your x- periences with bulking after dieting

[Rockygrl78]

after dieting for 4.5 months then in like 3 month period gained the most amount of muscle ever and strenth has shot up...I have trained since i was 14.5 and now almost 20 and in since Oct inotice huge gain but it did come with bodyfat though. I noticed thsi in pictures as well in the mirro well at the gym too.

 

[Rockygrl78]

maybe this is because i train with more intensity and in th past I was always trying to lose at the same time trying to gain. And also cause of glycogen stored back up way higher then before.

 

[Candi Barr]

I've noticed this too, on a smaller scale. It's as if you're primed for muscle gain once the calorie deficit is relieved.

 

[wateengedoe2]

I suppose you got a lower body fat %, so your muscles are more visible too. But, indeed, when eating more calories than one burns, one certainly gets muscles much faster, and by eating in a clean way (no sugar, hardly any saturated fat, for me 20-20-60% energy from fat, proteins and carbs), fat stays away. I've been bulking on 125% of my energy need for months now, haven't seen an increase of fat percentage ... UNTIL Christmas came, now no trousers fit anymore because of the fat on my stomach After Christmas, my waist size stayed exactly the same, at least that tells me nothing is wrong with my bulking diet. I'm going to a cutting diet at 80% for 2 or 3 weeks or so to get back to my 'pre Christmas stomach' and continue bulking ...

Re priming your body for muscle growth .. Have a look at Torbjorn Akerfeldt's ABCDE-diet, you should be able to find that in Google. It's about cutting and bulking for about 2 weeks and changing all the time. Don't take his advise of cutting and bulking so strongly .. I got in touch with him a few months ago and he said his research pointed toward cutting at about 90% and bulking at about 125% for women. I tried for a month or so, but got too tired with changing my diet all the time, but for people who don't think this is a big problem, I would suggest you give it a try.