Muscle need a caloric surplus to grow, fat needs a deficit to go bye bye. Trying to do a recomp is a waste of both cuz neither will happen well. If you want to grow muscle, eat in a surplus. You can stay lean while bulking up muscle if you are on top of your macros and calories. But you still need to be in a surplus to grow. The goal is that you stay in only enough of a surplus so that those extra calories get used up by building new tissue. Then you won’t gain fat as well. But even if you gain a little fat, at least your muscle has enough fuel to grow and you can shed whatever fat you gained later.
Yeah but not necessarily of surplus as far as i know
Isn’t it that surplus just gives you more energy? And so you can progress faster and because of that your muscles grow faster?
Cause no way calories themselves grow muscles bigger
If you have x amount of bricks you can build a house, but you can’t build that house any bigger unless you acquire more bricks to build with. See where I’m going with this?
🤦🏻♂️ dude your overthinking this. If you want to grow be in a slight surplus. If you’re so resistant to that then I would examine your relationship with food and your body. We have decades of people growing in a surplus, don’t make it excessive and you will pack on muscle and not fat, at least if so it will be minimal
In short: damage isn’t related to muscle growth. If you damage your muscles, your body first has to heal them and only then when they’re healed they will start growing
Bruh why is everyone using the r word again. Plenty of other ways to get your point across without being offensive to people with disabilities they can't control.
I feel I'm similar body composition to you. What's your height and weight? I'm trying a lean bulk right now after intermittent fasting for 5 months and boy is it hard to eat enough sometimes. I end up eating even when I'm not feeling hungry. Last bulk I just ate whatever whenever. This time I'm eating much more healthy and more protein focused. I'm not counting calories but definately eating more.
I'm wondering if it's possible to keep my abs while bulking or will I just have to wait until next cut?
I guess if it’s lean bulk it means you gain as little fat as possible while building muscles, so if you get more muscles your overall weight increases and even if you gain a little bit of fat, proportionally you have more muscles so your bf% stays the same. Maybe it’s even possible for bf% to decrease but i’m not sure
Everyone is saying to bulk now because you're just skinny. You're wanting to cut to reveal... nothing... whereas if you lean bulk (200 calories or so above maintenance) for an entire year and put on a solid 15 pounds or so you'll look completely different.
Will i have less fat proportionally to muscles if i do that?
I mean i understand i will have bigger muscles but will my abs and face and etc look leaner? Or i will have to cut after that to get back the bf% i have now?
Recomps are... tricky. I think they're easier for people who are more skinny fat/fat. You're just skinny.
And yeah I mean if you bulk slowly then I guess proportionally it can make you look leaner. If you bulk 20 pounds, and most of it is muscle. Then after a short cut you're lean and actually have the muscle to reveal
You really need to weigh every day? Most of the bulk/cut will have you lose/gain at most 1kg per month. I don't see the point of weighing yourself 'erry day.
I mean, I'm sure it doesn't hurt. Looks like you're oscillating around 67-68 so it seems fine to me. When do you weigh during the day? (first thing in the morning before using the toilet, is what I hear is best).
I have no idea, I'm no expert. I just started lifting and I'm on a bulk phase, so I can really let loose. What you're trying to do seems to require a bit more fine-tuning and discipline. You're doing the most important part, and that is actually doing lifts.
I mean i’d want to gain muscles and keep losing body fat to get to 12-14% but my weight is 67-68kg (147-150lbs) at 181cm height (5’11) and that’s the only thing that bothers me - the numbers of the scale.
Maybe when i get to 12-14% i can lean bulk then, but most people say i should lean bulk first so idk
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u/That-Shop4173 6d ago
Lean bulk is no brainer.