Getting ripped is one of the few things in life that can only be achieved through hard work without circumventing the process. There is no surgery, there’s no amount of money or super pill available to achieve the progress. It can’t be given to you as a gift from your parents and it requires much hard work and consistent dedication and planning to achieve the goal. It can’t be achieved with surgery and it would never happen by accident. It’s a testament to your personality and your ability to work hard and achieve difficult goals without quitting.
It also can’t be achieved through a simple process of just learning and doing because everyone burns fat and builds muscle differently. The only way to achieve the goal is accepting the fact that you will fail multiple times, learn from your mistakes, make adjustments, get back up and keep going. Getting ripped requires you to reduce your body fat to such low levels that it goes far beyond natural acceptable levels by the body. This means that even if you do manage to figure out how your body responds, the actual process will still be extremely difficult. Your body will fight with all its claws and teeth to avoid those levels of leanness to because it goes against natural evolution of the human body for survival. The human body considers being ripped dangerous during times of famine.
Although weight loss is a simple process of calories in vs calories out your body has a lot of hormonal and mental reactions as well as metabolic responses to prevent you from staying in a calorie deficit indefinitely. All of these evolutionary mechanisms result in multiple plateaus that you must attempt to break as you partake this difficult journey.
Plateaus are going to happen and there’s no way to avoid then so instead of getting frustrated and perhaps quitting like so many others you should expect them, be ready for them and always keep an ace in the hole. There are lots of advanced techniques fitness models use for getting ripped. Carb cycling, increasing duration of exercise and exercising twice day are just a few options. The worst thing you could do is go all out and exhaust all your options because as soon as your body opens its first bag of hormonal tricks of its own, you’ll already be out of options. It’s also mentally and physically exhausting to go all out for a long period of time.
Your body can only burn fat at a certain rate per week. You might lose more weight by going all out but more of that weight will come from muscle. Check your body fat percentage per week and set a goal for losing 2 pounds of fat per week. As long as you’re meeting this goal don’t attempt to do more. Also understand that fat loss naturally begins to decrease as your weight decreases so get one of your aces ready as a plateau begins to look more and more immanent. Keep this process up and there will be nothing stopping you from getting ripped. You’ll have a trick for every trick and all the weight you’ve lost will come from pure body fat. Don’t make it any harder for yourself than it needs to be. Slow and steady wins the race.
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