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rockie
Nov 30, 2008, 11:19 AM
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Do you get it? What did you do to help prevent it ongoing?
I know stretching helps, but what helps stop it from occurring at all?
I had it bad this year, scary when leading a climb and that happens.
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charley
Nov 30, 2008, 3:40 PM
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Chocolate milk. Try it, it works.
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coolcat83
Nov 30, 2008, 3:49 PM
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i think i only once got a hand cramp doing this horrible pinch, did a crappy warm up and that was probably why. warm up well, stay hydrated, and if you consistently get a cramp doing one move look into it could be pinching something i suppose. i find with a warm up i don't cramp i just hold on till exhaustion
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flatlanderAB
Dec 1, 2008, 5:58 AM
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Bananas do the trick for cramps (a low level of potassium in your body is one of the causes of muscle cramps) or so says a friend of mine that is really into fitness training. While you are at it you may as well have chocolate banana pancakes. 
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rockie
Dec 1, 2008, 6:32 AM
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coolcat83 wrote: i think i only once got a hand cramp doing this horrible pinch, did a crappy warm up and that was probably why. warm up well, stay hydrated, and if you consistently get a cramp doing one move look into it could be pinching something i suppose. i find with a warm up i don't cramp i just hold on till exhaustion
I'm a sucker for warm ups, I always do the warm up during the work-out. I warm down more than I warm up, usually as I warm up fast, but should stretch the hands more at least beforehand.
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rockie
Dec 2, 2008, 3:17 AM
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dr_feelgood wrote: flatlanderAB wrote: Bananas do the trick for cramps (a low level of potassium in your body is one of the causes of muscle cramps) or so says a friend of mine that is really into fitness training. While you are at it you may as well have chocolate banana pancakes. Coulda had a V8. Read the nutrition facts on one of those fuckers some day. Plenty of sodium and potassium.
Hey, I know all about bananas.
I eat one a day, every morning at breakfast. Plenty of potassium for sure.
I still got hand cramp though, a few times at least.
(This post was edited by rockie on Dec 2, 2008, 3:22 AM)
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crazy_fingers84
Dec 2, 2008, 3:24 AM
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rockie wrote: flatlanderAB wrote: Bananas do the trick for cramps (a low level of potassium in your body is one of the causes of muscle cramps) or so says a friend of mine that is really into fitness training. While you are at it you may as well have chocolate banana pancakes. Ahh electrolytes, that's the answer!, I'll take powerade not water when I go climbing from now on, thanks for jigging my memory. I always used to think salt was the answer, but it is more a combination of electrolyte replenishment. Chocolate, yer it tastes good and that's it, aftereights are very yum.
how did you arrive at electrolytes from that post?
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rockie
Dec 2, 2008, 3:39 AM
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crazy_fingers84 wrote: rockie wrote: flatlanderAB wrote: Bananas do the trick for cramps (a low level of potassium in your body is one of the causes of muscle cramps) or so says a friend of mine that is really into fitness training. While you are at it you may as well have chocolate banana pancakes. Ahh electrolytes, that's the answer!, I'll take powerade not water when I go climbing from now on, thanks for jigging my memory. I always used to think salt was the answer, but it is more a combination of electrolyte replenishment. Chocolate, yer it tastes good and that's it, aftereights are very yum. how did you arrive at electrolytes from that post?
It refers to electrolytes.
K+ Na+ are are all body electrolytes, and if depleted yes it will cause cramp, so I'll take powerade and an extra banana with me from now on
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andrewG
Dec 2, 2008, 3:40 AM
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Probably because potassium is an electrolyte.
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crazy_fingers84
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i see. . .
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rockie
Dec 2, 2008, 3:54 AM
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Are you sure?
I think you already knew that somehow.
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full1346
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a baked potato with the skin left on it has more potassium in it than a banana. its an old runner's trick
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Bats
Dec 6, 2008, 12:48 AM
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Glucosamine-Chondroitin-MSM Complex seems to work when I cramping after the climb. I normally take this supplement twice a day.
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naitch
Dec 6, 2008, 12:56 AM
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I use to get severe hand cramps and bananas never did sh#t. I started using Powerade and haven't had a problem since.
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rockie
Dec 7, 2008, 10:10 AM
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Bats wrote: Glucosamine-Chondroitin-MSM Complex seems to work when I cramping after the climb. I normally take this supplement twice a day.
I've used this in the past, briefly, but there was no solid evidence to suggest that this supplement worked. At least not at that point in time. Not sure of that's changed at all?
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rockie
Dec 7, 2008, 10:14 AM
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naitch wrote: I use to get severe hand cramps and bananas never did sh#t. I started using Powerade and haven't had a problem since.
Well powerade or gatorade makes perfect sense to me and that's what I intend to drink from now on when outdoor climbing. I can see electrolyte depletion being a true cause of hand cramp, as for any cramp. That cramp is hell too.
Have you ever fallen on getting a hand cramp?
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rockie
Dec 7, 2008, 10:16 AM
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full1346 wrote: a baked potato with the skin left on it has more potassium in it than a banana. its an old runner's trick
I'd have steered more towards saying it holds more fiber with the skin on it than potassium.
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Dec 7, 2008, 12:45 PM
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Maybe the answer you're looking for is in your sig:
"Never, never, never... climb till exhaustion. Give up !"
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