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Creatine and running?

elpea120 Posts: 69 Joined: 2006/12/17	2007/09/04, 09:42 PM I'm trying to do everything I can do be as fast as I can as a 5km racer, and something I've thinking about is creatine. Would it be beneficial for me to take creatine as a cross country runner?
rev8ball Posts: 3,081 Joined: 2001/12/27	2007/09/05, 12:13 AM No. -------------- Michael Humble, even in Victory.
SFGiantsMVP Posts: 1,533 Joined: 2005/12/04	2007/09/05, 04:29 PM In health yes and even recovery it also may in muscle endurance and fatigue as your muscle will be saturated in water. As for the Gym purposes and speeds boosts No as rev said. If you Google Creatine CEE you'll find it's useful for many thing even cardio types but used as a muscle aid in growth I'd say no because running like you do and gaining mass is like standing and sitting at the same time just can't do it! Try doing wide stance squats, box squats, lunges and deadlifts as they are for explosiveness and can help aid in speed! -------------- Knock-Um Down & Keep-Um Down!
rev8ball Posts: 3,081 Joined: 2001/12/27	2007/09/05, 08:50 PM Supplementing with any type of creatine will not help your cross country running at all (and I'm not a fan of CEE). SFGiantsMVP is on the right track, but the main reason it won't do anything is because the types of muscle fibers and the type of fuel that you use to do long distance running is not the same fuel and fibers that may benefit from creatine supplementation. -------------- Michael Humble, even in Victory.