After the cure | Creatine Cure

After the cure

In general, the positive effects of the dietary supplement also decrease after the creatine is discontinued. As a result, the muscles no longer look so voluminous and even with the intensity of the workouts, one feels an earlier onset of fatigue. However, there is a possibility to cushion this negative effect a little and save as much substance as possible from the cure phase to the break.

For this purpose, one should ensure a balanced diet that contains a lot of protein and carbohydrates during the cure and also after the cure in the break. Furthermore, you should try to keep the training without creatine on a similar high level as in the creatine phase. The training weights should ideally be the same as in the creatine cure. However, the breaks can be a little longer, as fatigue also occurs a little earlier.

Alcohol

Alcohol is generally harmful if you want to do something good for your body through training, because the muscle build-up is disturbed and many minerals are lost through the dehydrating effect. However, it is not true that alcohol flushes the creatine out of the muscles. By taking creatine, the body already has a higher water requirement, which must be maintained even when consuming alcoholic beverages.

Anyone who drinks one or two beers in their creatine regimen does not have to fear muscle wasting or the creatine being flushed out of the muscles. If, however, you drink a lot of alcohol or consume it regularly, alcohol can cancel out the effect of the creatine and make it more or less useless. As with the dosage of creatine per se, the amount of alcohol you drink and the regularity with which you drink it are also important when combining it with alcohol.However, since alcohol dehydrates strongly, one should always consider to drink enough liquid. This should be the case especially when taking creatine.

Summary

The most important facts about the creatine cure are now once again available at a glance. A cure should last six to twelve weeks and can include a loading phase or be carried out completely without a loading phase. A cure break should last between four and six weeks and during this break you should try to keep the level of training as high as during the cure.

The daily intake should be between three and five grams of creatine, and this amount should be taken at one to four times. This is most sensible in the morning, before and after training and in the evening. To optimize the absorption and further processing in the body, a transport matrix can be used.

This can be glucose, but also fruit juices. Another important point is the fluid intake, which should be five to six liters of water per day. You should also avoid caffeine, but above all alcohol.

Caffeine can disrupt further processing in the body and the cure is no longer as effective. Alcohol withdraws water from the body and makes it even more difficult to maintain the already high level of water intake.