is there a way to bulk and cut at the same time?

[no0odlez]

hey guys im 5 10 152 pounds... (been there for a while...maybe i should eat more?) anyway here is the deal i want to bulk up a little bit more maybe get to around 170 lean...but i NEED to stay cut. Im a model for hollister and i have a photoshoot coming up in late july and i might possibly get fired if i bulk....anyway now that you know my situation... should i bulk for a month and then get cut for a month? im sure you guys know more then most so help me out a little?

[Piotrus69]

Originally Posted by no0odlez

hey guys im 5 10 152 pounds... (been there for a while...maybe i should eat more?) anyway here is the deal i want to bulk up a little bit more maybe get to around 170 lean...but i NEED to stay cut. Im a model for hollister and i have a photoshoot coming up in late july and i might possibly get fired if i bulk....anyway now that you know my situation... should i bulk for a month and then get cut for a month? im sure you guys know more then most so help me out a little?

clean bulk

[kirchner925]

nope, but im sure there is but it will be hard to do and see good results

[no0odlez]

Originally Posted by Piotrus69

clean bulk

whats that? im pretty new to all this

[kirchner925]

Originally Posted by no0odlez

whats that? im pretty new to all this

Eat only clean good foods, and keep your calories just enough about your maintainence, where you try to use all the calories. But you will gain some bf or keep your bf%

[mr_traps]

Clean bulk, do the same weights training, but add in a bit of cardio, and don't take in so many calories.

Its got me from 150lbs to 176lbs and kept my bodyfat around the same level (it goes up and down sometimes, depending on my eating habbits)

[no0odlez]

Originally Posted by kirchner925

Eat only clean good foods, and keep your calories just enough about your maintainence, where you try to use all the calories. But you will gain some bf or keep your bf%

does weight gainer, brown rice, and multivitamin sound good? and about the bf% i can do ALOT of cardio... so would clean bulking and cardio be an option?

[no0odlez]

Originally Posted by mr_traps

Clean bulk, do the same weights training, but add in a bit of cardio, and don't take in so many calories.

Its got me from 150lbs to 176lbs and kept my bodyfat around the same level (it goes up and down sometimes, depending on my eating habbits)

thanks dude... this was the kinda answer i was looking for.

[mr_traps]

Originally Posted by no0odlez

does weight gainer, brown rice, and multivitamin sound good? and about the bf% i can do ALOT of cardio... so would clean bulking and cardio be an option?

I would say no to the weight gainer, just get some whey protein

[watusa]

Read an article about doing this, called "Build and Burn." I'd link to it, but I'm not sure if I can post T-nation articles here?

Anyway, to break it down is this:

During your bulk, expect to gain a muscle to fat ratio of 3:1 with a good clean bulk. 3 pounds of muscle for every pound of fat. With that said, after 8 weeks with a 5 pound gain, only 1-2 pounds of it can be fat. This is when you begin a 2 week cutting cycle to strip those 2 pounds off while maintaining the same lean mass gained. Do this off and on and it looks something like this:

8 weeks bulk
2 weeks cut
8 weeks bulk
2 weeks cut

So on and so forth. With this method, it'll take pretty much the same amount of time to reach a desired weight with the same bodyfat you started with as it would for you to dirty bulk then cut down. Why be ripped only after cutting season when you can be ripped all year?


fat slob for half the year, or...



mother****ing machine all year round