After a vigorous workout if I sweated a lot, I chug pickle juice.
Pickle juice, mustard, etc
It’s really about potassium, salt, magnesium
I found a pill form that only costs 10 cents per pill. I no longer get cramps while doing my extreme rides. Trace Minerals is the brand I found at Costco and now buy directly at website.
Pickles and juice keep my husband from developing heat cramps in his strenuous construction work in south Florida. There is absolutely no evaporative cooling with the high humidity. One is sweat soaked all day. Two years ago he was hospitalized after cramping so bad his legs were kicking uncontrollably like a marionette.
Pickle juice apparently contains trace minerals and electrolytes besides sodium and potassium. Perhaps magnesium, even selenium?
Hand cramps develop first in which case he takes some. Even V8 and combinations of other juices salty and otherwise don’t help. They also make frozen pickle juice popsicles.