RIO Fitness Chicago® Exercise & Nutrition Blog

RIO Fitness Chicago® Tip:

Is your attitude towards exercise negative? Do you dread it? Do you ever change up what you do? If exercise for you is nothing but an hour on cardio machines and just doing machines for weight training, that does sound awful & really boring. Exercise should be challenging, fun, and interesting. The key to that, is to always change it EVERY time you do it.

Instead of weight machines use free weights, medicine balls, and BOSUs to mimic the same movements. Instead of cardio on a machine like a zombie, take advantage of this decent Chicago weather before we're buried under snow and go outside. Find a sledding hill and run the hill, go rollerblading/bike riding, take a kickboxing class. Find something you enjoy. It can be anything, as long as it gets your heart rate pumping & that sweat pouring.