With the right combination of proper training and diet, men can start getting ripped in just a few weeks time; this comes mostly with an increase in how we understand the human body and its growth. The only drawback is that not all exercises and training programs can immediately give you your goal. There are a multitude of exercises and training programs that claim they can improve your strength and muscle mass in the shortest time possible. However, it has been my experience that the relatively new method referred to as "high intensity training" is effective for most men.

The most basic understanding of muscles tells us that our muscles have the power to grow and cope with the pressure they are put under. But how do they do this? You see, as you put your body under pressure, your muscles (which are made up of fibers) do their best to keep up with what your brain orders them to do. After exercising, or whatever source of pressure, these fibers multiply as they expect you to put them under pressure again after some time. As you rest and give your body enough nutrients you will feel your muscles getting bigger, stronger and tougher.

The most basic concept of High Intensity Training is to put your muscles under the most pressure that you can handle, to the point of muscle failure, in a certain form of exercise once a week. By muscle failure, it means that you will do this form of exercise as many times and as intense as you could, until your muscles can’t hold the weights anymore, allowing for an extreme size and strength increase throughout the muscle group you used. For example, you will do bench presses at the amount of weight that you can lift only 8-12 times. You should be thorough (which means no cheating) and you should do this again next week at the same day. You could do another form of exercise within the week after 1-2 days of resting.

With this method of exercise, you don’t need to repeat a workout until your muscles master the weight. This is the complete opposite of volume training, which stresses the amount of repetition, as this instead stresses the importance of extreme intensity or effort and lots of rest. HIT advocates and founders have done their homework and have listed down the exact form and explanations for the most effective exercises. Misconceptions about muscle size increase, is that you must exercise daily to see results. But little does everyone know that your do the actual growing as you rest.