How To Build Body Muscle & Get Lean, Hard and Ripped

Here is one great way how to build body muscle...
If you want to get the most bang for your buck and develop your chest as quickly as possible, then forget about fly movements such as the pec-deck, dumbbell flys or cable crossovers. Instead, place all of your focus on the big basic pressing exercises such as barbell presses, dumbbell presses and wide-grip dips.

If you want to include a few fly movements here and there at the end of your chest workout then that's fine, but your primary focus should be on consistently increasing the poundage on all of your compound pressing exercises.

Laterals raises are fine to include to isolate the medial head of the shoulder, but the meat and potatoes of any effective shoulder training routine is based on a compound overhead press.

Either perform a standing or seated military press with a barbell, or an overhead press using dumbbells. This should be the first exercise in your shoulder routine, with side laterals being performed at the end.

The front and rear heads of the shoulder receive plenty of stimulation during your chest and back exercises and therefore do not need to be specifically isolated.

Since spot reduction is impossible and you cannot target fat loss from specific areas of the body, stop placing so much emphasis on the idea of achieving "6-pack abs" through the use of direct abdominal exercises.

Attaining defined and sculpted abs is mostly a product of your bottom line body fat percentage, and has very little to do with specific training techniques. Include a few sets of direct ab work for the sake of strengthening your core and building up the abdominal muscles themselves, but performing endless sets of sit ups and crunches is nothing more than a waste of time.