Description
NutraBio Creatine Monohydrate - 150 Capsules
The Purest Creatine Monohydrate Available!
Key Benefits
- Increased Muscle Strength and Size: Creatine boosts muscle strength, power, and size by enhancing ATP production, allowing for more intense and longer workouts.
- Enhanced Endurance: Delays the onset of fatigue, enabling you to train harder and longer.
- Improved Recovery: Speeds up muscle recovery post-workout, reducing downtime between training sessions.
- Lactic Acid Buffering: Acts as a buffer for lactic acid, helping to delay muscle fatigue and reduce the 'burning' sensation during intense exercise.
- Convenience: Creatine capsules offer a convenient alternative to powders, making it easy to take your supplements on the go without the need for mixing.
- Precise Dosage: Capsules ensure accurate dosing, eliminating the guesswork of measuring powders.
- No Taste or Texture Issues: Avoids powdered supplements' taste and texture issues.
What is Creatine Monohydrate?
Creatine monohydrate is a precursor to creatine phosphate, the bio-energetic fuel that replenishes cellular ATP (adenosine triphosphate) levels during maximum-intensity contractions. Supplementing with creatine monohydrate can increase creatine phosphate levels in muscles, improving work output capacity, power, recovery, and hydration. Properly hydrated muscles minimize muscle catabolism (breakdown).
Creatine Boosts Muscle Strength, Size, and Endurance
Creatine is one of the most researched and necessary sports supplements available today. It has become essential for athletes looking to increase workout intensity and delay the onset of fatigue. Research shows that supplementing with creatine can boost muscle size, strength, and endurance, improve athletic performance, and speed muscle recovery. Saturating your muscles with creatine enhances your body's ability to quickly replenish and recycle ATP, increasing muscle energy and delaying muscle fatigue. Studies indicate that athletes who supplement with creatine while weight training can quickly gain lean body mass and strength.
Creatine May Act as a Lactic Acid Buffer and Improve Exercise Recovery Time
Lactic acid, a byproduct of anaerobic exercise such as weight training, is responsible for the 'burning' sensation when muscles become fatigued. When you can no longer train, it's either because you've run out of energy or because of a lactic acid buildup. Creatine may act as a buffer for lactic acid, helping to delay the onset of fatigue.
Creatine Stimulates Protein Synthesis
Creatine may also promote muscle growth by stimulating protein synthesis in two ways. First, it increases your work due to its energy-replenishing actions. Second, the more creatine phosphate is stored in the muscle, the more water is drawn into it, making it fuller and firmer. Increased creatine phosphate and water in the muscle volumize the muscle cell, which helps trigger protein synthesis, minimize protein breakdown, and increase glycogen synthesis. This volumization effect can enhance muscle growth when muscles are properly trained. The muscle 'pump' experienced when using creatine is reportedly much more intense due to this cell volumizing effect.