Strom Sports CreaMAX - The Ultimate Creatine Formula for Performance and Recovery

There is no supplement on the market that is going to give you more clear proven results for less money than a good quality creatine product.

CreaMAX takes this proven foundation, and adds something special. It combines the the worlds most trusted purity guaranteed Creatine monohydrate Creapure®, alongside Senactiv® - a patented ginsenoside ingredient that boosts glycogen recovery and endurance performance. This powerful combination is made to help you train harder, recover faster, and build lean muscle more effectively than traditional creatine alone.

Let's dive into why the CreaMAX formula is steps it up in the true NEVER SETTLE fashion.

Quick CreaMAX Facts

• Main benefit: Enhanced strength, power, and faster muscle recovery

• Research backing: Over 680 peer-reviewed human clinical trials on creatine

• Best for: Athletes, bodybuilders, and anyone doing high-intensity training

• Dosage: 5 g Creapure® creatine monohydrate + 50 mg Senactiv® per serving

The Science / How CreaMAX Works

CreaMAX uses a no-brainer combination that targets both immediate performance and long-term recovery. Think of it like upgrading your car’s engine and its repair shop at the same time.

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The Creatine Foundation (Creapure®)

At 5 g per serving, Creapure® creatine monohydrate works through the phosphocreatine energy system — your body’s fastest way to remake ATP (adenosine triphosphate), your cellular energy currency. When you lift heavy or sprint, your muscles burn through ATP in seconds. Creatine helps reload this system faster, allowing you to maintain peak power output for longer.

Learn more about ATP here 

Creapure® is a licensed German-made creatine known for very low impurities (DHT, DCD, creatinine) compared to standard creatine monohydrate. From our experience, it is also easier on the stomach for those who are sensitive — a common complaint with lower-quality creatine products. This may be associated with the lower amount of impurities, but has not been formally investigated to date.

Over 680 peer-reviewed clinical trials have studied creatine supplementation involving over 12,800 participants. ISSN research concludes that “creatine supplementation is safe, beneficial throughout the lifespan, and should not be restricted.”

The Senactiv® Advantage

Here’s where CreaMAX gets interesting. CreaMAX uses 50 mg Senactiv® from NuLiv Science, targeting endurance and recovery via carbohydrate refuelling and cell maintenance actions. This patented ingredient contains ginsenoside Rg1 from Panax notoginseng and antioxidant compounds from Rosa roxburghii.

Studies suggest Senactiv® may help:

• Significantly increase glycogen replenishment post-workout

• Reduce exercise-induced inflammatory markers and DOMS

• Improve VO₂ max and endurance capacity

• Support removal of old, damaged muscle cells and promote new healthy ones

In clinical trials, more than 60% of cellular deterioration markers were cleared after exercise when participants used Senactiv® compared to placebo.

“Creatine is going to improve your strength output and Senactiv® is going to improve your endurance, so you are going to be able to train harder for longer.”

Key Ingredients + Their Roles

Creapure® Creatine Monohydrate

Creapure® is not just any creatine — it is the gold standard with a specific energy-buffering mechanism that powers your workouts.

How creatine monohydrate works: Creatine combines with a phosphoryl group to form phosphocreatine (PCr), regulated by creatine kinase (CK) in muscle. This creates the Creatine Kinase / Phosphocreatine Energy Shuttle — your body’s fastest energy system.
When you lift or sprint, your muscles burn through ATP in seconds. Phosphocreatine quickly donates its phosphate group back to ADP to regenerate ATP almost instantly.
Think of it like a backup battery that kicks in the moment your phone starts dying — and it happens repeatedly during a workout.

Why Creapure® is superior: Made in Germany by Alzchem Pharma, independently verified to have exceptionally low levels of impurities. Creapure® is:

• Creatine monohydrate with a high level of purity

• Contains significantly lower levels of DCD and DHT compared to generic creatine

• The most studied form of creatine with proven safety and effectiveness

• Vegan and manufactured by chemical synthesis

• Kosher and Halal certified

The EFSA recommends DCD ≤ 50 mg/kg and DHT ≤ 3 mg/kg. Many generic creatine products significantly exceed these levels, while Creapure® consistently stays well below them. This matters because DHT-related compounds are suspected to cause cancer.

Creatine Storage and Saturation

Adults have around 80–130 g of creatine in their bodies, with 95% stored in skeletal muscle. About 1–2% breaks down daily and is excreted, so it needs to be replenished. Your body produces some creatine from arginine, glycine, and methionine, but this only covers about half your daily needs. Hard exercise increases breakdown and excretion, meaning athletes often need more support.

At saturation (around 150–160 mmol/kg), your muscles are fully loaded and ready for peak performance. This is commonly reached within 8 weeks of regular 5 g supplementation, but will vary per person. Excess creatine is excreted in urine as creatinine — this is normal and not harmful.

Senactiv® (50 mg per serving)

CreaMAX includes the clinically studied 50 mg Senactiv®, which has been investigated in 4 human clinical trials and 2 animal studies.

How Senactiv® works:

1. Enhanced ATP production: Senactiv® increases citrate synthase activity by up to 47% three hours after exercise. Citrate synthase is the pace-making enzyme at the start of the citric acid (Krebs) cycle.

2. Glycogen supercompensation: Dramatically accelerates glycogen replenishment after exercise.

3. Cellular regeneration process: Designed to support increased macrophage function during exercise. The patent describes an approach to eliminate senescent cells in skeletal muscle using exercise after consumption of the herbal composition.

   • In a human clinical trial, more than 63% of pre-existing markers of deteriorating cells were cleaned out with Rg1, versus negligible changes with placebo.

4. Myogenesis enhancement: Significantly boosts Myf5 mRNA expression — a key marker of myogenesis. One study showed 60% greater Myf5 expression than placebo immediately post-exercise.

Active compounds in Senactiv®:

• Ginsenoside Rg1 (5–50 mg range based on patent data): primary active compound from Panax notoginseng. Trials show 5 mg taken one hour before exercise can increase endurance by 12%, with higher doses up to 20%.

• Rosa roxburghii extract: provides compounds that raise antioxidant SOD activity.

Who It’s For / When to Use

Perfect for:

• Athletes in power sports (weightlifting, sprinting, football, hockey)

• Bodybuilders and physique competitors looking to maximise muscle growth

• Anyone doing HIIT or CrossFit

• Older adults wanting to maintain muscle mass and strength

• Vegetarians and vegans who often have lower muscle creatine stores

Ideal timing scenarios:

• Pre-workout: take 60 minutes before training for energy and performance support

• Post-workout: supports recovery and muscle protein synthesis

• Daily maintenance: use consistently to maintain muscle creatine saturation

• During cutting phases: helps maintain strength and muscle while in a caloric deficit

Practical Tips / Usage Scenarios

Pro tip: mix with warm water first. Creatine dissolves better in warm water. Mix your serving in 120–180 ml warm water, stir well, then add cold water or your preferred beverage.

Timing strategies:

• Pre-training: 60 minutes before workouts for immediate Senactiv® benefits

• Post-training: within 30 minutes after exercise when muscles are primed for nutrient uptake

• Non-training days: take with breakfast to maintain creatine levels

• Ethos: consistency beats perfect timing

Loading vs steady dosing: You do not need a loading phase with CreaMAX. Daily need is about 2–4 g, and taking 5 g daily will reach saturation in 4–8 weeks. If you want faster results, you can take 0.3 g/kg body weight for 5–7 days, then drop to 5 g for maintenance.

Important Considerations

• Individual response varies: about 20–30% of people are “non-responders,” typically those with naturally high muscle creatine stores. If you do not notice benefits after 4–6 weeks of consistent use, you might be in this group.

• Water intake matters: creatine transport involves sodium, and water will also be taken up into muscle to help maintain intracellular osmolality. Stay well-hydrated.

• Important: while creatine has an excellent safety profile across decades of research, it can increase creatinine in blood tests. This is normal metabolite excretion, not kidney damage. If you have regular blood work, inform your doctor you are using creatine.

• Creatine and hair loss: most speculation stems from a single 2009 study with questionable results and no effective replication across 12 other testosterone studies.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need to cycle off creatine?
No. Research suggests creatine supplementation is safe for long-term use. Even after multiple years of use, people do not drop below standard baseline after stopping, indicating no suppression of natural synthesis.

Will CreaMAX make me look puffy or bloated?
Some studies show 0.5–1.0 kg weight gain from increased intracellular water storage. This occurs inside muscle cells, making them fuller. Many recent studies find no significant change. Any water distribution is normal, not disproportionate.

How is this different from regular creatine?
CreaMAX combines Alzchem’s Creapure® creatine monohydrate with 50 mg Senactiv® for endurance and recovery support between sessions. Regular creatine helps with strength, power, and recovery; CreaMAX is designed to amplify this with improved endurance and between-session recovery.

Research References

• “Creatine supplementation is safe, beneficial throughout the lifespan, and should not be restricted” (2025, ISSN & Frontiers)

• “International Society of Sports Nutrition position stand: safety and efficacy of creatine supplementation in exercise, sport, and medicine” (2017, ISSN)

• “International Society of Sports Nutrition position stand: creatine supplementation and exercise” (2007, ISSN)

• “Common questions and misconceptions about creatine supplementation: what does the scientific evidence really show?” (2021, ISSN)

• “Creatine Supplementation and Brain Health” (Roschel, 2021)

• “Beyond muscle: the effects of creatine supplementation on brain creatine, cognitive processing, and traumatic brain injury” (Dolan, 2018)

• “Effects of creatine supplementation on cognitive function of healthy individuals: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials” (Avgerinos, 2018)

• “Can Creatine Combat the Mental Fatigue associated Decrease in Visuomotor Skills?” (Cutsam, 2019)

• “Single dose creatine improves cognitive performance and induces changes in cerebral high energy phosphates during sleep deprivation” (Gordji-Nejad, 2024)

• “Ginsenoside Rg1 supplementation clears senescence-associated β-galactosidase in exercising human skeletal muscle” (2019)

• “Improved Inflammatory Balance of Human Skeletal Muscle during Exercise after Supplementations of the Ginseng-Based Steroid Rg1” (2015)

• “Satellite cells depletion in exercising human skeletal muscle is restored by ginseng component Rg1 supplementation” (2019)

• European Patent Application EP3572089A1 — ActiGin / Senactiv composition and benefits

CreaMAX by Strom Sports NZ combines the most researched supplement in sports nutrition with cutting-edge recovery support for New Zealand athletes.