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Creatine Loading Phase is also known as creatine cycline or creatine maintenance. It's a way of deciding how much creatine effervescent to consume on a regular basis. So how do you determine how your creatine loading phase looks like?
If you have never consumed creatine effervescent supplements before, you need to go through some sort of trial phase. Get your physician, fitness trainer and nutritionist involved. The goal here is to see how your body reacts to the new supplements.
Remember, creatine effervescent doesn't help to build bigger muscles. But it can help delay muscle fatigue by converting ADP back to ATP. It also helps with muscle recovery. So you don't need to take a lot of creatine - just the adequate amount will do.
Creatine loading is an approach that is commonly used by bodybuilders to build up the reserves of creatine in the body. In a way, it's similar to an approach that's known as carb loading.
A typical creatine loading phase looks like this:
Week 1 (loading starts): 20 grams daily
Week 2 to 4 (maintenance): 10 grams daily
Week 4 to 8 (rest): no creatine
Observe how your body responds to the above cycle. The loading cycle is designed to help you with your workouts. This cycle is useful because your body gets the opportunity to rest and adjust to the changes taking place. Consuming a huge amount of creatine on a daily basis may cause health problems.
The rest phase doesn't mean that you stop your workout. The loading phase would have done it's part by providing ample creatine in your body to continue working out.
Usually, 4 weeks is all you need to complete the creatine loading.
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