Built for Show: Four Body-Changing Workouts for Building Muscle, Losing Fat, andLooking Good Enough to Hook Up

Built for Show: Four Body-Changing Workouts for Building Muscle, Losing Fat, andLooking Good Enough to Hook Up

Every guy is looking for an edge, some way to get single women his age to notice him more than they do now. Unfortunately, most guys have absolutely no idea what kind of body automatically flips a girl's attraction switch. Nate Green does. Built for Show is the first fitness book to address young guys who don't want to spend all day in the gym. Green offers four twelve- week workout programs, each with a seasonal theme. The fall and winter workouts add muscle size and strength that'll show even under layers of clothing. The spring and summer workouts burn fat and chisel the showpiece muscles--creating a lean, cut, beach-ready physique. But Built for Show is more than just a workout book. It also provides: · Realistic nutrition advice to feed the muscles and starve the fat without breaking the bank or spending hours in the kitchen · Tips on dressing right, looking the part, improving your social status, and settling into your new lifestyle · Quick ways to assess posture, with useful exercises to fix flaws and improve self- presentation, no matter the situation. The detailed programs include over fifty exercises, illustrated with over one hundred original photos. Neither a weight-loss guide nor a body- building manual, Built for Show instead reveals to guys exactly what they need to build the body they - and women - want. Nate Green is a writer, fitness expert, and marketing strategist. After dropping out of community college at 18, he started a small personal training company and began studying under some of the best coaches and writers in the fitness and health industry. He served as an assistant editor at T-Nation.com for 2 years before joining Precision Nutrition, where he continues to work as a "marketing and ideas guy."  His first book, Built For Show, was published in 2008 by Avery Publishing when Green was 23, and he's written for Men's Health, Men's Fitness, Livestrong.com, the Huffington Post and more. Green's subsequent books, The Hero Handbook and Bigger, Smaller, Bigger were released online and given away for free. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon. and works closely with the Precision Nutrition team. CHAPTER ONE What a Guy Really Wants, and Why I’m going to ask you a question and I want you to give it to me straight.I’ve heard all sorts of answers from all sorts of guys, so my B.S. detectoris finely tuned and has had quite a bit of practice. So I need you to levelwith me when you answer this question: Why do you want to work out? Why does any guy want to work out? Why train with weights at all?If you said “to lower my cholesterol levels,” “to touch the rim,” or “to preventosteoporosis later in life,” I’m not buying it. There’s nothing wrong with thosebenefits, and I’m sure you’ll achieve them from the workouts I’ve designed. Butcome on. You don’t lift because you’re worried about your health or your performancein pickup basketball games. You work out so you can increase your chances of hooking up. That meanshaving the kind of physique that looks good in clothes and looks even betternaked. I’ll accept variations on that answer. Like, “I go to the gym because my wifetells me to.” Or, “If I don’t stay in shape, my girlfriend will find someone whodoes.” I know a few guys who won’t even go to the grocery store if they don’tlook their best. I get it. Some guys are born motivated, some achieve motivation, and somehave motivation thrust upon them. But at the root of our motivation is an understandingthat, when all else is equal, the guy with the better physique gets the girl.The combination of well-developed muscle mass and minimal body fat (whatanthropologists mean when they report that the indigenous males of a particularregion are “jacked”) is a sign of reproductive fitness. It shows that you have moretestosterone than the next guy, even if you don’t. The more primed women arefor sex, the more they notice. (True fact: Published scientific research shows thatwomen are more attracted to the manliest men when they are ovulating thanthey are at other times in their menstrual cycle.) If you’re Tarzan, she’s game. So let’s start this relationship with some mutual candor. I wrote this bookbecause nobody else did. There was a time, not long ago, when I wanted toknow more about building my body in hopes of accumulating more frequent fornicationpoints. I wanted exactly what you want: muscles that women notice.I couldn’t find that book, because it wasn’t yet written. Instead, I learned how toachieve the goal, and in the process became a very busy personal trainer. Then Iset out to write the book I always wanted to read. That’s enough about me. Let’s talk about you. Whether you’re thick or thin, you want the wide shoulders and chiseledtorso that women don’t just notice, they occasionally grab. You don’t wish bodilyharm on anybody, but you’d be flattered to know that the woman who justpassed you on the freeway risked soft-tissue damage when her head whippedaround to get a better look.