a lot of athletes drink milk for protein and calcium. but i wouldn't drink milk in general. it has a lot of fat (and no, i refused to drink watered down milk lol), and the cows didn't exactly grow up in natural environment. they were fed a lot of hormones and chemicals to speed up the growth, and they are often raised in a very stressful environments. so for that reason alone (obviously i don't care about the fat
), i wouldn't drink milk (i'm one of those who eat a lot of organic food)
try to slow down with your water consumption after the training. you can have a glass of cold water when you get home, but for the rest of the night, drink about 500 ml of not so cold water. in general, cold water will cool down your body and since your body's trying to keep yourself up, that would lead to increase in metabolism, but after the training, you don't want to cool down too fast.
i'm just talking out of what i think is logical (i.e., i'm talking out of my bumbum). if anybody else have anything to add, maybe a better empirical data or a research on the subject, that would be helpful...
