Blue Line to Blue Line with CreMAGnaVol
Written By Valeria Fazio
Your muscles didn’t come equipped with a built-in battery charger, so you can’t expect them to perform as if they did. ALLMAX has therefore re-invented the way you take creatine with CreMAGnaVol. Incorporating CreMAGnaVol into your hockey training can make the difference between first and second string. Here’s why:
CreMAGnaVol is a 30 day Creatine cycle designed to help increase muscle strength, power and size. What makes it unique is its use of a chelated creatine which uses a magnesium bond to ensure that the creatine molecule is not destroyed in the digestive tract and converted to creatine in the stomach acid. Maximum uptake occurs in the bloodstream. What does this mean? It means a dramatic increase in muscle oxygenation, which fuels the muscle with energy without a required spike in insulin. This keeps your body in a glucagon dependent mode during intense training, making fat flow away from adipose tissue converting it to energy – ultimately promoting overall lean body mass.
The inclusion of pure Beta-Alanine reduces the rate at which muscles become acidified during intense training resulting in an increase in performance and endurance.
Finally, CreMAGnaVol also includes Octacosanol which is known to improve the oxidative capacity of muscle tissue, and spares glycogen stores creating an energy reserve increasing the intensity of bursts of power.
Pair the ultimate power training supplements, like those available from ALLMAX Nutrition, with maximal strength training to make the most of this explosive reserve. Maximal strength training focuses on the recruitment of fast twitch muscle fibers through a combination of power and speed. As hockey is a game of speed and power, your training will keep you in game mode both on and off the ice.
Broken down into four sections, this system of periodization allows for progress and muscle development which makes injury less likely and muscle balance inevitable.
Plyometrics is the eccentric loading or stretching of a muscle and its subsequent rapid contraction (power). It focuses on body weight exercises that build agility, strength and power through movements such as jump squats, lunges, and pop pushups. Plyometrics can be performed in full body style workouts every other day.
Weighted Power training works to recruit fast twitch muscle fibers by using lighter than maximal lifts to move the weight as quickly as possible. Moreover, it trains the nervous system to recruit them in a synchronized fashion.
Dynamic (Ballistic) training is a combination of weighted power and plyometric training. It works to engage prime movers to propel objects (medicine balls, tubing etc.) as far as possible. Within this training you are taxing the prime movers and core muscles.
Power Endurance training requires the athlete to lift powerfully for 10 to 30 reps with loads of 25-30% of his or her 1RM. Moves such as dumbbell jump squats, barbell jump squats, dumbbell split lunge jumps, and push presses will attack the prime movers and are specific to hockey training. The key is to maintain quickness and power throughout every rep so that the body’s fast twitch muscle fibers do no fatigue and begin to recruit slower slow twitch fibers.
The increase in fast twitch muscle fibers seen in maximal strength training is linked to the synchronization and the activation of the motor units. As our motor units become more synergistic, the coordination of our other muscles also increases, once again increasing your explosive power.
They’ve created a monster. Not only are you the biggest guy on the ice, but you’re the fastest, strongest, and possess a battery reserve of energy like no other. You’re only problem now; can your line mates keep up?
