[quote]k1t0r5 wrote:
I will second what Nate Dogg said. He looked MUCH better in the first pic. He basically spent 9 months turning himself into a fat fuck.
It doesn’t look like even 1/4 of that weight gained was muscle. Look at his legs in the bulked up pic. They are about the same size as they were in his before shot. I can guarantee that he could have easily gained the same 20 or so lbs of muscle in the same time period without the 90+ lbs of fat. He also wouldn’t have had to go through a cutting phase and lose all the muscle he gained.
I think this is a prime example of why the bulking and cutting strategy DOES NOT WORK! It is the most retarded thing in the world.
Every winter, thousands of weight lifters stuff everything they can down their throats and become fat while gaining no more muscle than they would have if they simply focused on eating just enough and training hard.
Then when spring rolls around they desperately try to lose the fat, which most of them fail miserably at. They end up losing all the muscle they gained while never even getting anywhere close to a six pack. This puts them right back where they started at the end of every summer, no bigger than they were the previous year.
I don’t even train for bodybuilding goals and I’ve done a better job at hypertrophy and gaining muscle mass than 90% of the people I see online who bulk and cut. In January I weighed 170 at 12% bodyfat. I decided I wanted to tryout for my college football team and started training simply to get stronger and faster. All the while I knew I needed to gain some weight so I ate about 250 excess calories everyday. Now I weigh 199 at 13% bodyfat. Hmmm, that’s 24 lbs of muscle gained and only 5 lbs of fat gained in 10 months. Keep in mind, I wasn’t even training with body composition goals in mind. I can easily provide photos for those who don’t believe me.
How many people do you know who took a bulk and cut strategy and ended up with that much more muscle at about the same bodyfat after all was said and done? You may know a few, but I know for certain that you know alot more who saw little to no progress.
Am I just trying to brag on the internet or say I’m some genetic freak? No. And no. I’m simply using this example to show you that force feeding massive amounts of food down your throat in no way leads to more muscle gain. All it does is turn you into a fatass and ultimately causes you to lose most of that muscle while you try to lose all the fat.[/quote]
I took the bulk and cut strategy and put on more muscle than you, but then again I started at 200lbs. I gained alot of fat but I also put 585 on my powerlifting total and thats with a recent injury that made even body weight squats painfull and a 405 deadlift hurt.
Just thought I would counter your “bulking and cutting are retarted” post.