Chocolate Milk: A Post-Exercise Recovery Beverage for Endurance Sports
Document Type
Book Chapter
Department or Administrative Unit
Nutrition Exercise and Health Sciences
Publication Date
2012
Abstract
An optimal post-exercise nutrition regimen is fundamental for ensuring recovery. Therefore, research has aimed to examine post-exercise nutritional strategies for enhanced training stimuli. Chocolate milk has become an affordable recovery beverage for many athletes, taking the place of more expensive commercially available recovery beverages. Low-fat chocolate milk consists of a 4:1 carbohydrate:protein ratio (similar to many commercial recovery beverages) and provides fluids and sodium to aid in post-workout recovery. Consuming chocolate milk (1.0–1.5•g•kg–1 h–1) immediately after exercise and again at 2 h post-exercise appears to be optimal for exercise recovery and may attenuate indices of muscle damage. Future research should examine the optimal amount, timing, and frequency of ingestion of chocolate milk on post-exercise recovery measures including performance, indices of muscle damage, and muscle glycogen resynthesis.
Recommended Citation
Pritchett, K., & Pritchett, R. (2012). Chocolate Milk: A Post-Exercise Recovery Beverage for Endurance Sports. In Lamprecht, M. (Ed.), Acute Topics in Sport Nutrition (pp. 127–134). Karger. https://doi.org/10.1159/000341954
Journal
Acute Topics in Sport Nutrition
Rights
© 2012 S. Karger AG, Basel
Comments
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