatine is just water filled into the muscle. Let's say a boer who weights 130 wants to get to 150. They workout, eat slightly more to gain the weight and use creatine. They get to 150 but the added weight is mostly water from the creatine. Once you get off it, you'll lose the weight. But if you don't take creatine and just try to gain the weight by lifting with no creatine, that 20 lbs. can be most muscle without added temporary water.

creatine is the first energy source a muscle uses therefore eating creatine makes you able to lift more weight in a workout and therefore grow more afterwards. it doesn;t speed up recopvery times from what i have heard because you cause more damage to the muscle suring the workout

[Lucky466]

If it actually helps prevent brain injurys then I am going to seriously consider taking it. I have so far not taken any kind of supplements at all because I dont like the idea of putting a large ammount of chemicals into my body. But if this is true this is something anybody who boxes should consider. I dont care if it makes me jump up in weight a little if it can help me not end up punch drunk .

[YB2]

It does speed up recovery times, do more in depth research.

[PunchDrunk]

Because the creatine is just water filled into the muscle. Let's say a boer who weights 130 wants to get to 150. They workout, eat slightly more to gain the weight and use creatine. They get to 150 but the added weight is mostly water from the creatine. Once you get off it, you'll lose the weight. But if you don't take creatine and just try to gain the weight by lifting with no creatine, that 20 lbs. can be most muscle without added temporary water.

Well, most boxers don't want to gain 20 lbs., so I don't think that argument even applies. But even if it did, you're grossly overestimating the water retention caused by creatine. We're talking maybe 4lbs.

Now, when we're speaking about a fighter who wants to stay as low weight as possible, those 4lbs might be a problem. as someone pointed out, you'll lose that water pretty fastonce you get off creatine, so it's mostly a matter of getting the timing right.

As for the benefits of creatine, it's definitely useful for explosive training and power endurance training, which is (or should be) a big part of a boxers regimen. Granted, we're probably talking a performance increase of 5% at most, but for someone serious, and at a high level, it all adds up. The harder you can train, the harder you will perform.

[PunchDrunk]

If it actually helps prevent brain injurys then I am going to seriously consider taking it. I have so far not taken any kind of supplements at all because I dont like the idea of putting a large ammount of chemicals into my body. But if this is true this is something anybody who boxes should consider. I dont care if it makes me jump up in weight a little if it can help me not end up punch drunk .

I kinda like being PunchDrunk myself...

[Zigga]

Creatine will only produce water retention if u load up on it as instructed on the back label of most products, u need to load to get levels high enough, however by taking a small amount mixed in with food 0.5 grams a day after roughly 1 month creatine levels will be as high as loading for a week and u avoid almost all water retention, creatine is a excellent product, as mentioned somewhere it increasres atp which is used for exposive actions, all boxers shpuld be explosive so to speak when fighhting.