As an American, it is easy to get caught up focusing on celebrity workouts and diets.  But as most of you know, I live in Chile with my wife… so I have a little bit more of an international outlook.  So, I don’t want you to forget that there are a lot of different people in the world and we can learn a lot about fitness, health and building an attractive, athletic body by looking outside our own borders.

One such instance is Aamir Khan, a famous Bollywood actor.

Aamir Khan exploded on the workout scene when he had to bulk up for a role in the movie “Ghajini”.  He had to put on a LOT of muscle for this role… and worked his butt off to do so!  You can see in the photo the results of all his hard work.

Here is an excerpt from a website called HealthPuff.com.  You can read the full article here.

——————————————————————-“Mondays – chest and back, Tuesdays – arms, and Wednesdays – shoulders and legs was his workout schedule. Apart from this he was also doing half-hour to an hour cardio and abs everyday. As for abs I read he used to do 1,000 crunches everyday. Aamir Khan always managed to get eight hours of sleep. No matter what time he went to sleep, he did get eight hours of sleep every day which I think is really important because proper sleep gives enough rest to the muscles and helps in muscle growth and you will not get tired easily while workouts.

Aamir Khan credits his physique to diet as well. He had a balanced diet that included one-third fat, one-third carbs, one-third protein, and normal food like rotis, rice, sabzis, chicken and all cooked in 3 spoons of oil. Apart from this he used to have 16 egg whites, fruits, and four lts. of water every day. There was no sugar, no potatoes, no bananas, no red meat, no egg yolks and no fried stuff.

So building good physique revolves around Exercise, Sleep and Diet. All these 3 are inter-related. If you don’t sleep well you will not have enough strength for exercise and if you eat junk food without having healthy diet you develop fat in your body. So the right combination of all the 3 is important.”

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Aamir Khan’s Body Transformation Video

Here is a video that shows AAmir Khan’s amazing body transformation, that took about a year.  (Most of the video is in English).

Here are some things I want you to keep in mind…

1) This amazing transformation did not happen over night. It took about a YEAR of training, diet and lifestyle changes for Aamir to build this muscular, lean body.  Lots of hard work and dedication works every time!

2) Aamir used a mixture of bodyweight AND weight training during his workouts. This is important, because a lot of people neglect bodyweight exercises and think the only way to put on muscle is with weight lifting.  A mixture of both bodyweight exercises and weight lifting not only builds a mucular, lean body… but is more athletic and performs better both inside and outside the gym.

3) Diet and nutrition played just as much a role in getting the body he wanted than the workout. No matter how good your workout program is, it cannot overcome a poor diet.  So, if you want to put on muscle and cut fat… you need to pay attention to your diet and strike a balance between getting the nutrients you need to perform the workouts and build muscle, and not having a surplus of calories that turn into fat.

4) Aamir made lifestyle changes as well… like getting a lot of sleep and drinking a lot of water.

I have always said that the way to get the high-performance, attractive body you want is what I call the “Fitness Trilogy”.  Basically, you need to find the balance between your physical training, diet and lifestyle.  All three must be aligned if you want to be successful in reaching your fitness, fat loss and physique building goals.

Here is a plan to put on pounds of useful muscle, and burn pounds of unwanted fat…

The Workout: Use Jason Ferruggia’s workout, Muscle Gaining Secrets.  In my opinion, this is the best muscle building workout for a variety of reasons.  But in a nutshell, I recommend this muscle building workout because it is NOT a bodybuilding workout. You not only put on muscle, but you put on USEFUL muscle that makes you bigger, stronger and a better athlete. These workouts have been tested and proven effective in the real world with both skinny guys wanting to get big as well as athletes wanting to improve their strength and athletic skills.

Read my full Review Of Muscle Gaining Secrets and find out why I picked this as the best muscle building workout.  (You’ll also see that I’ve included an incredible BONUS for this workout that you do NOT want to miss!)

The Diet: Just as I don’t recommend bodybuilding workouts for building muscle because they are ONLY focused on making muscles bigger (I would rather the bigger muscles be USEFUL outside the gym as well), I don’t recommend diets just to lose fat.  For the purposes of having a body transformation like Aamir Khan’s, you need a nutrition plan that provides proper nutrition for performance, health and fat loss. A reduced calorie diet that has the only goal of reducing fat is not going to give you the nutrients you need to build muscle or have the energy to get through the Muscle Gaining Secrets workouts.  So, for this workout plan I recommend you use Precision Nutrition.

The Lifestyle: This is easy.  Don’t do anything when not training or eating that goes against what you are trying to achieve with your workout and nutrition plan. As yourself, “Will this help or hurt my training and nutrition objectives?” Do what helps, and avoid what hurts. Simple.  Obviously you are going to want to drink a lot of water and get a lot of rest.

I hope Aamir Khan’s transformation has inspired you to take ACTION and follow a plan!

To recap…

The Lifestyle: Don’t Do Anthing To Screw Up Your Training & Diet