1. Creatine Supplementation Does Not Influence the Ratio Between Intracellular Water and Skeletal Muscle Mass in Resistance-Trained Men
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Alex S. Ribeiro, João Pedro Nunes, Michele Caroline de Costa Trindade, Andreo Fernando Aguiar, Witalo Kassiano, Luís B. Sardinha, Ademar Avelar, Brad J. Schoenfeld, Analiza M. Silva, and Edilson Serpeloni Cyrino
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0301 basic medicine ,medicine.medical_specialty ,030109 nutrition & dietetics ,Nutrition and Dietetics ,business.industry ,Body water ,Medicine (miscellaneous) ,030229 sport sciences ,General Medicine ,Placebo ,Muscle mass ,Skeletal muscle mass ,Creatine ,03 medical and health sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,0302 clinical medicine ,Endocrinology ,chemistry ,Internal medicine ,Extracellular fluid ,medicine ,Orthopedics and Sports Medicine ,business ,Bioelectrical impedance analysis ,Intracellular - Abstract
The authors aimed to compare the effects of creatine (Cr) supplementation combined with resistance training on skeletal muscle mass (SMM), total body water, intracellular water (ICW), and extracellular water (ECW) in resistance-trained men as well as to determine whether the SMM/ICW ratio changes in response to the use of this ergogenic aid. Twenty-seven resistance-trained men received either Cr (n = 14) or placebo (n = 13) over 8 weeks. During the same period, subjects performed two split resistance training routines four times per week. SMM was estimated from appendicular lean soft tissue assessed by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. Total body water, ICW, and ECW were determined by spectral bioelectrical impedance. Both groups showed improvements (p p p > .05), whereas the SMM/ECW ratio decreased only in the Cr group (p p r = .71). The authors’ results suggest that the increase in muscle mass induced by Cr combined with resistance training occurs without alteration of the ratio of ICW to SMM in resistance-trained men.
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- 2020
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