Muscle Building, How To Really Get Ripped

opcap">Well, you’ve been training really hard, for the past months you have spend a lot of time in the gym. 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. You have now in your body some excess of body fat.

Let’s face it, no matter how “huge” you might be, no one wants to be walking around with a soft, smooth and flabby body. There are a lot of myths floating around about what it really takes to get defined muscles. After most trainees have finished their “bulking” phase, they decide that it’s time to “cut down” the excess body fat that they gained due to their high calorie, muscle-building diet.

How do they usually do 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.

It couldn’t be farther from the truth. In fact, there is no logical basis for this way of training. No exercise will give you more definition than another. It is physically impossible to target fat loss rom a specific area on your body. In other words, no excersice will magically burn fat off of your chest or cause it to appear 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 what’s the right way to “define” a muscle? Muscle definition only involves your diet and body fat percentage. Body fat reduction can be achieved in two ways:

1) Modify your diet.
Reducing your meals and increasing the frequency of them will keep your metabolism naturally raised at all times and will keep your body in a constant fat burning state. In this way you’ll create a slight caloric deficit within your body to stimulate the fat burning process.

2) Perform proper cardio workouts.
Reduce your body fat simply by burning off all the excess fat you can. To maximize your body’s fat burning capacity and also minimize the muscle loss that inevitably accompanies a fat burning cycle, focus on shorter, 15-minute cardio workouts performed 3-5 times per week at a high level of intensity.

That’s all folks! Leave behind the notion of “light weight and higher reps”. Just follow these simple instructions to achieve the muscle definition that you are looking for.