| pookiebear
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| Do you partake in a lovely recovery drink after a hard workout? What brand is it? How does it taste? Or do you make up your own concoction? |
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Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:13 pm |
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| luvs_torun
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Hey Pokie! :wink:
An excellent recovery drink is skim milk with a bit of chocolate syrup.....
But for anything less than 90 minutes (for me anyway)......... nothin' beats fresh, cold water! |
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Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:18 pm |
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| pookiebear
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Hi loves torn :)
I'm about to put myself through an intense 90 day program, so I'm looking for an actual recovery drink I can take after my workouts to promote maximized glycogen replenishment and muscle resynthesis.
Anything else besides chocolate milk? ;) |
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Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:24 pm |
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| luvs_torun
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Hey... before you go "poo-pooing" chocolate milk..... :D
Here's an article from MedScape touting it's recovery benefits...
(your program sounds quite impressive btw! :D )
Feb. 27, 2006 — Chocolate milk is an effective postexercise drink that improves recovery, according to the results of a small, randomized trial reported in the February issue of the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism.
"Our study indicates that chocolate milk is a strong alternative to other commercial sports drinks in helping athletes recover from strenuous, energy-depleting exercise," coauthor Joel M. Stager, PhD, from Indiana University in Bloomington, said in a news release. "Chocolate milk contains an optimal carbohydrate to protein ratio, which is critical for helping refuel tired muscles after strenuous exercise and can enable athletes to exercise at a high intensity during subsequent workouts."
On 3 separate days, 9 male, endurance-trained cyclists performed an interval workout followed by 4 hours of recovery, and a subsequent endurance trial to exhaustion at 70% maximum oxygen consumption (VO2max). In a single-blind, randomized design, the men drank equivalent volumes of chocolate milk, fluid replacement drink (FR), or carbohydrate replacement drink (CR) immediately after the first exercise bout and 2 hours of recovery. The chocolate milk and CR had equivalent carbohydrate content. Primary endpoints were time to exhaustion, average heart rate, rating of perceived exertion, and total work for the endurance exercise.
Time to exhaustion and total work were significantly greater for chocolate milk and for FR trials than for CR trials, suggesting that chocolate milk is an effective recovery aid between 2 exhausting exercise bouts.
Study limitations include the possibility that the 4-hour recovery period limited the complete digestion of the complex carbohydrates contained in CR.
"The results of this study suggest that chocolate milk, with its high carbohydrate and protein content, may be considered an effective alternative to commercial FR and CR for recovery from exhausting, glycogen-depleting exercise," the authors write. |
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Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:29 pm |
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| maltby_gardner
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Accelerade during a workout and Endurox afterwards. Both provide carbs plus protein. They do not mix up clear like powerade or gatorade. They are milky, my daughter found this off-putting; DH loved the stuff.
This link should get you to their sale website:
http://www.accelsport.com/accelathlete
You should try to down it within 15 minutes of finishing your workout. |
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Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:32 pm |
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| wileybosco
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| Coconut Water! |
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Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:39 pm |
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| PapaBanucci
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pookiebear wrote: Do you partake in a lovely recovery drink after a hard workout? What brand is it? How does it taste? Or do you make up your own concoction?
Last night it was red wine. Five miler followed by wine, cheese, and crackers.
Quite lovely. Much more so than the usual luke warm tap water. |
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Thu Jun 07, 2007 1:34 am |
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| maltby_gardner
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| Oh, by the way, Luvs, the research on the chocolate milk sounds just like the research for the Accelerade and Endurox. :lol: |
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Thu Jun 07, 2007 1:52 am |
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| luvs_torun
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maltby_gardner wrote: Oh, by the way, Luvs, the research on the chocolate milk sounds just like the research for the Accelerade and Endurox. :lol:
Hmmmm... wine sounds good too! :D |
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Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:23 am |
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| pookiebear
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Good article, loves torn ;) And everyone, thanks so much for all your input.
I guess I also should have said that I not only want a recovery drink, but something that prevents muscle soreness the next day as well. I consider that all recovery. With working out "hard" 6 days/week, I can't be sore the next day! (I understand there will be a certain amount of soreness, but if I'm gonna do this for 90 days and don't want to feel like I'm in recovery mode all the time, I need somethin!)
I went to GNC yesterday on my way home from work and bought Accelerade. I'm going to take that along with L-Glutamine - and hopefully that'll do the trick.
If anyone else has more suggestions, I'm open! |
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Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:11 pm |
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| Peony
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In my experience, the best way to reduce soreness (DOMS, or delayed onset muscle soreness) is to stretch slowly and well, covering all muscle groups.
There is a nice slide show here: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/stretching/SM00043 |
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Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:42 pm |
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| OldGreyBob
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| Lately my recovery drink from my 5:30 AM gym classes has been a Starbucks Venti Iced Coffee, neat - no lightener or sweetener, on the way to my office from the gym. At the office about 7:15 AM I then have breakfast, usually Irish Stell Cut Oatmeal - hard boiled egg - V8, while reading my e-mails and starting my testings. I know that this is not perfect but it really works for me. |
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Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:44 pm |
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| pookiebear
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Peony, the program I'll be doing is www.p90x.com It's an extreme at home fitness program. They incorporate major stretching before and after each workout.
The program has 12 DVD's. It's based on muscle confusion so you're not doing the same exercises all the time and you're working all your muscles in different ways over the 90 days. So, it's not really something you're muscles are supposed to get "used to" or something they could just get over by a good stretch, unfortunately. ;)
I was doing one of the DVD's the other day and after the hour workout, the trainer said, "Now would be a good time for a recovery drink." So, it got me thinking... and realized if I want to really do this and do it right - I should probably look into a good quality recovery drink.
So I appreciate all your ideas!!! :) Thanks |
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Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:55 pm |
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| ftanya
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Hey Pookie
I'll be keeping tabs on how you feel about the program. I'm currently doing Power 90 and I've already purchased the P90X program to do afterward. I may stay on power 90 a bit longer than 90 days before transitioning though. |
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Thu Jun 07, 2007 3:00 pm |
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| luvmycritters
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I asked my neighbor (elite cyclist) a similar question the other night. The tour he's going on right now provides drinks for them but when he buys his own he gets Ensure from the grocery store. I would guess each person will react different to each drink though there are benefits to each. Good luck with your workout!
Lora |
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Thu Jun 07, 2007 3:04 pm |
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