Bulking/ Cutting is a fallacy

[NewestNoobie]

At least according to this article. I dont pretend to know enough about the subject to agree or dissent, so Ill leave you old bastards to argue over it and cherry pick the best pearls.

To gain size you have to eat, right? I think we can all agree with that. If you're a natural trainee you won't be able to add a significant amount of muscle mass unless you're consuming enough calories and nutrients to support muscle growth. If you're not ingesting enough nutrients, your body won't be in an optimal muscle-building state. In fact, if you don't eat enough, chances are you might even lose muscle mass despite training hard.
So on the surface it looks like the good ol' advice about following the ''see food diet'' to grow bigger seems logical. The more you eat the more you grow, right?

Not so fast!
While it's true that if you aren't consuming enough nutrients your muscle growth will be impaired, it doesn't necessarily mean that the more you eat the more you grow. Actually, it is true: the more you eat the bigger you'll get. However, this doesn't mean that you'll become more muscular!
This brings me to one of my biggest pet peeves and what I believe to be one of the biggest mistakes a person can make when training to build an aesthetic and muscular physique: eating way too much junk to grow bigger and accepting a large body fat gain in hope of stimulating more muscle growth.
You see, when you're a natural trainee your body has a limited capacity to build muscle. The amount of muscle you can build is dependent on your body's capacity to synthesize new muscle tissue from the ingested protein. Your body's protein synthesis capacities are dependent on your natural Testosterone levels, your Testosterone to cortisol ratio, your insulin sensitivity, and your muscle fiber makeup, among other things.
You can eat any amount of food you want; you simply can't change your protein synthesis limit naturally. Eating more food than your body can use to build muscle will simply lead to more body fat being gained.


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[joe d]

everyones food requirements are different. the fact about diet is that you need to eat as much as you can effectively use of each nutrient for maximum growth. any more will go to storage. there a million things you can do to raise these totals. the masses read you should eat this many grams of this and that many grams of that per lb of lbm and never go any farther. those same people dont seem to get verry big. every aspect of successful body building is based on pushing the limitors. keeping a constant focus on how to get just another hair past where you are now.

getting stuck in the rut of eating the same way, training the same old programs, eating the same foods and amounts is the worst possible thing you can do. manipulating your body can be worked on forever without ever being maxed out so why stop.

 

[jesse_01]

It seems to make sense. I know personally its easier for my to eat clean and smart all the time. It becomes a way of life, and you don't think anything different.

 

[jdbaker82]

So would this mean if you are on steroids... say Dbol which increases your protein synthesis you may be able to get away with building muscle without eating a ton of calories? As long as you are spreading out the protein through 6 small meals etc.....?

 

[jdbaker82]

Good stuff btw I really like that article

 

[jdbaker82]

Although in this article I don't think they are taking into account spreading the protein and other nutrients throughout 6-7 small meals a day etc for better synthesis and processing.