Nerves are what trigger muscle cramps and lingering soreness during or post-exercise. Not dehydration or electrolyte-imbalance. HOTSHOT was created to quickly target these nerves to prevent or stop an active cramp and reduce next-day muscle soreness.
It's A Battle of Nerves

Invented by an Endurance Athlete/ Nobel Prize-Winning Neuroscientist
Necessity is the mother of invention. Despite being hydrated and having good nutrition, our founders were hit with severe muscle cramps during a deep-sea kayaking trip. The experience drove them to search out the truth among the cramping myths… and the 1.7oz sports shot was born. HOTSHOT is the first and only scientifically proven way to prevent muscle cramps and aid in reducing muscle soreness. Learn how it works.
Fight Fire with Fire
It’s all in the heat. The proprietary blend of all-natural ginger, cinnamon and capsaicin delivers a spicy shot to your nervous system to attack muscle cramping and soreness.
The Kick is How it Works

Muscle cramps and soreness start when your nerves become hyper-excited and blast your tired muscles with repetitive, uncontrollable signals.

Drinking a 1.7 oz HOTSHOT Sports Shot starts to work by triggering the sensory nerves located in your mouth and esophagus.

Those stimulated nerves then send a calming signal to your spinal cord.

The signals inhibit the repetitive firing of hyperactive nerves into your muscles — to quickly stop muscle cramps and reduce next-day muscle soreness.
Through Division 1 rowing to training full time, HOTSHOT has been a key part of my pre-race and cross-training routine to prevent cramps.
Cecily Madden, Elite National Team Rower
My friend gave me one of his HOTSHOTs. I drank it and immediately felt brand new.
Tom Mamming, Obstacle Racer
HOTSHOT stops severe cramps dead on, enough to even finish a race. This stuff works.
Tod Siegel, Cyclist
I tried it out on my tired legs in the middle of a training run and it worked instantly.
Sean Dixon, Runner
In The News
“All it took was a Nobel Prize winner experiencing some untimely cramps while sea kayaking a decade ago for people to begin to understand that the causes of muscle cramps may not have much to do with muscles at all.”
– Wall Street Journal
“HOTSHOT is the only scientifically proven formula to prevent and treat muscle cramps on the market.”
– Men’s Fitness
“Most experts blame nasty cramps on dehydration or a lack of electrolytes. But research that’ll be published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Athletic Association has led to the creation of a sports drink that says the real culprit is hyper-excited motor nerves in your spinal cord.”
– Fitness Magazine
“If I was a cramp-prone athlete looking for solutions, I’d go ahead and give HOTSHOT a try.”
– Runner’s World