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confusion on creatine and glutamine mix

tong2thong

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hi, im new to the forum and i've read a few articles about creatine and glutamine combinations. what i'm confused about is a simple problem, the idea that im getting is that creatine helps make the workout explosive, and burns a lot of muscle, and glutamine helps to heal the muscle afterwards. I might be wrong, because a lot of people say they take glutamine pre-workout, and take creatine post-workout. can anyone explain this to me?
 
creatine does not burn muscle. wherever you got that terminology was wrong.
creatine helps in ATP...long story short you will have more muscle energy to lift heavier or do extra reps, resulting in more muscle mass.
Glutamine is the most abundant amino acid in the body, glutamine alone does not heal the muscle...but taking it pre/post workout is beneficial so that glutamine does not get low
 
okay sorry about the confusion on that, but my real question is why is glutamine taken pre-workout, and creatine taken post-workout? Also I believe that i'm not supposed to take both within a certain time period of each other. Is this combination reccomended?
 
You're thinking way too much into this. I've NEVER heard of any side effects of taking both together or within a certain timeframe. People take glutamine and creatine before or after workouts...its really just personal preference.

In that case then don't eat steak...steak contains creatine and glutamine, as well as every other amino acid (because they are the building blocks of protein)
 
tong2thong said:
okay sorry about the confusion on that, but my real question is why is glutamine taken pre-workout, and creatine taken post-workout? Also I believe that i'm not supposed to take both within a certain time period of each other. Is this combination reccomended?
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I take Xtend pre- and intra-workout. I take 5g creatine pre- and post-workout. Xtend contains something like 3.5g glutamine (which I believe to be basically a crock, but I drink it for other reasons). So that's 3.5g glut+5g cre pre, then later 3.5g glut and another 5g cre. I've never run into any problems with this, you're absolutely fine taking each. But if you really like the idea of glutamine, I would get a product like Xtend because it's pretty all-encompassing in terms of workout performance and recovery time. Solid all around.
 
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