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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

The Best Ways To Get a Ripped Chest Fast

By James Traynor

Fat loss in order to get a ripped muscular chest is probably one of the most significant areas to address if you want those big bulging pectoral muscles that not only look fabulous under your shirt but when you take off your top down at the pool or at the beach.

A well defined muscular chest gives a good shape to the front of the body and conveys the appearance of health and vitality. You will often find a great set of pecs catches the eye of everyone and will make feel great and more confident. If you have a thick layer of fat over those muscles, however, you will not get that well defined chest and instead look fat and flabby and may even develop man boobs.

Many people mistakenly believe that in order to build up and tone the chest muscles you need to do loads and loads of press ups. They are certainly effective at building up the muscles but they are not going to give you a ripped look as they will not get rid of that fat layer over the chest. This is the biggest obstacle you will face in getting a ripped chest. It is even possible for a seemingly skinny guy to get great appearing chest muscles.

I guess you want to know what this great secret is, right? To be truthful it is not that much of a secret. In order to get rid of this fat layer you need to reduce your intake of calories and burn any excess calories off.

If you are a body builder, reducing calories may not be such a good idea as it can sometimes send you into a catabolic state and cause you to actually start breaking down that hard gained muscle. A lot of body builders face this dilemma after months of building up bulk and then trying to lose fat. It is a fine balance between keeping the lean muscle mass but getting rid of the fat layer.

One way to achieve this that is particularly healthy is to keep an intake of adequate calories but increase the proportion of those calories as protein. The reason for this is that it often takes more calories to burn protein than for fat or carbohydrate, so more protein intake will reduce fat accumulation.

The next most important thing is to incorporate cardio routines into your workout program to burn those excess calories. Also performing large muscle exercises such as squats can help lose fat as they use huge muscles, such as the quads, that I like to think of as furnaces - requiring lots of calories to burn to perform the workouts.

These points should be incorporated together into a full workout program. You can get the exercises quite easily buy searching online but will take you some time. The other, and often faster, option is to purchase a ready made program.

These programs are usually tried and tested so you will know what works and what does not. They will help you build and develop all the muscles in the body as well as enabling you to burn off fat as well.

The biggest obstacle that you will need to overcome, however, is time and indecision. To get anywhere you have to start and just by doing something regularly you will be amazed at how fast you will see results. - 17269

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