In order to get totally Ripped Muscles you must first have an adequate amount of muscle mass underlying the layer of subcutaneous (fat) on the muscles of your body.


A lot of the time teenagers -who are new to weightlifting and bodybuilding- want to get ripped muscles fast. However, in order to get into this Ripped condition it often takes a good, solid year or two of gaining muscle mass before I would recommend going on any kind of Diet to get Ripped.

This is especially true for teens younger than the age 16. I believe going on a calorie deficit diet -provided they are in decent shape- would not be suitable path to take simply because of the growth and development a young teenagers bodies go through.

Instead, I would recommend for young teenagers and those new to weightlifting and bodybuilding routines to follow a good few months or years on a muscle building program that would see them eating a calorie surplus Diet that is high in protein and also following a heavy resistance training routine.

If done properly, this should then pack on a good stone or two of lean muscle mass. At this stage, you could then do as bodybuilders do and engage in the "cutting" phase whereby you shed you excess body fat to reveal the definition in the muscles of the body.

How to get Ripped Muscles

Quite frankly, if you were to enter the "cutting phase" before you followed a muscle building program in the past and put on a stone or two in muscle then you would probably find yourself getting very skinny as there was no real "meat on the bones" in the first place. So realistically, you would be revealing much muscular definition but rather a petite, flimsy body.

If you have gotten to the stage where you have build up a decent bit of muscle but find your body is a bit undefined or "soft" looking then here's what I would recommend.

Firstly, when you are entering the cutting stage the aim is to lose body fat alone and maintain as muscle mass as much possible. I say the word maintain because as you enter this phase you will -with the Diet to lose body fat and training- lose some bit of muscle mass.

The goal is to lose the least amount of muscle mass and most amount of body which seems bit contradictory however with a goods diet and training regime both can be achieved.

Workout to get Ripped Muscles

Many people advocate when entering the "cutting" phase to drop down the weight and perform higher repetitions such as in the 15-20 rep range. From doing this myself I really don't believe in it.

I can see the logic behind doing this quantity of reps because you will be working harder however I don't think it's the most effective way due to the fact that your body wouldn't be as anabolic as it would be if you were completing weightlifting exercises on the 6-10 rep range.

I advocate that the intensity should be kept higher during your gym routines so that you don't have to complete Cardio vascular exercises such as running, rowing, swimming, cross training and so on.

What I opt for instead is a weightlifting workout done 4 days per week that encompasses a high intensity of cardiovascular exercise. In other words a weightlifting workout that really gets the heart pumping and you sweating.

I find this better to maintain muscle mass simply because the repetitive pounding on a treadmill will just seep away your valuable muscle mass.

The format of the ripped muscles workout would see you doing a 4 day a week circuit training workout that would have you doing 6-8 weightlifting exercises right through with no rest. This would then be repeated 5-6 times for duration of 30-40 minutes.