What's the best way to get cut/ripped?

If you're at a good level of fitness then cut your calories by 400 per day and do it slowly.

 

All right, low weights high reps SUCKS, I have to say it, don't do it. If you want a physique like Jessica Alba go for that.

I lift warmup, medium, heavy, but when I want to see more "vascularity" or rippedness, I sprint for longer periods, a lot of fast fast wind sprints, a lot of pyramiding with the weight, as high as you can go for one rep, back down to exhaustion at like no weight at all, a lot of supersets, not super heavy but with no rests.

DON'T waste your time with low weight high rep. BS.

 

go on a male model forum ??

 

High reps is not complete BS but I agree with most of what you said. It is used for muscular endurance but with boxing, you are getting your endurance from your actual boxing workouts. Use the weight room to increase your strength. I also like your HIIT reference. This works well! I think it works better than slow steady state cardio.

I'm not sure why no one mentioned the most important factor in changing your body composition: DIET! What's your diet look like right now? I have just began boxing recently so I cannot help many people with it. This is why I'm here to learn more. But I am much more experienced with BodyBuilding. Diet is number one priority! No workout will get you ripped without a diet in order.

 

In the infamous words of John Belushi, "little chocolate donuts."

 

The 'ripped' look is just from having low body fat.

So build your muscles with whatever weight training program/diet you like, then burn off nearly all your fat through strict diet and cardio.

 

I have to say, I never intentionally over eat to "bulk" like these meat head weight lifters do, and I am pretty naturally lean, but I've notice I am more ripped naturally and I look fatter when I run a whole lot of distances, its like my body goes into water storage or fat storage or something, because even though I don't gain weight I look way softer when I run more than 2 miles a day five times a week than when I'm just doing really short half mile sprints and lifting or hitting the bag at the boxing gym in a quick, maximum muscular effort.

I think for me I look the WORST when I've been running a lot.

here are some samples so you can see what I mean, and I will tell you exactly what I was doing. These are within a fairly short time, starting in like September of last year.

I had a travelling job where all I did regularly was sit ups and spar people occasionally who worked with me, so this was like two years without touching a weight: 136 lbs. I am 33 years old in all these pictures except the bottom one, where I was 30.

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so this is with nothing but sit ups and no weights, no running.

Then I came back and started lifting again, and in about three weeks it looked like this: 133 lbs

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Then I started running about two miles a day, which I hate, and I looked like this, 133 lbs:

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which looks awful, in my opinion, fatty and soft in the stomach.

When I train with pyramids, super sets, and a lot of sprints, I can get looking like my traditional Bruce Lee Halloween costume, but I DON'T run distances to get that way at all, and I don't like doing that all the time because it gives me headaches. This was at 128 lbs.

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128 pounds! Wow thats light! How tall are you?

 

5'8''

 

Heavy resistance bands for 60 to 90 seconds as fast and as many as possible. 4 to 6 sets. fatigues muscle fibers and stimulates fast twitch fibers

 

Yeah dude, you totally look fat in that running picture.