Getting Ripped vs.Getting Strong
Getting Ripped vs. Getting Strong When most dudes have the come-to-Jesus moment that they need to start exercising and eating right, their primary motivation is usually to look good, and looking good usually means being lean and “ ripped .” They want the hot beach bod with abs you can grate cheese on. But they also want to be big and strong. Really strong. “Strong AF,” as they say on Instagram these days. After scouring the interwebs for plans that will simultaneously get them ripped and swole at the same time, these would-be Adonises get to training. They’re at the gym six days a week, beast-moding a different body part each day. They take the obligatory locker room selfie of their after-workout pump and post it to Instagram (#transformation #beastmode). They drink their protein shake within the magical one-hour window after working out so their muscles absorb as much of it as possible. (Some really jacked guy on Instagram mentioned doing that in his sponsored post ...