When you’re training to gain a Lean Muscle Body, you need to do a certain type of workout that allows you to lose weight (that unwanted fat between your muscles and skin) and still build muscle at the same time. Thats right, you will want to keep growing some muscle mass while burning off the fat. However, keep in mind in order to achieve a Ripped and Lean Body means you do have to give up the full potential of your maximum muscle growth.

In the beginning, when you start bodybuilding, your goal should be to lift weights for muscle mass and not worry about the lean muscle aspect. Later, after you have gain the proper amount of muscle mass, you will want to change your workout and train to get ripped. I’m assuming that you’ve been working out for a while, gaining muscle mass. This will make it easier for you to lose the weight. Up to this point you should have been lifting weights with low reps and low set with a lot of weight. Now is the time to take that muscle and shape it.

Tip 1: Weight Training – Reps, Sets and Weight

You must use more Reps and more Sets with Lower Weights. This is the tricky part. You don’t want to use too little weight which will cause you to lose the muscle mass you have gained and you don’t want to use too much weight or you will not get that lean muscle effect. To find out what is the right amount of weight, you need go through a trial and error to test the amount of poundage which is right for you.

Tip 2: Diet

The second most important thing you need to change to get a more lean muscle appearance is your diet. You are used to eating lots of carbohydrates and protein and your calorie intake was higher when you were building muscle mass. Now, you must cut back on the carbohydrate and the calories so you will start losing the fat. The protein must stay relatively the same because if you are lifting weights right, you are still gaining muscle mass but not as much as you were before.

Tip 3: Cardio Exercise

Finally, you must add some sort of cardio routine into your workout program. Intensity Training is a great way to help lose the weight and get your body into shape. For example, if you run 5 miles, every fourth of a mile on the mile, you should sprint as fast as you can and then jog the rest of ¾ of the mile, then repeat every mile. This will get you into shape fast and burn the calories. Since you are sprinting every mile, you are exhausting your body and you will use the reserve calories that are stored in the body. These reserved calories are called fat. Note, the Intensity Training can be applied to any exercise, such as biking, swimming, etc.

Conclusion

When putting all three Tips into effect…

• Weight Training
• Diet
• Cardio Exercise

…you will achieve that lean muscle appearance. Lean muscle workouts are more then just hitting the gym and lifting weights. It is dedication, will power, and knowledge all combined to shape your body into whatever you want it to look like.

Henry Chervenka