How To Build A Lean Body | 3 Simple Steps

Akash Sehrawat

4 min read | Aug 3, 2017

Introduction

 

Anything worth achieving is not easy to attain. And building a Lean Body is definitely not easy to achieve. However, in this article, I can make it simple for you.

 

First, let’s define a Lean Body.

 

A Lean Body is one that rests on two pillars- Real & Healthy.

 

Real

 

Lean Bodies are real. They are not built out of an obsession with an extremely ripped look or to build a crazy amount of muscles. It’s never about building huge 3D shoulders, huge traps or even giving priority to a few muscle groups–mainly ‘mirror’ muscles like chest and arms over legs or back.

 

Being real is building your body without any drug or steroid use. However, supplement use like whey protein, multivitamins, creatine, and omega 3’s is fine.

 

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Being real is also about being balanced with your lifestyle. It’s not about spending crazy hours in the gym or eating boiled chicken and vegetables from your Tupperware container. It’s about loving you (and the cheesecake) and striving to improve in a holistic manner.

 

Related Article: 6 Awesome Benefits Of Working Out 3 Times A Week Using Fabulous Body (FBX) Workout Routines

 

Healthy

 

A lean body is healthy. What’s the point of looking good when you don’t feel good? We feel good when we are supremely healthy. However, most people have only a rough idea of what ‘healthy’ is. Is it merely the absence of disease? Is it simply maintaining a healthy weight? Or is it living to a certain age?

 

There are key health indicators like fasting insulin levels and a few more than can give us a very good idea about how healthy we are. I have covered that in my book ‘The Fabulous Body’; you can check it out. 1https://www.amazon.in/Fabulous-Body-Muscle-Optimize-Health-ebook/dp/B01B4DJZL6?_encoding=UTF8&keywords=fabulous%20body&portal-device-attributes=desktop&qid=1501719868&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1

 

Now, let’s discuss the three simple steps which will help us build a Lean Body.

Steps To Building A Lean Body

 

1) Be In Your Sexy Weight Range

 

Here is a beautiful quote to live by:

Too many muscles can get in your way. You have got to have enough to get people interested but not so much to scare them off.

-Steve Reeves (the most admired bodybuilder of the 20th century)

How much is too much? That depends on you.

 

What is your preference? Do you like a lean look, like Brad Pitt in ‘Fight Club,’ or do you like more size? How about Chris Hemsworth in ‘Thor,’ or Brad Pitt in Troy?

 

Dr. Casey Butt has done a brilliant job of finding us a sexy weight range for men that women find attractive.

 

Sexy Weight Range = Minimum Lean Body Weight: 23 * H 2 – Maximum Muscular Body Weight: 26 * H 2

 

In this equation, height (H) is in meters, and weight is in kilograms. You can convert feet and inches to meters here. 2https://www.feettometres.com/

 

Let’s take an example of an individual who is 6 feet tall to illustrate this point better.

 

His sexy weight range, assuming his body fat is between 9 percent and 14 percent, is 77 kg -87kg (170-192 pounds).

 

This sexy weight range came from a study by MJ Tovee funded by Newcastle University.

 

Note: Stick with the lower end of the weight range if you want to look LEAN, and aim to achieve the higher end of the weight range if you want a more Muscular look. If you stay within the weight range I have mentioned, it’s very tough to get your body proportions wrong, provided you do it naturally.

 

What does that mean?

 

If you take steroids and other bodybuilding drugs like growth hormones, you start to get a very unnatural look. For example, see the pictures below:

 

 

Notice the traps, the 3D shoulder, the fullness of the upper chest and so forth. All this signifies steroid use as these muscle areas have more androgen receptors. With steroid use, you start getting a unique look that is pretty easy to identify, and it’s a far cry from what looks real!

 

2) X-Taper Is The Key

 

 

You don’t need to build a lot of muscle to look LEAN. All you need to do is focus on your proportions, especially ratios. Consider a study where thirty female undergraduates rated color pictures of 50 men in front view.

 

Waist-to-chest ratio (WCR), a measure of upper body shape, Waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), a measure of lower body shape, and BMI were measured for each man. Images were presented in random order, with each subject’s head and body obscured.

 

Results showed that individually all three characteristics were contributors to attractiveness. However, WCR was the principal determinant of attractiveness, accounting for 56 percent of the variance, whereas BMI accounted for only 12.7 percent of the additional variance.

 

WHR was not a significant predictor of attractiveness. What this means in laymen’s terms is that the waist-to-chest ratio was a significant determinant of attractiveness. It’s based on the golden ratio, which I have explained in my post.

 

Related Articles:

 

How To Build The Ideal Male Physique Part-1

 

How To Build The Ideal Male Physique Part-2

 

3)Bring Your Body Fat Percentage Into The Ideal Range

 

I have covered the ideal body fat percentage range for men in a pretty elaborate manner in the following post:

 

Related Article: Ideal Body Fat Percentage For Men

Final Note

 

I feel the phrase ‘No Brain, No Gain’ applies more than the ‘No Pain, No Gain’ when it comes to building a LEAN physique that you are proud of.

 

For step-by-step 18-week Lean or Muscular solutions, you can check out my Courses.

 

 

 

If you have doubts or comments, let me know below!

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About Akash Sehrawat

Akash is a creator of 25+ programs and certificate courses in which more than 200,000 students have enrolled both on Udemy and Fabulous Body's native platform. Akash is also an author of three books that can be found on Amazon. His answers on Quora have gathered more than 12 million views in less than a year.

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