Assess your exercise intensity first, and with more intensive exercise chocolate milk is a great choice for recovery. Downing a post-workout beverage chock-full of carbohydrates probably isn't ideal for low intensity sessions however. A drink like chocolate milk is most useful to a cyclist, swimmer, or long-distance runner. These sports stress high endurance levels and constant, sustained movement. Competing athletes need high levels of calories, carbs, and protein to sustain that level of performance. Lean endurance take;

• Research points to the importance of a post-exercise "meal" within 30 to 60 minutes of working out, at the point when muscle glycogen (energy) stores are at their lowest.

• The chocolate content will active insulin which will increase amino acid and glucose uptake, which is important for enhancing recovery from exercise.