Benefits of Creatine For Muscle Growth
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Creatine was introduced to the bodybuilding industry in the early 1990s. Since then, literally thousands of other supplements have come and gone. So why is creatine still around?
The reason is that it flat-out works. Let’s take a look at what it does in our bodies so that we can have a better understanding of why it works so well.
Your muscles (and all the cells in your body) use a substance called ATP for energy. ATP stands for adenosine triphosphate. This is a molecule called adenosine with three phosphate groups attached. In order to create energy one of the phosphate groups is broken-off, which releases energy to the muscle cells for muscle contraction.