RIO Fitness Chicago® Exercise & Nutrition Blog

RIO Fitness Chicago® Tip:

This past Sunday made it ONLY 50 days until Summer 2011! Swimsuits, Summer dresses, shorts, tank tops, etc, are only 50 DAYS AWAY! Here are FIVE simple things you can start doing TODAY/UNTIL MEMORIAL DAY to help bring your sexy back just in time for the Summer.

1) Monday thru Friday, as soon as you wake up, before you consume any calories, do just TWENTY-FIVE minutes of high then low intensity 60 second intervals of cardio.

2) Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays, also strength train. If you're going to weights and cardio together, first do the weights, then cardio. The most effective and quickest way to get lean/tone and lose body fat with cardio/weight training is HIGH INTENSITY INTERVAL TRAINING. Google/YouTube it for more.

3) Consume a WHEY ISOLATE PROTEIN always after you exercise (after both cardio & weights). This will help to build more lean muscle tissue, and the more you have the more calories you will burn all day long = faster results. A perfect one to have because it's very low in calories/fat, zero carbs/sugars, and high in protein is Nature's Best Perfect ISOPURE.
http://www.bodybuilding.com/store/nb/perfectisopure.html

4) Unless you eat them ONLY after exercise do NOT have any bread/pasta/rice/oat carbs. They are high glycemic carbs, which are sugars that digest quickly; and if not burned immediately are stored as fat. Fruits & veggies are the carbs that are okay to eat throughout the day because they digest slowly.

5) Get rest at night. Lack of sleep causes: the body fat producing hormone cortisol to increase, decreases growth hormones that help us receover from exercise & our day, increases the cravings/appetite hormone ghrelin, and decreases levels of leptin which suppresses appetite.