Dr. Darren Candow

does now this is interesting and i probably would have been the most surprised when we wrote the paper on this that we don't think traditional weight training where you're doing a set you're resting maybe a minute to two it seems like it's not catabolic or intense enough now

Most people will say, shake their heads, say, hey, when I'm in the gym, I'm really putting a lot of effort in.

I think from a mechanistic standpoint, when you're doing running or long distance continuous muscle contractions, it causes this large catabolic effect to the body.

So that really heightens the inflammatory response.

Weight training is acute.

Ten seconds of work, three minutes of rest.

Ten seconds of work, three minutes of rest for whichever it is.

And we just don't see creatine having a lot of superior effects from a resistance training recovery aspect, probably because the rest intervals for the average person are there.

But from a long distance event, you're running hours, you're swimming, whichever it is.

The best lines of defense come from triathlon and marathon running.

where the increase in these markers called cytokines were elevated.

The creatine sort of attenuated that rise.

It could allow the individual to recover and get back on the track or whichever it is quicker.

But I've talked to some good colleagues in Canada, and it just seems like weight training is –

it's too intermittent.

Now, when you mentioned CrossFit, that's different.

I'm thinking of the three sets of 10, you move from machine to machine, you rest, you have a CrossFit or something that's really continuous would probably fall in line here of the necessity for creatine.

So that would be a very good study to look at the effects of creatine on the recovery aspects of something like high intensity interval training or

CrossFit, for example, our military type of training, that's really endurance and resistance training.

So you just gave me another idea to run with, but it's logical.