The Incredible 82-Day Speed Shred

“I just saw my reflection in my pool of sweat,” says B.J. Gaddour, C.S.C.S.

He pauses, then looks up and screams with excitement: “That’s the first time that’s happened!”

Gaddour might be playing with us, but there’s enough sweat on the floor to make it believable. And he’s not yet even finished with the 30-minute workout he’s filming for Men's Health DeltaFIT: Speed Shred, our all-new 8-DVD fitness program that blasts fat, torches calories, and sculpts every muscle in your body.

As Gaddour pushes through every routine—there are 18 workouts in all—his passion for helping people get leaner and fitter than they ever thought possible seems to literally drip out of him. “That’s not just sweat,” he yells. “Those are change droplets.”

And surely, he’s right: They are change droplets. But did you ever think of your sweat that way? Once you experience Men’s Health DeltaFIT and Gaddour’s Speed Shred program, it’ll be impossible not to.

It’s not every day we launch a fitness movement. In fact, we never have. But that’s what we’re doing with Men’s Health DeltaFIT and the Speed Shred DVD program. So what is it, exactly? DeltaFIT is a fitness system based around “metabolic resistance training.” The kind of intense, fast-paced training that lights your muscles on fire, torches fat, and skyrockets your endurance. The kind of training that makes you sweat buckets.

If it doesn’t jump out at you, “Delta,” or ?, is a Greek letter that, in mathematics and science, is used as a symbol for “change.” In the case of DeltaFIT, think: Change your body. Transform it. Make it look, perform, and feel better. The DeltaFIT mantra: “Make a change!”

And while “FIT” is seemingly obvious, it’s also our acronym for Fast Intense Training. FIT is what makes change happen.

All of this positions Gaddour as the perfect leading man for our first DVD series. Change and intensity, it seems, are what he’s all about.

At 29, Gaddour is known as a top Men’s Health fitness adviser, and one of the most shredded guys you’ll probably ever meet. As the saying goes, his abs have abs. And his biceps have biceps. But when he was in high school, Gaddour weighed 275 pounds and wore size 44 pants. Worse, he suffered from debilitating knee pain that made him feel like he “was 17 going on 77.”

On a family cruise, he saw a photo of himself that inspired him to make a change. “I knew I was overweight,” he says. “But for some reason, I had never seen myself as I really looked. That picture literally changed my life.”

It’s changed thousands of other lives, too. That’s because Gaddour has become one of the world’s leading metabolic training and fitness boot-camp experts. It’s not just the workouts themselves that are so effective; it’s the intensity that Gaddour brings to them when he coaches. “I consider every workout a fat-burning battle that gets you ready to conquer the 'fight’ that is life,” says Gaddour. “If you can get through these workouts, everything else you do in life will be easier.”

But there’s one other major reason Gaddour gets results: People love his workouts. “Through coaching thousands of fitness boot camps, I’ve learned that people simply get bored with conventional strength-training routines, no matter how well-designed or effective they are,” says Gaddour. “Yet they often can’t get enough of DeltaFIT-style metabolic workouts.”

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Shred Your Abs and transform your body with Speed Shred, the cutting-edge fitness program from the experts at Men's Health.