Rehydration
When you complete any endurance exercise – whether it’s an intense workout at the gym or a long run – you need to rehydrate your body with essential nutrients lost through sweat. Chocolate milk may be a better choice than a sports drink or water. Milk has a good supply of electrolytes such as sodium, potassium and other minerals – all of which you lose through sweat. Milk also empties more slowly from the stomach, which means its nutrients gets absorbed much slower.
Recovery
After a workout, you need to consume some protein alongside carbohydrates to help repair any microtears that occur in muscles during the workout and restore energy. Chocolate milk is a good source of both. The naturally occurring mix of protein and carbs offers many benefits for athletes.
Building Muscle
Milk does more than just help muscles recover. Researchers found that you can build more muscle and lose fat during training if you drink chocolate milk after a workout. Research found that people who drank low-fat chocolate milk after a workout ended up with a three-pound lean muscle advantage over those who had a regular sports drink after about four weeks.
Improved Performance
Chocolate milk also has been found in some studies to improve performance of athletes. Research at the University of Texas found that cyclists who drank chocolate milk rode faster and had more power than those who drank a sports drink. His research found that milk drinkers had twice the improvement in maximal oxygen uptake than those who consumed a sports drink. That’s important, because your energy supply depends on how much oxygen can be delivered to your muscles as they work. A study in a 2011 issue of “Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research” found that college soccer players who drank chocolate milk between morning and afternoon workouts could perform longer before becoming fatigued compared to players who drank a sports drink.
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