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Creatine Help You Swim Faster.

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According to a recent study in the Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, researchers say that taking a five gram dose of creatine monohydrate daily can improve your 50 or 100 meter repeated interval sprinting time by up to two percent.

Basically the creatine supplies energy when you would otherwise be depleted, “resulting in more fuel for a second sprinting effort and delaying fatigue,” said study author Melissa Hopwood of the University of Sydney. According to Hopwood, swimmers saw a seven percent increase in power - even more so, creatine may have a greater effect in more energy intensive strokes like butterfly or breastroke.
 
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