Most people don't know how to get ripped and work very hard on systems that are doomed to failure from the very beginning. In this article I show and explain to you 3 common mistakes that people make and when trying to lose body fat and get that lean ripped body that so many people desire.

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1. Going on a Diet

I know that many people think I must be going mad to put this top of my list, but it is easily the biggest mistake that people make when they are trying to lose weight. Let me explain myself. Most diets you find either on the internet or from some fitness guru actually involve you starving yourself. There are 2 major problems with this method are:

a. Starvation makes your body automatically lower its metabolism. By lowering your metabolism your body burns less calories per day thus requiring you to eat less and less each day. I will be the first to admit that if you starve yourself for long periods, you will lose weight, but the statistics show that more than 95% of the people who go on diets don't last for more than a month. Once you get off the diet you add all the weight that you had lost plus more because your body had lowered its metabolism and when you start eating normally, you are actually over feeding your body. The excess calories are therefore stored as fat.

b. Diets make you lose muscle. Since your body isn't getting the proper nutrition it needs to function, the body starts breaking down muscle to get energy to function. Not only does this increase your body's fat ratio, it also lowers your metabolism because muscle burns more calories on your body than fat. On any fat loss or weight loss program you must make sure you at a very minimum maintain all the muscle you have. For better result, putting in effort to build muscle will accelerate your fat loss and get you ripped faster.

You are better off getting a program with proper meal plans that gives you all the macro-nutrients needed for muscle growth and shows you how to get ripped by eating the correct foods. The Somanabolic Muscle Maximizer Program is one such system that is designed to cater for all you nutritional needs for getting ripped.

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2. Fat Burners and Diet Pills

All fat burners and diet pills on the market are scams and a total waste of money. The money used on these fat burners and diet pills would be better used on pay for gym membership and buying a program that correctly directs you how to get ripped. Fat burners and diet pills do not actually burn fat, they are designed to suppress your appetite. Once you suppress your appetite your body stops receiving sufficient nutrients to maintain and build more muscle. As above, this has the effect of lowering your metabolism and thus your body uses fewer calories leading to you burn less fat which jeopardises your goal of getting ripped. A suppressed appetite also leads to what I call survival mode. This is when the body realises that it isn't receiving enough nutrients so it starts holding on to fat more and more. This is a natural process because the body wants to survive for as long as possible on the energy sources it has. Since your body is stubbornly holding on to the fat it has, it takes a longer time to get ripped. To add on to this, once you get off the pills, your appetite will return very fast but your metabolism will take much longer to get back to its normal rate. During this time you will gain back all the fat you lost plus probably even more.

If you want to find out how to get ripped, please steer clear from any program that recommends you taking fat burning or diet pills. They are ripping (pun intended) you off.

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3. Doing lots of Ab Exercises.

I had to add this one because most people who are trying to find out how to get ripped are also targeting losing abdominal or belly fat. I can say this confidently because the body has this bad habit of dumping excess calories in the mid-section of the body.

Now common thinking would say if I exercise my abs daily I will start losing fat around the belly. NO!!, the body doesn't work that way. The body burns fat to produce energy. If you do sit-ups or crunches, the body doesn't necessarily burn fat from your abdominals, in actual fact it burns fat from the whole body. But there are 2 major problems with this.

a. The abdominal muscles are a small muscle group, so the body doesn't need to burn lots of calories for you to exercise your abs to exhaustion. You are better off working bigger muscles because they will burn more calories leading to you burning more fat, leading you to you shedding more belly fat.

b. If you concentrate on building up your abs, the muscles will actually grow bigger. But if there is a layer of fat over these newly developed, big abdominal muscles this leads to the fat bulging even more.

This how to get ripped tip is very important as you need to get a program that gives you well balanced workouts that work the whole body instead of over targeting certain muscles. Your balanced workout should include exercises for all the big muscle groups so as to burn as many calories as possible.