So you want to lose weight? That’s good…that’s real good. But now you need a plan of action. Here are the top 10 exercises to lose weight (if you want to call all of them that).

Deadlift

Squat

Pull Up

Clean and Press

Incline Dumbbell Press

Alternating Renegade Row

Lunges

Sprinting

Stadium Stairs

Diet

Let me explain this in-depth so you understand a little bit more about the 10 things I mentioned above. Looking lean is dependent on your muscle to fat ratio. The more muscle you have, the more fat you burn throughout the day and that is more important than what you weigh on the scale. It’s far better to weigh 10 pounds more and look great in the mirror than weigh 10 pounds less and look like crap.

So we need to build up muscle. The fastest and most efficient way to do that is by performing intense movements and recruiting tons of muscular fibers during heavy, compound exercises that help you actually build muscle in your entire body. It’s not just about stimulating the area to respond to nutrition. It’s about compound exercises that release tremendous amounts of precious hormones such as testosterone and human growth hormone, which create the proper anabolic hormonal environment for you to build muscle and burn fat throughout your whole body. Compound exercises will do more wonders on your six pack than a set of crunches will because muscle growth and fat loss is a systemic process.

That means that you need a very consistent exercise program that trains each body part once to twice per week. If you build muscle and you get your body fat down, you’ll see noticeable definition in your abs without having to do thousands of crunches. In order to reveal your abs, you must get your body fat down. For men, that means you really won’t see your abs until you get to around 10% body fat. That is low but that’s where a consistent training and diet regimen needs to be implemented. Every day you need to have your eyes on the prize and your eating needs to be exactly in tune with getting down to 10% body fat.

I know you’re also wondering why running or swimming isn’t on there, right? If you don’t believe me about sprinting and doing stadium stairs, watch this video here:

Quit the jogging and be explosive!

If you are interested in following a consistent diet and training regimen that will help you shed the fat, build some muscle mass, and reveal your abs so you can get the man/woman of your dreams, take a look at my highly talked about program, MP45.