Chocolate Milk Recovery Drink

Just saw Hines Ward promoting chocolate milk in a commercial during the Tour de France. This represents an interesting new marketing campaign for milk producers. Soy and almond milk producers like Silk have been marketing heavily to the mass market on taste. But they apparently haven't realized the potential of the sports drink recovery market. And milk producers have jumped quickly. Soy chocolate milk is just as beneficial as chocolate milk, but does tend to be a bit more expensive. I love chocolate soy milk, and drink it for recovery after every workout, but only if I remember to buy it!

Hines Ward, as of July this year, is training for an Ironman. He completed Ironman 70.3 Kansas in June 2013.

Here's the Hines Ward commercial:

Here's a link to a scholarly article on chocolate milk as a recovery drink. Perfect blend of carbs and protein: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?hl=en&q=http://oakbrooksc.com/docs/stager_chocmilk_study.pdf&sa=X&scisig=AAGBfm2qfI1_JIkJfp1Qbjkg9tmg9LSH4Q&oi=scholarr

Heart Rate Training

I’ve had a lot of success with heart rate training, primarily for long-distance races. However, there is considerable debate over how much training is actually required to achieve good results. Some say you can’t really get the benefits with only 15-20 miles of running. Others say the distinction between fat and carb-burning zones is incorrect, and that energy systems are more of a spectrum rather than divided into zones. The question for most athletes is, how do I achieve maximum results in minimum training time without getting injured?

Mark Allen's boiler-plate heart training blog.
https://www.markallenonline.com/maoArticles.aspx?AID=2

Mark Allen's base training phase:
https://www.markallenonline.com/maoArticles.aspx?AID=4