Who has it easier? Bulkers or cutters?

It sounds like an ectomorph vs endomorph. IMO ectomorphs have it easeir since they can damn near eat whatever they want when they're bluking. Endos still need to keep the diet relatively clean or risk putting on excess fat while bulking. But I'm an endo so it could just be "grass is greener" thinking.

I will admit, I do like the fact that putting on muscle isn't that difficult which would cause some ectomorphs to give up.

I think each has their own set of challenges but I'd rather strictly cut because a bulk would be really difficult for me psychologically lol

I think cutting is easier. But both have challenges and I suppose that's going to vary from person to person.

Cutting for sure is harder haha i love food so bulking and eating more would be easier for me.

For me personally, bulking is so much harder. I'm so active in just day to day life that my biggest problem cutting is to eat enough to keep my deficit at a sufficiently shallow rate. Had a rant yesterday about how a month into bulking, I haven't managed to gain anything. Once again, down to just moving around so much everyday. Need to start moving less just to keep calories at a sane level!

Bulking is harder because you are thinking far more about muscle and fat. You're gaining both and you want to find that fine line of gaining muscle without too much fat. In order to clean bulk perfectly, you have to match your body's rate of muscle synthesis with protein and carb intake. It's very tricky to do this in a clean fashion.

Cutting on the other hand is just work. Just sweat it out, stay in deficit and keep drinking BCAAs.

While that is said, it's far more *FUN* to bulk. You're stronger, warmer, more active (yes in bed too) and you can eat a lot.

Personal preference plays a major role in this, but I would say bulking if you are talking about muscle gains as gaining muscle mass is a much slower process in comparison to burning fat...for most people.

Another consideration which you might not have considered is cost of food and time to prepare that food. I'm just coming off a bulk where I are 6-7 meals per day at 4000 cals. My typical cut is 2300 cals over 4-5 meals. Time, money and effort may be significantly higher when bulking.

It depends. It seems that everyone's appetite has a set point, whereby you feel full and stop eating. For some, that set point is a little to high, so if they're not careful, they overeat. For others, it's a little too low, so if they're not careful, they undereat. For people who find it easy to maintain a healthy weight, it's set just right. Also, there is some evidence that some extremely obese people have no set point at all, i.e. they feel constantly hungry and never full (something to do with damage to the hypothalamus if I recall correctly, but it's been more than a decade since I studied any neurobiology so I may have remembered that wrong). For reasons that I think have a lot to do with natural selection, there are a lot of people who are prone to overeating.... mostly because we didn't evolve in an environment where there was too much food, so having a slightly too big appetite didn't matter or was possibly an advantage for storing a bit of extra fat during good times to get through the times when food was in short supply.

In any case, people whose appetite set point makes them stop eating too soon are going to find bulking a lot harder than cutting, and people whose appetite set point makes them stop eating after they've already overeaten somewhat, are going to find cutting a lot harder than bulking. Someone who easily maintains a healthy weight will probably find both bulking and cutting equally difficult.

I'm towards the end of a cut, so I'm going to say bulking is easier.

Ask me in six months to a year, and my answer will certainly change.

Bulking is heaven for me. Srs

IMO bulking is harder, I love food so I tend do overeat and gain weight, but that has nothing to do with proper bulking.

Cuting and bulking is about training and sticking to your calorie goals. Not eating when you are hungry is way easier then eating when you are stuffed --> cuting is easier then bulking

It depends on the type of cut, and type of bulk

Bulking for general weight gain is relatively easy, but as Jamielynas posted - Lean bulking is seriously hard, as Bulking in general almost always seems to add fat, keeping that off, and keeping the scale creep slowly up, is seriously hard.

Bulking can get hard for those who have previously cut - I personally spent years eating 2300 calories trying to cut, so the first few months trying to eat 3600 calories was hard work. Most of my diet is clean, even though I'm on an IIFYM diet, so having that much pasta\rice\chicken, and having to force feed myself at times, has been a real struggle. I now hit those targets daily now.

On the flip side, Thanks to the poor knowledge of a lot of cutters, they have a hard time too - my 2300 was too low for me, so I kept the fat, and lost muscle, it can be hard to get it right and eat MORE to lose weight

A lot of it is also down to personal preference, and genetics IMHO

Cutting is easier workout wise. One when you're bulking you have to work out the musles correctly and in a balanced way to create your build, and 2 Gaining muscle hurts, Weight training on a cut is far easier you are never too sore to train.