Sarcoplasmic Hypertrophy: This is growth caused by the increase in fluid (sarcoplasm) within a muscle cell. This is a fast way to increase the size of a muscle, but since sarcoplasm is a fluid and can’t contract…it won’t make the muscle significantly stronger.

Doing workouts that cause sarcoplasmic hypertrophy to occur causes more fluid inside your muscles cells but does not directly impact the strength within your muscle.

Learn more about Sarcoplasmic Hypertrophy

This video shows you how you can avoid the puffy, fat muscle look that most guys in the gym currently have.

The reason they have this is because they are not correctly building their muscles to increase strength and truly get ripped. They simply have the bloated look that really is not attractive to girls.

Increasing strength is all about increasing your muscle density and is done by performing specific workouts.

One of the issues that is common is how rep range dictates whether any hypertrophic response influences the changes in size of the contractile components or muscle cells or the sarcoplasmic volume.

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I often get asked how to really get ripped. In this post I’m going to share with you the most important factor to truly getting ripped.

What You Need To Know:

  • The single most important factor is your diet.
  • Cut back on your number of sets and reps when you decrease your daily caloric intake.
  • Be sure to schedule at least one rest day in your program to get ripped.

Your Diet is the most important factor to getting ripped.

Losing weight is of no use if you aren’t losing fat weight. Think about it for a second, if you were losing weight and it was muscle weight, you’d still have the fat on your body but with less muscle.

For most of the guys out there who go to the gym, figuring out how to get ripped is a top priority. Some of these guys just want to be “big” and look like body builders. This is a very small group of the population. The average guy who heads to the gym want more than just being big. They want to be big, but also lean enough so that there is defined muscles on them so that they look good when they take their shirts off.

So what does it really take to get ripped? A proper diet? One specific exercise program? Or is there a magical pill out there that turns fat into muscle with absolutely no work?

The thing is, it takes time to get ripped. Unfortunately, it isn’t an overnight phenomenon and it will take a lot of hard work on your part, but if you approach this work smartly it’ll take a lot less time to get ripped than you may think.

Those people who don’t train with productive methods end up spending more time in the gym, but they see less drastic results than those who use productive methods. Be sure you keep this in mind when getting ripped so that you don’t become a part of that group of normal guys.

 

Getting Ripped Diet

By far the most important factor in getting ripped will be your ability to follow your diet. Getting lean is about 70% dietary efforts, 20% proper workout and exercises, 5% psychological (because temptation is everywhere) and 5% straight up determination and hustle.

With that being said, there is no end all be all diet that’s going to get you results. There are hundreds of diets out there that you can use to achieve your goals.

You need to be certain that you are consuming fewer calories than you need to maintain your weight. Fat loss is a very simple equation when you break it down mathematically. It considers the compounding factors of where calories come from, the times you eat your meals and so on. These all are personal preferences that determine whether or not you’re able to stick with your diet.

If you don’t stick with the diet, you won’t lose fat. Choose whatever diet that is comfortable for you, while still having the diet allow you to eat hypo-calorically, so that you can still get ripped.

The exception to this is your protein intake. You should be consuming a minimum of one gram of protein per bound of body mass in order to prevent the loss of muscle. Losing weight does you no good if you aren’t losing FAT weight. That’s critical when determining whether you end of looking like a smaller current you, or a learner and more muscular you at the end of your diet.

Instead of me just telling you what foods so you can get ripped, shoot to eat about 10-12 x your body weight in calories eat day. For example if you weigh 150 pounds, you should be getting about 1,500-1,800 calories a day to get the lean, ripped look. You’ll want to do this with one gram of protein per pound of body weight as well.

After that, you want to aim for 15% of those remaining calories as fat and fill the rest with carbs.

It should be clear, if you’ve ever tried dieting before, that certain foods will help satisfy your appetite better and keep your blood sugar levels under control (thus, preventing rebound hunger), so the more you can incorporate these types of foods the better the chances you’ll have when you try to get ripped.

Remember also that while getting ripped from your workout, you’ll need to take in some protein and carbohydrates around your workout period, for both muscle glycogen replenishment and to give you energy in the first place.

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Getting Ripped Workout Site Coming Soon!

November 3, 2011

The ‘Getting Ripped Workout’ is a workout where you build ‘visible muscles’ with ‘high muscle definition’. This website is going to be dedicated to workouts that will get you ripped. If you’ve been spinning your wheels and doing workouts that haven’t been giving you the results that you’ve wanted, this website is going to be [...]

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