Why you should always have citrulline malate in your shaker cup during a workout

By Mary Smith


There is nothing worse than reaching the end of a session or the end of a weeks training and you are left wounding and knackered. All of your tough work and clean eating seems as though it has not paid off, you arent seeing any gains, you ache, have low energy levels and your motivation to train tough to your total potential just isnt there. Adding citrulline malate into your shaker cup and pre-workout routine can change all that. Citrulline malate is, as the name states, made up from citrulline and malate. Citrulline is an amino acid made in the body.

Malate is again a natural product, most widely found in fruits, its also made in the body and like citrulline, is concerned inside metabolic cycles essential to our well-being and energy sources. First citrulline is a key intermediate inside the Urea Cycle. This is a critical metabolic cycle within our bodies as it makes allowances for the removal of highly lethal waste from our bodies. The Urea Cycle happens both outside and inside of a cell called mitochondria.

One of the reactions inside this cell produces citrulline as end product of one reaction, while outside the cell citrulline is used as a reactant in another reaction. Citrulline is also an end product of arginine, which itself is a predecessor to NO reactions. Malate is concerned within the ATP or energy making cycle called the Krebs Cycle. ATP is utilised as an energy source by our bodies, without it we just wouldnt function correctly.

Advantages of Supplementing with citrulline malate can increase NO production, giving increased vasodilation, vascular tone, increased neurotransmission, as an example. Decreases build up of poisons within the body such as lactic acid, ammonia and can stop acidosis (high acid blood levels) through the Urea Cycle. Increase rate of ATP production during exercise and phosphcreatine post work out.

Vasodilation, as we know, allows for increased blood flow to and from muscles and organs. Not only giving essential muscle building advantages to the muscles, the dilation also takes away the bad noxious products away from them. The faster and more effectively the poisons are removed, the faster you may get over your sessions. Having increased levels of energy production while working out permits you to go longer and lift heavier. The harder you train, the more build of poisons and the longer recovery you'd need. And the cycle goes on.




About the Author:



No comments:

Post a Comment