Re: Cramp
- From: CoyoteBoy <james.buckle@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 10:12:37 -0700
On 16 Sep, 18:05, CoyoteBoy <james.buc...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 16 Sep, 16:30, "Clive George" <cl...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Paul Boyd" <use...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:46ed3b62$0$8428$db0fefd9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Am I getting enough salt? Sounds like a strange question, given we're
accused of eating too much.
I don't often cramp whilst cycling, but used to get it afterwards. I just
munch a packet of ready-salted crisps at some point, and that seems to
prevent cramp OK. Even they seem to have much less salt now than they
used to, but presumably still have enough. I do also usually have an
isotonic drink in the water bottle, but the CamelBak just has plain water
in it.
In the alps we took to putting a bit of salt in our normal diluted fruit
juice (50:50 juice to water) bottles. It seemed to help. (not too much
otherwise it tastes horrible)
We also eat crisps - you can tell you're down on salt when they taste
_really_ good.
cheers,
clive
I think I'm odd, I actually really like the flavour of raw salt. Its
hard to know whether you're getting the right amount, especially when
exercising, because its hard to tell whats in your food, especially if
you cook most stuff from raw and have packets to look at. I started
adding a level teaspoon to 2 litres of water and it seems to help a
little I think. I always have salty sweat, I'd have thought that if
you didnt have salty sweat you'd be WAY down on salts.
Actually looking at wikiwhatsit, the recommended salt levels for other
countries are ~1.5g/day as opposed to our 6. You'd expect them to have
problems with cramps all day long if they were near that :)
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