RIO Fitness Chicago® Exercise & Nutrition Blog

RIO Fitness Chicago® Tip:

ONLY TWENTY days until Summer 2011! So let's maximize our time exericising by maximizing fat loss. A great way to maximize body fat loss now until Memorial Day, is to do just 25mins of 60sec high then low intensity intervals of cardio every single morning before we consume any calories. We're not consuming calories during sleep, so the primary fuel source the body will use is body fat (stored calories/energy).

Cardio example (treadmill):

Warmup 60sec @ 3.0 speed
Minute 1 - Speed 5.0
Min 3 - Speed 5.0
Min 5 - Speed 5.0
Min 7 - Speed 5.0
Min 9 - Speed 5.0
Min 11 - Speed 7.0
Min 13 - Speed 7.0
Min 15 - Speed 7.0
Min 17 - Speed 7.0
Min 19 - Speed 7.0
Min 21 - Speed 9.0
Min 23 - Speed 9.0
Cooldown 60sec @ Speed 3.0

That's it just 25mins of cardio to burn body fat! All the even numbered mins (2,4,6, etc) you come down to Speed 3.0