To become lean and achieve muscular definition you need to have both a low level of body fat, along with a good degree of lean muscle mass, in order to show a desired shape. It’s very common for people who want to become lean focus only on the fitness aspect, spending many hours on the treadmill or on other forms of cardio – focusing only on burning calories. You do get a good sweat-up by doing this and you will improve your aerobic fitness, but unfortunately this won’t build any muscle, and only contributes a very small component towards achieving your goals. In fact, countless hours on cardio will begin to strip down any muscle you do have as a source of energy, therefore taking you further away from your goal of being ‘toned’. Training in this manner only works one side of the equation

To enhance your true fat-burning potential ‘everybody’ does need to follow a dedicated strength program. You don’t have to become a body-builder or to train in a conventional weight training way to achieve a leaner, stronger body. Exercising the body in multi-dimensional ways via circuit-based body-weight training that involves pushing, pulling, twisting and moving your body in full-body movements will build strength and burn calories at the same time -effectively, you’re doing cardio with weights. As you progress, we can vary the sessions with dumbbells, medicine balls, skipping, and boxing to keep you focused and challenged – there’s so many options to do. From my experience I have found this to be a very effective method to build lean muscle, to lose body fat, and to become fit and strong top-to-toe