Why is it that when you bulk up, you can eat anything you want, but when you cut up then it’s select foods?
September 2nd, 2010Like if I’m trying to get bigger and bulkier. I can eat junk food, fast food, sweets, etc. during the bulking up phase because all you do is strength training to muscle fatigue and get bulkier. Now, when you’re cutting up it’s the opposite you can’t hardly eat anything, it’s a few types of foods to eat because anything can stop you from getting ripped and lean. It’s not fair. Why do the bulk ups get to eat all the good tasty stuff but the cut ups have to suffer and eat the low calorie foods and in low amounts? Nothing but all vegetables and lean protein meats.
I wouldn’t really just eat any type of food when bulking. I’d still want to eat relatively low fat foods. You can put 5000 calories a day in and it be all good, or you could eat junk with loads of fat and achieve the same calorie count. Which makes better sense? Once you start the leaning phase items with high fat content have to be phased out to the point that you’re taking in nearly no fat at all. For me all that amounted to was switching my ground beef from the tasty 80% to the no tasting 96% lean. Of course the taste is in the fat, but I can spice up that 96% lean with a hot salsa mix that works well with it. At that point I need the meat but not the fat. If you begin to take in a lot less it’s easier to burn and all the training you’ve done starts to show really good. I’ve done that up and down diet format for several years, but I decided to keep it mostly lean and not have to worry with going through the ups and downs of switching. Now it’s far easier for me to stay lean all the time. With that format there are foods I cut out and rarely eat at all. But, those were fat laden foods I can do without anyway. The guys I know that do a lot of shows still don’t just eat anything they want in the bulking phase they just eat more of what they normally eat.
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