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Get Ripped in 6 weeks?
Can I get ripped in 6 weeks? Of couse you can! But first and foremost, a little reality check is in order here: if you are a newcomer to weight-training and/or bodybuilding, the whole “getting ripped in 6 weeks” objective is based more on fantasy than fact. You can’t run before you can walk and conversely you can’t sculpt a muscle if you don’t have any muscles to begin with. So if your bodybuilding goal is getting ripped in 6 weeks you need to realistically access where you are now in terms of your weight-training and where you want to go with the body you have. Simply put, The whole “getting ripped” mentality is overused and often not very realistic so let’s take a look at this objective and find the best way to accomplish getting ripped in 6 weeks.
For the sake of conversation let’s take a leap of faith and assume you have been lifting weights for at least a year, you’ve been making decent gains and have put in the effort to bulk up. Now you’re at the point of taking your body and literally whittling away the excess fat from it. The end result should leave you with a ripped body. A body of striated muscles that is just screaming with vascularity.
Another consideration: the ripped look is rarely a look you can maintain for very long. Sure you can learn to get ripped in 6 weeks, but once you do, you’ll probably want to snap a few photos because your body can’t maintain that image for very long. Don’t believe me? Look at any competitive bodybuilder. Over the course of the 8 months to a year that most bodybuilders train in preparation for a contest, the ripped phase is the very last one. It’s the final touch a bodybuilder puts on his or her training. After you get ripped in 6 weeks your body is going to start screaming for the type of diet you had before you got ripped 6 weeks prior.
The trick to getting ripped in 6 we eksis to increase your aerobic state while at the same time decreasing your food in-take. By augmenting your weight-training with some form of aerobic activity you will start burning more fat. The modification of your diet, to include a lot more water and a lot less carbohydrates will work to striate your muscles. The trick here is to juggle the two. And above all, you want to maintain the same amount of calories even though what you’re eating to maintain that caloric intake will be different from what you’re used to.
Let’s discuss your workout first: 3 x's a week is more than sufficient during your attempt at getting ripped in 6 weeks. So let’s establish that you will lift on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. No matter how long your workouts have lasted up until now, during your ripped stage; a 60-90 minute workout is more than enough. Furthermore, you want to concentrate on high-repetition sets while working only 2 body-parts per workout. For example: shoulders and triceps, arms and back, chest and legs. Remember; concentrate on doing a high number of repetitions for no more than 3 sets max. You may find that you can bow through your workout in less than 90 minutes. Good for you! That means you didn’t give your body a chance to cool down and you kept your heart rate up for the full workout.
Now let’s talk calories: 5 to 7 small meals a day (about every other hour) augmented with at least 4 to 5 liters of water daily. The water will flush your body of toxins. And you body will assimilate 5 to 7 meals daily much faster than 3 big meals a day. Underscore this by eliminating all junk food, fried foods and processed foods. Eat as much chicken and fish as you want (chicken and fish digest quicker than meat). Don’t hold back on the veggies. Eat fruits in moderation because we’re talking natural sugar.
On your off days (that means Tuesdays and Thursdays) you want to do high-speed aerobics. There are many trains-of-thought regarding this. Some bodybuilders suggest interval training. For example 12 x 100 yard sprints or 8 x 220 yard sprints with only a minute to 90 seconds rest in-between intervals. Others recommend swimming: 10 x 50 meters with 1 minute in-between. And there are others still who swear by incline training which means running up hills. Whatever it is you do, you can bet you’ll be burning more calories than you normally would on your off days. Keep drinking insane amounts of water on your off days. You’ll notice that you’ll be urinating more than before. This is normal and it’s your body working at cleansing itself.
Within three weeks you will notice a significant weight loss. If you’re not cheating, this loss will be fat and not muscle.
When you get into your third and fourth week, add another 20 minutes or so of low impact aerobics to your workout. A stationary bike is fine. So is a brisk walk. Make sure that whatever activity you do, it is different from what you are doing on your non-workout days. I would also suggest augmenting your bicep and triceps workout with push-ups and pull-ups.
By the time you are in your fourth-fifth and sixth week you will have lost even more fat-weight, but you will notice that your body has attained a sense of equilibrium. After you get ripped in 6 weeks I would suggest you take about 10 days off. Bask in the accomplishment of having gotten ripped in 6 weeks. Take photos. Call your friends and then start segueing back to your “regular routine”. Getting ripped is a cyclical thing. After another 6 to 8 weeks you may want to repeat the ripped process. Over the course of 6 months your body will get acclimated to its ripped state (which is actually a weight-loss state) and this new body will be easier to maintain.