It would seem that you train for a long time and your body easily withstands loads, but in training there are always accidents and muscle spasms. Where do muscle spasms come from?
No one is immune from muscle spasms, sometimes they come even to people with perfect sports training. Most often, spasms are the consequence of dehydration, but they can also be caused by poor physical condition or fatigue. Muscle spasms manifest themselves quite painfully, but they are easy to prevent.
Muscle spasms occur in the legs, hips, back and upper body, to explain this situation simply — the muscle remains in a contracted state, can not relax and stretch. Making a movement, you pull this muscle with force, which it responds to with pain. With dehydration, the cause of spasms is not the lack of water, but the depletion of potassium reserves, so eating a banana before training will be a very good idea. Environmental conditions play an important role, when training on the street, wet and cool weather will increase the likelihood of the appearance of spasms. In adverse weather conditions, warm-up before training should be more thorough.
Acute pain in the muscles due to spasm can be caused by improper movement technique. In general, no matter what causes the appearance of spasms, their elimination is carried out according to the same algorithm. The best therapy for spasms is rest, massage, restoration of water-electrolyte balance, application of ice and stretching.
If spasms rarely bother, each of these methods will help, but if they become chronic or tend to intensify, a physiotherapist will be needed.
With frequent spasms, doctors prescribe courses of recovery exercises to improve the movement pattern of the body and the uniform development of muscles, often resort to acupuncture or chiropractic services. When fighting muscle spasms, the main thing is to work on soft tissues. If you are doing sports without a coach and do not resort to the services of a massager, then you will be good to buy a foam roller or a massage ball to relax the muscles after training.
But the best way to combat muscle spasms is to prevent them, it is easier to prevent the appearance of a spasm than to try to eliminate it. The first condition is hydration, the higher the physical activity, the more you need to drink, along with water, valuable minerals enter the body, including potassium and magnesium, important for the muscular system. An indicator of the level of hydration is the color of urine, when the urine becomes darker, this indicates the presence of dehydration.
Cramps and cramps can become a secondary phenomenon of overexertion, so it is important to prepare your body for each workout. Obtaining loads should be preceded by a warm-up with active stretching, during the warm-up, the muscles should warm up well. After training, the muscles need to cool down and calm down, for this a snag is performed. As a snag, static stretching exercises are suitable, they relax the muscles and adjust the muscular system for recovery.
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