Chocolate Milk May Improve Recovery After Exercise

RE: Chocolate Milk May Improve Recovery After Exercise

Former Member — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:56:38 GMT

A very well-written article explaining the benefits of protein and carbohydrate immediately following a workout... www.nytimes.com/.../601physed.html Swallow This By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS The New York Times Published: June 1, 2008 Excerpt: ".....Start with your postworkout meal. The regeneration of your muscles begins, improbably as it may seem, with that. “Back in the early ’90s, most athletes, especially runners and cyclists, were preoccupied with carbohydrates,” says John Ivy, the chairman of the department of kinesiology and health education at the University of Texas in Austin and one of the pioneers of research into exercise recovery. This was in the heyday of carbo-loading, when athletes were convinced that the more pasta and bread they ate before a hard workout, the more stored energy they’d have. But carbo-loading in advance of exercise is not the most efficient way to stock muscles with fuel, physiologists now know, thanks in large part to research conducted by Ivy. When reviewing studies of diabetics, he became intrigued by similarities with his own tests on cyclists: for both groups, insulin in the blood was more effective at carrying energy into the muscles if those muscles had recently been active. “Exercise makes your muscles more responsive to insulin, and this insulin, in turn, increases glycogen muscle uptake,” he says. In other words, exercise prompts your muscles to absorb more fuel — glucose, which is stored as glycogen — from the bloodstream. (Carbo-loading can’t take advantage of this insulin response because it precedes, rather than follows, a workout.) Your body is actually primed by the exercise to help itself replenish lost fuel...."

RE: Chocolate Milk May Improve Recovery After Exercise

Former Member — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 11:43:08 GMT

My Favorite spot in Mexico

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Former Member — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:41:57 GMT

thanks, beth. I head to Maine a couple of times a year. I will make a point of looking for a Governors. I can't fathom how all of those ingredients could be in one Sunday, but my curiousity is piqued.

RE: Chocolate Milk May Improve Recovery After Exercise

Former Member — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 06:08:25 GMT

I had read about Chocoalte milk as a recovery drink but havent tried it yet, seems a bit sweet after practice, I am alwasy wantign something salty, like nachos. Mike, if you want a real ice cream treat you have to try a Federal Deficit Sundae up in Maine at one of the Governors Resturants, it is made up of a banana split, a brownie delight sundae, 6 other sundaes including a strawberry sundae, shortcake sundae, hot fudge sundae, butterscotch sundae, penaut butter sundae, blueberry sundae, cherry and pineapple toppings, walnuts, rasperberries and marshmallow oh and whip cream! I am proud to say - whenever I am back home a friend and I always polish one off just to stay in shape. In fact I am head there next week and can hardly wait! We talk eat talk eat talk eat talk..........it is not a sprint event more like long distance. :p And probably requires that many laps to swim it off....

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Former Member — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 11:41:28 GMT

When I would have done it for free..... George, I owe you an ice cream cone for helping me rationalize my ice cream habit. ;)

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Former Member — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:32:39 GMT

A scoop of icecream is as good as a steak. www.timesonline.co.uk/.../0,,8126-1694373,00.html

RE: Chocolate Milk May Improve Recovery After Exercise

Former Member — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:03:15 GMT

Now if only someone will do a study on Oreo cookies and milk for helping reverse the aging process. Oh, and I need an ice cream study, too. Well, let me rephrase. I want to get involved in an ice cream study. Heck, I just like ice cream.

RE: Chocolate Milk May Improve Recovery After Exercise

Former Member — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 05:43:41 GMT

Chocolate Milk May Improve Recovery After Exercise So will a couple of table spoons of white sugar.

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aquaFeisty — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 03:37:39 GMT

Mike, believe it or not, a couple of months ago a friend of mine actually got to do taste testing for Cold Stone Creamery (an ice cream chain that hand blends stuff like M&M's, peanut butter, graham cracker, etc etc, into their ice cream)... Here's the kicker: I think she got paid $20 to sit around that afternoon and eat ice cream.

RE: Chocolate Milk May Improve Recovery After Exercise

Former Member — Mon, 29 May 2006 14:53:12 GMT

I stared drinking Ovaltine as a recovery drink when I return from a bike ride. It is to much trouble to get milk to the pool and keep it cold, so I stick to Endurox after swim workouts. Both work well for me.

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Former Member — Mon, 29 May 2006 05:54:26 GMT

Chocolate milk is the best thing in the world. I liked it so much I would have it at every meal.

RE: Chocolate Milk May Improve Recovery After Exercise

FindingMyInnerFish — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:44:41 GMT

I've also heard soy milk (including chocolate soy milk) recommended. There was a lot of discussion on this last year, I think, on my running listserve. But I can't say the first drink I reach for after a workout is milk... maybe a protein bar sometimes, though.

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Former Member — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:33:35 GMT

Hmmm, pretty interesting. I just can't stomach milk after intervals though.

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mattson — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:16:06 GMT

I stick with chocolate milkshakes, personally. (Really.)