5 Simple Ways to Get Jacked

Training "Hard" But "Smart"

Make sure when training, to go as hard but as smart as possible. Most people either over do it, or don't work hard enough. Each of these groups of people will find it difficult to achieve or at least maintain good quality results.

If you're going to the gym to just go through the motions and are not willing to work your but off, don't even bother. If you’re constantly going to be changing your program or always looking for the next best thing you will never make any true gains.

Compound Movements

These are the exercises that allow you to use the greatest amount of weight possible and incorporate several large muscle groups in one movement. These exercises will help boost testosterone levels and ensure you to become jacked and significantly stronger in a few short months. A few good choices will be squats, deadlifts, barbell incline presses and military presses.

Make sure to use these big lifts or variations of theses lifts. Examples could be Goblet squats, kettle bell sumo deadlifts, incline dumbbell presses and standing dumbbell military presses.

Progressive Overload

You absolutely cannot expect to transform your body by doing the same workouts over and over. If you continuously use the same weight, rep ranges and exercises, your body will start to adapt. There are many ways that you can work progressive overload in a safe manner. A few examples would be:

*Add weight to the bar. These jumps don't neccesarally need to be extreme by any means but could mean adding a pound to five pounds to a bar every four to eight weeks.

*Do more reps with the same weight.

*Increase the quality of reps and really master the movements by getting technically better every week.

*Become more explosive by moving each rep faster than the last time you performed that particular lift.

*Get better at maximizing tension and slowing your sets down a bit by controlling your eccentric and squeezing every rep at the top of each movement.

*Do more work in less time by increasing the speed of your workouts. Make sure to always stay tight and have perfect form but cut rest times by a few seconds during each set.

*Add volume and more working sets to your workout by adding an extra set here or there every couple of weeks until your body adapts.

These are five extremely simple ways to increase productivity in the gym and stay strong and jacked for many years to come.