The pull-up is one of the most commonly performed, and misperformed, exercises in the gym. In this video, I’m going to show you how to never do them incorrectly again and give you the fixes for the 10 most common pullup mistakes. Whether you can do 10 pull-ups or more now or struggle to do one, you’ll find this incredibly helpful and I guarantee you will be doing more reps by the time the video is over.The first thing you need to be aware of is how you are gripping the bar. If you grip too narrow you will shift the focus of the movement from the stronger back muscles to the weaker muscles of the forearms. You want to make sure you are just outside of shoulder width with the hand placement for optimal performance on this exercise.That said, the brachioradialis and brachialis are muscles that are going to be contributing to the pullup and your ability to do the most reps possible so you are going to need to train them. You just don’t want them being the main drivers of the exercise. To supplement your back muscles in the exercise, be sure to include some cross body hammer curls as shown to increase the strength of the forearms and your overall strength on the pullup.Regarding the grip placement, it isn’t enough to just get the hand spacing down. You also want to be sure that you direct your pressure in the right way. Most people simply pull straight down on the bar or worse, they pull outwards because they’ve been told this will increase the activation of the lats. Both of these aren’t optimal. The best thing you can do is squeeze your hands inward towards each other and down at the same time. This will engage much more upper body muscle activation that will make your body feel as if it is floating up above the bar on every rep, instantly.Much of this has to do with plugging kinetic looseness (or energy leaks as I call them). You can take this even a step further by contracting other areas of your body that often get ignored during the exercise like your legs, ankles and core. Instead of dangling from the bar and letting your knees hang loosely, tighten you quads, point your feet down and really contract your core muscles and you will see an instant improvement in your ability to lift your body up over the bar.Now you don’t want to take these measures and then let it all loosen up when you get to the bottom of the rep. Most importantly, you do not want to get lax during the hanging portion of the pullup. This will place too much strain on the shoulders and is called unpacking. Instead, even though you want to get fully straightened at the elbows you want to keep your shoulder blades pulled down and back to create shoulder stability. This will allow for a lifetime of injury free pullups and more growth from the exercise.There are other biomechanical flaws that you will want to avoid with your pullups that I cover here but I also want to point out a couple of the programming issues that are often done incorrectly as well. For instance, you don’t want to always save your pullups for the end of your workout. Too often, because they are a bodyweight exercise, we save them for after we have already done our rows, deadlifts or pulldowns. You will never get the most out of the exercise when done in a fatigued state like this. Try moving them to the front of your workout and you will be surprised at how quickly you see gains just by making the switch.Finally, the exercise like any other, will respond to intensification techniques like drop sets and changes in the weight used during it. Use a band to accommodate your fatigue and get more total reps done in a workout - either as a drop set or as a simple lightening of the load as you would with any other traditional back exercise in your workout.If you’re looking

If you have forgotten about these old school ab exercises, then it’s time for a refresher. I’m going to cover 5 abdominal exercises that will be a blast from the past but are still capable of delivering serious six packs to anyone that does them. Each one will be broken down into the component reasons for why you need to put these back in your ab workouts starting today.First up is the dragon thrust. This ab exercise is a variation of the classic Bruce Lee move called the Dragon Flag. The idea is that you are trying to keep your torso rigid as you extend it out at length. The key differentiator between this and say a plank (another exercise that works on keeping the body rigid) is that this one requires the glutes and posterior chain muscles to fire instead of the anterior chain muscles to make it work. We often get too much work in our anterior chain anyway and not enough on the backside, making this a tremendous core stability move you need to start doing again.The second exercise is called the ab scissors. This was a favorite lower ab exercise done by the bodybuilders of yore. The key here is to position your body in the right way before doing the movement and then working on keeping it there for the duration of the exercise.Here you want to sit at the end of a bench and lean back until your pelvis is in a posterior tilt. This will engage the abdominal muscles. The legs should be held straight out in front of you with the knees straight. Simply lift one leg up to about 45 degrees from the floor and crunch your torso forward to reach a peak contraction at the top. Unlike traditional lower ab exercises that require you lift your legs while laying on the floor, this has much less chance of tilting you into anterior tilt and stressing the lower back while at the same time keeping the tension on the abs at the moment you want it the most. A traditional leg lift will get easiest at the top of the movement, not the ab scissor.Next is the broom stick twist. You’ve likely seen this out of every classic old school bodybuilder, but I’m not sure that they were doing it in the healthiest way for their backs. This should not be a movement you do for high reps and with great range of motion. Instead, you want to round the thoracic spine and posteriorly tilt the pelvis to limit rotation and keep it confined mostly to the thoracic spine. From here, a small 20 degree twist in each direction is enough to fully engage the obliques and get an incredible contraction. Be sure to lean back while doing this to increase the demands of the exercise.The single sided dumbbell carry is one of the most traditional exercises you can do for your core. That said, a carry with a dumbbell in each hand will negate the majority of the core benefits this exercise provides. The offset dumbbell demands that the muscles on the opposite side of the torso contract to keep your shoulders level with your pelvis while you walk. No matter how far you wind up walking with this, the key is to keep the pace natural and the body from tilting.Finally, some think the captain’s chair ab exercises are somehow easier versions of the exercises done from a hanging bar. This is true in only one sense and that is, on your grip. That said, if your goal is maximum abdominal development then you don’t want your grip to be the thing that takes you out of the game in your ab workout. Instead, let the chair bear the weight through your forearms and take your ab exercise arsenal to another level while you fry your abs with each move shown.The key to ab training is not just to make sure you’re getting the most out of every rep you do but to make sure you’re covering all of the key functions these versatile muscles are capable of. My new Core4 Abs program will do just

If you have been told that being able to touch your toes is a good barometer of your overall fitness and flexibility, then you need to watch this video. Here I’m going to show you why you not only want to stop trying to touch your toes and instead do the move I show you as an alternative. All you have to do is look at the implications this position has for hiding postural flows and imbalances and you will see quickly why it’s something you will not want to keep doing to help you feel more flexible.It starts by letting you test yourself. Can you actually touch your toes? Many people will be able to, but many more will not. Even if you cannot, I can make it much easier for you if I tell you to be sure you roll your butt underneath you before you attempt to bend down. This will place a lot less of a stretch on the hamstrings making it easier for you to fold.The issue with this modification is that many people do this naturally anyway in order to cheat their way to their toes. This really isn’t giving them any valuable information regarding their own flexibility and the health of their posture. In fact, it’s doing them a disservice by convincing them that they are more flexible than they really are and therefore allowing them to shrug off doing anything about it.When you slump forward to touch your toes you are actually initiating much of the range of motion through the thoracic spine. You are flexing forward into severe kyphosis in order to achieve the hands to the toes position. This is only reinforcing a bad tendency for having slumped posture. It gets worse from there however. The low back is forced to round and the pelvis is thrown into a posterior tilt. This is the exact position that someone who is aged and has lost all semblance of good posture will adopt.Even more, the shoulders themselves slump forward and are lacking any kind of scapular stability. All of these issues combined are a recipe for disaster when it comes to proper posture and the insinuation that being able to get into this position of hands to toes is in some way a good thing is misleading to say the least. Instead of being obsessed with whether you can still touch your toes I’m asking you to try something else.Stand about 3 foot lengths away from the wall and reach forward with one leg until you can prop your toes up against the wall. Immediately, you should feel a stretch on the calf of that leg and likely already the hamstring. From here, reach your hands up against the wall slightly over shoulder height and place your palms flat against the wall. Simultaneously walk your hands up the wall while leaning your chest in. The goal should be to ultimately touch your chest against the wall without any care towards whether you are bending down or forward. You are simply supposed to reach your chest forward. If you cannot get there, don’t worry, this is normal. You will however want to work towards getting your chest closer over time. Hold this position for 30 seconds to a minute and don’t forget to repeat on the other leg to balance out both hamstrings.The benefit to this position rather than the slumped forward posture that bending over to touch your toes places you in is the fact that you can maintain thoracic extension while at the same time keeping your pelvis in an anterior tilt. This position of the pelvis is going to place a higher demand on the hamstrings, however in doing so, will reveal any tightnesses in them that you will want to address rather than hiding them by simply allowing your pelvis to roll back during the stretch.This is just one example where old school methods of measuring and working on your flexibility are not helping you. If you really want to get to the bottom of your postural flaws and figure out ways to impro

If you want to get bigger arms there are five things you absolutely have to do. In this video, I’m going to show you the best way to build bigger biceps and triceps, especially when you want to see rapid results. From the way you want to split up your workouts to the exact exercises that are going to deliver the fastest gains, you will not want to miss this.It starts by acknowledging that, despite what you may have been told, you are going to have to go back to adding an “arm day” to your routine. At the very least, if you are training with a full body split you are going to have to add some direct arm exercises like a barbell curl and triceps extension to your workout day. The reason is, though the compound lifts are essential to building a base of strength and size, the specific arm focus you achieve by doing dedicated big lifts for your arms is going to have additional size payoff.Whether you are following a total body split or a push pull legs split, find a way to add at least one big arm movement for each the biceps and triceps to the end of your training days. Alternatively and likely more effective, simply add a dedicated arm training day to the end of your training week. For instance, if you are doing a full body workout on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, add an arm workout for biceps and triceps to either Saturday or Sunday.Now on that arm day, there are a few things you want to keep in mind to make sure you’re getting the most from your workout.First thing is, you don’t want to be excessive with the number of exercises that you are performing to build bigger biceps and triceps. Remember, the elbow is a simple hinge joint that can be trained with just a few solid exercise choices. In fact, early on in my training I attributed almost all of my arm gains to just three exercises; the chin-up, barbell curl and lying triceps extension or skullcrusher.If you want to get elaborate, limit yourself to one exercise in each of the following categories: a stretch position loaded exercise, contracted position loaded exercise and a main compound movement. This would go for both the biceps and triceps. Some sample exercise selections are provided in the video that meet these criteria. Whichever arm exercises you do select, remember to always accentuate the eccentric or negative portion of the lift. That means, always work on slowing down the return portion of the repetition. Don’t simply drop the bar at the end of every rep. Fight to resist it’s return to the starting position and I promise you the gains you see from this will be very quick (especially if you haven’t been doing this up to now).If you are in need of something new, since it seems you’ve been training arms for awhile now and your gains have stalled, there is something you can try. The biceps waiter curl is something that will not only help you to add arm size by building your biceps but it will help you to take the forearms out of the movement to focus on building bigger biceps peaks. The lying EZ bar extension / JM Press combo is a powerful way to manipulate the fatigue that you experience during either version of the exercise to get the most out of both. Either way, whichever exercise choices you make, be sure to never overlook the value of stretching your biceps and triceps at the end of every workout. Just like all other muscles in your body, these can get tight and when they do, they impair the performance of them in the bigger lifts and hold back the size you can see in them from your workouts. Stretch them at night for best carryover and longevity over time.If you are looking for arm workouts that will build not just big arms but your entire body, be sure to head to athleanx.com at the link below and check out our Ultimate

Ever feel like you may not be gaining muscle as fast or as much as you would like to, despite going to the gym and being consistent with your workouts? In this video, I’m going to show you 5 red flags that can help you determine that this may be the case before it’s too hard to do something about it. Each of these early warning signs will serve to get you to take notice and quickly change up your training so that you can start making nothing but gains.We all know that gaining muscle is something that will take us an extended period of time, especially once we are past the newbie gains stage of our training. That said, when it seems like an eternity without seeing any appreciable progress it can become pretty frustrating and sometimes even to the point where we want to give up.That would be a mistake.You can do something to get back on the right track and to seeing muscle building goals being reached very quickly. The first red flag to be on the lookout for is the lack of a pump from your workouts. Once believed to be only a side effect to please your ego, the pump is now recognized as something much more important. Through intracellular tension stress on the muscle cell, the pump is capable of driving a stimulus for muscle growth that was once overlooked. Beyond this, the lack of one can be a hint that you may be too one dimensional in your training focus. Time to switch it up or at least, mix it up.Second, you need to get sore in your training. Well, not that kind of soreness. What I mean is that when you attempt to contract a given muscle as hard as possible you should be able to feel a discomfort within the muscle belly indicative of a strong mind muscle connection. If you are not, then even your bigger compound lifts are struggling since they represent the sum effort of all the individual muscles to the task at hand.Third, you can learn a lot from the color of your urine. If you are peeing too yellow then you are likely not taking in enough water and are in some state of dehydration. This is a major problem. Just as it is impossible to grow a flower without water, growing a muscle in a dehydrated environment is not a good idea. Beyond the clarity however is the frequency. At a minimum, you need to be going to the bathroom at least 10 or 12 times a day. If you are going less than this then you need to up your water intake as soon as possible if you want to see muscle growth and gains.The fourth red flag has to do with your recovery from your training. If you are not recovering between workouts then you are likely not having an anabolic effect from the next workout you are about to do. That is a problem. You can stave this off and foretell when this is about to become especially problematic by taking out the old school bathroom scale and squeezing it with two hands as I show you. Take the reading and look for a ten percent drop-off from morning to morning. This would indicate that the central nervous system is not as recovered as it should be, which is often the first to fatigue before the muscles stop responding.Finally, take a note of your performance in your workouts from set to set. If you are seeing more than a 10-15% drop-off in the amount of weight you can handle from one set to the next (especially early on in your workout) or a greater than 30% drop in the number of reps that you can perform when resting 90 seconds between sets, then you are likely not recovered and will start to see muscle gains come to a halt. Increase the amount of time you rest between sets to see if that corrects the issue. If it does not, take a hard look at your training and be willing to make changes to get yourself back on track.So to recap for those that prefer lists:1. Lack of Pump2. Lack of

If you suffer from occasional or even chronic low back pain, you are definitely going to want to watch this video. I’m going to show you a single exercise that you can do anywhere, every single day, that won’t take you more than 30 seconds to do and will help you to get rid of that low back pain forever. Understanding the selection of the exercise however requires a brief discussion of the reasons for your lower back pain in the first place.In general, pain the low back can be categorized into one of two categories; neurogenic or muscular/joint related. The nerve related pain is almost always due to an issue with a lumbar disc or the nerve roots that exit the spine and travel to distant regions of the body. When you have nerve related pain it is always best to get examined by a doctor to confirm and then form a treatment plan specific to resolving the issue.When the issue is muscular in nature however, or has had consequences on the joints of the low back because of the tight and weak muscles, then it is time to take matters into your own hands and do something about it.The irony of low back pain is that most of the time the pain you feel is simply a symptom of a bigger issue somewhere else. For instance, the lower back should be a stable area of the body. The joints should provide very little movement in the form of rotation or side bending and the muscles should be capable of providing rigid, almost girder-like support, of this region.This is usually the case however, when the muscles of the hips below get weak…they often look to the muscles of the low back to assist. This places a demand on the lumbar paraspinals that they are simply not equipped to handle. It is then that you are likely to experience tightness or spasm that provides the stability that was compromised but in a very unhealthy and unpleasant way.Likewise, when the hips do not maintain the mobility they need given their ball and socket structure, then the low back is often the area that is asked to pitch in and lend mobility. As discussed earlier, this is a problem since this area of the body is designed to be stable. The key to changing the course of your low back pain is learning how and how often to intervene before any of this happens.This is where the reverse hyperextension exercise comes in. This is incredibly powerful because it is driven from the ground up as the kinetic chain desires. The glutes are the muscles that drive the low back instead of the other way around. Additionally, this is an exercise that can be done virtually anywhere that you can lay down and let your feet hang off the edge. I show it on a bench, a glute ham raise and even reference how you can easily do this on your bed each morning.The key is initiating the contraction in the glutes as opposed to trying to lift the legs with your low back. While the hyperextension is another great way to strengthen the lower back, it is one that is likely to be more difficult (especially for those suffering from lower back pain or weakness at the moment) and less likely to be able to be performed without modifications.Try this once or twice a day, aiming for 10-12 high quality repetitions. Don’t worry about racking up more and more reps here. The key is that you only do ones that you can control and be sure you are initiating the right way with the glutes rather than the low back muscles.If you find this helpful, please do me a favor and share it with a friend. If you are looking for a complete workout program that never overlooks the importance of the smaller exercises or movements and builds them in seamlessly to the heavier training you do to build muscle and develop a powerful athletic physique, head to athleanx.com at the link below and get the program that best

If you want to build big biceps you don’t necessarily have to always focus on lifting heavy weight. In this video, I’m going to give you a complete biceps workout that you can do with lighter weights than you normally lift and still get massive growth in your biceps. This entire workout will take under 6 minutes if you are willing to trade in workout length for intensity and effort.It starts in an odd position to do a barbell curl, sitting down. The seated barbell curl provides you with two distinct advantages when doing it versus a traditional standing barbell curl. Both have to do with the limited range of motion in the bottom 20 degrees of the lift. First, when you are sitting and you take away that first portion of the movement, you are decreasing the amount of cheat and sway that you use to lift the bar.This forces the biceps to do more of the work and decreases the contribution of the front delts to the lift. This should allow your arms to get a better stimulus from the exercise when they are most fresh. You want to take this first set to failure and immediately stand up and perform a drop set to failure again. The standing position allows you to get that full range of motion at the bottom of the curl and take advantage of some of that momentum to keep the set going through failure and push the metabolic fatigue even further into the hypertrophy zone.From here, you strip off 10 pounds from each end of the bar and repeat the process again. The second major benefit of the seated barbell curl is an anatomical one. When you take away the first twenty degrees of the range of motion on the curl you decrease the contribution of the brachioradialis from the exercise. This smaller muscle lies distal to the biceps and is often first to fire when it comes to getting the bar through the sticking point of the exercise.The problem with this is that this muscle is also likely to first fatigue, which would shortcut the efforts of the very muscle that you’re trying to develop. Instead, save it for the second half of the combo so that it can add to the strength of the overall exercise, especially when the biceps is fatigued and can benefit from the additional help.Finish out with one more drop set combination - this time with just the bar - and try to complete this entire 3 set drop set in under 3 minutes. One of the most valuable elements of this workout is the condensed time period in which you are supposed to complete it. This demands that much more work is being done by the biceps than it may be accustomed to - yet another stimulus for growth.The second and final half of the biceps workout occurs with an EZ Curl bar up against the wall. The strict curl into cheat curl is one of the greatest and most powerful biceps building exercises you can do. To perform the strict curl, make sure that you keep the back of your head, upper back and butt up against the wall at all times. Resist the urge to let any of them release from the wall in order to swing the weight up. Go to failure and then step away from the wall to perform one more drop set to failure, this time using momentum. Do this in three drop sets like you did the seated barbell curl and your biceps should be fried. This is an amazing way to torch your arms in just under 6 minutes and feel as if you have been training them for an hour. Remember, you don’t have to train long if you’re willing to train hard. If you’re looking for a complete program that helps you to build big biceps without having to use heavy weights all the time, you can head to athleanx.com and check out the programs that I have available. Start training like an athlete and build an amazing body in the new year by following the step by step plans.If you are looking for more bicep

When it comes to choosing tricep exercises, there are many to choose from. In this video, I am going to give you the top 6, or as I like to call them, the Super 6 exercises to build your triceps. To make these selections, we first need to dive into the anatomy of the triceps and their function.We know that all 3 heads of the triceps cross the elbow in order to provide extension at the elbow. However, the long head attaches to the scapula as opposed to the upper arm, which means that it’s level of stretch and contraction differ from the medial and lateral heads of the triceps. In the case of the long head, to reach full stretch, the arms must be raised overhead while peak contraction is gained by extending the arm back behind the body.In order to optimally build the triceps, the 6 exercises that I chose were based on placing all 3 heads of the triceps into peak contraction, full stretch, and the ability to provide progressive overload.========================1. Triceps Rocking Pushdown========================I love this modified triceps exercises because it allows for peak contraction of the long head while maintaining the optimal line of resistance that you might otherwise be missing when doing traditional tricep rope pushdowns. By rocking backwards while simultaneously pushing the rope down, you are able to keep the cable (line of resistance) perpendicular to your forearms which means the triceps are continuously under tension.==============================2. Lying Overhead Triceps Extensions==============================This traditional triceps exercise is great for putting the long head of the triceps into full stretch while under load. You don’t want to bring your arms all the way vertical because with the arms standing parallel to gravity, the triceps are no longer under optimal resistance. When at the stretch position, allow your hands to drop a little further to the ground as this will give peak stretch to all three heads of the triceps======================3. Incline DB Power Bombs======================This is another triceps exercise that puts the long head on stretch while under load. I prefer this exercise to the classic standing overhead extension because the incline position allows for the elbows to be in front of the body and in the scapular plane. The standing version places your elbows out to your sides which we know is a position equivalent to the behind the neck press.====================4. DB Triceps Kickbacks====================Now, before you call this a sissy movement, I believe that the db kickback is great triceps exercise, especially to hit the long head. Why? You are able to get the arms back behind the body, which by this point, we know means the long head of the triceps is now under peak contraction under load. Remember, you don’t have to use super light weights on this triceps exercise!=====================5. Close Grip Bench Press=====================The close grip bench press is a great way to build triceps mass in all three heads. While the exercise doesn’t allow for peak stretch or contraction of the long head, you can load this exercise heavier than most other triceps exercises. The amount of load will still have a great stimulus for growth on all three triceps heads and also provides an opportunity for progressive overload.====================6. Weighted Upright Dips====================This is another triceps exercise that allows us to train under greater load that helps to make up for the lack of peak stretch and contraction of the long head of the triceps. One trick to help give better influence over the long head is the lean forward a little bit, all

Jesse really bit off more than he could chew this time. He decided to challenge two time pro bowler and Green Bay Packer Super Bowl Champion Greg Jennings to a game of Madden Football. As you may or may not know, Greg Jennings has been quite synonymous with this popular video game after video footage years ago showed him carrying the team on his back doe, all with a broken leg!The groundwork for this challenge was laid in a recent visit to Jeff Cavaliere’s gym for a training session. Jesse decided to open his mouth and wasn’t prepared to be taken up on his challenge. Greg Jennings, Madden Football player and actually in the game, was ready to step up and put a beatdown on the cameraman from ATHLEAN-X.No broken leg or even the hardest hitting safety in the league is enough to keep the champ down. Watch as the game unfolds and see if you can predict the final score before it happens. Keep in mind, this is only a one quarter long game.If you would rather see an actual workout than Jesse and his poor video game skills, be sure to check out the full NFL player workout with Greg and Jeff Cavaliere on this channel. You can subscribe at the link below. Be sure to turn on your notifications so you never miss a new video when it’s published. In the meantime, if you want a step by step program for building ripped, athletic muscle be sure to head to athleanx.com at the link below to get a 90 day workout and meal plan to guide you through every workout.Check out Greg’s instagram @theofficialgj for updates on his training progress.

If you want to get a lean, ripped body and keep it year round you are going to want to watch this video where I share how I do it. Be forewarned, there are no secret shortcuts or gimmicks to doing this. As a matter of fact, there are many sacrifices that have to be made in order to get to an ultra lean body fat level and you will have to ask yourself whether it is worth it to you to proceed. That said, here are the major components of how I do this year round.First, I believe it’s important to discuss when you are deciding to first make this your goal to be lean and ripped. If you are doing this for the first time in your life in your late thirties or even older, it is going to be much more difficult to achieve ultra lean levels of body fat than had you started training and watching your nutrition in your teens or twenties.This is mostly due to the habits that are required to maintain the discipline to get this ripped as well as the fact that hormonally you are providing an opportunity to improve an already impressive body comp the more lean and muscled you are as opposed to someone who has much higher levels of body fat and lower levels of lean mass.That said, there is no reason to be discouraged about starting at any age. You can look absolutely amazing no matter where you start from and it takes a dedication to the following main areas when you do decide to start.We first start with nutrition. As a matter of fact, your diet or how you eat is going to be the absolute most important part of how lean you look. There is nothing that can overcome a bad diet when it comes to getting ripped (even cardio as we’ll talk about in a second). When it comes to nutrition many will opt to be exclusionary to either fat or carbohydrates in their pursuit of leanness. I think that this is a long term mistake. It is never a good idea to adopt an eating style that requires you to eliminate or drastically cut down one of the three main macronutrients from your diet. Instead, it is much healthier and successful long term to consume all three but to make wiser food choices from within the categories. I share in the video some of the repercussions I faced early on from being exclusionary when it came to dietary fats in my eating plan.When it comes to training, there is no truth to the myth that you should train with light weights and high reps to get ripped. As a matter of fact, you can actually build muscle using light weights if you do it properly and it’s something that you want to make sure that you do along with lifting heavy weights and training to eccentric failure. It’s not a choice of one over the others. Your job, when you are trying to get ripped and lean, is to train with all of the options in your arsenal to build as much lean body mass as possible knowing that it is going to help you long term to maintain very low levels of body fat.Other things I do are I take my supplementation seriously and aim to provide my muscles with the highest quality ingredients at the times that are most likely to satisfy their needs. The ATHLEAN-Rx supplements are heavily relied on here as well as some one off vitamins like green tea extract or raw foods like ginger and cinnamon.Sacrifices, as mentioned earlier, are going to have to be made however if you want to achieve this level of leanness and maintain it all year. I for instance, do not partake in drinking alcohol or eating sweets (but for one or two times a year). Is this a requirement for you to look lean and muscular? Not at all, however to maintain very low levels of body fat you will likely have to forego some of your current habits and that may not be something you want to do.Ultimately, the choice is yours. I just wanted to be able to share with you the process I go