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Product Name: | Optimum Nutrition Micronized Creatine Monohydrate Powder, Unflavored, Keto Friendly, 120 Servings (Packaging May Vary) |
Manufacturer: | Glanbia Performance Nutrition |
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Product SKU: | B002DYIZEO |
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NOW Sports Nutrition, Kre-Alkalyn Creatine 750 mg, Mass Building*/Energy Production*, 240 Veg Capsules https://a.co/d/2ecNpdF
Creatine Monohydrate Powder | 2.2lbs (35.2 oz) | HPLC Purity Tested | Vegetarian, Non-GMO, & Gluten Free Supplement | by Horbaach https://a.co/d/76o4mnq
i'm just starting strength training, and I've just learned about creatine.
"HPLC purity testing", supposedly done in-house, is using chromatography https://www.google.com/search?q=h...en
Who knows. It's so hard to figure out what to trust as authentic nowadays. I think it's reasonable to start from a place of skepticism and disbelief these days. I wish there was a site…there is Consumer Labs https://www.consumerlab
this is a review from the cheaper creatine you linked to:
"This jug is a great value and mixes easily. It's not clumpy at all and very easy to consume. My only concern is --is it creatine??
All we know about this jug is that was packaged and lab tested in the USA. Not that it was made in the USA or if it was third party tested. I lean to purchasing products that are NSF or Informed Choice certified, since they are third party tested. Horbaach tests their products in house, using HPLC, which is a good test. I'm inclined to trust this company--they've been around 40 years after all and they do test their products, but they have the opportunity to take their quality tests to the next level and actually send their products to a third party lab. This would ease any of my lingering concerns, since the FDA does not regulate the market at all.
It's a great deal and appears to be a high quality creatine. (The scooper is nice too! And accurate!) However, if you are an athlete who is tested before competition, use at your own risk."
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i take it daily with a little orange water enhancer and it goes down easy and mixes really easy as well. Just make sure you drink your water as with all creatine supplementation
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It's something like a 5% performance gain & it's one of the only OTC supplements with any scientific evidence behind it…which shows how low the bar is with OTC supplements.
Don't get me started on ZMA & the story behind that one, it will ruin your view of the supplement industry.
In terms of performance gains, I've read the 5% figure and I'm a little skeptical. I suspect most of this deals with a continuous value (a quantized percentage value like 5%) overtop of a highly discrete value (things like number of reps, squeezing out one extra rep on top of say 8-10 normal reps, reps are typically small numbers talking about a lot of stuff so very big discrete bins here).
While you can certainly quantify energy in terms of reps, a rep is a pretty big bin of energy in that context and it doesn't take into account energy expenditure in partial reps or throughout a full body workout. You might squeeze another rep out here and there which only results in 5-10% gain, but you may also squeeze another partial rep which can aide in hypertrophy targets if that's what you're going for.
Purely anecdotally but I typically do full body workouts regularly and if I miss a few days of creatine when on regularly, I notice an overall less amount of energy throughout my entire workout, something that even if placebo, psychologically has more impact than something like 5% on my overall performance that day. I have more enthusiasm when I'm not feeling weak earlier in my sets or at least perceive I feel weak. And typically I really can squeeze out an extra rep or so. For me, it's been worth it, this is after years of only using whey and only adding creatine the past year. Others notice it as well visually which again, even if you are getting meager realized energy gains, mental determination is something that shouldn't be scoffed at and can make the difference between pushing that extra rep or set in, cranking that weight up just one more notch, etc.
All this is to say I'm very critical of most dietary supplements out there but whey and creatine are both reasonably priced, well studied, for most have an overall net positive impact, and aren't nearly as invasive as some other options people partake. While the impact isn't drastic, it exists verified by many studies and is mostly not bad. The rest of your supplements are mostly trash unless your diet is also trash or you have some deficiency of sorts. But yea, this isn't human growth hormone or some androgen manipulation cranking your testosterone up. It also doesn't have the same risks either.
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In terms of performance gains, I've read the 5% figure and I'm a little skeptical. I suspect most of this deals with a continuous value (a quantized percentage value like 5%) overtop of a highly discrete value (things like number of reps, squeezing out one extra rep on top of say 8-10 normal reps, reps are typically small numbers talking about a lot of stuff so very big discrete bins here).
While you can certainly quantify energy in terms of reps, a rep is a pretty big bin of energy in that context and it doesn't take into account energy expenditure in partial reps or throughout a full body workout. You might squeeze another rep out here and there which only results in 5-10% gain, but you may also squeeze another partial rep which can aide in hypertrophy targets if that's what you're going for.
Purely anecdotally but I typically do full body workouts regularly and if I miss a few days of creatine when on regularly, I notice an overall less amount of energy throughout my entire workout, something that even if placebo, psychologically has more impact than something like 5% on my overall performance that day. I have more enthusiasm when I'm not feeling weak earlier in my sets or at least perceive I feel weak. And typically I really can squeeze out an extra rep or so. For me, it's been worth it, this is after years of only using whey and only adding creatine the past year. Others notice it as well visually which again, even if you are getting meager realized energy gains, mental determination is something that shouldn't be scoffed at and can make the difference between pushing that extra rep or set in, cranking that weight up just one more notch, etc.
All this is to say I'm very critical of most dietary supplements out there but whey and creatine are both reasonably priced, well studied, for most have an overall net positive impact, and aren't nearly as invasive as some other options people partake. While the impact isn't drastic, it exists verified by many studies and is mostly not bad. The rest of your supplements are mostly trash unless your diet is also trash or you have some deficiency of sorts. But yea, this isn't human growth hormone or some androgen manipulation cranking your testosterone up. It also doesn't have the same risks either.
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