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Definition: "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance "
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12.05.2013 |
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Judokas can manage just fine without creatine malate
Creatine malate is not a chemical compound, but a mixture of two substances: creatine [above right] and malate [above left]. According to supplements manufacturers, muscle cells absorb the creatine in creatine malate better, and creatine malate users don't retain fluid. Whether this is indeed so, we don't know. There are publications that would suggest this is the case, but they are in the Polish scientific media and remain inaccessible to us.
The table below shows that creatine malate did not increase the judokas' bodyweight.
The researchers tested their subjects' anaerobic capacity and aerobic power before and after the supplementation period. The effect of the supplementation was almost zero. The researchers also tested the judokas using their own Special Judo Fitness Test. The results of this test also showed that creatine malate had no effect.
The researchers put it down to the fact that judo is a sport where coordination is so important that the effect of creatine malate is invisible.
Of course you could also conclude that creatine malate does nothing at all. For judokas at least.
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