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Many people use endurox, accelerade, take vitamins, etc....

ugh.

Taking creatine will (probably) not help your recovery and here is why:

1) The PC-ATP system uses creatine to synthesize ATP for short bursts of energy. By itself it can produce energy to last ~10-15 seconds. This is the system you would be restoring - how important do you think this system is to anything over 100m?

2) Do you think that creatine protein survives intact through your acidic stomach and then through the multiple enzymes in your small intestines whose only goal is to break up peptides ? Maybe, but I doubt it.

3) Why do you think you need the extra creatine anyway? Is your body not synthesizing enough on its own?

Anyway, this is a touchy subject with me as I have many friends who 'lift' and take hundreds of dollars of 'supplements' a month... There are very few out there (legal ones at least) that do much more than lighten your wallet.

Creatine certainly survives the stomach acids and enzymes. There are numerous studies that measured body creatine levels before supplementation and then after and in many to most, creatine levels increased. (Part of whether or not their is an increase is the level of creatine prior to the supplementation).

CAFFINE

ZMA

Get access to a lab and test what you plan to take.

If it passes, it's legal.

That's the route that Montgomery, Greene, M Jones and Gatlin went.

Gatlin must have slipped or a trainer did rub some strange cream on him before testing but the others never failed a drug test.

"Anyway, this is a touchy subject with me as I have many friends who 'lift' and take hundreds of dollars of 'supplements' a month... There are very few out there (legal ones at least) that do much more than lighten your wallet."

Creatine has been proven to work for body lifters as it makes you put on weight fast i've witness the effects first hand. Now if you mean for running then I'll admit not knowing about that.

Well, if you've seen it work, I'm convinced!

This is one of the few intelligent posts I have seen on LetsRun.

Creatine doesn't help for any athletic event over about 1 minute in length.

Sean Nunn

Raytown South

Sean Nunn wrote:

This is one of the few intelligent posts I have seen on LetsRun.

This is one of the many dumb comments I have seen on LetsRun.

Lifters usually spend their money on a quality protein supplement, creatine, or fish oil.

All three have proven benefits.

Alan

beta alinine

Echinacea

caffeine

Drugs, alcohol & sex with women.

There are a ton of things that you could take to help with running and overall performance that are legal.

1. Fish oils (high doses)

2. B-12

3. Ginger

4. Curcumin

5. Cissus

6. Bilberry

7. Novedex XT

8. cordyceps

9. rhodiola rosea

I was actually going to mention beta-alinine, but the research is still fairly new.

It's like the creatine for distance runners. It does for the metabolic pathways of distance runners what creatine does for the metabolic pathways of sprinters and lifters.

Alan