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.

You know, strong is the new sexy.

And when you build muscle the right way, you not only get strong, but you also get a lean, tight, toned

appearance that gives you a far better look than the type of physique you might develop

when you simply pound away miles on the treadmill or just perform yoga or Pilates.

It's not that those type of cardio, flexibility, and core strength exercises aren't good for you. It's just that in the

absence of a full body strength training program and some muscle building, you simply don't get

that body that you want. I discussed this in more detail in my book, Get Fit Guys Guide to Achieving

Your Ideal Body, which you can check out at getfitguy.com.

So in this episode, I'm going to give you the best three ways to get strong fast, and you'll

learn how to time your workouts to get stronger. Now, there are three primary strategies you can

use for increasing strength.

Number one, multi-joint exercises, number two, periodization, and number three, proper timing of your workouts.

I'm going to teach you how to use each as effectively as possible.

Let's start with multi-joint exercises.

You'll often read articles in fitness magazines

that highlight the injury prevention and performance-enhancing importance of tending to small

supportive muscles that are notoriously weak in many people, such as your shoulders rotator cuff,

your outer butts, goutious, medias, your small scapula muscles along your shoulder blades,

and the abdominal hip and low back region, which is often called the core. And while these certainly

are weak areas that shouldn't be neglected, for the average working time crunched exerciser,

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