TheFinalSprint.com - Track & Field, Marathons, Racing News, Training Advice, Elite Athlete Blogs, Interviews, Podcasts, Videos and More! - TheFinalSprint.com is the Premier Destination for Track & Field, Marathon, Cross Country, Olympic and Road Racing Enthusiasts.

Announcing the new sport drink: Chocolate milk!

Posted June 9th, 2006 at 11:37 AM by Allyson Rosen

Section: Nutrition, Hydration, Supplements

Need to stay hydrated? Need your sweets? Did you know that milk is 90% water? It’s time to make chocolate milk your next sport drink!

Sport nutritionists suggest to fuel your body with carbohydrates when you are an endurance athlete to help replenish muscle glycogen. Most atheltes turn to sport drinks like Gatorade. Yet, what you might not know is that chocolate milk has similar carbohydrate content to many of the leading sport drinks. In fact, in a study done at Indiana University in Bloomington, researchers found that when cyclists refueled with lowfat chocolate milk after pedaling to exhaustion, they biked longer and harder four hours later compared to the athletes who drank a sport drink, concluding that chocolate milk is an effective recovery aid following an exhausting exercise.

Here are some more reasons to replace sport drinks with chocolate milk:

• Milk helps strengthens bones, and promotes a healthy weight.

• The protein in the milk contains all of the essential amino acids for building or maintaining a lead body mass.

• Milk provides you with the essential electrolytes.

• Similar to a banana, milk as 10 times more potassium than most sport drinks.

• A single glass of milk gives you 20% of the phosphorus needed each day, helping to strengthen your bones and generate energy in your cells.

• Milk contains vitamins such as B-12, niacin and riboflavin, which are crucial in converting food to energy to fuel your muscles.

Bottoms up! :)

Check out more information on chocolate milk at CBS News

Via [Whymilk.com]

Tags: chocolate milk, electrolytes, gatorade, sport drinks

Like what you see? Subscribe to our feed!

6 Responses to “Announcing the new sport drink: Chocolate milk!”

1. SEAN KROHN said:
   

   THANKS THIS REALLY HELPED ME DO MY REPORT ON THE EFFECTS OF CHOCOLATE MILK

   March 28th, 2007 at 10:59 am
2. Men’s Decathlon: Points leaders and results after eight events | The Final Sprint (TFS) | The Internet’s Premier Running, Fitness, and Nutrition Publication said:
   

   […] 110m Hurdles | Discus | Pole Vault | Javelin | 1500m Maurice Smith (JAM) 52.36m Aleksey Sysoyev (RUS) 49.76m Dmitriy Karpov (KAZ) 48.95m Roman � ebrle (CZE) 48.75m Aleksey Drozdov (RUS) 48.62m Attila Zsivóczky (HUN) 46.8m Josef Karas (CZE) 45.58m Hans Olav Uldal (NOR) 45.31m Aliaksandr Parkhomenka (BLR) 44.86m Paul Terek (USA) 44.81m Romain Barras (FRA) 44.51m André Niklaus (GER) 44.48m Hamdi Dhouibi (TUN) 44.37m Hans van Alphen (BEL) 44.3m Robert Jacob Arnold (USA) 43.7m Agustín Félix (ESP) 43.67m Yordani García (CUB) 42.91m Alberto Juantorena (CUB) 41.69m Hiromasa Tanaka (JPN) 41.65m Arthur Abele (GER) 41.28m Norman Müller (GER) 40.99m François Gourmet (BEL) 39.87m Carlos Eduardo Chinin (BRA) 38.06m Andres Raja (EST) 37.07m Kun-Woo Kim (KOR) 36.23m Bryan Clay (USA) DNSm Andrei Krauchanka (BLR) DNSm Eugene Martineau (NED) DNSm Tom Pappas (USA) DNSm Vitaliy Smirnov (UZB) DNSm […]

   September 1st, 2007 at 7:22 am
3. Men’s Decathlon: Points leaders and results | The Final Sprint (TFS) | The Internet’s Premier Running, Fitness, and Nutrition Publication said:
   

   […] 110m Hurdles | Discus | Pole Vault | Javelin | 1500m Maurice Smith (JAM) 52.36m Aleksey Sysoyev (RUS) 49.76m Dmitriy Karpov (KAZ) 48.95m Roman � ebrle (CZE) 48.75m Aleksey Drozdov (RUS) 48.62m Attila Zsivóczky (HUN) 46.8m Josef Karas (CZE) 45.58m Hans Olav Uldal (NOR) 45.31m Aliaksandr Parkhomenka (BLR) 44.86m Paul Terek (USA) 44.81m Romain Barras (FRA) 44.51m André Niklaus (GER) 44.48m Hamdi Dhouibi (TUN) 44.37m Hans van Alphen (BEL) 44.3m Robert Jacob Arnold (USA) 43.7m Agustín Félix (ESP) 43.67m Yordani García (CUB) 42.91m Alberto Juantorena (CUB) 41.69m Hiromasa Tanaka (JPN) 41.65m Arthur Abele (GER) 41.28m Norman Müller (GER) 40.99m François Gourmet (BEL) 39.87m Carlos Eduardo Chinin (BRA) 38.06m Andres Raja (EST) 37.07m Kun-Woo Kim (KOR) 36.23m Bryan Clay (USA) DNSm Andrei Krauchanka (BLR) DNSm Eugene Martineau (NED) DNSm Tom Pappas (USA) DNSm Vitaliy Smirnov (UZB) DNSm […]

   September 1st, 2007 at 7:32 am
4. Julie said:
   

   Tried chocolate milk after my 21 mile training run on Saturday. My quads were killing right after the run. I drank the milk and rested for a couple of hours and am pain free. Last week I drank gatorade after an 18.5 mile run and was sore for two days. This is going to be my recovery drink for my next training run and I will have my husband waiting for me with a bottle of chocolate milk after the NYC marathon!

   October 8th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
5. Chocolate Milk (2) at Chocolate - Your Online Guide said:
   

   […] Announcing the new sport drink: Chocolate milk! | The Final Sprint …A small randomized trial suggested that chocolate milk was an effective recovery aid improving recovery between 2 exhausting exercise bouts. […]

   January 4th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
6. Sol Cohen said:
   

   I enjoy your chocolate flavored drink “Choco Loco” it taste like drinking a chocolate bar.

   But, what is in the drink? You have no information on the package?

   Thanks for your reply…

   Sol

   September 26th, 2008 at 4:23 pm

Leave a Reply

Name (required)

Mail (will not be published) (required)

Website