The Laziest Way To Build An Aesthetic Body
By Wanhee 완희
Summary
## Key takeaways - **Train 2-3 Times Weekly**: Train only two to three times a week for the perfect balance between progress, consistency, and momentum. You remember the last session, make tweaks, get enough rest to strengthen, and look forward to the gym without burnout. [00:25], [01:13] - **80% Compound Movements**: Focus 80% on compound movements like incline bench and overhead press that hit chest, shoulders, triceps, abs, core, back, and legs all at once. This kills multiple birds with one stone versus separate isolation days. [01:38], [02:28] - **1-3 Sets Per Exercise**: Do just one to three sets per exercise, like one set of squats or single-leg Romanian deadlifts, as Mike Mensah says one intense set stimulates strength and growth. Experiment with two sets for unilateral moves. [02:52], [03:18] - **4-10 Rep Range + Long Rests**: Lift in the 4-10 rep range with fat rest periods of 3-6 minutes to recover CNS and build strength and muscle, while chilling and walking during rests. Powerlifters rest 5+ minutes for max performance. [03:41], [05:15] - **Protein-Dominant Meals**: Shift to protein-dominant meals by increasing meat and lowering carbs like rice, making protein the main and carbs the side, especially for Asians. Add convenient shakes without exceeding calories. [06:22], [07:11] - **Walk Slow for 10k Steps**: Skip intense cardio like running or cycling; just walk slowly like a pregnant woman with a dog to hit 10k-12k steps daily, divided into walks. This builds leanness lazily. [10:26], [10:48]
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Hi, I'm Wy and for years I'd slave away in the gym pushing really hard and I'd look like this. That's pretty discouraging. Now imagine doing half of the work just being really lazy and still getting double, triple, quadruple the results and now looking like this. Now most things in life being lazy is a shortcut to failure. But when it comes to fitness and building an aesthetic body, it can actually be a superpower. Let me explain the laziest way to build an aesthetic body and why that might
work for you. Let's get into it. So, let's imagine you're a lazy guy. You don't want to do any extra work than is necessary to build a body that kind of looks good when you take your shirt off, when you go to the beach, when you wear clothes, it just looks good, right? That's what you care about. Let me just break it down for you. And step one is to train only two to three times a week. Personally, I do it three times a week. I think that's the perfect balance between progress, consistency, and
momentum. You remember the things that happened last session. You can make tweaks. It's enough rest so you can actually get stronger. It's just that perfect balance where you have enough rest days away from the gym so you can actually start to look forward to the gym and it never becomes this overbearing thing which is why so many guys quit and burn out because if you train every day if you train five times six times a week then it suddenly just feels like something you have to do all
momentum. You remember the things that happened last session. You can make tweaks. It's enough rest so you can actually get stronger. It's just that perfect balance where you have enough rest days away from the gym so you can actually start to look forward to the gym and it never becomes this overbearing thing which is why so many guys quit and burn out because if you train every day if you train five times six times a week then it suddenly just feels like something you have to do all
the time and it's very easy to lose that motivation lose that enthusiasm. And for the busy guys amongst you, you know, I have a guy who I coached who is really busy. He just trains twice a week and he's building mad consistency, getting stronger, getting great results. So just train two to three times a week. Step two, you want to lift mostly compound movements. I always talk about the 80/20 rule. 80% of your focus of your workout routine itself should be on compound
movements that train multiple muscle groups. This is the lazy way. You might be thinking, "Oh, those compound movements are really difficult." But this is the way you kill three birds with one stone. When you do an incline bench, not only are you getting your chest, you're getting your shoulders, you're getting your triceps, all of those, and even your abs when you do free weight compound movements. So, you're working four things as opposed to a guy who has an ab day, a chest day, an
arm day, a back day. He's doing four times the work as you. Whereas, you're just a lazy guy leaning back, pressing some bar weight, and boom, you just look great. Overhead press, same idea. You work all three heads of the shoulder. You work your triceps. You work your whole body. In fact, your core, your back, your legs even to stabilize your upper chest. So, overhead press, again, amazing exercise. Compare that with a guy who's doing upright rows for the front, lateral raises for the side, and
then rear delt fries for the back. I'm not saying those exercises have no place in the routine. I mean, you can use those exercises to great effect, but they form the 20%. The meat, the bread, the butter, the whatever you call it, the main course, the 80% has to be the compound movements. And that's actually how you train in this kind of efficiently lazy way. Does that make sense? Another thing that you should take into account is just do one to three sets. The most sets that I'll do
for an exercise is three sets when it comes to these big compound movements. Sometimes I'll even do one set. When it comes to certain leg exercises, like last time I did one set of [ __ ] squats, one set of single leg Romanian deadlifts. Mike Mensah, the the OG minimalist, talks about this. One set that is done to the right intensity can be a great stimulus for strength, great stimulus for muscle growth. So don't be doing four, five, six, seven sets every time you go hit one exercise. I feel two
sets is actually really, really good, especially with some unilateral movements where you feel like you're doing one side, next side, one side, next side. Experiment with the two set method. One to three sets, boom, the lazy way. Next is you want to lift in the four to 10 rep range. Again, super lazy. You don't even want to go above 10. If you see a lot of guys in the gym, they're doing like three sets of 15 reps, five sets of 10, all this kind of stuff. None of that. You just, you're a
lazy guy, you're doing four reps, and you take fat rest periods, take six reps, eight reps, the most you'll ever go on the lighter exercises, maybe you go up to 10 reps. Four reps to eight reps is the perfect range to get stronger because you can actually get stronger in that rep range before burning out and you can build muscle. You can actually cause muscle hypertrophy. So stay in that four to 10 rep range, absolute sweet spot. Now, if you want the exact system that I use, my
rep ranges, my sets, you just literally train like 3 hours a week and you build an aesthetic body vtaper and you want to take the guess work out of it and just follow what I do. Hit the first link in the description. Aesthetic body blueprint. It's a game changer. It's the laziest way. Next, you want to rest a lot. Now, imagine we had like one of those David Atenburgh camera follow crew like documentary style and you were filming me in the gym. They were filming
you in the gym as well. I guarantee you I will be resting more than you. Now that's maybe not true because maybe you don't even gym. You're just resting on the couch the whole time. I'm talking about the guys that actually go to the gym. You probably don't rest enough. Now when you talk about powerliffters, these guys be resting long time like 5 minute plus because they realize that in order to perform like maximum strength capacity, they not only need to recover
their breath and their muscle, they need to recover their CNS, their their mental their neurological readiness has to come up again. And it's the same for us. What you do when you're trying to get stronger in the 4 to 10 rep range is between each set, take big rest. When I do negatives training, which is a big part of building up to certain key exercises, I like to take one minute rest, even between a rep. And between exercises, I'm usually resting 3 minutes, sometimes 5 minutes, 6 minutes.
What do I do while I rest? I just walk around, get my steps in, just chill. Think about that. How lazy is that? Meanwhile, most guys are like with the phone like timing their Okay, got 30 seconds to rest and they're not even resting. mentally they're not even resting cuz they're always like 10 seconds left. What do I have to think about for 10 seconds to make me feel better? Okay, 10 five. Okay, let's go again. And you're sweating. What the hell is that? Meanwhile, I'm just doing
four reps, chilling. 5 minutes going on again. Doing six reps just chilling. That is the lazy weight. And ironically, it's freaking effective at building crazy strength, setting personal record, and building great muscle. So, rest a lot. Next. Now, most people think about protein like, "Okay, I need to just get more protein." So, they're like, "How much protein can I get? Okay, let me get a protein shake. Let me get chicken breast. Let me get eggs. Let me get
this." And it's like, "Protein, protein, protein, protein, protein." And then you get like 180 g of protein, right? And you're like, "Wow, that's amazing." Except you've probably gone way over your daily caloric goal. So, you've eaten at a probably a surplus and you feel super full. It's really costly and the next day you're like, "Shit, I got to do that every day." Like, how am I going to do that? Not enough people talk about this. So, as a guy who's trying to
this." And it's like, "Protein, protein, protein, protein, protein." And then you get like 180 g of protein, right? And you're like, "Wow, that's amazing." Except you've probably gone way over your daily caloric goal. So, you've eaten at a probably a surplus and you feel super full. It's really costly and the next day you're like, "Shit, I got to do that every day." Like, how am I going to do that? Not enough people talk about this. So, as a guy who's trying to
build an aesthetic body in a lazy way, you don't want to start by just maxing out protein. What you want to do is change the ratio. Start by changing the protein to carb ratio. Increase the protein, lower the carbs. Now, for any Asians watching this, we grew up on masses of carbs, right? Carbs is our main and then the meat and all the other stuff is like our side dish. Whereas in the West, usually it's like the steaks the main and the potatoes the side, right? So for us Asians, the biggest
lowhanging fruit, biggest win you can do is just lower the amount of rice you put on the plate and increase the amount of meat you put on the plate. So the meat becomes the main and the carb becomes the little friend. Just start by doing that and start having what I'm going to start calling protein dominant meals. That's the only switch you need to make as step one. Step two, you can add shakes because shakes allow you to add protein without complicating buying
groceries, cooking. Protein shakes are great. I haven't had protein shakes in a long time because I just love cooking and I love having great meat and stuff. But recently over the summer when I'm trying to get lean and it's like it's a little difficult and I want to increase the ratio without pumping up the total caloric intake. Boom. Protein shakes from the convenience store close to my house and they taste freaking amazing. Give you a couple more tips. Just having
groceries, cooking. Protein shakes are great. I haven't had protein shakes in a long time because I just love cooking and I love having great meat and stuff. But recently over the summer when I'm trying to get lean and it's like it's a little difficult and I want to increase the ratio without pumping up the total caloric intake. Boom. Protein shakes from the convenience store close to my house and they taste freaking amazing. Give you a couple more tips. Just having
frozen chicken breast that you defrost every day, you know, maybe once or three times a week maybe. Minced beef. Just having minced beef, like good minced beef with salt or butter, just with a little bit of rice, having some fish sauce on there if you're like into that Asian taste. Super delicious. If you want to just get six eggs in, this is really good. I have some Greek yogurt, which is really good. So, those are my protein sources and it's a very lazy way
to do it cuz those are single ingredient foods that you can just get and then just eat and the protein's good. Take advantage of that. Next is to sleep a lot. Be a Snorlax. Now, Snorlax is a fat Pokémon. So, I'm not saying become like Snorlax, but Snorlax sleeps a lot, and that's what you want to do. Sleep nowadays is becoming recognized as one of the most important things for not just your overall health, but for proper muscle building and fat loss. You repair
and build muscle while you sleep. You lose fat when you sleep. You actually struggle to lose fat if you're on low sleep. Plus, when you have high stress as a result of bad sleep, you're more likely to binge eat. You're more likely to fall off your patterns. When you have crappy sleep, you have lower dopamine, which controls your motivation. So you're more likely to fall off your training routine and your diet. So imagine you're a lazy guy. The best thing you can do is just sleep like 8
hours, 10 hours. Just sleep loads. Don't start listening to all these productivity gurus that are like, "I sleep 5 hours and just work my ass off. Just sleep loads and sleep in a dark ass room. Sleep after having taken some magnesium and theine. Sleep by training well in the A.M. so you're actually tired and deserving of sleep in the evening. Don't eat too close to bedtime. Cut out all the lights like 1 to two hours before your bed. Boom. Simple things, guys. Improve your sleep. That's
the lazy way. Next, you want to eat one to two times a day. If you're a lazy guy, you don't want to be chopping up onions three times a day. You don't want to be like mixing up eggs with like some special saffron whatever risotto rice and making it every day cuz preparing it, thinking about the recipe, buying it, cleaning it, like scraping the egg off the pan. All of these are just extra things that you do like 3 days cuz you're motivated and then you're like,
Jesus, I'm not doing that again. So, don't be doing so many of those meals. Just do one meal a day, which works amazing for so many people. One meal a day. I tried it. I can't sustain it. I just get a little bit too hungry in the middle of the day. So, I do two meals a day. I do a lunch and I do a dinner. And you can call that intermittent fasting. You can call that two meals a day. You can call that 1.5 meals a day because my lunch is pretty light. But that's the
setup. Just be lazy. Just don't have breakfast. Just eat once or eat twice. And what is the added benefit of that is that if you're a big portion eater like me, then you're going to be able to eat like proper big portions and still get fairly lean. Next, instead of doing so much cardio, just walk slowly like a pregnant woman with a dog. Everybody is doing running. They're buying these clothes. They're doing climbing. Everybody's doing some crazy cardio, cycling, jiu-jitsu. I do jiu-jitsu. Of
setup. Just be lazy. Just don't have breakfast. Just eat once or eat twice. And what is the added benefit of that is that if you're a big portion eater like me, then you're going to be able to eat like proper big portions and still get fairly lean. Next, instead of doing so much cardio, just walk slowly like a pregnant woman with a dog. Everybody is doing running. They're buying these clothes. They're doing climbing. Everybody's doing some crazy cardio, cycling, jiu-jitsu. I do jiu-jitsu. Of
course, those things are great. Keep doing them. They're great for your health and if you're a lazy guy and you just want to look good. Build muscle. Get lean. You don't need to do none of that. Just double down on walking and don't even walk fast. Walk like slow AF, like a pregnant woman with the dog, and just try to get 10k steps, 12k steps a day. Divide that up if you want. Two walks a day. Just be a lazy bum and just walk real slow. That's it. You follow
those eight steps. That is possibly the laziest way to build muscle and lose fat and build an aesthetic body that actually looks good in and out of clothes. If you want this system that I use broken down into step-by-step formula so you know exactly what to do and how to build that body, click the first link in the description. Static Body Blueprint. See you next week. Build the body that you want.
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