yea there was a recent study that in people that were getting cramps due to mineral depletion drinking water made it worse by diluting the remaining minerals in the body - I always salt my pre-workout meal really well (usually sweet potatoes as they're easily digestible, can be baked in oven or microwave to raise GL/starch breakdown into simple sugars and have lots of potassium, another important mineral for gym performance), makes more of a difference than all those overpriced powders DYEL's are obsessed with