How to get shredded in 2025 without a gym (full breakdown, no cardio required)

Now, we've all heard the videos, we've all seen the memes, we've seen the people telling you to go to the ******* gym. Go to the ******* gym. And I am in no way, shape, or form against the gym. I am not anti-gym. I train in the gym. I just don't do it every day. I don't spend hours in the gym. I don't do only weightlifting exercises. And no, you do not need to go to the gym. You don't need it. There are no rules in fitness. there are many ways to build your body to build your physique to build strength to build endurance to do all of these things and it is not only done in a one-size-fits-all way so in this video i'm just going to give you guys some tips and tricks and tell you about how you can do it and the main things you should be focusing on if you want to level up your fitness journey and get into amazing shape and how you can do it without ever stepping foot into a gym if that's something that that you want. Now, fitness comes in many shapes and sizes and forms. So ultimately, at the end of the day, what is fitness? Fitness or exercise or working out training is basically taking some form of action that is outside of your normal, you know, actions that you take throughout the day. So for example, we walk a lot. We walk a lot on our feet. So walking, probably not considered to be a good form of exercise or workout for people because we do it all the time. Our legs are already conditioned and used to it. So you need to push your legs beyond that limit, either by adding weight to the walk, adding speed to the walk, adding running to it, doing some form of exercise that goes beyond the norm. So normally we're already upright. So our core is already engaged and working. It is what holds your body up. However, it is not considered to be a core exercise to just exist. So if we want to work the core, we want to work the lower back. That's where we add some weight to our frame. We do focused exercises to build those muscles. So ultimately, that is what fitness and exercise is. Now, let's dispel a few myths. People think that you need weights or you need some external factor in order to build muscle, in order to stimulate muscle growth. This is not true. The truth actually is that your muscles cannot distinguish between an external force or an internal force being exerted upon it. What does that mean? That means whether you pick up a dumbbell or a barbell or you do a pull-up or a muscle-up or a chin-up, your muscles are not going to know the difference between what is causing them to work and contract and stretch in order to perform the movement and the exercise. So no, you do not need weights. However, weights do help in progressing when you start training. So once you hit a certain level, sometimes adding weight is a great way to hit progressive overload. How do we build muscle and how do you get stronger? And if you don't need the gym or you don't need to train a certain way, what specifically do your muscles need in order to grow? So it is very, very simple. Your muscles need three things you need stimulus so stimulus is what we were talking about earlier where you are putting your muscles in some form of discomfort stimulating them there is a contraction of the muscle there is a stretch of the muscle in order to perform the movement under mechanical tension so number one that is what you want you need stimulus number two you need protein so you have to get enough protein in your diet you need more protein in order to build muscle so One, stimulus, two, protein intake, and three, rest and recovery. Rest and recovery is basically where your muscles will be growing. So you're going to damage the muscles. You're going to build, you know, in the exercise, you're going to put that muscles under pressure, under some kind of strain. They need time to rest and recover. Typically, 48 to 36 hours is ideal for your muscles to recover after a solid workout. So three things to build muscle. It's that simple. Stimulus, rest and recovery, protein intake. If you can do those three, you can build muscle. Taking into consideration the three things we just talked about, stimulus, the protein intake, the recovery periods, the rest, that means that it doesn't matter how you choose to train, you can still build strength, endurance, and all these different things and build your body up how you want to without having this one size fits all mentality. So if you don't feel like going to a gym and lifting a bunch of heavy weight and doing resistance training with weights, you can do it at home doing calisthenics. It will achieve very similar results. CrossFit, if you want to be a runner, you can still build your body up in different ways and still achieve amazing results. So there are no rules when it comes to fitness. You just got to find what works for you, what you enjoy, what will hit that stimulus that your muscles need in order to grow and build. So as long as you are getting that stimulus, it doesn't really matter how. Now, another thing, and this is where a lot of people get it wrong, is they mess up with overload. What is overload? Progressive overload is basically increasing the difficulty of the exercise as you become stronger. If you never increase the difficulty, then you will never continue to grow. Eventually, you will flatline and plateau. What does that mean? that means you have to constantly keep leveling up your workout game. So let's just make a quick example. If you're able to do 20 push-ups and it is difficult for you now, and let's say in a month, 20 push-ups becomes easy. You know you can easily do 30, 40, 50 push-ups. If you continue to just do 20, your muscles will have no reason to grow because now they are not being put under that strain we were talking about. This is the new norm. So you have to get out of that comfort zone and push your muscles out of their comfort zone in order to create that stimulus we were talking about. So progressive overload is key. And whether that just be increasing reps, increasing weight, increasing the difficulty of the exercise, it has to happen in order for growth to continue. And last but not least, let's talk a little bit about fat loss and fitness. So we mentioned protein intake muscle stimulus and the rest in recovery those are the three things you need to build muscle now what do you need to lose fat in order to lose body fat you have to be in a calorie deficit which means you need to be burning more calories than the calories you consume this missing portion your body is going to go to your fat stores for that energy now here's an interesting fact and this is one most people get wrong and don't know about you can build muscle and lose body fat at the same time. So if someone ever told you that you have to cut first, you shouldn't be working out while you're trying to lose body fat, that is absolute bullshit. Fat loss and muscle building are two completely different processes within your body and they do not rely or interfere with one another. So you do not need calories per se or a calorie surplus in order to build muscle. All you need is ample amount of protein and you can get enough protein in order for your body to use it to rebuild muscle while still being in a calorie deficit and do both at the same time. It's literally that simple. So when someone tells you that you can't do both build muscle and lose fat at the same time, they don't know what they're talking about. Don't listen to them. You can absolutely do it. And one of my clients right now, Matt, he is actually doing exactly that. We have him on a calorie deficit, about 500 calories um that he's eating less per day so the body fat is slowly dropping and we are hitting the workouts hard we are building his body up and he is seeing he we have a body analyzer that he is using and we can see that the body fat is going down while the muscle is slowly going up that is what i'm talking about it is absolutely possible so anyone who tells you it's not, it's full of ---- And that pretty much wraps up this video. So if someone told you that you need to go to the gym or you should be doing CrossFit or you should be doing cardio or whatever, whatever, don't listen to that ----. There are no rules in this game. You can do it the way that it works for you. And that is exactly what I do with the people that I coach and the guys in my coaching community, the guys in the group coaching, in the one-on-one, we find a fitness plan that works for you. One that you're going to enjoy doing, one that you're not going to feel like is a chore or one that you're going to dread doing every single week, you make fitness work for you. How much time you have, you figure out how many days a week you want to train, what your goals are, and I build the perfect program that fits your lifestyle without changing it all around. If that's something that interests you, check out my coaching application here. You can learn more and watch this video here that is going to explain everything, my whole vision about fitness and how it's completely different than what you may have heard in the fitness industry up to today if you guys enjoyed this video let me know in the comments if you have any questions regarding fitness regarding nutrition drop them down below in the comments and i will be getting back to you guys and make sure you smash that like smash that subscribe so you guys don't miss any new uploads and i will see you in the next one