Bulk to cut to bulk

yes, it's called clean bulk and if done properly you don't have to cut for more than a week or two at most

>>40066322
And yet nobody on this entire fucking board can explain clean bulking

>>40066380
i can give it a shot

3500 calories is roughly 1 lbs so if you eat at 500 calories surplus for a week you get that. that weight gain is 1:1 muscle to fat ratio meaning 0.5 lbs of muscle and 0.5 of fat for beginners. note that muscle gain will be much less the more advanced and muscular you are.

for beginners maximum weekly muscle gain is around 0.5 lbs so gaining anything over that will be mostly be just fat. now you might be asking why people do dirty bulk then if muscle gain is capped per week. it's not really capped per se and you are still gaining some minimal muscle but a lot more fat so the ratio gets skewed more towards fat than pure muscle. google this shit if you want to know it in more detail.

you can minimize the fat gain from this by doing cardio thus extending the bulking period. 500 surplus might be a bit too much depending on how much cardio you are willing to do but something like 250 surplus is perfect (but not optimal for beginners for above reasons) and maintainable for a very long time with very little cutting required because most of the fat you gain will be countered by cardio.

the bad thing is that 250 is very hard to track since that comes out to 0.5 lbs per week gain. hitting this is difficult as well since your daily caloric need is never really the same number and changes depending on how active you are and other factors throughout the day. other factors are like water weight, poo, etc. it's a slow but best way of maximizing muscle gain and minimizing fat gain.

so on dirty bulk there comes a point where you are FORCED to cut for extended period of time simply because of how fast you are gaining weight compared to clean bulk but the results are better when compared to clean bulk. being able to lift more weight = more stress on muscles.

on clean bulk it's a slow process but if done properly you hardly have to cut and can bulk for almost entire year with a few weeks here and there of cutting.

>>40066560
Damn, thanks

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>>40066300
steroids

>>40066560
>3500 calories is roughly 1 lbs so if you eat at 500 calories surplus for a week you get that. that weight gain is 1:1 muscle to fat ratio meaning 0.5 lbs of muscle and 0.5 of fat for beginners.
Stopped reading there. 1 lb of muscle contains way less energy than 1 lb of fat. It's less than half of that amount iirc.

>>40066300

Almost all fitness celebrities/physique/classic pro bodybuilders never bulk past 14-15% so no, they're not fat, just not very lean.

250-280+ lbs muscle monsters during off season can ignore that because they're on so much more drugs, gh and insulin they have TDEEs of 7000-9000+

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>>40066843
like Jay Cutler in this pic?

>>40066860

He can eat 3000 cals a day and lose 15lbs of pure fat after 1 week.

>>40066860
Its shopped btw

>>40066946
How can you tell?

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>>40066993

>>40067006

he doesnt even look that bad after a powerbulk in the off season.

>still leaner than almost every powerlifter in existence and with 2x more muscle mass at least