{"id":1960,"date":"2012-09-22T07:11:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T11:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2012-09-23T12:42:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T16:42:41","slug":"sodium-to-improve-athletic-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/sodium-to-improve-athletic-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Sodium To Improve Athletic Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Have you ever gotten a painful muscle cramp while working out?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes your muscles can literally lock up and the pain can be excruciating. Not only that, but in sever cases you could also run the risk of pulling or tearing the muscles when they cramp and tighten up.<\/p>\n<p>Bodybuilders, athletes, and hardcore fitness enthusiasts who are in the gym working out on a regular basis run the risk of having an electrolyte imbalance. <\/p>\n<p>One of the main problems is that we lose a lot of sodium through heavy sweating. Then when you combine this with drinking lots of water to quench your thirst, this can dilute your blood sodium levels to the point of getting muscle cramps, weakness, dizziness, and shakiness.<\/p>\n<p>Another part of this problem stems from the fact that people who workout regularly, also tend to eat the <em>&#8220;healthiest&#8221;<\/em> and are more likely to purposely avoid consuming excess sodium in their diets. Most main stream doctors and health experts will tell you to avoid eating salt like the plague. But you have to realize that this advice is targeted towards the average sedentary couch potato, not hard training bodybuilders and fitness enthusiasts.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you are very active they you run a greater risk of consuming too little sodium, rather then too much.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<strong><font color=\"brown\">Watch The Video Below To Learn A &#8220;Sneaky Trick&#8221; To Avoid Muscle Cramps In The Gym&#8230;<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"590\" height=\"467\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/GO8GL99H3XE?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\n<I><U>Note:<\/u> if you can&#8217;t watch the embedded video clip above,<br \/>\nyou can watch it right on my YouTube Channel by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GO8GL99H3XE\" title=\"Sodium For Athletic Performance\" target=\"_blank\"><U>Clicking Here<\/u><\/a><\/i><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever experienced painful muscle cramps while training?<br \/>\nIf so let me know in the comments below and tell me what you did to get rid of them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever gotten a painful muscle cramp while working out? Bodybuilders, athletes, and hardcore fitness enthusiasts who are in the gym working out on a regular basis run the risk of having an electrolyte imbalance due to lack of sodium<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,37,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bodybuilding-nutrition","category-injuries","category-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p36tGh-vC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7076,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions\/7076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}