Many peeps get relief from muscle cramps from using higher doses 5-10 grams of taurine daily..
I’m gonna try that.
Come on guys....it's a fair question? I suffered the same problem in my 20's when training heavy and competing. And now if i ever hit it too hard now i suffer the same cramping!!! It's debilitating!
Like Yemeni i am clean now. What gives? I take all the essential vitamins/minerals too.
Interestingly, this only happens when I use heavy weights & incorporated drop sets/super sets…
Similar thing happened to my legs recently, after a workout where I used more weight that I had previously.
That’s exactly where I’m at right now. My strength has been progressively going up. Hmmmm….
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Streching is good! 
I used to cramp up after 20 set squats but now everything is better cause I use doggcrapps special static stretches. He got that one right on the money!
I do a lot of stretching. Particulalry for legs because I have very tight hams. I’ll have to look up this doggcrapps special static stretches you mention…
make sure you're getting enough potassium and water.
I’ve actually been supplementing with a potassium supplement and drinking about a ½ gallon of water/day. Perhaps I need to bump that up the a MONSTER 1 gallon like I used drink…
Try some baking soda 1 tsp, with plenty of water.
I’ll try that too…
yeah, cramping sucks. it sometimes happens to my legs after a decent leg workout and it always happens to my forearms after a heavy back workout (i do not use straps). i even bought an electric toothbrush as on the evening of my back day (i work out in early morning) i am unable to brush my teeth for more than 20 sec without cramping up in the forearms.
Same thing happens to me, except it’s my brachialis. It cramps so hard while brushing my teeth, that I can barely extend my arm during the cramp…
I get that sometimes but it's not painful, I actually look forward to it, makes me feel like the workout is working. But if it really is painful I'd probably stretch like someone mentioned earlier or increase your reps and lower the weight on your squat. I always hear people saying you should do a minimum 15 reps for any leg exercises although I don't follow that rule but If I was experiencing the pain your talking about I'd try it
I keep my reps in the 12-15 range for squats, occasionally doing one heavy set in the 8-10 rep range, which I strip twice, each time for another 8-10 reps, totaling 24-30 reps…
Same here...Had the same problem back then and even now sometimes when I lay off because of my travels. I was told to take 5-10gr of Pure Creatine Monohydrate and double up on the minerals. I also increased my water intake.
I’m taking creatine already, but perhaps not enough minerals. I’ll give it a try…thanks.
same thing. water and a crap load of pedialyte seems to help.
Drank 68 FL. OZ. yesterday as my legs were convulsing uncontrollably…!
Sounds like an electrolyte imbalance if it is effecting more than one muscle. I use to get similair cramps, particularly after intense leg workouts. The cramps would usually occur after I had been sitting for a while (for example getting out of a car after a leg workout) if I stood up my quads in particular would lock up, prity painful. This also occured in other muscle groups such as triceps, forearms and abs.
I also think that the cramping was due to the use of the ephedrine/caffeine stack which will definitely throw off electrolyte balance.
I tried pedyolyte (wrong spelling), and this worked sometimes, and sometimes it didn't.
What worked was taking a strong multivitamin and mineral combination; after a week of taking a mixed pack every day the cramps disappeared completely, I have'nt had any in 5 weeks or so. (reducing the eph stack also helped).
The multi vitamin and mineral pack I take is called "Bodytech Beast pak" made by the vitamin shop, I recommend it.
You described it EXACTLY! Glad to know I’m not the only one. Thanks!
And thanks everyone for the input.
