Chaotic take: creatine, bouldering and alcohol
I have been taking creatine while bouldering for a couple of weeks to what is does to enable me to climb more. I'm a bartender and I got interested in climbing to improve my back strength long term. I started doing physio for my back, so I now go to the climbing gym every day so that I can do my physio stuff with all of their equipment. I was doing hard climbs 3 times a week, but I started to feel like it was a waste to go every day without being able to climb most of those days. This led to be start playing around with increasing protein intake and then messing about with creatine.
My question is this - it's the nature of my job that I consume more alcohol than most - I read that creatine is less effective in combination with alocohol because alcohol dehydrates you. Can I just massively increase my water intake to counter-act this or is this going to do some stupid stuff to my body?
I noticed that what I can do in terms of levels and duration of climbs has increased quite a lot so I want to make sure that I'm not damaging myself messing around with this stuff
Posted Nov 12, 2024, 8:15 PM UTC