{"id":256,"date":"2012-12-27T19:07:49","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T19:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bodybuilding.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=256"},"modified":"2015-02-12T15:20:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T20:20:10","slug":"creatine-monohydrate-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/creatine-monohydrate-3.html","title":{"rendered":"How Will Creatine Effect My Workouts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How will Creatine effect my power and workouts?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You will definitely be stronger. The exercise I like to reference when describing the effects of creatine is the bench press.<\/p>\n<p>Supposing your current max for 5 reps is 200 lbs. On creatine, you won&#8217;t go suddenly marching into the gym and start throwing 250 lbs around. You will, however, probably knock off a couple extra reps of that 200 lbs.<\/p>\n<p>And you&#8217;ll really notice the effects at those two critical points of the bench press &#8212; at the point where the bar touches your chest (it <b>is<\/b> touching your chest, right?), and starts to travel upwards, and the point about 3 inches from lockout (the point where your arms are fully extended).<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re working hard with heavy weight, these two points can sometimes be sticking points that require a couple of fingers from a spotter. On creatine, I personally notice how much easier it is to force a rep through these two points.<\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re working out with relatively light weights (say 50% of your max for each partiucular exercise) you&#8217;ll should really be able to notice the ease at which you are knock off more than a couple of extra reps.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/creatine-monohydrate-4.html\">Click here for Part IV of the creatine article, &#8220;Creatine Side Effects&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How will Creatine effect my power and workouts? You will definitely be stronger. The exercise I like to reference when describing the effects of creatine is the bench [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,27,11],"tags":[50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1960,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/1960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}