Experts: Why separate bulking up and cutting up cycles?

[Bruce]

O shut up you couldn't add a bl of fat if you tried!!!! Mr 8000 cals and still 2%bf

I love ya bruce.

yea but when i want to puke from eating so much i would sometimes rather eating small lean meals. i like healthy foods as much as i like junk food. it is nice when i have munchies though. i will admit that.

 

[goku_kakarot77]

Personally, I think all this bulking and cutting stuff is rubbish, yo-yo dieting for the lads.

Unless you are a hardcore ectomorph, you are more likely to put on more muscle if you keep your bodyfat in check, so not more that 15% max, and I think that is even pushing it for men, probably between 9-12% would be ideal.

I also don't think that eating anything more than 500-800 kcals above your maintenance each day is very sensible either.

Most of the time, 'bulking' is just an excuse for 85% of the lads to eat rubbbish and get fat.

100% Agree

 

[jroc86]

IMO its just easier ... within moderation. Diet, AAS, and training can be geared easily in one direction or the other, and ultimatley is LBM is slowly increasing why try and juggle the 2 @ once?

 

[needtogetaas]

yea but when i want to puke from eating so much i would sometimes rather eating small lean meals. i like healthy foods as much as i like junk food. it is nice when i have munchies though. i will admit that.

I am going to get you a copy of my book bro. You will love it for real.

 

[perryscoon]

Personally I find this to be the most difficult aspect of bodybuilding.

Jay Cutler says in one of his interviews on youtube that he "does nothing different before competition". Of course, this could be a lie, but I've never seen any pics of him fat, so I don't know what to think.

Surely, its possible to gain mass and stay super lean, but very very difficult, even with drugs.

I think thats why most people just say screw it, I'll gain some fat on this bulker and try to cut up at the end when I'm about to come off and stop making gains.

 

[needtogetaas]

when you are on that much shit you can say what ever you want

 

[perryscoon]

when you are on that much shit you can say what ever you want

True. I would love to see what he's on. I can only imagine.

 

[ledhead]

I know this is a old-ass post but i hope someone catches this. The fact of the matter is none of us here are pros,and I would venture to say the majority of the people on this sight are not independently wealthy which you would have to be in order to bulk-up clean and gain real quality muscle.For starters, it would be entirely to expensive you would have to eat at least 2 lbs of fish or red meat every 2 to 3 hrs along with all the complex carbs,and veggies not including all the sups you would have to take. It would be entirely to hard to take in all those quality calories for al ong period of time,and too darn expensive.Moreover, you would have to do this for at least a year even with gear to see quality gains. Who has the money to do this? I make an above average salary,and can only to do this maybe 3 or 4 months out of the year.
That being said I think we all can bulk up moderatly clean with some junk added for a while than cut for a while.

 

[George Spellwin]

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