The Single Best Way to Get Ripped!

You want to know the best way to get ripped? Well, here it is!

There're three big components to get ripped muscles. You need to workout well, drop body fat, and eat healthy. So, here's how to do them…

Workout Hard

A half-assed workout won't cut it. You really need to invest yourself fully, get a good program, and work it like it's important. 

Don't go for an overly complicated program with lots of calf raises, bicep curls, pec flies, and other little lifts. Do big lifts like the squat, bench press, standing barbell press, and weighted chin-ups and pull-ups.

These big lifts will work your big muscle groups. They'll cause your body to grow large amounts of muscle, and actually develop strength.

Oh, and don't go for the 'pump' or 'burn'. Lifting heavy weights 5 to 12 times, or until you can't lift them anymore, will actually build muscle. 'Pumping' more blood into your muscles doesn't do anything, other than temporarily inflate them and waste your gym time.

Drop Fat

Once you've built up some muscle, drop the fat off. This is the best way to get ripped, since no matter how big your muscles are you won't be able to show them off if you have too much fat. That's just how it is.

Dieting is the way to go. And really, any diet where you eat less will help you lose weight. 

It doesn't matter whether your get ripped muscles with 6 small meals a day, like most bodybuilders, or 3 squares a day, or with an Atkins diet or Ornish or Paleo. Eat less to lose weight, and find a sustainable way to do that.

The biggest reason most people fail to get ripped is because they don't control their eating. If you don't do that, you'll never get ripped. It sounds too bloody simple, but that's the truth of it - the best way to get ripped is to eat less.

Eat Healthy

Eating healthy will actually help you get ripped. And not through magical healthy-ness, but because of simple reality.

Vegetables are healthy, in my opinion, because you can eat a whole lot of them without eating a lot of calories. They're mostly water and undigestible fiber, so you can eat a delicious heaping salad or half a roasted butternut squash, and it's only 100 to 200 calories!

Also, eat grass fed beef if you can get it. Aside from the omega-3s it has, it's a great source of protein and tastes delicious! An if you get a leaner cut, because it's mostly protein it won't be a ton of calories.

Eating healthy doesn't mean flavorless swill. You can actually eat healthy foods and make them enjoyable too. It sounds crazy, and you'll have to do some trial and error to find out what you like eating, but I find that eating healthy help me lose fat.

Of course, you can lose weight by eating less calories of chocolate or ice cream. But instead of having just 3 scoops of ice cream or 3 or 4 candy bars during the day, I'd recommend eating real food.

Now What?

The best way to get ripped is to start now. Not tomorrow, not when it's more convenient, not when X, Y, or Z happens, but NOW.

If you keep putting it off it'll only get harder.

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