Have you ever wondered how the Mr. Olympia winners get their amazing physiques? Take for example Ronnie Coleman, Jay Cutler, and even past greats such as Franco Columbo, and Arnold Schwartzenegger. Truth be told I'm sure every single one of the above mentioned has used steroids at one point or another, But using the tecniques I will outline you can still get an amazing body without juicing, shooting up, roiding out, or doing steroids! I just used some of the street names to throw in there.
Now bodybuilding has come quite a long ways in the past years. Arnold was around 6'2" tall and 240 pounds with around six percent bodyfat when he won the mr. olympia. Jay Cutler and Ronni Coleman are around 5'9" to 5'11" and around 335 pounds with 4 percent bodyfat, which is absolutely ridiculous. Now not all of us want to look like this. Instead we would much rather prefer a models body or just a big, cut, look. Not disgustingly big.
Now lets get start, first of all they got this big through a ton of dedication, hard work, and heavy lifting with added cardio. Which most likely consists of a type of cardio called H.I.I.T (High Tensity Interval Training.) They also do whats called bulking and cutting. Bulking consists of eating a plentiful amount of good foods, usually 500 calories above their maintenance amount of calories. This would result in the gaining of about 1 solid pound of muscle per week. This is called a clean bulk. Pro bodybuilders usually do whats called a dirty bulk. This is when they just eat a ton of food, or go on whats sometimes called the "see food diet" where they eat everything in sight sometimes exceeding 9000 calories a day. This results in around 5 pound gains a week. Not all is muscle though. The sole purpose is just to get big no cardio is included in the bulking phase.
The cutting phase is bit different but has the same principles. When contest time or summer comes around they need to get into the best shape of their lives. They will than cut their calories weekly and only consume good fruits, lean meats, vegetables, and protein. This will help them maintain all the muscle they have gained while still cutting all the ugly fat they gained in the winter. To speed this process up they use cardio daily. They still workout hard and keep the workouts intense. Than finally a few days before contest they will cut their water intake to lose the final water weight, which will make them look more vascular and shredded. So thats how they do it, they gain in the off-season and cut in the on-season. You to can tweak this a little bit and follow the same principles to get a great built body. Good luck getting that great summer body
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