RIO Fitness Chicago® Exercise & Nutrition Blog

RIO Fitness Chicago® Tip:

To get tone and lose body fat quickly, we must burn a considerable amount of calories during exercise, but most important is to keep burning a lot of calories the entire day (metabolism). We can do this by:

1) Eating something SMALL every 2.5-3hrs. Think of your metabolism as a fire. We have to keep throwing a log onto the fire so it keeps going. Once we train our body/metabolism, the body will know to burn what we consume and not store it as fat; because it knows it's getting something in another 2.5-3hrs.

2) Strength train 3x/wk in addition to cardio 3x/wk. Cardio is essential to stay lean & tone, but strength training burns FOUR times more calories, and keeps our metabolism high for 24-36hrs (cardio does for only 2hrs).

3) ALWAYS consume a whey isolate protein after any kind of exercise. This will help to create more lean muscle tissue. The more lean muscle tissue we have the more calories we'll burn all day long. Even at rest, 1lb of muscle burns 50cal/day. So, 10lbs of LEAN muscle will burn an extra 500cal/day on top of what you burn during exercise.