Any suggestions?
chocolate milk
seriously
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x2 for chocloate milk
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chocolate milk
seriously
yep…the science, the taste and the cost. Chocolate milk for the win.
buy it by the case at COSTCO pretty cheap.
thanks, sounds good. can’t be cheap and yummy!
Real food.
Lots of sleep, staying off your feet (staying horizontal), cold-hot bath cycles, chocolate milk, massages, fruits, veggies, lean meats, compression, active recovery. The list goes on and on but here is a few
Why stand when you can sit. Why sit when you can lay. Why be awake when you can sleep.
frozen tap water in little cubes and Wild Turkey.
x3 for chocolate milk. I for one have a hard time with dairy after harder workouts, but chocolate milk has it all–simple and complex carbs, some protein, calcium, etc., and you can find it at any gas station.
the chocolate mile recovery thing is funny, all the “research” says you should eat high glycemic foods after a workout as those are the carbs that get to your body fastest, and yet, chocolate milk is extremely low glycemic, so carbs wouldnt be getting to your muscles for hours, the sugar doesnt matter, the milk slows everything down, so either the high glycemic after workout theory is wrong, or the chocolate milk thing is wrong, the main conclusion in all of this is that it doesnt really matter what you eat,
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Ovaltine.
With all the love that “chocolate” milk gets, I’m not sure why there isn’t much love for Ovaltine. All the chocolatey goodness, but you can mix it with skim/1% milk and it has less calories, cholesterol, sodium and fats, but has more carbs and protein. *Both have similar amounts of sugar.
I mix mine up in a shaker bottle. It’s like a delicious milkshake after a workout.
Brad
Ovaltine is awesome. Fun fact: In Switzerland (that’ where Ovaltine is from) they don’t add sugar to it. So if you’re ever over there get a couple packs. It tastes awesome and isn’t as sweet.
chocolate milk. after everything.
I don’t know if it’s the best bang, or best scientifically or anything but I’m partial to milk, a banana, and a scoop of protein powder blended up in a magic bullet.
Water.
It’s been a while but I am not a big fan of Ovomaltine (French name for Ovaltine) because of the taste. It might be worth another try.
I really like (but not sure I can find it in North America:
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Fred.
the chocolate mile recovery thing is funny, all the “research” says you should eat high glycemic foods after a workout as those are the carbs that get to your body fastest, and yet, chocolate milk is extremely low glycemic, so carbs wouldnt be getting to your muscles for hours, the sugar doesnt matter, the milk slows everything down, so either the high glycemic after workout theory is wrong, or the chocolate milk thing is wrong, the main conclusion in all of this is that it doesnt really matter what you eat,
I like how you put research in quotes and then believe that you have the right to conclude something.
Read this guy, and then read the “research” studies cited in the abstract. They go into painstaking (scientific) detail about why science believes what it does: http://oakbrooksc.com/docs/stager_chocmilk_study.pdf
Yes, eating anything is better than eating nothing. But the question wasn’t “can I get away with drinking a soda instead of eating real foods after workouts?”; it was “what’s the BEST bang for buck,” meaning that he wants results. And there has been “research” done to suggest that milk’s high protein and carbohydrate combo is 99% as good as all those specialty recovery drinks.
I boost the chocholate milk with L-glutamine powder. Under $15 a canister and has 66 servings per. With the powder the nutritional breakdown is similar to many commercial drinks at about $.30 a serving, not $2 like the big names.
And the taste is only affected slightly, if any.
www.honeymilk.com/
Super thin (meaning not chalky like Muscle Milk).
Great flavors and if you follow them on Twitter you can always find a good discount.