bulking and staying lean

damo

How can i bulk and still look hard, alot of people who bulk look as though they have eaten to many pies.

FAT BOY

Hence the term bulk m8.


you need to eat relativly clean even when trying to gain size.

best thing to do is count your caleries and just increase them gradualy.
if you start gaining to much fat. just reduce them or add a bit of cardio

most of us are pie eaters in the off season m8

Extreme

Even naturally lean people need to sacrifice that look when on a size building cycle.

You can build new tissue and try to hold your condition righ through but you are slowing the process down, look at the pro's in their bulking cycles, half of them look like space hoppers with arms.

Why is that? Because your body is more likely to grow with a calorific excess, muscles only grow with excess protein. If you are in a carb defecit you risk your body converting protein into carbs.

Nick500

hmm

is it chemically possible to turn protein into carbs? or do you mean the body will use protein as a source of fuel for energy, similar to the way it normally would be using carbos?

Nick

Andy1981iron

Protein can be turned into carbohydrates in the body, not the other way round though unfortunately!

Extreme

Yes Nick, the body chops off the NH4 part of the protein molecule and its then basically a carbohydrate.

The body cannot however manufacture protein on its own, it must be eaten.

Young Gun

Well that sucks don't it :cry:

Extreme

I don't think it sucks, its basic bodybuilding knowledge to eat protein every 3 hours or so for this reason.

FierceFrets

I think he meant it sucks that "The body cannot however manufacture protein on its own, it must be eaten."

:twisted: Fierce

Young Gun

Yes I'm obviously well aware of that was just a tongue in cheek sarcy comment. Of course it sucks the body can't manufacture its own protein it would be a lot easily if it could.

Wasn't a literal comment