Anyones calf ever tense up real bad when they wake up?

[underguy77]

Anyone here ever have that horrible pain in thier calves when they wake up? It happens to my brother a lot but today it happend to me. The muscle tensed up and it had all the veins goin and everything....good god did it hurt! Anyways, anyone know what causes this? and how do I not let it happen again?

underguy77

 

[HappyScrappy]

1) when the muscle is out of shape and then gets overused - I used to get them in the pool when I hadn't swam in a while, and 2) salt deficiancies - usually potassium I think.

 

[HamsterHider]

I think it is a mystery disease. Happens to me sometimes so bad i scream. I can't walk for like 20 minutes. I get plenty of potassium.
Maybe we are all related

 

[HappyScrappy]

when I'm on a cycle, if I walk anywhere, my calves flex intensely and pretty much cramp up.
but sometimes it makes them look pretty good. just hard to walk.

 

[MrMuscle]

"back in the days" when i used to be a sprinter it sometimes happend to me..i would wake up in the middle of the night, and my calf would cramp up real bad and i wouldnt be able to release it..so id have to jank it out with my hand..hearing a big SNAP..and they id lay there and breath heavy because of the imense pain..wouldnt be able to walk all day

 

[HappyScrappy]

hey MM, he wasn't talking about spankin his monkey

 

[Latimer]

I always used to get it in both calves back when I played football. A quick way to stop the cramping is to curl your toes and feet upwards.

 

[MrMuscle]

yeah Lat, of your able..to me it was to painfll..so i had to take hold of my foot and bend it uppwards with my hands

 

[underguy77]

lmao happy scrappy!!

yeah I dont think its a potassium deficiancy, at least for me anyways. Although Ive heard that before. I used to only work calves once a week since I have pretty good calves to start with but I now do them 2x a week and maybe thats what did it.

 

[AGENT SHAGWELL]

only time I get seriouse muscle cramps....morning....calve.....reasoning...dehydration, electrolight imbalance. Hurts worse than anything....like some one taking you muscle and pushing it through a meat shredder......