If this is the wrong forum, forgive me and please move it.
And I’m not referring to a fight so much as a grappling competition. The weigh ins are the same day, so I am not cutting water weight for this, and am getting my natural weight down to 164.
I read somewhere, maybe in a preview of John Berardi’s grappling nutrition book, that he mentions loading creatine a few days before a competition. My only concern is water weight gain. I don’t want to be overweight and have to fight 165-179 rather than 164 and under. Can anyone give me some insight?
I would be happy to start using creatine again now if I someone could help me find a way to use it without retaining extra water. I compete on the 9th of February. Thanks.
get some balls and fight someone larger than u!!! lol… wont it be a challenge, plus you will be pumped from loading the creatine…
it has different effects on people mate… some they keeep th water, others it drains fast… if you have never taken it before, then i would be skeptical at bringing it in so late…
however, it usually only takes a week to load anyway, after that you then maintenance dose, technically meaning you perhaps shouldnt have as much water retention…
id worry about using it for any aerobic activity,
your body uses it as a replacement for adinasen tri-phosphate, usualy it only has enough for 5 - 8 seconds of anaerobic work, supplementing it can boost it to like 15, but still, thats not enough to last the fight before your reserves give out, then you can cramp, i used to take it in season, and id cramp every game, untill i found out what was causeing it, althogh take my info with a grain of salt, since you did find it in a book
[quote]Footballer90 wrote:
id worry about using it for any aerobic activity,
your body uses it as a replacement for adinasen tri-phosphate, usualy it only has enough for 5 - 8 seconds of anaerobic work, supplementing it can boost it to like 15, but still, thats not enough to last the fight before your reserves give out, then you can cramp, i used to take it in season, and id cramp every game, untill i found out what was causeing it, althogh take my info with a grain of salt, since you did find it in a book[/quote]
fights are definitely not a pure aerobic activity and will definitely use creatine.
Unless you’re grappling a pillow.
That being said, most people will gain weight with creatine, but it might help your performance enough to offset that. Likely not. I wouldn’t risk trying it right before a fight, check it out some other time to see how much water weight you gain.