Let’s begin with the wrong way to do things. Today I’m going to show you how to prevent this scenario. All it did was waste my time and make me look worse than I did when I started. I found myself bulking and cutting the wrong way for quite a while back when I was first starting out. skinny-fat instead of lean and muscular) in the end. This then creates a lovely cycle of losing/gaining the same fat and muscle over and over again, looking like crap throughout most of the process, and ending up with a body that looks the same or worse (i.e. Instead, they approach things in a manner that causes them to gain too much body fat (and/or not enough muscle) when bulking, and lose too much muscle when cutting. When you bulk and cut the right way, you successfully build muscle and lose fat over time, and end up as lean and muscular as you intended to be as quickly and effectively as it can realistically happen.īut most people don’t bulk and cut the right way. Well, it can be… assuming it’s done right. From there, you’d simply alternate between phases until your long-term goal has been achieved.At this point, you’d switch to the other phase for a sufficient amount of time to allow yourself to either A) lose any excess fat you may have gained while bulking, or B) get back to building additional muscle after cutting.Depending on which you’ve decided to start with, you’d then either bulk or cut for an amount of time that allows for significant progress to be made, but without exceeding an amount of time that may be detrimental to your progress (more about that later as well).

As in, should you bulk or cut first? This mostly depends on the current state of your body (particularly your current body fat percentage), as well as your specific goals and preferences. The first step is to determine which phase to start with.During this time, you’d eat an amount of calories that causes a caloric deficit to exist so that weight loss occurs. CuttingĬutting is a term used to describe a fat loss phase. During this period of time, you’d eat an amount of calories that causes a caloric surplus to exist so that weight gain occurs. Bulking is a term used to describe a muscle building phase.

Difference between bulking and cutting