prevent leg cramps?

[coral-hugger]

Aside from general fitness (weight, cardiovascular, etc.) are there specific exercises that are good for the usual scuba routine?

For instance, leg/calf cramps are common. (OK, they are common for ME.)

Any advice? Anyone have a "scuba workout" ?

[tnfireman]

I get leg cramps also ,what I do to prevent them is take a few min. to stretch before I gear up.

[ScubaJenn81]

Check out this link
http://www.divefitness.com/html/home.html

It has some workouts and articles.

[ScubaJenn81]

Also, I tend to get more leg cramps if I am not drinking enough. Another thing (for me personally) if I do not get enough calcium in my diet, the tendancy for cramps go up. I started taking vitamins and it has helped. But drinking a lot of water when diving makes a huge difference, on many levels.

[ScubaJenn81]

Yea, I know, I am posting a lot, but here are some articles for those of you that do not want to search around the website:

Exercise Muscle Cramps
http://www.divefitness.com/html/arti..._pdfs/EAMC.pdf

Preventing Leg/Calf Cramps
http://www.divefitness.com/html/arti.../foot_calf.pdf

[WV Diver]

Big on the list. STAY WELL HYDRATED, keep your K+ levels up, stretching can't hurt, long daily walks are good.

[chewyjr15]

thanks i also get cramps ill try that out

[gtjason2000]

Bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S

[mm_dm]

Multi-vitamins with minerals, hydration, stretching and I eat bananas every day. I'm in the water more than once in a week and I have too many other duties to be dealing with cramps.

[greyzen]

It's already been stated but to agree with everyone...
eat banana's and drink plenty of water. Also, something that seems to help me out (and might be your problem) is salt.

I add a healthy portion of salt to my veggie medley. My diet is very lacking in salt (I don't like the stuff) and unfortunately you need it.