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Protein is fuel for building, maintaining, and repairing muscle fibers. Without enough protein, the body uses/attacks your muscles as an energy source, and they eventually shrink. If you're trying to build muscle, a protein surplus is recommended -- too much is better than too little (within reason!) One gram of protein per pound of body weight is an easy "set it and forget it" amount to aim for daily. If not trying to actively build muscle, you don't need this much.
Creatine serves to deliver and retain more water (H2O) to muscles during exertion, aiding in explosive movements (e.g. weight lifting.) Your body naturally creates enough creatine for its daily needs, but if you're trying to push beyond your boundaries, building up a higher concentration helps here, and the idea is to maintain that elevated concentration by taking it every day. There are supposedly some other benefits (improved circulation, mental acuity) but I wouldn't know anything about that. Water retention in muscle to benefit explosive movements is the main benefit of creatine IMO.
If you're only gonna use one, I'd go protein all the way. A creatine supplement is wholly unnecessary if you are not truly pushing your body/muscles. If you are regularly lifting weights and want to make the most of your workouts, both are great, but protein is the important one.
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I was on creatine for a while (along with protein) and the creatine helped my workouts. But it caused stomach issues for me. May go back on it, adjusting the dosage/schedule and give it another try.
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Protein is fuel for building, maintaining, and repairing muscle fibers. Without enough protein, the body uses/attacks your muscles as an energy source, and they eventually shrink. If you're trying to build muscle, a protein surplus is recommended -- too much is better than too little (within reason!) One gram of protein per pound of body weight is an easy "set it and forget it" amount to aim for daily. If not trying to actively build muscle, you don't need this much.
Creatine serves to deliver and retain more water (H2O) to muscles during exertion, aiding in explosive movements (e.g. weight lifting.) Your body naturally creates enough creatine for its daily needs, but if you're trying to push beyond your boundaries, building up a higher concentration helps here, and the idea is to maintain that elevated concentration by taking it every day. There are supposedly some other benefits (improved circulation, mental acuity) but I wouldn't know anything about that. Water retention in muscle to benefit explosive movements is the main benefit of creatine IMO.
If you're only gonna use one, I'd go protein all the way. A creatine supplement is wholly unnecessary if you are not truly pushing your body/muscles. If you are regularly lifting weights and want to make the most of your workouts, both are great, but protein is the important one.
Thanks yeah I've used whey in the past but I've had to switch to vegetable protein.
Protein is fuel for building, maintaining, and repairing muscle fibers. Without enough protein, the body uses/attacks your muscles as an energy source, and they eventually shrink. If you're trying to build muscle, a protein surplus is recommended -- too much is better than too little (within reason!) One gram of protein per pound of body weight is an easy "set it and forget it" amount to aim for daily. If not trying to actively build muscle, you don't need this much.
Creatine serves to deliver and retain more water (H2O) to muscles during exertion, aiding in explosive movements (e.g. weight lifting.) Your body naturally creates enough creatine for its daily needs, but if you're trying to push beyond your boundaries, building up a higher concentration helps here, and the idea is to maintain that elevated concentration by taking it every day. There are supposedly some other benefits (improved circulation, mental acuity) but I wouldn't know anything about that. Water retention in muscle to benefit explosive movements is the main benefit of creatine IMO.
If you're only gonna use one, I'd go protein all the way. A creatine supplement is wholly unnecessary if you are not truly pushing your body/muscles. If you are regularly lifting weights and want to make the most of your workouts, both are great, but protein is the important one.
Protein has wildly varying quality in terms of its purity, mixability, flavors, price, etc. Though a lot of the details on what aspect is important to various users, there's no denying that there's wildly different products out there.
When it comes to creatine, creatine is creatine, basically. There's nothing noteworthy about one versus another, generally.
Finally, creatine is relatively a lot cheaper, has some purported benefits outside of what youve mentioned, and also has no substantial recorded negative effects (some people feel slightly nauseous after a dose) with certain measured benefits.
I do agree that if youre going to for some reason only choose one i'd make sure to get enough protein, but I also think its easy enough to do both.
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Protein is fuel for building, maintaining, and repairing muscle fibers. Without enough protein, the body uses/attacks your muscles as an energy source, and they eventually shrink. If you're trying to build muscle, a protein surplus is recommended -- too much is better than too little (within reason!) One gram of protein per pound of body weight is an easy "set it and forget it" amount to aim for daily. If not trying to actively build muscle, you don't need this much.
Creatine serves to deliver and retain more water (H2O) to muscles during exertion, aiding in explosive movements (e.g. weight lifting.) Your body naturally creates enough creatine for its daily needs, but if you're trying to push beyond your boundaries, building up a higher concentration helps here, and the idea is to maintain that elevated concentration by taking it every day. There are supposedly some other benefits (improved circulation, mental acuity) but I wouldn't know anything about that. Water retention in muscle to benefit explosive movements is the main benefit of creatine IMO.
If you're only gonna use one, I'd go protein all the way. A creatine supplement is wholly unnecessary if you are not truly pushing your body/muscles. If you are regularly lifting weights and want to make the most of your workouts, both are great, but protein is the important one.
5 grams a day. some peopl start with 10 to get to a baseline, but honestly it doenst take long. just do 5g a day.
BUT, my main problem is HIGH sodium content...somehow I can not get pass 390mg of sodium in 2 scoops
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