Creatine

Can you tag this onto the sticky at the top Alex?
Just a note for vegtarians/vegans that they have to watch out because a lot of the cheaper creatine supplements are animal sourced!
But on the bright side vegetarians/vegans are more responsive to the effects of creatine supplementation on exercise performance than their carnivorous counterparts. That was the clear conclusion of a Canadian study on creatine-supplemented recreational athletes following an eight-week resistance training programme a few years ago.
at baseline, there were significant differences between the vegetarians and the non-vegetarians, with the former consuming lower total calories and lower calories as protein than the latter, as well as demonstrating lower total muscle creatine concentrations, but with no differences in 1-RM bench press and leg press;
creatine subjects showed greater increases in phosphocreatine, total creatine, bench-press strength, isokinetic work, type 2 muscle fibre area and whole-body lean tissue than those on placebo;
vegetarians/vegans who took creatine showed greater increases in total creatine, phosphocreatine, lean tissue and total work performance than their non-vegetarian counterparts.

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Bump.
Wanna copy and paste this onto the bottom of the sticky?

Thats because most creatine comes from animals, so if Veggies suddenly introduce it to their bodies in larger amount than they are used to they will initially see bigger gains than people with normal diets until their metabolism adjusts because it isn't starved of creatine any more.

Its purely a result of lifestyle effects and nothing to do with a vegetarians body type, add the warning about cheap suppliments for veggies but the rest is not needed... ;)

Hahaha,cheers Alex cc!