Obviously, once you’ve got your high-quality creatine on your supplement shelf or in your gym bag, you want it to be improving your training as soon as possible… and this is exactly the intent of the loading phase of the creatine cycle - by hitting peak muscle saturation in the shortest time.Īt this point, some creative readers may be thinking “hey, can I speed up the whole process by taking 50… 100… or maybe even the whole 150 grams of the loading phase in one go and save 5 days before hitting peak gains?” The goal is to hit peak muscle saturation quickly
#CREATINE LOADING FULL#
However, for optimal benefits, ideally, the user would want to get full muscle saturation of creatine as soon as possible… right? Absolutely! There is only so much supplemental creatine that the muscles will hold, regardless of how much is consumed, which will be determined by genetics, amount of lean muscle mass and other factors.
Regarding the reasons for the loading cycle, the other part of the equation is muscle saturation. In fact, contrary to the short plasma half-life, a study has shown that only 46% of ingested creatine will be excreted after around 24 hours (1) with creatine levels (after following a full loading phase) only dropping down to pre supplementation levels after 30 days.
After ingestion, some of that creatine will make its way into the muscles and stay there, which is where this supplement needs to be to do its thing!
Whilst creatine has a relatively short plasma (blood) half-life of around 3 hours after ingesting, this isn’t the full story.
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