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“[Chocolate milk] gives me that fuel I need playing defensive line,” says Tyrone Crawford, NFL defensive tackle, “having the bones that I have and the strength that I have.”
And as it turns out, chocolate milk makes excellent fuel for high school athletes as well. New research shows that chocolate milk has a greater impact on performance than regular sports beverages when high school athletes drink it for recovery.
This was the first-ever field-based study measuring the effects of chocolate milk versus a typical sports drink on adolescent athletes. Previous studies all looked at adults, but never at the 7.8 million high school athletes in the nation – yet nutrition is especially important for these young athletes, whose bodies are still growing while also handling the heavy physical demands of athletics.
How Did the Study Work?
The Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at the University of Texas at Austin studied 100 participants, including a mix of varsity and junior varsity boys as well as female athletes with an average age of 15. The students trained four times per week for five weeks, with both free weights and field agility drills. They were randomly placed into one of two groups: those who would drink chocolate milk as a recovery drink, and those who would drink a leading sports beverage instead.
What Were the Results?
At the end of five weeks, the two groups showed significant differences in two particular areas: bench press and squats.
And as it turns out, chocolate milk makes excellent fuel for high school athletes as well. New research shows that chocolate milk has a greater impact on performance than regular sports beverages when high school athletes drink it for recovery.
This was the first-ever field-based study measuring the effects of chocolate milk versus a typical sports drink on adolescent athletes. Previous studies all looked at adults, but never at the 7.8 million high school athletes in the nation – yet nutrition is especially important for these young athletes, whose bodies are still growing while also handling the heavy physical demands of athletics.
How Did the Study Work?
The Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at the University of Texas at Austin studied 100 participants, including a mix of varsity and junior varsity boys as well as female athletes with an average age of 15. The students trained four times per week for five weeks, with both free weights and field agility drills. They were randomly placed into one of two groups: those who would drink chocolate milk as a recovery drink, and those who would drink a leading sports beverage instead.
What Were the Results?
At the end of five weeks, the two groups showed significant differences in two particular areas: bench press and squats.
- The athletes who drank chocolate milk bench-pressed an average of 3.5 percent more than they could before – whereas those who drank the commercial sports beverage actually decreased in bench-press strength by about 3.2 percent. That’s a net difference of 6.7 percent for those who drank chocolate milk versus a commercial sports beverage.
- Both groups showed improvement with squats, but chocolate milk drinkers showed more, lifting 15 percent more weight than before – whereas commercial sports beverage drinkers only lifted 8 percent more. That’s nearly double the increase in strength for chocolate milk
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