How to Get Ripped like a Bodybuilder

How To Get Ripped Like A Bodybuilder,
Fitness Model Or Action Movie Star!

The Legend And Mystique of The Ripped Physique

Being "ripped" is the coveted condition where your body fat is so low that muscular details never seen on "average people" start standing out in bold relief:

Ripped means muscle striations, vascularity, drum-tight skin, "cuts" (separations) between muscle groups and of course, the full set of 6-pack abs.

Quite simply, a "ripped" person is like a walking anatomy chart.

Few people ever achieve ripped condition, so when someone does get ripped, it gets attention and commands respect.

A ripped physique stands out in any crowd - even a fit crowd, because there's lean and then there's beyond lean... the place called RIPPED!

Most Burn The Fat readers already know what ripped means, because that word is part of bodybuilding vernacular and with the boom of fitness advertising into the mainstream (as in "get ripped abs!"), ripped has become a household word.

But few people know about the deeper intricacies and significance of being ripped, and almost no one knows HOW to get ripped, and that's exactly what you're about to read...

Ripped = Rare and Remarkable!

The average American today is not only NOT lean, they are actually not even average. The "average" American is overweight - not a normal or ideal body fat level.

As of 2010, the official statistics say 68% of Americans are overweight (at least slightly over their "ideal" weight and up to 30 pounds over their ideal weight). Thirty percent (30%) are obese.

Don't laugh at us, our international friends, because this epidemic is spreading to almost every corner of the globe, even Asia. Just add Westernization.

A few years ago I met a Chinese Gentleman at a seminar in Orlando and he was telling me that when Pizza Hut first opened in China, the line to get in went all the way around the block. He had never seen anything like it. Just this year, large fast food corporations have reported intensifying their push into China to make up for slower fast food sales in the States.

The point is, most of the world is not even average, let alone ripped - most of the world is fat, getting fat, or getting fatter.

Which means, a truly ripped person is a rare sight and getting ripped is a remarkable achievement.

People who think being ripped is not rare and remarkable are probably immersed in bodybuilding, fitness or physique culture, so they see it more often. The truth is, go out in the "real world" - go to Disneyland, go to the mall, go to WAL-MART, go to a tourist resort, walk down a boardwalk, and take a look around...

Go anywhere in public where the masses congregate, open your eyes, look around and ask, "How many people here are lean, muscular and defined?" Answer: scant few and that's exactly why we all gasp in amazement whenever we see ripped abs...

The Legendary Ripped Movie Stars and Action Heroes

Even when an actor - who is expected to be attractive and fit - appears ripped on screen, it's a big deal.

When an actor who had a "fit but normal" body suddenly gets ripped for a role, he becomes the talk of the town. Even the fitness magazines start writing about the celebrity workout or diet that produced such a mind-blowing condition and the paparazzi follows them to the beach.

To this day, people are still talking about Linda Hamilton's Terminator 2 "Ripped arms" and "ripped abs" like Brad Pitt in Fight Club.

Heavyweight bodybuilders are known for being ripped AND huge. But if your body fat is low enough, all you need is a normal or slightly above normal amount of lean body mass, and your physique looks stunning.

If you're ripped, you don't need huge muscles to look spectacular. And if you DO want to look bigger, getting ripped can create an optical illusion of more muscle size than you really have, at least in men.

Brad Pitt was not the least bit bulky, but his ripped condition made his modest muscle size look 10X more impressive. Bruce Lee was not a big man - his biographies put him at as light as 145 pounds and never over 165. But when your muscles are proportioned and you're as ripped as Lee was in films like Enter The Dragon, your body becomes the stuff of legends.

I wonder how many people taped up a Bruce lee poster when they were kids - or still have it on their gym walls today as adults? Stallone in Rocky IV or Rambo II? It wasn't huge muscle bulk and body weight that made these physiques legendary - it was being ripped!

Sly told Muscle and Fitness magazine that for Rocky III he weighed only 165, and in Rocky IV where he his muscles looked even larger, he was still only 173 lbs.

Like I said, being ripped creates a stunning optical effect even without a bodybuilder's mass, and those who are ripped often don't care about their (light) bodyweight - they're after "THAT LOOK."

Unlike larger bodybuilders, sometimes the ripped man flies under the radar, fitting perfectly in a nice suit, looking like a normal dude, but when the shirt and jacket come off...

Maybe that's part of the appeal - no one suspects such a physique is under there until the "big reveal." The look on a girl's face when you're a ripped man who takes his shirt off in front of her for the first time and she had no idea what was underneath... priceless!

The "Last 10 Pounds" Factor That Makes Getting Ripped An Incredible Achievement

Here's another reason getting ripped is such an amazing achievement: The leaner you get, the harder it is to keep getting leaner. Losing fat can be a challenge at any stage, but going from already lean to ripped is NOT easy, especially if you don't understand bodybuilding and physique athlete nutrition techniques.

You've surely heard about, if you haven't experienced personally, "the last 10-15 pounds." Those final pounds can be a bear to burn. That's no urban legend, it's true for a variety of biological reasons, which I've discussed many times in my articles, blogs and fat loss books.

Some overweight or obese individuals complain that it's harder for them to drop fat. But the fact is, it is easier for a heavy person to create a calorie deficit than a lean person.

You have a smaller calorie deficit when you have a smaller body, your metabolism slows down as you lose weight, your metabolism adapts with prolonged food restriction, your appetite hormones turn on full blast, your brain goes into "food search" mode, and it just gets tiring to keep pushing all the way to the end point - ripped!

I don't mean to dismiss the achievement of a heavy person dropping a lot of weight, not at all, I'm only saying that the first 10 pounds are almost always much easier to take off than the last 10...

... and burning off those last pounds is what reveals a truly ripped body - yes, even the last FIVE pounds can blur your muscle definition and explain why you don't have that razor-sharp six pack yet.

The Tell-Tale Signs Of A Ripped Body

How do you know ripped when you see it? Well, a very low body fat level is the key. It's not about doing a certain exercise or workout program. NO training program can make you look more ripped if your body fat stays the same.

Let me say it again: VERY LOW BODY FAT IS THE KEY TO THE RIPPED APPEARANCE. Learn how to reduce body fat, and you've learned the secret to getting ripped.

What's more responsible for low body fat level than any other factor: Nutrition! Not even the trainers dispute that. It's a fact. That's also why 75% of my fat-burning program, Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle is focused on nutrition techniques for losing your body fat.

How low does your body fat have to go? It must be very very low, but ripped is not a number, it's a look. You see it instantly. The physique just POPS everywhere and DEMANDS your attention.

As you look closer you can always tell when someone is ripped: Their skin looks almost transparent - it appears to lay on top of the muscle like a thin sheet of cellophane wrap. (In bodybuilding, they often say a competitor is "shrink-wrapped." If you ever heard that before and were confused, now you know what they meant!)

Not only that, the skin appears tight, as if the more ripped you get, the more the skin stretches out across the muscle bellies, appearing thinner and thinner and tighter and tighter. "Tight as a drum" they say!

This "thin skin" allows every muscle to pop out in bold relief. The separation between muscle groups appears as deep "cuts." Within muscle groups, you actually see striations, which ripple like waves across the muscle when you flex or lift weights. Even with the slightest bodily move, striations appear to "dance" across the muscles.

And of course there's vascularity - the veins. Body fat gets stored on top of both the muscles and the veins, so the leaner you get, the more vascularity is revealed. Too much is usually considered un-aesthetic, especially in women, but up to a point, veins add to the ripped look.

Men get more vascular than women (and a lot of guys like it), but even women see it subtly in lower abs, arms and sometimes the deltoid area when they get really lean... and of course, there's that Arnold-in-Pumping-Iron bicep vein, the trademark of a well-developed AND ripped arm.

When you're truly RIPPED and nearing PEAK condition, there's the tell-tale sign of the ripped condition... lower ab veins.

How I've Been Helping Regular People Get Ripped For Over 20 Years

If it's so rare to get ripped and if it's so difficult to achieve, you might be thinking that you'll never get even close to getting lean enough to look ripped.

That's mistake number one: Not believing it's possible for you.

I'm not going to BS you - it takes dedication and a lot of hard work to get ultra low body fat. If it were easy, everyone would be ripped. Like Art Williams said, "I'm not telling you it's easy, I'm telling you it's worth it."

But if you're willing to work hard at it, almost ANYONE can peak their physique and get ripped. I've been teaching people how to do it for more than 20 years - regular people, NOT just bodybuilders or models - and my system always works when it's followed.

New fangled "miracle" diets come and go every year and almost all of them fail - and they fail horrifically on those last 10 pounds of resistant fat. Heck, any old diet will take off the first 10 or even 20 pounds, but almost none of them get you all the way to ripped. It happens to almost everybody - the diet works at first, but stops working before you get all the way there.

And as I mentioned before, workout programs that claim to get you ripped are useless without the proper nutrition.

The single most effective fat burning system that stands the test of time for getting ripped isbodybuilding and physique athlete nutrition. It's the same system competitive bodybuilders and figure athletes use... it's the same program I've written out in my ebook, Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle... and it's the same type of nutrition program I've been teaching to my "real people" coaching clients for decades...

Yes, I've worked with a lot of bodybuilders and I am one myself, But with this system, I've seen menopausal women and 50-year old men do it. I've seen busy executives and soccer moms do it. I've seen people who were 100 pounds overweight do it. I've seen people in the worst, harshest conditions do it. And they were all regular people - not genetic freak bodybuilders or celebrities with full time chefs and personal trainers.

If getting very lean or even Ripped is your ultimate goal, you need a program that will take you ALL THE WAY there, not leave you hanging with the stubborn 10 pounds. Bodybuilding nutrition programs like Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle are IT. For ultimate leanness, they have always worked and always will.

Mark my words, you will see bodybuilding and physique athlete nutrition making a massive comeback in the year ahead as more and more people are getting fed up with being shortchanged by all the worthless new diet fads that have come and gone in the last 10 years. It's all coming around full circle.. right back to basics.

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Tom Venuto, Author of:
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Fat Burning Secrets of Bodybuilders And Fitness Models

PS. Hey, one last thing! Let me show you some success stories which prove that all kinds of regular people have been able to get ripped with bodybuilding and physique-athlete nutrition.

Getting ripped is such an esteemed achievement, that I give away a most ripped award every time we run our popular Burn the Fat Challenge body transformation contest. I've posted the newest winners of the "most ripped" award below.

I'll also keep adding to this "most ripped" success story gallery in the future when new awards are given and when more impressive results are achieved by our members and clients.

I hope these real life examples will motivate you and inspire you to believe it's possible for you too. Remember, you dont have to be a genetically gifted fitness model, bodybuilder or movie star to get ripped. They did it. You can do it too if you work hard, believe in yourself and have the right system.

Stefanie Got Ripped

In Stefanie's after pictures, she looks like a seasoned fitness competitor. You would swear it. But Stefanie is NOT a professional figure athlete or fitness model and she's never competed onstage before! She's simply a 43 year old girl who said she felt frumpy and unsatisfied with her body, who became very passionate about fitness and took on the Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle challenge with seriousness and extraordinary effort... and she won the "most ripped female" award for the summer of 2011 (98-day transformation).




Ian Got Ripped

Getting as ripped as Ian would be an achievement even under ideal conditions, but Lt. commander Ian did it while deployed to Iraq! With limited healthy food availability but junk food everywhere (mess hall), harsh desert conditions (100 degrees by 6 am) and constant threat of danger (even rocket attacks), Ian managed to pack on 10.8 pounds of muscle while shredding his body fat down by 8%, capturing him the "Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle Most Ripped Award" for the summer of 2011.

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