| I see a nice switch to athletic body training in the | | | | satisfy every goal. But honestly, some people need to |
| fitness industry. And all I can say is, "About time!" What | | | | work more on one area more than the others to start |
| seems so obvious to me seems to have a lot of | | | | seeing results. For example, some people have a low |
| people confused. Their goal is to build a strong, lean, | | | | level of fitness and need to work on that before they |
| athletic body, but the workout they use will never | | | | can be concerned about building muscle or losing fat. |
| produce the results they seek. Let's first go over the | | | | The just don't have the physical capabilities to get |
| biggest problem... | | | | through those type of workouts. |
| You Are Still Training Like A Bodybuilder | | | | On the other hand, some people are fit and lean, but |
| Whether you know it or not, most workout programs | | | | need to put on muscle. Or, they put on muscle easily, |
| are based on bodybuilding type training. If you can | | | | but need to shed a few pounds of fat to look more |
| rattle off muscles, talk about split workout routines and | | | | like an athlete. But no matter how you look at it... you |
| think your training should only be about building muscle... | | | | need to address fitness, fat loss and muscle building at |
| you have a bodybuilder mentality. If you base your | | | | some point to ultimately achieve the athletic look you |
| workout program on a bodybuilding program, you | | | | desire. |
| probably will fail to reach your athletic body goals. | | | | You need to rotate between three different kinds of |
| First, most bodybuilding workouts only concerned with | | | | workout with different major goals... Fitness, Fat Loss |
| maximizing muscle growth are very long. And unless | | | | and Strength & Size. Each of these workouts |
| you have 2-3 hours to spend in the gym every day, | | | | should be slanted to the specific goal of the workout, |
| you are not going to get the muscle building results like | | | | but not work against the other goals. For example, |
| the pro bodybuilders do. And some of you might be | | | | when you are doing the fitness workout you could put |
| think that since you are going to do a "similar" workout, | | | | on muscle and burn fat. Of when fat loss is your goal |
| but shorter, then you'll get the "athletic" muscle you | | | | you should be burning fat in a way that also increases |
| want and not the puffed up bodybuilder look. How has | | | | fitness and builds (or keeps), useful muscle. Same for |
| that thinking been working out for you so far? | | | | the strength and size workouts. |
| Second, to build an athletic body you need to train | | | | So, the key to getting the athletic body you want is to |
| more like an athlete, and less like a bodybuilder. | | | | change the way you think about working out. Stop |
| Athletes are fit, and that's why they look the way they | | | | training like a bodybuilder if you don't want to be one, |
| do. So, you need to train to increase your overall | | | | and start training like an athlete if you want to look like |
| fitness level. Plus, you need a nice balance between | | | | one. Use a variety of workouts designed to build the |
| strong, athletic muscle and low fat. So, you need to | | | | athletic body you seek, without sabotaging the other |
| build strength and size and lose those performance | | | | performance and appearance goals. I think you find |
| robbing pounds of fat. | | | | that by approaching your workouts this way... you'll |
| You Need Multiple Workouts To Get The Athletic | | | | build the strong, lean, athletically muscular body that not |
| Body | | | | only performs great, but turns heads as well. |
| I wish I could tell you there was one workout that could | | | | |