RIO Fitness Chicago® Exercise & Nutrition Blog

RIO Fitness Chicago® Tip:

Having nice abs is more than just doing ab exercises. It's doing cardio properly to be burning body fat not energy/muscle & your nutrition (staying within your daily calorie limit, avoiding foods high in saturated fat/sugars/sodium, and eating high glycemic carbs (bread/pasta/rice) ONLY after exercise).

SIDE NOTE: High glycemic carbs means they digest quickly. Since they do they should only be eaten post-exercise because with exercise you deplete your energy (glycogen) levels. Fruit & veggie carbs are low glycemic (digest slowly) so they should be eaten the rest of the day. Be careful with that... See More word "wheat." Look for lables to say "100% whole grain wheat." Just because it says "wheat" doesn't mean it's the entire wheat grain or it could even be just white bread that's died to look like wheat bread. Companies do that to trick people because of the whole health craze now with bread.