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Have you had a chance to try our new pre-workout supplement MUSCLEPRIME? If so, we would love to hear your feedback. One question we are often asked is ‘why is MUSCLEPRIME Creatine-Free?’

Our Director of Marketing answered this question on bodybuilding.com but I felt this is an excellent answer that might clear up the confusion many have about MUSCLEPRIME.

Why Does MUSCLEPRIME Not Contain Creatine - Answered by Jason Bell:

MUSCLEPRIME is creatine-free on purpose. Looking at the best research out there, something seems to have been lost in the translation to supplements today.

A) There are a lot of people out there who either don’t want creatine at all, or don’t want creatine all the time, as good as creatine is, your body does get used to it and the best results come from cycling. Give yourself 2 weeks off every once and a while to allow creatine transport mechanisms and natural creatine production within the body to return to normal.

B) There is a misconception that pre-workout supplements have creatine in order to help that workout. It won’t. The way in which creatine works, it needs to build up in the body as phosphocreatine stores within the body that allow your muscles to produce more energy for a greater duration. But this takes at least a few days - so, it will help you - just not in that specific workout.

C) The best time for muscular absorption is post-workout, and always has been - your muscles are screaming for glycogen replenishment and consuming the notoriously difficult to absorb creatine molecule at that time while insulin levels are elevated gives you the ideal window to affect the greatest increases in muscular absorption of creatine.
I like KRUSH4 for this purpose - or straight, regular Creatine Monohydrate with a post workout shake, and or grape juice. This allows you to control when you get your creatine loading underway, it allows you to time it and see the results you are going to get within a specific time frame.

MUSCLEPRIME allows you to take it for an intense workout - everything in it is geared towards:

1) Getting your head in the zone - FOCUS (specifically, ramps up your neural levels of acetyl-choline-esterase (ACE) in order to create powerful focus).

2) Loads you up with all Essential Aminos to create the ideal Anabolic Response following training.

3) Provides key nutrients such as BETA-ALANINE in doses that will truly affect that workout - 2 scoops (which is standard) provides 2,000 mg, and you know it has been fully absorbed because you can feel the tingling.

4) Increases vasodilation with 4,000 mg of Arginine, and other key nutrients like Ginkgo and North American Ginseng.

5) Provides antioxidant protection against the free-radical stress of intense training.

To me, pre-workout supps should prime you for a killer workout, great intensity and endurance through tough workouts will force your body to respond anabolically - smart post workout supps and nutrition will allow you to further take advantage of that phenomenon. When I’m on a creatine loading cycle, I like to take a scoop of a scoop of Krush4 and consume it immediately as I finish my workout - I find I get the best results that way.

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A lot of the confusion is likely stemmed from the ingredient Creatinol-O-Phosphate which is found in MUSCLEPRIME. Please note that the ingredient Creatinol-O-Phosphate (COP) is a phenomenal ingredient, and it is in MUSCLEPRIME, but it IS NOT creatine. While COP sounds like Creatine, Creatinol-O-Phosphate is not to be confused with Creatine as the two ingredients have very different functions in the body.

To find out more please read our entry in January:
http://allmaxnutritionsupplements.blogspot.com/2009/01/creatine-free-pre-workout-supplement.html

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