Muscle Building, How To Really Get Ripped

By Ricardo Daryans in Nutrition on May 15th, 2008

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by Ricardo Daryans

So, you’ve been working out your tail off for the past months trying to pack on as much muscle size as you possibly can. And, actually, it worked, but maybe not in the way you’ll prefer. Now, you are huge, that’s a fact, but you are not the big mass of muscle you wanted to be. Along with all of that solid, lean muscle you’ve gained, you notice that you’ve also packed on some excess body fat in the process.

And no matter how “huge” you might be, nobody wants to walk around with a soft, smooth and flabby body. After most trainees have finished their “bulking” phase, they decide that it’s time to “cut down” and strip off the excess body fat that they gained due to their high calorie, muscle-building diet. How do they usually go about this? They lighten up the weights and perform higher reps.

This has always been a widely accepted method of “cutting down” and if you ask most trainers in the gym they’ll tell you that “heavy weights bulk up the muscle and lighter weights define the muscle”. Do you want to know the reality behind the “light weight and high reps” method of obtaining a ripped and defined physique? It is completely, totally and utterly dead wrong.

There’s only three things a muscle can do related to size: it can grow, it can get smaller or just stay the same. No exercise will give you more definition than another. It is physically impossible to target fat loss from a specific area on your body. Performing bench presses with light resistance and high repetitions will not magically burn fat off of your chest or cause it to appear harder and more defined.

You can use the bench press, squat, standing curl, pull-up, military press, and deadlift to stimulate the most muscle growth. There are no special, secret weightlifting exercises that will “define” your muscles or cause them to become more “ripped”. Training with weights builds muscle mass, end of story.

So how exactly do you “define” a muscle? The only way to “define” a muscle is by lowering your body fat percentage in order to make your muscles more visible. Body fat reduction can be achieved in two ways:

1) Modify your diet. Try eating smaller meals more frequently throughout the day. In this way you will keep you body in a constant fat burning state because your metabolism will be raised, in a natural way.

2) Perform proper cardio workouts. Let go of the traditional method of moderate intensity cardio in 30-45 minute durations. Reduce your body fat simply by burning off all the excess fat you can with 15-minute cardio workouts performed 3-5 times per week at higher levels of intensity.

So, that’s all you have to do. “Light weight and higher reps”, leave that in the past, follow these simple steps and i guarantee that you’ll see the definition that you are looking for.

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