hardening muscles and making them look vascular

[sandro098]

I've achieved good gains and my cutting and definition are fine too, I just notice my muscles are very soft, how can I get some hardness, hardness was one of my main goals . Is there something I should change in my work out or diet?
I just want my muscle to feel really hard to the touch!

 

[Jay Scott]

There is this thing called muscle maturity. The more and longer you train, the more dense they become. Also you need to be super lean and retain little to no water in order to get that nice grainy look.

Its not that you will start eating something and you will become solid as a rock. It takes time, sweat and patience!

 

[stevesmi]

cutting body fat, tanning, and oiling up will help show those cuts well.

if you are fair skinned then consider doing that

 

[muskate]

The longer you are at a low body fat percentage, the harder your body will look. It takes time to develop hard and dense, grainy muscle. I wish there was a supplement or drug I could recommend but none of them will do anything.

It just comes down to muscle maturity. Its the same reason 'old man muscle' looks way harder and more vascular then 'new muscle' on a young guy.

 

[Lev Butlerov]

Other than certain PED's, there is not really much you can do to add hardness to the muscles, especially in a short period of time. All you can do, is maintain a low BF%, and keep training. As mentioned above, with muscle maturity will come hardness, so you just gotta keep training, and everything will be alright.

 

[MasonicBodybuilder]

It really comes down to having a low body fat and no water retention. This will give you the vascular look.