Total body water data can be divided
into intracellular water and extracellular water, values important for understanding a user's fluid distribution in medical, wellness and fitness contexts.
Hi Dianna, if you're working out more than you ever have, I suspect you are holding
more intracellular water than before.
One study found that
insufficient intracellular water can reduce the synthesis of new muscle proteins — another way in which poor hydration could limit muscle growth.
While creatines like creatine nitrate may ease gastric distress for the few that have this issue, and magnesium chelate can
enhance intracellular water, at this time there is no reason why you should use anything other than good old creatine monohydrate.
Magnesium Creatine Chelate - There is some research that shows creatine magnesium chelate enhances uptake of creatine into muscle cells as well
as intracellular water (18).
Intracellular water retention (inside the muscle) is good for the body, it's the subcutaneous water retention (under the skin) that we want to get rid of.
I've trained several bikini competitors whose butts looked amazing two weeks out, and then come stage time, they look flat and so I think what's going on there is they lose a lot of
the intracellular water and things like that.
Swimming uses a lot of muscle glycogen, and if you are just starting it again after a long layoff, it's very possible that you've increased your muscle glycogen stores and
the intracellular water that goes along with it.
Since then, (September) I have been experiencing mild depression, more weight gain, (a total of about 35 lbs) lack of menstrual cycle, extreme food sensitivities, mood swings, excessive muscle swelling while weight training,
intracellular water retention, difficulty concentrating, among others symptoms.