Comments on: You Don’t Have to Be on One Tree Hill to Look Good Naked

By: andrew

andrew — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:10:50 +0000

Thanks yavor for all the advice.
Look forward to the ebook and keep up the site, it’s great for anyone looking for advice on building a better body.

Thanks again, all the best.

By: Yavor

Yavor — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:04:46 +0000

Well right now just eat normal. Don’t stuff yourself. Make sure you don’t get any fatter.

In your training, focus on getting stronger all the time. If you are new to training, you will want to do full body workouts for a few months. Progress in weight or reps every workout. After that switch to a split, train 1-2 muscle groups per day and progress in weight/reps each week.

Muscle will come, but it needs time. You need to train hard. Make each set count. Make each workout better.

Once you have attained a good strength/muscle base, you can go on an extreme cutting cycle for 1-2 months (because you don’t have much fat to lose anyway) and you will be killer.

Cheers,

Yavor

p.s. I am now writing notes etc for a new report/ebook on building muscle

By: andrew

andrew — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:58:22 +0000

well I would say I’m pretty lean, well more of a weakling look to myself, so pretty lean but not so much muscular. The only area of fat is some fat on my belly, no love handles just some belly fat. My thinking was I would find it difficult to get extremely lean if I dont have enough muscle to actually cut to. But would you say thats not the case and even without a great deal of muscle already, getting very low body fat is still attainable?

Also just to get it right from what you say if calories dont really count in helping to build muscle in a sense you have to be in excess all the time then as long as i workout and make progress with my workouts every week no matter how small I can control calories to lose fat and my workouts will build the muscle?

Thanks Yavor

By: Yavor

Yavor — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:55:05 +0000

Andrew

it is always best to lose the excess fat first. Note I stress on ‘excess.’ If you are already decent/normal looking (i.e. no belly, no love handles, etc.) then you are lean enough and can focus on other goals. For that Brad Pitt body – he has a decent amount of muscle, but exceptionally low BF%. So once you are lean and have enough muscle, you can focus on getting extra lean/ripped – say for summer or whatever.

Hope that helps,

Yavor

p.s. – upping the calories is not what will build muscle. Progressive overload on the basic 8-10 exercises with heavier and heavier weights is what makes muscle grow. If it wre just calories we could all just pig out to bigger muscles. But we can’t.

p.p.s. – the way to lose the excess fat and get from somewhat chunky to decent/normal looking is to find a way to eat less.

By: andrew

andrew — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:52:50 +0000

So you always think that leaning down first even if you dont have a great deal of muscle is best. So say you looking for that brad pitt fight club body would you suggest getting rid of the fat first and then up your calories to help with gaining once you bf is low enough is the better option?

In one post about your top films I noticed you wrote if you want that brad pit body you need to gain the muscle first and then strip the fat, who would this apply to. People who are really lean already?

By: Yavor

Yavor — Sat, 30 May 2009 12:46:58 +0000

Nekomas,

Yeah, you don’t have to go crazy. That was my point.

Cheers,

Yavor

By: Nekomas

Nekomas — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:11:24 +0000

I hear what you are adding here. If one is body-buiding then six feedings a day is effective for ‘chisled’ shows. Otherwise I am leaning toward better overaii-nutritive-balance.