What is it that causes a lower leg muscle pain, a charley horse?
I have gotten them at times and my leg muscle will get as hard as a rock, after it goes away my leg will be sore. When I would get them was when I would use regular swim fins and start out doing too much without a warm up. One swimmer told me they were from a low sugar level. I have the Zoomer fins also, and have not had a charley horse with them.
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Despite eating bananas and taking extra doses of calcium, vitamin & mineral supplements, I also get Charlie horses and cramps in the arch of my foot while doing backstroke. Usually it is worse at the beginning of the season, when using flippers or doing flip turns after a hard kick set. Like Jim, what I have found is that contracting the opposing muscles help relieve the cramp. What I do is; face the end of the pool, place my toes on the side wall, and then press my heal down to the wall.
Despite eating bananas and taking extra doses of calcium, vitamin & mineral supplements, I also get Charlie horses and cramps in the arch of my foot while doing backstroke. Usually it is worse at the beginning of the season, when using flippers or doing flip turns after a hard kick set. Like Jim, what I have found is that contracting the opposing muscles help relieve the cramp. What I do is; face the end of the pool, place my toes on the side wall, and then press my heal down to the wall.
