Whaddya do after long ride and or run? (Page 2)

Never had much luck debating someone with a sample size of one, so you can have your smoothies and I'll have my creamy, rich, delicious chocolate milk.

i am not the only one!!!!



on the recovery drink. as others have said, its not that choc milk is a bad one, but all of the studies are comparing it to other recovery drinks (which again are simply comparing themselves to each other).

it is better than nothing. but there are better things you can do, like get in a real meal, or as bryan said, a smoothie that is basically most of a meal.

frankly i think people heard that choc milk was good for recovery, and now they drink it after every single workout, where that is not really needed if you are eating right at the levels most people train.

my friends and i call this the BITS.  (as in i just had a fantastic BITS.)  Beer In The Shower. 

I usually eat something with protein (nuts/milk/yogurt/eggs...), and the STRETCH!!!

I did my second brick ever today (real newbie!) and I stretched for an hour afterwards!


Potentially stupid questions:  Why chocolate milk?  Everyone seems to say chocolate milk....can't I just drink my normal skim milk?  Is there any difference?

wow - I love this!!!  hehe

water, powerbar protein plus, shower, play with my kids

If it's a key workout, I'll drink a huge cholocate milk glass, eat a banana and than make a cofee to get with me in the ice bath.

For easy to moderate workout, I'll hydrate and eat.

After I catch my breath i have a choco milk/protein smoothie and log the workout while I cool off.  When I stop sweating I'll wake up the family, make the kids breakfast, then it's a shower & get ready for work.

rbtrumpet...the only reason i have seen for the chocolate over regular milk is for the additional sugar/carbs.  that said, after a hard run/ride the first thing i do is stretch (5-10min) and drink some water.  i will then drink some regular 2% milk (i unfortunately eat enough sugar/carbs throughout the day i don't need to add more by adding the chocolate and sugar).  then i spend time logging my stuff and cooling off.  then shower.  then dinner. 

and the reason i don't add banana and all that other stuff is b/c i already do a shake like that every day for breakfast, so i don't want to do it again. 

1. recovery meal
2. hot shower to stretch followed ny hot shower on the legs
3. compression tights
4. relax for 20-30 min with legs elevated
5. eat again every 2-3 hrs
6. roller foam or trigger point therapy @ night before bed

I have this a few hours after my long rides...

Too funny.... I guess clam chowder would be a good recovery food protein (clams and milk), carbs (flour), bunch of veggies and lots of butter (not really that good)

I go with chocolate milk, shower, big stack of pancakes/french toast/waffles