Rhonda Patrick

Is it going to make you stronger?

Yeah.

So, okay, to go back, you just gave a total information dump, which is awesome.

Let's go back first to the explosive power you were talking about.

It seems to really help benefit in that explosive power, like you're talking about doing a squat.

Yes.

Or, I don't know, maybe the first few seconds of an interval, something where you're going, you know, using all that power.

Yeah.

Is creatine benefiting... Is that how it's benefiting...

increasing the training volume or is there something else that's happening?

Does it affect the recovery time in between sets?

And I think this is really important.

We're talking about here, I mean, we were talking about squats, these explosive types of power, types of training.

And this is a really important field because you often hear about people talking about the loss of muscle mass as we age.

You talked about losing type two types of muscle fibers more readily than the type one.

So these are the types of muscle fibers involved in that explosive type of power type exercise.

And, you know, people don't think about how power decreases with age, how strength decreases with age and how that affects our quality of life, how it affects our physical independence, our fall risk.

And so I think just focusing on this type of training, I mean, the creatine is the icing on the cake, right?

Yeah.

But just focusing on doing these types of multi-joint compound types of lifts, which is something that I, in the past, I would say year, a good year now, a solid year of doing CrossFit type of training where I'm doing strength training.