Exercises to help with leg cramps
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I have great success with reducing cramping in clients with two things.
One, stretching the affected muscle frequently. This has been especially helpful with calf cramps.
Two, drinking a sport recovery drink.
For clients that experience cramping at night, they tell me keeping a sports drink on their night stand for this is helpful. And gentle stretching of the muscles affected right before bed or upon being woken by a cramp also helps. The gentle stretching also can be helpful in endurance events. The time lost to stretching beats crumpling in a heap from pain.
There are some other techniques that you can learn, but I would not be comfortable trying to explain them without including a hands on component with actual cramping athletes/clients.