The Reality of Preparing for a Modeling Photoshoot-The Diet, The Exercise.

Cardio is mandatory to burn fat and show the hard earned lean muscle you produced. Now this is going to be mostly on you to figure out what works best.

Two keys,

1. jogging for long periods of time is better for burning fat NOW. However, you must keep protein high to keep your body from burning muscle, which it will if your diet is off.

2. interval cardio(sprinting full speed and walking slowly as a break) is better for increasing overall metabolism LATER.

Obviously, it's good to mix up both. Here is an example of my cardio program.

** I only do cardio for a shirtless shoot as diet and weight training usually is enough. I'll do this about anywhere from 2-4 weeks before a shoot, depends on when I find out I have it. You can do this all of the time, just remember you will lose some muscle size if too much.

***doing cardio in the morning on an empty stomach is your best bet to burning the most fat, as your metabolism is highest then. I don't do this. Quite frankly, two times in the gym in one day is too much and I get lazy later on. I do it right after my weight training always.

4 days of the 5 per week I am at the gym, I will do 1-1.5 miles on the Elipt. machine. 1.5 for me works best, as in no time, my abs will start to come out fast. Remember to drink plenty of water, lots and lots.

the 5th day I do interval sprints on pavement. If you can do it on a treadmill without feeling like your gonna fly off, be my guest.

you will do 7 sets of sprints.( I mean full out sprints, nothing but as fast as you can go, imagine being chased by a crazy person) :->

You will do 20 seconds of sprinting and 40 seconds of walking slowly. each minute passed is a set, do this 7 times. You're done. That's it. Sounds like a little bit, but you should be pretty pooped if you sprinted full speed every time.

Like I said, I don't need much cardio for my metabolism is very high from a few years of making it that way.

So you may need more, that's ok. Just start off doing a set amount of miles or sets and don't change it in any less time than a week. Once a week is over, look at yourself, feel tighter? See more muscle? If not, the next week, up it a half mile and a couple sets. As soon as you realize there is a change and you're looking better, you hit the note. The hard work is over, now do that program consistently.

Hope this helps, I'm positive it will if diet and exercise is on of course.