Continue cut or bulk

3agle2006
3agle2006 Posts: 1 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
i have started my fitness journey around one year ago at 104.5kg one year later im at now 79 kg.I have been going to the gym 5 times a week for the past 5 months lifting weights progressing overolad eating high rotein but i still think the results are not good enough in terms of building muscle. Shouldabechn0a21ly.jpg
i continue cutting or get in a calorie surplus in order to gain muscle?

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  • Retroguy2000
    Retroguy2000 Posts: 1,869 Member
    How much protein, and what are your workouts?

    JMO, go to maintenance and recomp. You don't need to be in a surplus to build muscle, especially if you are new to weights (guessing based on you look young) and have some body fat. Keep working out and progressing, and aim for at least 150g protein daily.
  • SuzanneC1l9zz
    SuzanneC1l9zz Posts: 460 Member
    I know appearances can be deceiving, but you look really young. The 2006 in your username isn't your birth year, is it?
  • skellyc74
    skellyc74 Posts: 30 Member
    I would either reverse up to maintenance and /or build for a while. You look very young so you should see good results.
    You don't say what height you are so you may just need to recomp rather than keep losing.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    "Lifting weights"...but what is your actual programming and is it conducive to your goals? When I was young I had difficulty making any real progress with my physique largely because I wasn't doing any kind of structured programming specific to what I wanted to achieve.
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 12,075 Member
    Sometimes youth can be the greatest factor of them all. In high school I ran and did some lifting, remained rail thin through graduation. A few years later in college, even without lifting (just lots of calisthenics and more running), my upper body exploded in musculature. Puberty and muscle building hit at different rates for different people...some look like Arnold their freshman year, others have to wait until their 20's.
  • gpanda103
    gpanda103 Posts: 189 Member
    This may not be super helpful, but it’s really up to you. Eventually you are going to have to bulk. You could probably still make progress at maintenance since you are young and probably pretty new to the gym
  • JBanx256
    JBanx256 Posts: 1,479 Member
    3agle2006 wrote: »
    I have been going to the gym 5 times a week for the past 5 months lifting weights progressing overolad eating high rotein but i still think the results are not good enough in terms of building muscle.

    5 months and you don't think the results are "good enough"? When it comes to building a physique, think in terms of YEARS, not months. Of course you will see changes in months, but nobody is gonna get a sick aesthetic body in the time span of single-digit months.

    As others have said, my vote would be to eat at/near maintenance and work on recomp.

    Also, if you're not on a structured, progressive program, I'd definitely get goin' on that, stat.

  • Dy4u
    Dy4u Posts: 4 Member
    I wouldn’t worry to much about Bulking or cutting yet as it’s still early days of training for you. You’ve done a great job so far, why not eat at a maintenance / Minimal surplus of calories and if your diet is consistent for another 6 months along with training then decide what you would like to do.

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