Do you get muscle cramps?

[Horton]

Do you get muscle cramps? Not foot cramps from tight bindings.

[LeonL]

I get cramps, mainly leg and foot. They seem to come intermittently. You know, I'll go for a period of time and have a lot of cramps, then I may go for quite awhile without any. I don't believe they're related to skiing per se. Hard physical labor sometimes result in night time cramps.

[ALPJr]

Mostly feet, ankles, calves and shins after not working them in ski mode or bike riding mode for a while.

[RichardDoane]

@horton - next time you get a cramp, eat something with a big blob of yellow mustard, cramp subsides in less than a minute

[Horton]

@ZipZapPaddyWhack mmmm hmmm i know. Just answer the question.

[bigtex2011]

I used to get a bunch when I first hurt my back. I got a couple bulged disk. The cramps were almost always in my feet.

[gregy]

I get muscle craps in my rear foot and lower leg often during the night after I ski.

[Razorskier1]

Sometimes in the middle of the night my calf muscle cramps. Typically only happens when I haven't been drinking enough water.

[Bbrandau]

If you do, typically a big sign of dehydration and being low on electrolytes ...

[Chef23]

I get them during the night at times and sometimes I get them when skiing in the bottom of my back foot. Not sure why. I try to stay well hydrated. It tends to be a problem for me at times when at a tournament. Generally between driving, judging and helping out I don't always pay enough attention to what I eat and drink then get woken up at night.

[Bbrandau]

It's not just hydration but also the body being short on electrolytes! Remeber, anything with caffeine and of course alcohol makes you even more dehydrated ...

[dchristman]

@Bbrandau Caffeine and alcohol is all I drink :) - I don't get cramps. I must get my hydration through osmosis.

[rayn]

I get them quite often mostly in the right hip flexor. Sometimes when I ski I will cramp in the right hamstring. I am LLF

[thager]

Every 28 days but it stopped at age 55.

[Marco]

Since my back surgery 2 years ago, my back occasionally cramps up after a long weekend of skiing. I need to stretch more...

[B_S]

I get lat cramps a lot during ski season, especially if I'm squished into an airplane seat. Also get a lot of lower back cramps and spasms.

[mopowpow]

Hip flexor cramps from water & snow skiing.

[A_B]

Not typically, but I started playing basketball on Sundays again and got a hamstring cramp the other day that took my breath away it hurt so bad.

 

Ditto on the fluid and electrolyte intake.

[acmx]

@Horton what's your angle on this pole?

[Horton]

@acmx i get cramps BAD and am about to do a testimonial video for a new product that really helps me a lot

[thager]

Is it called Green Mile?

[A_B]

Today I loaded up on the grape BCAA during basketball and took some ginseng right after basketball and feel a ton better. For whatever it is worth. Used BCAA his year for skiing and I think there is some credence to it. Grape and Blue Raspberry are pretty good. Mix with water.

[WaterSkier12]

Try enlyten.com

Electrolyte strips, we use them for the high school and college football players here in Ga/Alabama

Work sublingual like nitro when you u have chest pain, fast absorption, no mess, no nasty pickle juice taste and no technicolor vomit on the field like gator/powerade.

Dr approved!