What can you learn from us that will get you the eyepopping, jaw-dropping, cut physique you’re after? Plenty! After all, we’ve been training together for more than 10 years at the IRON MAN Training & Research Canter, and almost every summer during that time we’ve taken our bodies to their limits— attempting to get into our leanest, most muscular shapes possible .
We’ve experimented with countless fat loss programs and theories during that decade — learning lessons along the way. That trial and error ( t h e re were lots of errors!) helped us hone our fat attack to principles that work fast, and we’re positive that you can follow our lead and accelerate fat loss to the extreme (that’s why we wrote this book).
No question, you’ll feel great when you’re in hard shape, but t h a t ’s only part of it. Visible abs have sex appeal and grab attention like nothing else. That’s a big reason you want that X-treme Lean look, and we want to help you get it. Lots of men and women are a l ready using our b o d y - transformation programs with great.
success. The fact that women have produced rapid results says a lot because women are notorious for having a much more difficult time losing bodyfat than men. A big reason: They have less testosterone, a male hormone that accelerates fat burning, and m o reestrogen, a female hormone that promotes fat storage. (Incidentally, the fatter a man gets, the lower his testosterone and the higher hisestrogen, so adding fat becomes easier and easier the fatter he gets.
How’s that for a cruel turn of events? Talk about a snowball effect!) One of our female subjects was Becky Holman, Steve’s wife, and the success she had with our X-treme Lean principles and diet were even better than we imagined (and getting there was much easier than she thought; she and Steve hardly argued— and they were both on X-treme Lean diets at the same time!).
You’ll see exactly how she did it later in this book. As for us, our last ripping phase was the most spectacular we’ve experienced. We got in incredible shape, our most muscular and cut conditions ever, and most of those re s u l t s came within a one-month window. The really exciting discovery we made is that it’s possible to burn fat quickly while packing on lean muscle. Most experts say that you’ll have a diff i c u l t time even holding on to your muscle while losing fat. They insist that muscle loss on a diet is inevitable. Not from our experience.
We transformed ourselves, building pounds of muscle as we dropped ugly fat in a mere 35-day period—and no drugs were involved. The quick results we achieved were unprecedented in our many years of ripping up. Even we were stunned when we saw our before and after photos!
