Chocolate Milk - Recovery Drink

[alpinerabbit]

Actually tea with milk is less effective than tea alone. Have a piece of chocolate some other time.

I just don't know how important it is to always, always live healthily....
I also like a beer after riding, and a glass of wine with my pasta when I refill the glycogen stores. Beer has been shown to be an excellent recovery aid.

[Thorn]

Actually tea with milk is less effective than tea alone.

Sniffle...snifffle...bummer....and I thought it was such a great justification for the chai!

Oh, well, then I guess I'll have to agree strongly with your statement, "I just don't know how important it is to always, always live healthily...."

P.S. I loved the quote site...

[Bklynmom]

I think the whole point of the Chocolate milk recovery drink is that it's an excuse to drink something you love. If you don't love chocolate milk, maybe there's something you do really like that fills the bill (or you could make it fit the bill ).

I personally love the taste of Endourox R4 , which I usually use. My family think it tastes awful, and that I have lost my mind, but after a tough ride it's delicious to me. I find it also completely brings my appetite back to normal (from ravenous) and I don't eat huge ammounts of food 2 hours after a ride.

Beer sounds good to me too - someone once suggested a shandy which is half beer half lemonade (may only taste good if you are in the UK). I find a beer after a ride makes me fall asleep almost immediately, which can be a good thing.

[ehirsch83]

the carb to protein ratio in chocolate milk is what you need as a recovery drink. I drink low fat chocolate milk( i alternate between chocolate milk and hammer recoverite). The carbrotein ratio in lowfat chocolate milk is about 3:1

[NJBikeGal]

My teammate SWEARS by chocolate soy milk. That's all she drinks after a race! Seems to work well for her. Not sure if strawberry would do the same thing....

[anakiwa]

I've also heard that the protein to carbohydrate ratio in chocolate milk is the right number. (I'm not sure what level of milkfat this applies to, or how rigorous the science behind this is though.)

Personally, I love chocolate milk as a recovery drink after a really long run or ride (I don't do it after regular workouts). One of the local dairies here makes a really good organic chocolate milk- I can't imagine that any of those powdered recovery drinks would be anywhere near half as good.

[SnappyPix]

Thanks for your input, peeps.

I'll check out the nuitritional blurb of chocolate vs strawberry and see if any of the protein carb values are different.

I'm particularly liking the chocolate & beer system for post-ride recovery. That's what you said, right?!