Best Recovery drink

Dr. Dip Shitton DDS (Mi) wrote:

In my experience (I am a dentist), many of the so-called recovery drinks are too sugary, which is not good because they sits on your teeth.

You're much better off after your hard track workouts stopping by a Popeye's Chicken and Biscuits drive-through and loading up with Popcorn Shrimp (protein) or a 8pc chicken bucket with some Cinnamon Apple Pie (low sugar) for dessert.

lol very funny. What's up with Litton these days anyway?

and as a welcomed side effect you get your full head of hair restored.

uummmm . . . hello . . . BEER! Strong Ale

Get your facts straight. No one said anything about high fructose corn syrup helping your body recover. You can get plenty of types of chocolate milk that don't have HFCS. And, chocolate milk is not BAD for you, I don't know where you got this idea from. Everything in moderation. It is no better or worse for general health than Endurox. Chocolate milk is not a wonder recovery drink. It just happens to have carb and protein in the best ratio for absorption. There are plenty of other ways to achieve that ratio but chocolate milk is a very simple concept; probably why it is mentioned repeatedly as a recovery drink. Also whey protein is better absorbed, and milk contains whey. Not sure how endurox supplies its protein.

milehigh wrote:

anything more than 20g (maybe up to 25 max) of protein in recovery period is unnecessary. you can't absorb more than that.

4 to 1 CHO to pro ratio is best. low fat choco milk or endurox. there are definitely other ways to achieve this but i don't know of them off the top of my head.

Not 100% correct. You can absorb more than 20-25g protein at one sitting.

Interesting article:

Your intake is going to depend on your body size, caloric intake, exercise level, hormone level and lots of other things. You can't just put a number to it and be done with it.

That being said...20-30g post run should be good enough...:)

Alan

Alan

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Ovaltine made with skim milk.

Captain Midnight wrote:

Ovaltine made with skim milk.

Don't do that it sits on your teeth

high fructose corn syrup is fine. don't be such a rube

What a bunch of pussies. Think John Walker drank chocolate milk after hammering 16 quarters at 61 seconds? Beer (probably steinlager in Johns case) and a leg of lamb.

Of course John Walker is known for the greatest running quote: "All I want to do is train like an animal and drink beer."

Real Talk wrote:

Semen is actually your best bet.

I drank Zico after a race and it tasted like Semen

Chocolate Milk, but it has to be whole milk of course so it tastes good.

smoothies!

Honey Milk.

IV

personally, after particularly hard or long runs, and of course lifting, plyos, etc. i drink regular chocolate muscle milk. it is delicious, and it has a great mix of stuff that i find works the best for me. i know it sounds like a heavy lifter's drink, but its not really. try it mixed with milk, or even water. its really good and it really does make a difference in how fast i recover.

Root beer after a fast, hard workout and regular beer after more moderate days. Only after long runs will I drink a marketed recovery drink. It's then I reach for Cytomax.

Dairy is one of the most inflammatory anything you can drink. Caseine (the protein in milk) has been a known carcinogen for a decade or more. But thanks to the milk lobby (spike lee's milk mustache, etc) you rarely hear much of this.

Stay away from milk. Stay away from Chocolate milk. For heaven's sake we are the only species on the planet that consumes the secretions of another species.

The best recovery drink is the drink that has the most oxygen in it (H20). After that, get in some good calories from actual REAL food.

One scoop of Golden Standard Whey Protein (chocolate flavor) w/one percent milk. Yummy for the tummy.