RIO Fitness Chicago® Exercise & Nutrition Blog

RIO Fitness Chicago® Tip:

Five ways to burn body fat faster:

1) Eating a low-carbohydrate protein bar 60-90 minutes before you work out will enable you to exercise longer and harder (and burn more calories). Eat any closer to exercising & blood will rush to your stomach, actually diminishing your performance.

2) Inhaling & exhaling through your nose, rather than your mouth, helps stabilize your heart rate and (like the pre-workout snack) increase your endurance.

3) Strength-train before doing any cardio, if you lift weights first, your body is warmed up by the time you hit the bike, and you'll burn fat throughout the entire cardio.

4) Do the exact same workout every time you hit the gym & your body will start to adapt to it, and eventually stop burning as many calories. If you jog one day, try biking or swimming the next. If you weight-train from the shoulders down one day, next time begin with your legs and work up.

5) The best way to burn fat is interval training. One minute on the treadmill at, say, 7mph, followed by one minute at 4mph, then back to 7 mph (and so on) for 25 minutes will whittle away body fat pounds & build your endurance. Eventually, you'll be able to extend the high-intensity periods (and decrease the low ones) until your whole cardio is done at top speed.