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This fixes it instantly every time for me. Ignore everybody else. When you get that cramp start moving your foot in the opposite direction pointing your toes towards your knee and stretch out the back of your ankle. Instant cramp relief everytime.
If you have cramping often like this then maybe dedicate yourself to some hamstring stretches.
Boof magnesium
Quinine, there’s still some tonic waters that have it, and even in the very low dose that they use it’ll work preventatively for a few weeks
no boof sodium
Alternatively, start eating properly and solve the problem at its root.
Similar trick I learned, just get out of bed and stand up on it. It’ll go away in ~10 seconds and then you can hop back into bed. Works pretty much every time.
Stand up as fast as possible and put your weight on that leg.
Physically pulling your toes back (up and towards the heel) usually works for me
Now I’m in more pain, angry, and crying (in pain).
You need to get up quick because it will be harder the longer it lasts. Once standing firmly on the ground, lean slightly forwards to shift most of the weight to the front of the foot. It never failed to help me.
I only cramp when underhydrated and most people are underhydrated (Drewnowski, 2013).
Make sure we’re all getting enough water before taking further action!References
Drewnowski, A., Rehm, C.D. & Constant, F. Water and beverage consumption among adults in the United States: cross-sectional study using data from NHANES 2005–2010. BMC Public Health 13, 1068 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-1068Hydration certainly helps but can also be magnesium deficiency, since it’s a muscle relaxant.
or a potassium deficiency.
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Yes, there absolutely can be a lot of weird reasons your bike is not handling properly. But it’s important to make sure of the basics first: that the tires have air in them.
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“Toes to noes!” Stretching your foot upward helps prevent it.
Oh God, thank you so much for this
you basically just want to stretch whichever muscle is seizing up. if it’s your calf you want to pull on your toes.
I usually just try and relax it before the cramp hits critical mass. Stretching is always a “it’s stuck” response
it happens to me so infrequently that i don’t usually catch on to what’s happening until it’s too late 😅.
basically ruins my whole week every time. makes me paranoid it’ll happen again any second. then it doesn’t. then i forget. then i relax. then it gets me…
I find it’s more common when Im Out of shape but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t still happen. It’s so weird cuz it can happen on my sleep and I usually freak out and literally jump awake only to hyper fixate of the leg trying to prevent the tension from maxing out. Man it’s crazy how painful doing nothing can be
That can trigger the muscle to contract even more, making the cramp worse. The thing to do is to contract the muscle group opposite of the muscle that is contracting, which forces the cramping muscle to relax. So for a calf cramp, try to raise your foot using the muscles on your shin.
My strategy of pulling on my big toe has been working pretty well
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You’re dehydrated
Is that what that means? I never knew and just grunted at the pain.
yes
I challenge you to simply sit there and watch your toes curl. It actually stops hurting if you can just relax and let it happen.
When I used to swim we’d be told to just swim it off. Calf, foot, right above the knee were all things you could kinda dead leg and use the flip turn to unkink, but now and then you’d get a hamstring cramp and that’s when you just sink and stretch. There is no negotiating with a hamstring cramp.
You need a little Magnesium
I need a big magnesium
I wouldn’t take more than 600mg at once
Of course you wouldn’t, coward. That’s how you unlock wolverine skeleton.
I used to suffer from them regularly as a kid. Just drink water. Thats it, nothing magica… maybe it’s the magnesium as another poster said. But honestly I have never had one since I changed my life and joined the hydro homies.
That’s not just me?!? I have to IMMEDIATELY jump out of bed and stand up and rub my calf or the pain is going to intense.
Yeah foot inner arch begins to scream out of nowhere while relaxing, happens once or twice a year since always. Skips a year sometimes. Thanks for others’ advice that’s been posted.
Stretching helps. Try to touch your toes every morning. If you can’t reach them, ask someone else to touch your toes for you.
…drink some water folks.
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