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2 Easy Steps To Ripped Well Defined Muscles

Summer is comming real soon, and the time has come to have fun under the sun. It’s time visit the beach, barbecues and pool parties, and for just about any determined muscle builder these activities also mean one thing: it is time for those shirts to come off and to expose that rock-hard body they have been working on all year. Nobody desires to be walking around having a soft, smooth and sagging body, and for the following month or two, all of the serious lifters will be shifting into “get ripped” mode.

So what do they do to do this?
They carry out more reps and loosen up on the weights.
This has always been a broadly accepted approach to “cutting down” and if you ask most fitness experts in the gym they’ll let you know that “heavy weights bulk up the muscle and lighter weights define the muscle”.

Do you want to know the truth behind the “light weight and high reps” method of obtaining a ripped and defined body?

It is totally, completely and utterly DEAD WRONG.

It could not be farther from the truth. In fact, there isn’t a rational basis for this way of training whatsoever, and whoever dreamt up this downright dumb way of thinking has resulted in the vast majority of lifters to waste their time and block their progress in the gym.

Allow me make this clear once and for all: you CAN NOT spot reduce. In other words, it is physically unfeasible to target fat loss from a specific part of your body. Performing bench presses with light resistance and high repetitions is not going to magically burn fat off of your chest or cause it to look harder and more defined.

Every single time you wrap your hands around a barbell, dumbbell or cable, your target is to stimulate as much muscle growth as you possibly can. You’ll find no special, secret weightlifting workout routines that could “define” your muscles or cause them to be more “ripped”.

Training with weights builds muscle mass and is the best way to get ripped, end of story.

So how exactly do you “define” a muscle?

The only way to “define” a muscle is by lowering your body fat level in order to make your muscles more visible. Body fat reduction could be accomplished in 2 ways:

1) Modify your eating routine.

It is best to lower your overall caloric intake to around 15x your bodyweight and focus on consuming smaller meals more regularly throughout the day. This will keep your metabolism naturally raised at all times and will keep your body in a constant body fat burning state. Limit your consumption of saturated fats and simple sugars, and concentrate instead on eating lean sources of protein and low glycemic carbohydrates. It’s also extremely significant to keep your water consumption high at a level of around 0.6 ounces for every pound of bodyweight.

2) Do proper cardiovascular workouts.

Let go of the standard method of moderate intensity cardio in 30-45 minute durations. If you wish to take full advantage of your body’s fat burning ability and also minimize the muscle loss that unavoidably accompanies a fat burning cycle, focus on shorter cardiovascular routines carried out at a high level of intensity. These kind of workouts will shoot your resting metabolism through the roof and will enable you to burn maximum amounts of fat even when you are at rest. I recommend 3-5 high intensity cardiovascular sessions per week, spaced at least 8 hours from your weight exercises.

That is all there is to it, folks. Take the idea of “light weight and higher reps” and chuck it away, down the road and around the curve. Following this misguided technique will simply cause you to loose muscle mass and strength, and won’t help you in melting fat or defining your physique.

All you need to do to define those rock-hard muscles for summer is this:

1) Train with heavy weights and low repetitions to build maximum muscle mass.

2) Change your diet and apply cardiovascular workouts to eliminate body fat and make visibly harder and more ripped muscles.

2 Easy Steps To Ripped Well Defined Muscles

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