Welcome to the Get Fit Guys' quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield, and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

It may not be the look for everybody, but perhaps you've sometimes wondered how you can get

that muscular ripped look of a muscle or fitness magazine cover model, how you can add more muscle to your body, or even how you could get that muscular ripped look of a muscle or fitness magazine cover model,

how you can add more muscle to your body, or even how you could get yourself to the point

where you could flex on stage. As an ex-bodybuilder, I have firsthand experience with what

goes into training like a bodybuilder and achieving that look. So if you want to look like a

bodybuilder or you're curious how a bodybuilder

trains, then this episode is for you. In the episode, How to Build Muscle, which I'll link to in the show

notes over at quick and dirty tips.com, you learn that when you require your muscles to produce a force,

like lifting a weight, the tension from the weight stretches the muscle fibers and causes tiny tears in them.

When the cells and your muscle fibers sense this trauma, they begin to rally the muscle-building troops from your body to repair the tears.

These muscle-building troops include hormones, growth factors, and white blood cells.

And working together, they not only repair the muscle fibers, but they also

increase the size of those fibers and the strength of the nerves that activate those fibers

so that the next time you lift a weight, you're better able to do so. As those fibers increase in

size, your muscles grow. Now, as you can probably guess, the goal in bodybuilding is to simply

tear as many muscle fibers as possible by putting the muscle into a situation in which it is

repeatedly stressed from as many different angles as possible with a variety of different forces.

When adequate recovery is allowed for those fibers to rebuild, then voila, a bodybuilder grows new muscle.

So what are the techniques that can be used for maximum bodybuilding style muscle growth?

Well, here are five quick and dirty tips on how to train like a bodybuilder.

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