Creatine Loading

Fitness training is an important part of maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Sure, you can get away with a walk to the bus stop as your daily/weekly exercise. But if you have a slow metabolism, you will more often than not, need to raise the heart rate more than just what it is at walking pace to keep a good figure - if that's what you want of course.

Being skinny for so long, I've made several weak attempts to gain weight but no noticeable changes have occurred. I'm almost certain that I have one of those fast metabolisms. One where I can eat 2 cups of rice for dinner with a generous serving of peppered steak, and be hungry about 3 hours later before I go to bed. I've never understood how this works or if it is actually my metabolism which is the reason for me never gaining weight. Growing up and being served with rice as the side of choice to my steamed veges and meat, is it possible that my body has just become efficient at breaking down these carbohydrates?

This time, I will try something different. Using some YouTube advice from InstructionalFitness and a little bit of the old fashioned just eating more, I'm hoping to put on some pounds. I've had 1kg of Creatine Monohydrate lying around for a few months and I'm using the destructions on the back as a guide as how I should use it with my muscle program. I've tested it out a few times but I've never done the proper 'loading' and then uptake after training schedule.

Today is the 6th day of the loading program which entails 1 heaped teaspoon mixed into juice, 4 times a day for 1 week. I've been training this last week and have noticed some maximum muscle push increase which is what it's meant to do. 95% of Creatine in the body is in skeletal muscles and it increases the formation of Adenosine triphosphate. ATP is required for some very important, energy intensive, cellular function. Have a look at Wiki if you want to know more. Warnings on the label and on the web do say to be careful though as administering it at the wrong time could cause diarrhoea and other displeasing effects.

There are suggestions that it is not suited to persons who have asthma or bad liver, but I am unsure how this has been tested. I have been mainly focusing my training on the upper body - chest, arms, and shoulders. If I were to set a goal for now, it would be to be able to bench 50kg for at least 8 reps, this sounds reasonable. Long term goal is just to keep fit in case I need to do some work on a farm for some work experience. Best to be prepared than not at all.