Bulking/cutting?

[kpat102]

Question i've always wondered, what approach to most of you take when bulking/cutting? i.e. do you spend lets say, 8 months a year bulking, then 3-4 cutting to get back into shape? problem with me is i can bulk and put on a decent amount of weight, but as soon as i cut, most of the weight falls off and i start back from scratch..at only 66kg i know i should bulk a fuckload more before cutting, problem is whenever i bulk i get pretty fat so im left with no choice but to cut..and so on. help plz?

[nelly bunton]

ive been in that boat for a couple of years now man, get fat then try to get back under 85kg for rugby. i think in the long run it makes sense to gain slowly rather than just eating excessively and looking like shit for most of the year to hopefully look decent over summer. even though seeing the scales move up slowly if at all some weeks is frustrating and take time to get used to, a solid year worth of quality leaner gains will be better than a few months of gains plus a lot of added fat then needing to cut..back to square one..you cant really expect to gain muscle on a cut so take it slow and steady..long term thinking

[ngapuhi strong]

Question i've always wondered, what approach to most of you take when bulking/cutting? i.e. do you spend lets say, 8 months a year bulking, then 3-4 cutting to get back into shape? problem with me is i can bulk and put on a decent amount of weight, but as soon as i cut, most of the weight falls off and i start back from scratch..at only 66kg i know i should bulk a fuckload more before cutting, problem is whenever i bulk i get pretty fat so im left with no choice but to cut..and so on. help plz?

when you bulk are you doing it clean or dirty. it can make huge difference to lean gains

[Rxx]

If you gaining weight too quickly and it's obviously fat then drop your calories back.

[kpat102]

thanks for the feedback guys

 

previously i've tried to estimate required calories etc, but this year i've hired a coach to help me - turns out i've overesitamted by about 2-300cals in the past so this could make a huge difference to the weight gains..will be interesting to see how i go this year on a proper slow/lean bulk phase..that said though i will need to cut at some point this year as i tried to reverse diet out of a serve deficit which got me to 7-8% but my body still took in all the water/glycogen so lost pretty much all of my cut