A natural bodybuilder is a excellent example of incredible fitness. Bodybuilders get very lean very quickly and they udergo a huge transformation. They often get to low bodyfat percentage in12 weeks. But how do they do it? How can they get ripped body like that, while others can´t lose even a pound of fat?
Although it seems that natural bodybuilders and fitness models stay in fantastic shape all year roound, but in reality that is not true. It is impossible to hold a "peak" all year round. During a combetition a bodybuilders fat percentage can be as low as 3-4%. But during most of the year it is 8-10%. You can get this incredible peak by using seasonal or cyclical training and dieting to build up to a peak, then ease off to a maintenance or growth phase.
So if you see a picture of a very ripped body in a magazine, then you have to understand it takes a lot of work to get there and it is almost impossible to hold very low fat percentage all year round. And it is not good for your body as well.
Athletes from every sport aren´t not at their best all year round. They build themselves up to their best shape for competition.You can't stay on restricted low calories indefinitely. Your metabolism slows down and you plateau as your body adapts to the chronically lowered food intake. That is why bodybuilders have one or two peaks in a year and they push themselves very hard to to that peak and then ease off, to let their bodies recover. And then do it all again.
Bodybuilders know the methodology for losing fat that's so effective, that it puts them in complete control of their body composition. They've mastered this area of their lives and will never have to worry about it again. Even if they balloon up and get out of shape, they know exactly how to get a peak and have the control to slowly ease back from peak shape into maintenance.
Top athletes, natural bodybuilders and fitness models have the knowledge to get as ripped as they want to be, exactly when they want to, simply by manipulating their diets in a cyclical fashion between a ripped body to off season maintenance level.
If you want to get a ripped body then learn from natural bodybuilders.
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