Chocolate the night before a race?
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kylie posted 1 year ago.
mmm chocolate... I don't think any more reason than that is needed :)
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deepbluex posted 1 year ago.
Chocolate contains antioxidants and flavanols that are beneficial to the cardiovascular system, but on the other, it can contain fat and sugar (in the case of confectionary milk chocolate with high cocoa butter content). It also has a mild psychoactive effect that is pleasurable - probably a very desirable effect to offset potentially sleep-robbing crushing pre-race anxiety. Dark chocolate with low sugar added and mostly cocoa powder and cocoa liqueur and low cocoa butter is better for you.
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wrobis1 posted 1 year ago.
maybe the man just likes chocolate, sometimes it's all mental
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jbird2131 posted 1 year ago.
i read that he trains 35 hours a week. he could prob eat it every night with those workouts logged. he is one bamf.
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wirebook posted 1 year ago.
Things brings up something I was thinking about the other day - I know that caffine is sometimes considered a drug from a doping perspective. Is there an all-inclusive list of semi-common foods that you might normally eat but would otherwise trip a doping test? Purely just curiosity's sake to understand what these athletes have to go through.
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jhudalla posted 1 year ago.
The chocolate is probly just something he likes, and something he's been doing for a long time. Not unlike any number of pre-race routines any number of us goes through. If you watched Phelps he did exactly the same thing before every race. 2 ipod ear buds in until he gets on the deck. 1 ear bud in until they call his name, then he towels off the launch pad. 3 arm swings.
It's like Johnny Cash said... you get a rythm.
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UFTriGator posted 1 year ago.
wirebook wrote:
Is there an all-inclusive list of semi-common foods that you might normally eat but would otherwise trip a doping test?
No....they don't really need one. The chemicals that you'll get from food (caffiene from chocolate and coffee, opiates from poppy seeds) won't be at a high enough concentration to raise any questions. Artificial chemicals that are on the banned list will get you in trouble with even a trace found, but there are limits on things like caffiene so that you can still have up to a certain amount in your body and still be legal.
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Tamara posted 1 year ago.
I'm with Kylie. I mean, seriously, do you really NEED a reason to eat chocolate? It's CHOCOLATE - of course it's good to eat it the night before a race...or the morning of...or at the finish line...or the next day...or.......
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kylie posted 1 year ago.
Tamara wrote:
I'm with Kylie. I mean, seriously, do you really NEED a reason to eat chocolate? It's CHOCOLATE - of course it's good to eat it the night before a race...or the morning of...or at the finish line...or the next day...or.......
RIGHT NOW! :-D
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SammyB posted 1 year ago.
+100 Kylie... and guess what I just finished. About the same calories as a Cliff bar and much more yummy!
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Anton posted 1 year ago.
It's just chocolate! Don't analyze everything...!
P.S. I always eat a little chocolate the night before a race...just tradition...and damn it's good!
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Leroy Bonkers posted 1 year ago.
I too always eat chocolate the night before a race. And the night before that, and the night of the race, and... well... every night. And this is why I can't race with my shirt off. So sad :-)
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catwood posted 1 year ago.
Can't really imagine a day without a little chocolate... I took the GRE today and I deserve a lot of chocolate today :-)
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skyrone posted 1 year ago.
Thanks for all of the input. You people do love talking chocolate!
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kylie posted 1 year ago.
skyrone wrote:
Thanks for all of the input. You people do lovetalkingeating chocolate!
Fixed it for you... but you can have some chocolate for the good effort! ;)
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Anton posted 7 weeks ago.
Wow...he must be searching on the web for anything that mentions chocolate! But hey...times are tough!
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After watching the Men's Olympic Triathlon in Beijing last night, the online commentator wrote that the winner, Jan Frodeno of Germany eats a big slab of chocolate the night before each race. I get the fact that it has caffeine and sugar but for that reason is seems like it would be more beneficial the morning of the race rather than the night before. Does anyone have any insight as to why a chocolate slab would be good.
Just give me one good reason to do this and its on!