How Do Bodybuilders And Fitness Models Get So Lean?

By Tom Venuto, CSCS, NSCA-CPT
QUESTION: “Tom, on your www.burnthefat.com website, you wrote: ‘Who better to model than bodybuilders and fitness competitors? No athletes in the world get as lean as quickly as bodybuilders and fitness competitors. The transformations they undergo in 12 weeks prior to competition would boggle your mind!
Only ultra-endurance athletes come close in terms of low body fat levels, but endurance athletes like triathaletes and marathoners often get lean at the expense of chewing up much of their lean muscle.”
There seems to be a contradiction unless I’m missing something. Why do bodybuilders and fitness competitors have to go [...]