Been wanting to get shredded for a while. I’ve wait her worked out or dieted, but never both simultaneously. I feel like when I’m dieting I don’t feel like working out and when I work out I don’t feel like dieting, so I’ve never seen great results. Feels like I switch it up every 6 months so I also have no consistency.
Wanted to hear your stories as to how you guys did it and why.
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> For those of you who FINALLY got shredded, what’s your story?
Peeking inside the woodchipper was not a good idea.
I have a naturally low muscle build on my upper body, even with muscly runner’s legs. For example, at 6’ tall I am seriously fat at 190 pounds. I went on a diet and got down to the 150s (was too skinny) before leveling out at a happy 170-175.
But, I was still low on upper body muscle so I started lifting weights. It took about 6 months to notice anything, and probably close to two years before I was really feeling strong and proud of my work. I had gained probably 15 pounds of muscle and was getting up into the lower 180s.
In the spring of this year I also made an effort to cut some fat so I dropped about 10 pounds of fat and am back to the low 170s. Very happy with my look but I will need to cut at least another 5-8 pounds to show a six pack.
Pushing 50 in the best physical shape of my life. Currently on a cut and not “shredded” but I’m already losing some of my strength gains with the (mild) calorie restriction I am currently on and that’s discouraging.
Personally I don’t think the loss of another 2-3% body fat is going to be worth the loss of gains I worked for. So I think I am just going to drop another 5lbs and then maintain at 6’2″ 210 as long as I can. Definitely could be worse for a guy my age!
I was a fat kid.
Started working out.
Being shredded is hard to maintain but working out without diet is like driving a car without fuel.
You might get somewhere but it won’t be your destination.
Building habits that are used in your day to day life is what works best for me.
I substituted high calorie food with low calorie substitutes. I cook food at home and don’t really eat outside (I also think I make food taste better than a lot of places)
And be active. Walk everywhere you can, use the stairs etc..
In the end of the day its also a process and that takes patience.
I would rather not being shredded (8~% BF) again but I do enjoy being lean (12~%BF).
Its much more sustainable for me. I still look great and I feel good (being shredded I was always tired, unmotivated and had no sexual desire)
M33 here. It’s all about consistency. Started working out at age 19, got serious around 23. Started paying actual attention to what I eat at 25. By 27, I was pretty much living what others might consider the “serious lifestyle”, going to the gym 4-5x a week, plus cardio, plus eating a diet catering specifically to me.
Forsake the idea of dieting for a time to achieve a goal. Unless you do professional body building, you need to find a sustainable diet that you love so much that you can see yourself eating that forever. If you need to count calories and starve yourself, you’ve already lost unless you do this professionally. You have to be able to still indulge and eat well, be able to go out and eat with people, cook at home and be satisfied, and all that.
Doing this for years led to me being perceived as shredded (with people commenting all the time) shortly after I turned 30. I am in the best shape I have ever been and it feels easy to maintain. I love the routine, I love eating.
I was always going to the deli, I’d have them cut me off blocks of cheese and I would just eat it by the handful. Eventually I made my way to the dairy cases and there it was. That’s how I got shredded (cheese)
You shouldn’t be working out bc it makes you look good. Work out so you can lift thing, so you can move when you’re 50, so that you can walk up more than 8 stairs without breaking into a sweat and huffing and puffing.
If you want to get shredded, eat well and work out. If you don’t care abt looking like an IG fitness man-thot, just exercise and eat a decent diet and look like a normal person who is active.
64. At 60 I could see the writing on the wall. I’d always lifted and done some aerobic exercise but it was obvious I was falling behind. Started crossfit ( insert whatever regular group program you like ). As I have worked less I’ve picked up the tempo on working out ( try to hit it 5-6 times per week ), throw in regular 3-4 mile walks ( bad knees prevent running ) and it shows. I eat healthy but don’t “diet” ( 2 meals a day ). Maybe not shredded but big and trim and that’s enough for me.
Discipline. I know it’s not what you want to hear, but it’s discipline. Everyone can go to the gym or eat a salad, but can you be disciplined enough that to keep going to the gym on days you don’t feel like or can you be disciplined enough to say no to junk food and eat pretty clean everyday?
Aside from that, I wouldn’t say I’m shredded as I’m not really cutting down just yet, but let’s say I look a whole lot different now where I weigh a whole lot more now by lifting and eating than I did at my heaviest when I was just eating and not really doing anything. As far as why I did it, I was honestly in a bad place mentally and the gym and seeing my body change for the better helped me out so much. Now it’s a big part of my life and it’ll always be there unless I absolutely can’t lift weights anymore.
Enough was enough, so I finally got off the couch and into >!Walmart for some!< shredded >!cheese!<, and let me tell you, I’ve never felt better.
My strategy has been the add exercises every year but I’ve skipped a few years. A friend of mine started a $1000/m trainer this spring at 38 and has been crazy about it but I’ve basically told him to take it easy and focus on habits he wants to keep rather than going from 0 to 100.
Tie fell into a paper shredder. It was tragic.
Not shredded, but don’t look like a bag of milk anymore🤷♂️
Did it because I hate myself
[photo](https://imgur.com/a/QaTytsR)
Two parter:
1 – Shredded) I nearly failed a PT test in the Army. As self desicipline, I signed up for a 10 mile race and trained 8 months for it. Did great. I noticed I was pretty lean, so I entered a military post bodybuilding competition. Got 3rd out of 4 people in my weight class. I said “Next year, I’m winning”. Trained a year, swept it. Stayed lean and kept abs for about 10 years till very recently.
2 – not shredded, me right now) feel good. Im not out of shape, but I would need to flex my abs real hard to see them. No longer visible unless I REALLY try! But I’m happy, still feel healthy, and my fiance has asked me NOT to get shredded again. She doesn’t like it. She prefers me to be more soft, but not out of shape. So that’s where I reside. 🙂
I got shredded cheese does that count?
I wasn’t paying attention when pushing in a large envelope. LOTS of f’n stitches on my fingers
I was sick of getting nowhere with women because I felt like my physical appearance was holding me back
It wasn’t the solution to my problem, but being physically attractive sure helps