If you cycle for two hours and don't have creatine in your muscles, your muscle cells' energy powerhouses become less responsive to a key energy signal, which might mean energy can't move as easily without creatine.

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Mitochondrial creatine kinase activity and phosphate shuttling are acutely regulated by exercise in human skeletal muscle

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After exercise, mitochondria in relaxed muscle fibers are less responsive to ADP when creatine is missing, which matches the idea that energy molecule transport is temporarily slowed without creatine.

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Mitochondrial creatine kinase activity and phosphate shuttling are acutely regulated by exercise in human skeletal muscle

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DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2012.234682

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