Chocolate milk!
Guess I’ll swim upstream here and mention Endurox R4. 54g of carbs, 14g of protein, electrolytes and lots of other goodness. Great recovery drink. This stuff works for me but I only use it after really long workouts (20+mi run or 50+mi bike type workouts). Most days I just eat a banana and drink some chocolate milk and/or low-cal sport drinks like Gatorade low-calorie.
water and something good to eat…
“The milk slows everything down”? What does that mean? AFAIK, its the fat that slows absorption which is why a low fat variety of chocolate milk should be used.
Check the ingredients in Ovaltine - red dye. WTF do they put that crap in there for? The stuff even looks red when you stir it. I’ll stick with Nestle’s quick.
For those who don’t like chocolate milk , then try Hammer Recoverite. I think the costs would be very close. Tim
“The milk slows everything down”? What does that mean? AFAIK, its the fat that slows absorption which is why a low fat variety of chocolate milk should be used.
look at the glycemic index, it doesnt have to have fat to be low glycemic, chocolate milk, even with the sugar is still extremely low
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/...r_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.
ofcourse that “study” or “reseach” deserves quotes, 9 guys, pedaling to exhaustion or something, so scientific
ofcourse that “study” or “reseach” deserves quotes, 9 guys, pedaling to exhaustion or something, so scientific
Huh. So that’s how a double digit IQ reasons. Good to know.
John
ofcourse that “study” or “reseach” deserves quotes, 9 guys, pedaling to exhaustion or something, so scientific
Huh. So that’s how a double digit IQ reasons. Good to know.
John
youre right, how dumb of me to question any study, i should believe everything i read, so all the research that says eat high glycemic foods after a workout i should believe, then i should also believe the research that says eat milk, just like i should believe thousands of other studies that come out each year that somehow prove completely the opposite is true as other studies, i’m the first person on slowtwich that has done this right? because ive never seen something like a thread where research for and against the benefits of weight lifting for endurance athletes was discussed, or any other type of debate based on someones research
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Im sure its not great for me, but I crave a beer after a long bike ride. Water after a run. And anything and everything after a swim.
If the body craves it, who am I to argue?