This a popular myth because we quickly jump to conclusions when we see things happen in chronological order. If you hear a crash in the kitchen then your cat streaking out, you’d automatically assume that your cat knocked something over. If you see someone you know work out and get muscly, then he stops for a month and you see him maintain the same size, but get a bit round around the edges, you’d automatically assume that his muscle “turned into fat”, right?

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When someone tells you that they want to lose weight, what do they actually mean? Losing weight implies that someone wants to become lighter. However, it’s a fallacy that’s been reinforced in the last few decades. Losing weight won’t make you healthy necessarily, while losing fat will. There is a difference and not many people know about it. This article will also benefit weight lifters who want to cut fat from their bodies but not lose the muscle that they worked so hard to gain.

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One year to get 20 lbs of lean muscle is a respectable goal. Many men may make a new years resolution like this, but so few actually achieve it. It’s doable, but it requires a good understanding of what it takes to get lean muscle. A lean, muscular body will get you the admiration and respect of your friends, if you’re willing to work for it. These three things are required:

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That would be a weightlifter/model’s dream come true, wouldn’t it? To work out for about an hour, then go about your life doing other things and still have fat melting off your body. The muscle industry and commercial shows like “The Biggest Loser” have popularized the motif, “no pain, no gain.” Which is true, if you want to effectively lose weight. However, if you want to lose fat, not weight (yes there is a difference), you’ll want to work out as short as possible while maximizing muscular…

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This article is bound to make a few people angry. If you’re someone who has an intermediate understanding of how to get lean muscle, then you might have heard that the best way to lose fat is to do boring cardio, exercises that make you puffed out like treadmill or the bicycle. I’m going to try and persuade you today that you’re wrong and that the best way to lose fat is the exactly the same way you gain muscle: by lifting weights.

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This is a popular myth that many skinny men can trick themselves into believing if they find little success with gaining lean muscle. If you’re confused when I said, “trick themselves into believing”, allow me to explain with an analogy. If you want to be rich, but you can’t break the habit of keeping your money to yourself, you won’t be rich. Essentially, your subconsciously wanting to stay poor, because of your habits. It all starts in your head. Of course, you need to first see results if…

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At the time of writing this article, there are 15 days left of 2008. You can’t help but think about what you’ve achieved, what you wanted to achieve but never did and what you’ve got going for you in the coming year. I can’t guarantee it, but I’m pretty sure that most people tried to either maintain their body in good shape or improve it. It’s a tough ask, especially in a fast paced, dog-eat-dog world where a peak condition body might seem unnecessary.

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The perfect body is coveted by everyone. I don’t know of one person who hasn’t looked at themselves in the mirror and wished that they were taller, less fat, etc. Image is obviously the main factor that pushes someone to improve their body. Wouldn’t it be good to look in the mirror and feel good about yourself instead? You know, you can use image to change your body, instead of using it to attack yourself. How? By using a camera!

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When you look in the mirror, what is the first thing you see? What is the first emotion you feel? While all of us want a better body, so few of us actually succeed in taking action and finding out how to get it. It’s a paradox really: we want this body that will make us a god amongst men, yet constantly make excuses, finding any trivial pursuit to shirk our duties to keeping our body at least in a fit state.

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This is an interesting topic I think a lot of men would like to know about. Usually, something triggers us to seek a better body. Whether it’d be someone at work or uni who’s physically more fit, or a public icon like a movie star who we aspire to be like, it’s usually their bodies that acts as the catalyst to make us want to learn how to get lean muscle. Chest or pectoral muscles, are the ones we secretly envy. Barrel-chestedness symbolizes strength and superiority…

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