How to Get THIS Lean (YEAR ROUND!)

If you want to get a lean, ripped body and keep it year round you are going to want to watch this video where I share how I do it. Be forewarned, there are no secret shortcuts or gimmicks to doing this. As a matter of fact, there are many sacrifices that have to be made in order to get to an ultra l

[Music] what’s up guys jeff cavaliere athleanx. com 5. 3 percent body fat officially with the calipers and with Jesse doing the measure alright maybe it’s not 5. 3 percent but maybe it’s six or seven I mean some guys out there say there’s no way just under 10 percent to each their own whatever your opinion is on what you think I’m at at least we can agree that I’m probably pretty lean the fact of the matter is Jesse’s actually concerned about me when there’s loose papers in the office because he doesn’t want me to get a paper cut he thinks it could be life-threatening I get it I’m lean the question comes in though a lot of times is Jeff how old do you do it how do you get that lean I want to do the same thing and before I go off and tell you exactly what I do because I’m gonna break it down category by category I’m trying to tell you exactly what that is I would also want to raise a secondary question to you that maybe you haven’t thought about yet and that is do you really want to be this lean is there a reason for you to want to be this lean because you might actually change your answer by the time we get all done with this all right so with that being said what are we gonna talk about I’m gonna talk about the way you eat the style that you train and maybe even some of the sacrifices you have to make to get here because I think that’s an important consideration that you’re gonna have to ask yourself but let’s start in the beginning and I mean really in the beginning like when did you start to decide that you want to get lean because if you start to decide maybe the first time in your life in your 30s or 40s or 50s it’s gonna be that much more challenging for you to get to the level of leanness we’re talking about then if you had started a long time ago and there’s two really important reasons for that I started training and actually trying to be muscular and lean way back in my teens because I was playing sports I was never gonna be the big giant person was in the cards for me anyway really but I was really supposed to be maximize my athleticism being lean and muscular so that was my main goals and I started to adopt habits early on that allowed me to start getting on that right path and habits that have now carried through with me for many many years thirty years in the making that now make it almost secondary to what I do whereas if you didn’t do that you’ve accumulated some other habits a lot of times maybe some not-so-good habits and it’s really hard to replace your thirty-year ingrained and not so good habits with brand new habits that are required to get to that level of leanness that’s the first thing the second thing is you’re actually giving yourself an advantage hormonal e because when you walk around in a body that maximizes lean body mass and minimizes stored body fat you’ve created a hormonal environment that is much different than the body even of let’s say even the same weight the body that has an excessive amount of body fat and very low levels of lean body mass and you’re able to accumulate year over year over year over year of the benefits that that hormonal environment provides you and the opportunities it creates to add more mass in lean muscle to your frame because of that and that can’t be understated and that’s why when the guys start later on in life it becomes a lot more difficult now it should not discourage you if you’re starting later in life from wanting to get lean you can certainly get to a level of leanness that looks unbelievable that looks fantastic that’s probably even better than you thought you could look at a slightly higher body fat level and getting to my level isn’t even necessary and that’s again something I want to address the next thing is when we talk about the truth of eating I think you really need to hear the truth the truth is it’s everything eating and how you eat is everything when it comes to how low your body fat levels are it’s a matter of fact I’m gonna make a revelation here in a little bit about cardio and conditioning and where that plays and falls into the overall equation eating is everything now how do you eat you’ve got a lot of options these days and a lot of them actually revolve around some style of I would say dieting you know where you need to exclude a certain macronutrient or eat a lot less of one or or manipulate your your your calories in a way that is a little bit unnatural and say right off the bat here we got without even sort of ping but importing my finger anyone in particular way and this better be something that you can do forever and I say that all the time and it doesn’t mean to be understated I mean you need to be able to do this forever this needs to be a lifestyle that you can follow and for me I started adopting a lifestyle slowly from those times that way back in my teens from going from eating nothing but crap sugary junk food all the time to now hardly ever eating that and the point is is that it allowed me to adopt kneeing style and fine tune and eating style again over some time not drastically not overnight that I could actually stick to so for me what I did was I had three Troy I had three choices proteins carbohydrates fats I opted to kind of cut the fats down and unfortunately back in my teens I grew up in the 90s and fat was the enemy so what I did was I took it to the extreme I actually got rid of all fat in my diet and I paid the price dearly I talked about in the past how I actually had photosensitivity meaning while I was in college I couldn’t actually stand outside and wait for the bus to take me to my class because the light was too bright for me to tolerate I’m talking about normal sunlight was too bright for me to tolerate I didn’t wear sunglasses I couldn’t even open my eyes I had photosensitivity I had damage to my receptors and my eyeballs because of how low my fat was that’s not good the next thing I had was I actually felt like an old man at about 20 or 21 when you start to think back to your younger days when you were 15 or 16 because you can’t do what you were doing then and you’re only 20 because everything aches and hurts that’s not good so that came from being uneducated or maybe taking it to the extreme so over the years what I did was I determined that low carbohydrates are part of my picture they fueled me I need them and I continued to eat them but I started to work in the healthy fat since the equation so I’m afraid you’re looking for it a complete day of what I eat actually put that up on YouTube not very long ago I’ll actually show you what it looks like here and I’ll link to it at the end of the video and you can see again this is not a low-calorie diet I’m gonna access the 3,000 calories every single day and I need that to kind of fuel my activities but there’s no exclusion there there’s no exclusion of carbon there’s an inclusion of healthy fats now there’s protein I don’t think that being exclusionary is a good thing ironically if you look back I was able to get away with you probably know guys like this I was able to get away with eating sugars in my diet because I really didn’t have any fat and what they found is that in isolation eating a high sugar diet while not healthy at all you’re still able to maintain some levels of leanness that way if you’re not having fats at the same time or very low fats on the contrary people nowadays that high levels of fats in their diet but exclude a lot of carbohydrates particularly sugary carbohydrates are able to maintain levels of leanness too but how long can you do that if it’s something that you could actually stick to that’s the main key equation he