Got Milk? Try Chocolate After Your Workout
Fitness Magazine
Got Milk? Try Chocolate After Your Workout
By Kelley L. Phillips
March 3, 2006
Chocolate milk as a workout recovery drink? For athletes participating in high endurance sports that stress constant, sustained movement -- like cycling, swimming or long-distance running -- chocolate milk rules. "It's water plus a whole lot more," says physiologist Joel Stager, director of the Counsilman Center for the Science of Swimming at IU. He studied chocolate milk's performance as a recovery beverage on nine cyclists, who biked until exhaustion and then rested for four hours. The cyclists drank chocolate milk, Gatorade or the high-carbohydrate sports drink Endurox R4 during their break and then cycled to exhaustion again. Those who drank chocolate milk performed just as well as those who drank other beverages.
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To learn more about research done in the IU Department of Kinesiology in the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, go to:
http://www.indiana.edu/~kines/research_ccss.html
