15 Minute Workouts to Build Muscle and Burn Fat for Busy Men

15 Minutes is All You Need to Build Muscleand Burn Fat!

Don’t give me that lame excuse, “I don’t have the time to exercise!”

That excuse only works for the weak minded and lazy man. But men have an obligation, or at least they used to have an obligation. Once upon a time, men were obligated to be strong, tough and rugged! Men were not supposed to be fat, flabby, weak and fragile.

In my opinion, a REAL man should be strong and tough. If he isn’t strong, then he needs to do something about it!

If you are reading this article feeling you need to do something about the way you look, think and feel, or maybe you want to improve yourself physically and mentally, then read on my friend. You’re about to discover how short workouts can help you build muscle and burn fat faster than ever before!

Why is the emphasis on short workouts? It’s all about training economics. Time is such as commodity nowadays, everyone is always in a rush, everyone complains about no time, yet we all have the same amount of time, each and every day.

I have no problems relating to the busy guy. I own my own business, work a full time job, I’m married and have a daughter. Although time truly is “free”, I don’t have a whole lot of spare time so I decided to eliminate time wasters in my day. Driving to and from the gym, waiting for equipment at the gym, getting stuck talking to “that guy” again at the gym are all time wasters and if you eliminate these time wasters you can easily add a good hour of extra time to your day to do with as you wish!

In addition, creating your own gym, training in your back yard or at a near by playground allows you the pleasure of getting away from the negative atmosphere found at most gyms and health clubs. You can listen to your own style of music, or no music at all, you never have to wait for equipment and you can dress however you want!

Personally, I make the time to look great and stay in shape, even though I’m married, this doesn’t mean I am going to let myself go (like many other married men) and look like a sack of potatoes. What girl wants to go to the beach with their husband or boyfriend who looks flabby and weak? No need to answer this question, we all KNOW the answer already!

The current program you’re about to see is very powerful but it requires serious effort. The challenges you face with these workouts will not only sculpt your body into a rock hard specimen, but the workouts will also develop your mental toughness and you will carry this “edge” with you everywhere you go. I have seen men improve their relationships, business success and more after only 1 week of these 15 minute muscle building, fat burning workouts! The success you are about to experience goes far beyond the physical realm!

Start with a short warm up to prepare your mind and body consisting of calisthenics for the upper body, lower body and the core. This takes approximately 3 minutes at most and looks like this:

1A) squats x 12 reps
1B) push ups x 12 reps
1C) pull ups x 12 reps
1D) v ups x 15 reps
1E) jumping jacks x 15 reps
1F) mountain climbers x 15 reps

Perform the warm up straight through as a circuit which will also elevates your heart rate. Once the warm up is complete you will be feeling physically and mentally ready to rock n’ roll and train hard! Yes, I did say ‘train hard!”

Intensity is critical if you want results, I will not beat around the bush and tell you that these workouts are easy. They are not easy, in fact, they are tough workouts and will require mental and physical toughness, sweat and perseverance! Building muscle and slicing away unwanted body fat requires effort but the results, as you’re about to experience, are very well worth the sweat and effort!

Most people simply don’t train hard enough to get the results they want. There are no secret exercises and the basics always get the job done. You won’t find special exercises that have never been seen before in the REAL Man workout plan, instead, everything you need to do will be the basic compound exercises which allow you to use heavy weights and work many muscles at once. This is what we call “training economics.”

The workout is performed as a circuit to enable you to keep the pace high and leverage your time. In addition, these workouts will keep your metabolism racing for hours on end after your workout, literally transforming you into a fat burning machine around the clock! All you need to do is choose a few basic movements that work your core, your lower body, and the upper body pushing and pulling muscles.

Don’t worry, your arms will get plenty pumped up for the ladies and the beach if you work the upper body movements with heavy weights, basic exercises and intensity. Movements like parallel bar dips, pull ups / chin ups, push ups, dumbbell benching and dumbbell rows all work the “guns” heavily and will transform those skinny arms into muscular, shirt stretching “guns”! Isolation movements are not as effective for adding muscle or leveraging your time so keep these movements to a minimum.

Try the following workout after your warm up:

1A) mixed grip pull ups (vary grip EVERY set) 2 x max reps
1B) feet elevated push ups 2 x max reps

2A) dumbbell reverse lunges 2 x 8 each leg
2B) standing dumbbell military press 2 x 6 – 8 reps

If you are a beginner, rest 30 seconds after exercise A, then perform exercise B, rest another 30 seconds and keep repeating until the prescribed sets are completed.

If you are more advanced, perform exercises A and B back to back and rest 60 seconds after exercise B. Three days a week should be your target goal for working out, and when you have more time it is perfectly fine to get in a fourth workout of the week. Your fourth workout of the week can be a bodyweight only workout performed for high reps. These short workouts are especially great for Friday’s when you’re in a rush to get home and get ready for a night out on the town or to see your family.

Short workouts also make it more motivating to get in there and workout as opposed to dreading your 60 minute workout that you will be more likely to skip, especially on Fridays!

These powerful, 15 minute workouts solve the all too often excuse, “I don’t have the time to exercise.” Well, now you have the knowledge and you KNOW you have the time, so get busy with it.