Here’s a challenge – if you had just 28 days to look your best, what would you do?

I’ll tell you what I would do…

4 weeks isn’t a long time – but there are certain tricks and strategies we can use.

Here are my 10 methods for looking as buff and ripped as possible in just 4 weeks. And if you have any more to add to my list, let me know in the comments below…

BUFF AND RIPPED IN 28 DAYS

 

(1) TRAIN 7 DAYS A WEEK

 

If you did this all the time, you’d overtrain and actually impede progress. But as a short-term strategy, I would train every single day over the 4 weeks.

How? I would use my free 5-day per week THT workout (or the 5-day split routine from Advanced THT Training) and simply keep repeating the cycle with no days off. So on Saturday, I would do what would normally be Monday’s workout of week 2. So the first tip is to join the NO DAYS OFF club.

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(2) NET CARBS UNDER 100g PER DAY

 

I’d bring my carbs down to 100 grams or less per day. Removing carbs forces the body to burn fat for its energy requirements – you go from a carb-burning machine to a fat-burning machine.

I don’t want to go into the full science on this in this post, but if you go here you can see my article about a study of studies which proves conclusively that the best way to burn fat and preserve/build muscle is with the combination of reduced carbs (but not fully keto) and weight training. Not low-fat. Not cardio. Reduced carbs and lifting. People that I’ve been coaching to get ripped here have experienced this to tremendous effect!

 

(3) A GOOD CALORIE DEFICIT

 

So I talked about reducing carbs to allow for maximum fat-burning. This does not mean that fat and protein can be unlimited. You need to be in a calorie deficit. And, since this is a short-term cut, you could drop calories lower than you normally would without having to worry about a slowing metabolism. So for for 4 weeks, I might start at 500 under. But then knock 100 more off each week.

• Week 1: 500
• Week 2: 600
• Week 3: 700
• Week 4: 800

 

(4) FAT FLUSH METHOD

 

First, apologies to anyone who hasn’t got my fat-torching, six-pack book Total Six Pack Abs 3: The Body Fat Furnace (or those who have never taken advantage of my shredding coaching). This won’t make sense to you.

For those of you who have, I would do:

• 1 x Fat Flush Day on Week 2
• 2 x Fat Flush Days on Week 3
• 3 x Fat Flush Days on Week 4

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(5) NO CHEAT MEALS

 

Eating 4000-5000 Calories in a day (cheat meal cals + rest-of-day cals) will pretty much undo your whole week’s progress. If you’re serious about getting shredded, dirty cheat meals have to go. I “Cheat Clean” when cutting with some of the delicious recipes from Buff Baking, which allows me still to have bars, cookie dough, desserts etc. without over-shooting my cals/macros for the day. But the bottom line is, I would drop all cheat meals for the 4 weeks.

 

(6) NO ALCOHOL

 

Empty calories, leads to binge eating…and slows fat-burning by 73%! Drinking during this 4-wk period is out the window!

 

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(7) GET ENOUGH WATER EVERY DAY

 

So I won’t be dehydrated from alcohol consumption, but I’ll also get water every day. How much do you need?

Body weight (lbs) X 0.6 = Water Intake in ounces

So a 160 lb person needs 96 ounces of water daily. That’s around 12 x 8 ounce cups.

Here are 5 reasons why water aids fat loss.

 

(8) CARB-LOAD 3 DAYS OUT

 

So to look my biggest and leanest, I would carb-load starting 3 days out. I would do this for 2 days, then remove carbs on the final day. The day after the cut has finished I should be looking great! Want to share this post on Twitter? Click below…

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(9) GET TANNED

 

FOR WHITE FOLKS: Whatever way you want to do it – lotion, spray-tan, sun-beds etc. – a tanned body shows more definition than a pale one. It just enhances what you already have. Most bodybuilders that need that quick tan opt for Protan – you can see it here.

 

(10) DO “VACUUMS” EVERY DAY

 

The vacuum is a “waist narrowing” exercise that Arnold used to use. I told y’all when and how I was doing it in this recent post.

It helps reduce waist size, from front-to-back – from belly button to spine, by contracting the Transverse Abdominis (T.V.A.). So I would do these every single day for the 4 weeks.

 

So that’s the 10 methods I would use over 4 weeks. While 28 days isn’t a long time, I’m confident I’d come in looking pretty good! If you have any other tips or tricks, let me know in the comments below ~ Mark McManus 🙂

 

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