Contents:
- Medical Video: Side Stitch Solution Medical Course
- What causes foot cramps?
- How do you deal with leg cramps?
- How do you prevent foot cramps?
Medical Video: Side Stitch Solution Medical Course
Cramps have always been a nightmare for everyone, especially runners. Imagine you are 5 meters to the finish line and BAM! suddenly your right leg starts acting weird. Your leg muscles continue to tighten and all you can do is fear that something is wrong with your feet and you have to live the rest of your life without it. Calm down first. Aand a powerful way to deal with leg cramps while running, and what you can do to prevent it. Consider the following review.
What causes foot cramps?
There are many theories related to cramping triggers, including dehydration, loss of electrolytes, lack of salt, and muscle fatigue driven to run.
However, tired muscles are the main trigger for the most common foot cramps. Muscle fatigue occurs when you run harder than you should. In other words, excessive physical exercise can make your muscles fatigued, increasing the chances of cramping.
How do you deal with leg cramps?
If foot cramps suddenly appear in the middle of the running track, what should be done? Holding your feet, praying and shouting has proven to be ineffective, so what you can do, and what you have to do, is stop running, take a deep breath, and start stretching.
Cramping means your muscles are too tired to stretch themselves, be the owner of a responsible body by helping your muscles to overcome leg cramps. Some emergency stretching exercises include light massage on cramped calves, keeping the calf in a stretching position for several minutes until cramps disappear.
If there are friends around you, ask him to stretch your legs by holding them in a straight position and bending your palms up.
How do you prevent foot cramps?
- Exercise regularly and improve your practice with reasonable progress. If you want to run 8 km a day, start by running for 1 or 1.6 or 3.2 km and slowly increasing your mileage per week, or maybe per month.
- Shorten your training session, rest for 3-5 minutes between sessions, and gradually increase the number of your running sessions.
- Take care of your running speed carefully. Slow down your training speed - especially at first.
- Don't exercise too hard on a hot / humid day.
- Make sure that you warm up the muscles before you start exercising. Don't miss stretching because this stage is the only way to prepare your muscles for training sessions. Proper stretching will ensure that you can travel a longer distance without cramping.
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