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In this video, I talk about the most common mistakes people make when bulking and cutting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw6JaNLHp9M
When bulking, the #1 mistake I see people make is that they follow the 'dirty bulk'. I am guilty of this myself. When I was 18 I put on 40 in 6 months. I got big, I got strong...but I also got fat. When I dieted off all the body fat, I really didn't put on any more muscle then if I would of followed a clean bulk. All I really did was create a lot more work for myself to diet off all the fat I gained. When bulking, you want to stick to the same unprocessed, nutritious foods you would eat when cutting, but just eat larger quantities and include more calorie dense food options like whole eggs, lean red meat, natural almond butter etc.
The #1 mistake I see people make when cutting is they go all gung-ho and make a dramatic calorie drop to their daily calories and start doing hours of cardio per day. I often see people going from eating 4000 calories/day and doing no cardio to immediately dropping their calories to 2500/day and adding in two 1 hour cardio sessions per day. The problem with that is that you shoot yourself in the foot because you have no where to go once you hit a plateau.
If you were eating 4000 calories per day and maintaining your weight, all you would really need to do is drop your daily calories by around 500 per day to start loosing weight. Once you hit a plateau, I would then add in 30 minutes of cardio 3 days per week. From there, you could increase your cardio to 4 days per week. And so on. By making small less aggressive changes, you set yourself up for progress for the long term because you can continue to make changes when you reach plateaus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw6JaNLHp9M
When bulking, the #1 mistake I see people make is that they follow the 'dirty bulk'. I am guilty of this myself. When I was 18 I put on 40 in 6 months. I got big, I got strong...but I also got fat. When I dieted off all the body fat, I really didn't put on any more muscle then if I would of followed a clean bulk. All I really did was create a lot more work for myself to diet off all the fat I gained. When bulking, you want to stick to the same unprocessed, nutritious foods you would eat when cutting, but just eat larger quantities and include more calorie dense food options like whole eggs, lean red meat, natural almond butter etc.
The #1 mistake I see people make when cutting is they go all gung-ho and make a dramatic calorie drop to their daily calories and start doing hours of cardio per day. I often see people going from eating 4000 calories/day and doing no cardio to immediately dropping their calories to 2500/day and adding in two 1 hour cardio sessions per day. The problem with that is that you shoot yourself in the foot because you have no where to go once you hit a plateau.
If you were eating 4000 calories per day and maintaining your weight, all you would really need to do is drop your daily calories by around 500 per day to start loosing weight. Once you hit a plateau, I would then add in 30 minutes of cardio 3 days per week. From there, you could increase your cardio to 4 days per week. And so on. By making small less aggressive changes, you set yourself up for progress for the long term because you can continue to make changes when you reach plateaus.
