Creatine use & its working

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Creatine- When lifting heavy weights, your body primarily uses ATP and CP (Creatine phosphate) stores, however these are very limited you cannot push any further until body makes more ATP from glycogen again. Also most of this ATP, actually exists in the body in the form of ADP (adenosine di-phosphate). When Creatine monohydrate is introduced in the body, it binds to the phosphorus inside the body and exists as Creatine phosphate. Now this Creatine phosphate during heavy workouts gives its phosphate to ADP to form ATP, this happens much faster than glycogen to ATP conversion thereby there’s a notable increase in your strength. Creatine is one of the best legal product available in the market and should be used by anyone who lifts weight at the gym Now there’s a common myth among bodybuilding community, that Creatine retains water. So let’s address that. First of all what do you mean by water retention? The water is stored in your muscle cells as well as outside of your muscle cells under the skin. This extracellular water stored under the skin is called water retention. It’s a defense mechanism employed by the body to keep you hydrated all the time. Now Creatine draws water directly into the muscles and not into the extracellular skin, which is a good thing. Tell them to the experts and they’ll be rolling their eyes now. Most of the times these people stop drinking water all together, stop eating sodium as well. Now sodium is one major electrolyte that helps in regulation of water in the body. So when body detects low levels of sodium and water, the hormone aldosterone is triggered, which further as a part of body’s defense mechanism tries to hang onto the water, thereby causing water retention intracellular as well as extracellular. And people thought it was due to Creatine.