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Now so good in a camelback though.
Recovery drink maybe, 'sports' drink (assuming during exercise) no.
Not if you are dairy intolerant.
Unless I wanted a good clear out...
I do enjoy the Tesco choc milk diluted with chilled green top milk but i'd imaging for a sports drink there could be phlegm just imaging when the milk marketing used to be a main sponsor drinking full fat milk from your plastic bottle
I'm sure it works, and I'm far more likely to use this than any "dedicated" sport supplement.
But I would bear in mind that the dairy industry is far better funded and thus, if one were to be suspicious minded, able to fund research until they get the answer they want, than even the sports supplement industry.
Still at least you won't be getting any banned stimulants etc. in it.
Still at least you won’t be getting any banned stimulants etc. in it.
Actually milk is one of the worst culprits for the "supplements" used in farming being passed into the human diet, it is the one thing I pretty much insist on buying organic.
Based on what criteria?
Can I skip the milk and just eat chocolate?
I’d think that for effectiveness best option would be proper food > chocolate milk > sports nutrition recovery products.
In real life other factors are important as well, kids have probably drank all the chocolate, proper food is not available until you make it yourself and foul tasting sport products are only thing available. Never mind that the best-before-date was last year.
I'd love to see (from a safe distance) the result of a load of people drinking 3l of milk that's been sat in a camelback for a few hours on a warm day whilst putting some effort in.
I believe the result is referred to as "catherine wheeling"?
My mate Robin is a complete nutter who does double ironmen and things like that. He quite often fills his bidon with 50/50 full fat milk / double cream. Can't imagine drinking that during exercise myself!
I’d think that for effectiveness best option would be proper food > chocolate milk > sports nutrition recovery products.
Oh go on then, why? You fancy a big proper meal just after you get in from a maximal effort, do you?
Just for the cynics, the instructions (and the science) on recovery drinks generally say stuff like 'drink within 30 mins of finishing exercise, then have a full meal within 4 hours'. So recovery drink is in addition to real food, instead of it. The point of recovery drink is to replenish depleted glycogen stores as quickly as possible after exercise. High GI supplements (or foods) do this much better than real wholesome food, but you still need the real food later. My experience bears this out too.
Of course if you are just doing a couple of hours each weekend it doesn't matter. Recovery drinks are for people training most days.
Re milk vs recovery drink: milk does contain the right ratio of carbs to protein, but not in as high concentrations. So to get the same effect as a serving of Torq recovery you need to drink something like 2l of milk (IIRC and I may not).
"Proper food" and a "full proper meal". Don't confuse the two.
Lael Wilcox swears by it, and if it's good enough for her it's good enough for me.
“Proper food” and a “full proper meal”. Don’t confuse the two.
So what proper food is better, and why? Assuming a healthy balanced diet at normal mealtimes?
Unless I wanted a good clear out…
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