Cutting VS bulking?

JocelynDeshane

Can anyone give me any information on it possible? When you should do them both for how long? What's the purpose what do you get out of it what's it like, macros, food, anything!!! Thank you (:

alondrakayy

I'm not an expert but I feel like I know the basics.

Eat at a surplus to bulk (more than maintenance calories)
Eat at a defecit (less than surplus calories)

I've seen people do both for a few months. Really depends on how much muscle you are trying to gain/fat you are trying to lose.

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Krisfit40

unless you are trying to gain massive amounts of muscle then you don't need to "bulk".. If you want to see results from your hard work and stay pool ready all year then just figure out your calories and stick with it. eat more on days when you do cardio, less on days you don't.. I don't ever "bulk" and I have gained about 25lbs of lean mass in about 4 years. TBH I hate getting extra fat because its way too much work to get rid of it.. I eat clean "ish" and work hard and results follow and I can honestly say it works the same for everyone I've met on my fitness journey..

canadianlbs

JocelynDeshane wrote: »

Can anyone give me any information on it possible? When you should do them both for how long? What's the purpose what do you get out of it what's it like, macros, food, anything!!! Thank you (:

context: i'm sort of a Serious Recreational lifter. as in, lift 3x/week for two years; definite interest in getting way stronger than people expect me to be; definite non-interest in competition or public records. and i'm much more interested in the strength itself than the actual muscles, if you see what i mean.

for me 'bulking' just means a phase where my main interest is seeing the numbers go up on my lifts, so i'm going to eat to give myself the best chance at that with every 'next workout'. if it means the scale stalls or starts creeping upwards as well, i've already decided i'm fine about it. i may set (or just have) a mental cut-off weight that's kind of a 'i'm fine so long as i stay under x'. i've never bulked in the alternate sense of setting specific body weight as the goal. 'i WANT to get my weight up to x'. with me it's more likely to be 'i want to get my deadlift/squat/press/whatever' up there.

'cutting' in my life just means 'glurk. now i care more about getting my weight to come down, and if i have to chill it a bit with the lifting progress that's fine.' eat more conservatively, lift/progress to whatever extent that allows, and keep an eye on the scale. and again, i just come up with some wish-list number in the spirit of 'i'd like to get it back down to y'.