Benefit Of Post Workout Chocolate Drink
February 20, 2009
After a big work out in the mornings, you need some thing that will help you out in terms of nourishment. A post work out chocolate drink is some thing that you may wish to get for your self. After a big work out the body is particularly in need of replacing the amino acids to repair muscle, tissue as well is there an urgent need for carbohydrates, for its glycogen needed by those well worked muscles.
It has been considered one of the best post workout drinks for a long time now. That is the good old milk chocolate. You can get ready made chocolate drinks from the store. They contain 1 to 2 % milk which really is not enough. Best would be if you make your own with skimmed milk. Just add the chocolate syrup to the milk and you can be assured of a good fat free high nutrition drink straight after that work out.
If you are buying the off the shelf variety do check out its total calorie content. You want a health drink not a tutee fruity fun drink. That will be a killer after all that hard work you have done. Any thing between 90 to 200 calories will be just fine.
So what does this good old traditional drink of chocolate do for you? Well the Clover and Bravo variety gives you any thing between 8 to 11 grams of protein in a cup. This is short actually yet is good all the same. You can make up the balance protein with some eggs at breakfast (you could increase your intake of chocolate milk up to 500ml to get the required amount of a minim of 15grms). Studies undertaken by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition claim that milk based proteins encourage greater muscle mass as compared to Soya based proteins. This they say is especially true when taken soon after exercise.
The other reason why chocolate milk has been taken post work outs is because it has been found that cow’s milk in particular has as much as 80% casein protein and the balance 20% has whey protein. Whey protein is excellent because it is fast acting permitting amino acids to enter the muscle tissue quickly. Casein protein on the other hand is much slower in its behavior so you get a more steady flow over a long time of amino acids.
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