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Night Cramps on a Cut

rodefeeh

rodefeeh

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For the past several years, I have done a cut April-May starting out close to 200 and getting pretty shredded down to 180. The past 4 years I have experienced BAD cramping in both of my lower legs at night after about a month into each cut. I will have to get out of bed and go back and forth stretching my calves and muscles/tissue on front lower legs. The night cramps normally last through July. I eat really clean, lots of veggies. In my eyes, I intake enough salt. If I drank more water, I'd really be up pissing in the middle of the night. I take 3g of Taurine preworkout. I typically get off creatine in May for the rest of the summer. It hasn't happened this year yet, but sometimes I will cramp so hard, the muscle will be sore the next day. I don't take any diuretics.

Anybody experience this? Any suggestions? Do I just need to be drinking a sugar free electrolyte drink all day? Electrolyte pills? More stretching throughout the day?
 
PolishHamm3r77 said:
What is your potassium intake like?
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All I know is that I eat healthy, and my bloodwork always comes back good regarding electrolytes. I definitely eat less fruit on a cut. But I still eat a ton of veggies - leafy greens, broccoli, tomatoes, celery, carrots. I should probably try adding back in sweet potatoes post workout. I normally eat oats post workout on a cut because they are pretty filling.
 
could try taking some taurine and magnesium before bed as well - both of these come in quite handy for muscle spasms and are pretty cheap.
 
I have subbed in bananas and dates for other carbs and surprisingly it is making a difference. I wasn't expecting the solution to be this simple. Hopefully this continues to work. I'll report back if anything changes. I appreciate everyone's responses!
 
FYI, I ended my cut successfully last weekend. The last week I cut out most carbs. Cramps came back with the last night being very bad. The next day I had a serving of dates, banana, half tomato and experienced no cramps. Again, I can't believe it was that simple! A banana a day keeps the cramps away!
 
rodefeeh said:
FYI, I ended my cut successfully last weekend. The last week I cut out most carbs. Cramps came back with the last night being very bad. The next day I had a serving of dates, banana, half tomato and experienced no cramps. Again, I can't believe it was that simple! A banana a day keeps the cramps away!
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So banana > potato?
 
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