The master mineral most training plans and hydration drinks forget about
From cramps and restless legs to recovery, sleep and staying injury-free, magnesium plays a crucial role in your training and health.
Why Training Burns Through Magnesium Fast
Every hard training session demands more from your cell magnesium reserves: Sweating heavily, breaking down and rebuilding muscle tissue, pushing your metabolism and dissipating lactic acid. The high energy expenditure and stress hormone circulation increase how much magnesium is used up, often faster than diet alone can replace it. In addition, if you take extra protein powder supplements it will also increase magnesium demands in order to process and use the amino acids. If you OD on the amino acids you can give yourself magnesium deficiency cramps.
Cramps, Restless Legs & Muscle Tension
Calcium works to contract muscle fibres, and magnesium works to relax them in the recovery phase. When magnesium runs low, the electrolyte imbalance causes dehydration in the muscle fibres with excess calcium remaining in membrane channels to overstimulate and tighten muscle fibres, causing cramp, tightness, tension or restless legs at night.
Recovery, Sleep & Avoiding Burnout
Muscle repair and tissue healing happens during deep sleep when the body is fully relaxed and the stress hormones of cortisol and adrenalin have subsided. During deep restorative sleep the pineal gland makes melatonin, a powerful antioxidant hormone responsible for detoxing the brain and spinal fluid from the metabolic wastes accumulated during the day. To dampen down stress hormones and to make melatonin we need adequate magnesium. Pushing hard without enough recovery time between sessions is commonly linked to persistent fatigue, disrupted sleep and a higher injury risk. Replenish and wind down with sufficient magnesium for optimal recovery and regeneration.
Performance, Stamina & Injury Risk
Magnesium is essential for mitochondrial energy metabolism in your cells. It also brings more hydration into the cell for electrical conductivity, as well as support of the blood circulation and heart function via electrical charge. You also need magnesium to make proteins like collagen and elastin, as well as to control calcium channels, keeping ligaments flexible and joints moving smoothly. Low magnesium causes muscle and joint stiffness due to the calcium and dehydration effects. Diets alone fall short of the magnesium needed to recover from high performance sport and hard physical work loads (even if you eat a natural organic fresh food diet). Using the skin to absorb extra magnesium gives athletes an edge because of the higher uptake without the work of digestion, and also because the skin is an extra magnesium storage tank that you can fill up to maximise your reserves and stamina.
Why Transdermal for Athletes
Oral magnesium has to survive digestion first, and only a small portion crosses the gut wall. Higher concentrations upset digestion, causing liquefied stool and diarrhea. Dissolved magnesium chloride salts however, applied directly to skin as oil, lotion or cream (or via bathing), can be quickly and effectively absorbed into the skin reservoir, completely bypassing the gut. If you need more, then just rub in more. It's a big vessel! Serve up that nutrition and the body will take what it needs.
Dose Guide
Daily recommendation to support training and recovery, mix and choose depending on which products you get!
- 6–12 drops of the Mineral Drops per litre for your drinking water, sipped throughout the day
- 1–2 tsp of Magnesium Lotion massaged into tired or worked muscles
- 6-12 sprays of the Magnesium Oil Spritz directly onto cramping or overworked muscles
- Footsoak or bath a few times a week
Signs your training is outpacing your recovery
Pushing hard is the point in building strength and endurance. The workout produces tiny micro tears in muscle tissue which the body registers in the recovery phase as requiring extra reinforcement. But if recovery and rebuilding isn't keeping up due to low magnesium, you start to scrape the bottom of the barrel in resources and the body then reduces energy output so as to ration the resources it still has. Common symptoms are:
- Persistent fatigue or brain fog
- Trouble winding down after training
- Feeling irritable or on edge
- Slower recovery between sessions
- More aches or niggly injuries than usual
- Cramping or restless legs
How to Get Started.
Start with the basics in our Heavy Duty Bundle, or build your own routine below.
Every routine starts the same way: Mineral Drops in your drinking water as the essential base, paired with whichever topical product suits your skin.
Daily recommendation to support training and recovery, mix and choose depending on which products you get!
- 6–12 drops of the Mineral Drops per litre for your drinking water, sipped throughout the day
- 1–2 tsp of Magnesium Lotion massaged into tired or worked muscles
- 6-12 sprays of the Magnesium Oil Spritz directly onto cramping or overworked muscles
- Footsoak or bath a few times a week
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Heavy Duty Bundle
Our most popular pick for active bodies. Everything you need to prepare, recover and stay on top of cramps, before, and after training.
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Magnesium Mineral Drops
The foundation of every routine, added to your drinking water to support hydration and magnesium levels throughout the day.
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Magnesium Oil
Your higher-strength option
(60% Magnesium, 300mg per 6 sprays).A fast-absorbing spray to massage straight into tired, tight or cramping muscles.
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Magnesium Lotion
A gentler, more moisturising option
(30% Magnesium - 300mg per 1 tsp).Perfect for daily massage-in recovery, especially if your skin runs dry.
Best suited to normal to dry skin. -
Magnesium Salt Flakes
A full-body soak rather than a spot treatment, dissolved in a bath or footsoak to top up reserves before a big session, or unwind after one. Best used two to three times a week, or the evening before an early start.
Calcium tightens. Magnesium releases.
Muscle performance basically relies on a bi-mineral relationship between magnesium and calcium. Every muscle cramp involves magnesium getting low and calcium therefore becoming an unopposed bully. Topping up with more magnesium and hydration is the key to restoring balance and optimal function.
Improve recovery and performance with enough magnesium.
Muscle Recovery Reviews
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"Since I have been using the Magnesium Charge Lotion together with the Magnesium Drops Water Supplement all the cramps in my legs have completely gone and I have the strength back in my knees.....I never thought I would have that and I can go walking again. I am so happy, and my sincere thanks to Sandy for taking the time to talk to me. I tell my friends and family whenever I can to help them as much as these products have helped me....I am so so grateful! With heartfelt and the most sincere thanks."
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"The spritz is the best product I have tried for pain, muscle aches, cramping and some relief for restless legs, been using it for years. love it"
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"Love the charge lotion! This helps a lot with preventing cramps in my legs post exercise. Smells really good too!"
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"I have been using Elektra Magnesium Lotion "Charge" since January 2019. It helps with cramped muscles and inflammation of the bursas. It also helps with back pain. I massage myself with the lotion twice a day, morning and evening. It has a pleasant refreshing smell."
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"I have suffered from Cramps and Restless legs most of my 70 plus years. Since I have been using the magnesium salt as a foot soak and self made spritz for the last 2 weeks they have both all but vanished. So very grateful"
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"Two weeks with the drops and I have certainly noticed improvement in my sleep. 6-8 drops at night and I sleep through. Muscle cramps are gone. Hubby has restless legs. Subsided but not stopped as yet."
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"I noticed the difference straight away and now my skin feels so much better and no more restless legs and cramps at night I get a great nights sleep no, sleeping thru the night."
Magnesium Oil
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"No more restless legs!! And some of the best sleep I've had in a long time. I use the equivalent of 2 tsp of the cream and massage it into mine and my husband's calves each night."
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"Love this product! Prepares and protects and soothes sore muscles after endurance exercise."
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"Great for my foot and calf cramps and helps with a good nights sleep."
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"I love the magnesium oil spritz. Spray them on tired muscles after tough strength training helps to sooth and enhance muscle relaxation."
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"I find this product extremely helpful with muscle soreness and cramps"
Magnesium Oil
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"Fantastic product works very well. No more night cramps in my calf muscle, also eases lower back pain, sore joints and muscle all over the body. Great customer service too!"
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"Using this daily has stopped the muscle cramps that occurred at night, and as a bonus the sun damage on my hands have diminished also."
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