The Best Post-Exercise Drink: Chocolate Milk
Forget sports drinks, the best beverage to have after a workout or hard race is chocolate milk, studies say.
Some Lifehacker readers have mentioned this tip before in our tips box and related posts about what to drink when exercising,
and these two new studies provide further confirmation that chocolate
milk—particularly low-fat chocolate milk—is an ideal recovery drink to
have after exercise.
In the cited University of Texas at Austin study, athletes who drank
low-fat chocolate milk after a hard workout (as opposed to those who
drank sports beverages with just carbohydrates) developed more muscle
and less fat, as well as improved workout times. Another study published
in The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research found cyclists who
drank chocolate milk had twice the maximal oxygen uptake
(the most amount of oxygen an individual can use during intense
exercise, an indicator of your cardiovascular fitness) as those who
drank calorie-free beverages or carbohydrate sports drinks.
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