s2/e21 Muscle Cramps (What We Do & Don't Know) with Coach Elisabeth
The Running Explained Podcast
Running Explained
4.6 • 534 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
NASTY CRAMPSES! Why do they happen, and always at the worst time? Learn what we do and don't know about the cause of and risk factors for exercise-associated muscle cramps (EAMC) in this episode with Coach Elisabeth, including...
- A history of the research on muscle cramps in the last 100 years
- The basics of muscle types & HOW your skeletal muscles work
- The "electrolyte imbalance" theory of muscle cramping
- The "neuromotor" theory of muscle cramping
- Things you can do to help reduce your risk of muscles cramps
- and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Running Explain podcast. I'm Elizabeth, a marathoner, running coach, and answer seeker. |
| 0:08.2 | When I became a new runner at the age of 29, I had so many questions, but it felt like I was on my |
| 0:14.6 | own to figure all of the answers. So now I'm here to answer all your running questions to help make you a |
| 0:20.3 | better, smarter, |
| 0:22.0 | faster runner. |
| 0:23.4 | There's no question too simple and no topic too complex. |
| 0:26.8 | So let's get started. |
| 0:28.4 | Hello, hello, everyone. |
| 0:29.6 | Welcome to the Running Explained podcast. |
| 0:31.8 | I am Elizabeth, your host and your guest for this week. |
| 0:36.1 | This is episode 21 of season two. And today we are having that |
| 0:42.4 | muscle cramp episode. We are gamma-ish together. And we are talking today about muscle cramps. Very |
| 0:50.4 | specifically, this episode is going to be about exercise associated muscle cramps, |
| 0:56.7 | not side stitches, not other types of cramping you may experience in your uterus or in |
| 1:04.1 | your gastrointestinal tract. We are talking specifically today about exercise associated muscle cramps. |
| 1:10.4 | The cramps you get, mile 16 in a marathon, the cramps you get when you're running or soon |
| 1:15.8 | after you have finished a session, those typically lower leg muscle cramps. |
| 1:22.2 | And you're talking about the state of the research on this topic. |
| 1:27.0 | And along the way, we're going to learn a little bit more |
| 1:29.2 | about how your muscles work because you have to understand how your muscles work to understand |
| 1:33.9 | what the possible causes of cramping might be. And I am going to straight up say that, believe it or |
| 1:43.5 | not, nobody's quite sure what causes muscle cramps. |
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