Re: muscle pain question
oh good lord get her off the
Antibiotics if you can. Sheesh. She should be eating the cleansing salads (see cleansing salads post for recipe) instead. That'll take care of
Acne pronto.
Pain in the legs due to exertion can be due to several factors. Sometimes it's not enough magnesium, salts and potassium. Salts she can get from natural
Sea Salt , magnesium from
Epsom Salts - just a small dose each day for about a week, see if symptom subsides. Potassium she can get from bananas and orange juice. They're not great for the liver but she's exercising so it shouldn't be too bad.
Complex carbs are excellent for runners, and sadly lacking in our typical diets. Not all carbs are bad!!! only the simple ones. :) So that means more whole grains. Try to get her to eat more hot cereals, brown rice, basmati rice, and sweet potatoes are great. If all else fails, she can eat pasta the night before a race.
Protein is actually not utilized for energy exchanges for exercise. That's a common misconception. Glucose is. Protein is just used to rebuild muscles afterwards, and if you eat to much, it gets turned into fat.
citric acid is very important for the Krebs cycle (energy). So make sure she's drinking lemonade rather than iced tea. Or spiking her iced tea with plenty of fresh lemon. :)
If her shins are hurting then she's got a tight achilles tendon and needs to do more stretching before she runs. A great stretch is standing about 2 feet from a wall, resting palms of hands on wall, then leaning forward as if doing pushups against the wall until you feel the pull in your heels/calves. Maintain the stretch, release by straightening arms, lean forward and stretch again. Stretching before and after running is very important.
Also good is standing so the toes only are on a thick board or yellow pages and lifting the heels, up/down/up/down. So 10-20 reps each day. This really helps calf cramps.
Hope that helps! :)