I knew it! Chocolate Milk Is Awesome.
The London Telegraph is reporting, what everyone instinctively knows as a child but seems to forget as they get older, that chocolate milk is awesome.
Researchers found that chocolate milkshake’s “natural” muscle recovery benefits match or may even surpass a specially designed carbohydrate sports drink.
They discovered that muscle damage was actually lower in those players that drank the milk after training than those that drank the commercial energy drinks.
Chocolate milk also tastes a lot better than Endurox, Accelerade or any of the recovery products like that. This is good news for all of us. So go for it, have a tall glass of chocolate milk after a workout, even a chocolate milkshake (while this will have many more calories, it will taste sooo yummy, and isn’t that why you run in the first place?).
A final quote for those of you on the fence:
The milk also helped reduce lactic acid levels in the blood, the compound that causes stiffness after exercise.
I know for a fact, the thing that helped me recover after getting destroyed in the Running From an Angel marathon this January was the Mint Oreo Blizzard. mmmmmmm
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