Muscle cramps

[ferocious33]

How does everyone deal with muscle cramps after workout?

 

[P0N]

How does everyone deal with muscle cramps after workout? When I leave the gym, it hurts even to hold my arms out to grab the steering wheel to drive home. I mean I kill'em. Is that normal? I never noticed until I started progressing up in weight lifted.

Make sure you are getting plenty of water and your electrolytes are good. You may need to supplent potassium and or magnesium as well (potassium worked wonders for my cramping)

 

[Mobster]

I think you might be confusing, if a little, the difference between a tired and or pumped muscle and a cramp. It might just be that you are training too hard - as rare as that is.

 

[Fella Finn]

Haven't experienced them for the longest but here are few tips:

- Stay hydrated
- Electrolytes (salt/sodium, potassium, magnesium)
- Stretching

 

[stevesmi]

those aren't cramps, those are pumps

take n2guard, it has electrolyes and taurine

 

[cbbram]

Your body will get used to it over time.

 

[RoySimpson]

Hydration salts will help with cramping

 

[dylangemelli]

hydration and electrolytes like other said... dga organ st has taurine as well as over 40 other ingredients, many of which can help you with them...

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[ZerbrennenDannRennen]

I don’t even understand the difference between pumps and cramps.

 

[Mobster]

I don’t even understand the difference between pumps and cramps.

Really?

A pump, even a painful one, is just additional blood dilating the veins of a worked muscle.

A cramp is a severe and usually uncontrollable muscle contraction.

The former can be and usually are pleasant. The latter not so much.

 

[ZerbrennenDannRennen]

Really?

A pump, even a painful one, is just additional blood dilating the veins of a worked muscle.

A cramp is a severe and usually uncontrollable muscle contraction.

The former can be and usually are pleasant. The latter not so much.

So when I do a drop set and my arms are burning that’s a pump?

 

[gashred777]

So when I do a drop set and my arms are burning that’s a pump?

That is correct

 

[RickRock]

How does everyone deal with muscle cramps after workout? When I leave the gym, it hurts even to hold my arms out to grab the steering wheel to drive home. I mean I kill'em. Is that normal? I never noticed until I started progressing up in weight lifted.

Make sure you are hydrated and your diet is right. Your body is adapting to the workload. You'll overcome it

 

[Satan62]

You’ll get used to the pump after a while. Hydration and diet are important, but just ease the workload a bit.

 

[Mobster]

So when I do a drop set and my arms are burning that’s a pump?

No. That's latic acid. The 'full' feeling is the pump.

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That is correct

No it's not.