Difference between bulking and cutting
Additionally, many people cut by extreme dieting. Two, you actually lose some of the muscle gains you’ve made during your bulk when you cut (think two steps forward, one step back), so the overall progress you are making is not that much. One, you only look the way you want to for half the year. I have two main problems with the idea of bulking and cutting. Then, come the spring, you begin “cutting” the fat off your body to expose the muscle gains you have made during your bulk. But this seems to be an acceptable side effect of bulking because bulking season is in the winter, when no one can see the protective layer of fat you’ve developed over your abs. Inevitably, some of this mass will be undesirable fat along with the desirable muscle. This is the basic idea behind “bulking.” The logic follows that if you want to make “mad muscle gains,” you should be eating as much as possible to provide no limit to the mass your body can put on. It has been proven that in order to build up muscle mass (or gain any kind of weight), one must be taking in a caloric surplus.
Many lifters preach the bulking/cutting cycles to newbies as basics of bodybuilding because they were taught it by the gym-rats they looked up to when they started these newbies are less experienced, so they blindly listen. I believe so many people try to live by these cycles of bulking and cutting because of the seemingly logical reasoning behind it and a lack of awareness about other alternatives. Yes, there is a lot of hard work and dedication involved in terms of sticking to a regular workout routine and dieting while on a cut, but, it is neither sustainable nor enjoyable. Yes, bulking and cutting often will work. The answer to the first question is because cycling between bulking and cutting is easy. Why is this fad so popular? Why might it be misleading? Is it right for anyone? But is “bulking” in this sense really the best way to build muscle and make strength gains? Do lifters really need to pound pints of Ben and Jerry’s at night to make gut gains that they will subsequently hide under a sweatshirt in order to make the best of their bodybuilding routines? Come autumn, these same lifters will likely talk about starting a “bulk.” The idea behind the bulking season is to put on as much mass as possible so that, by the next summer, they are even bigger and more shredded than the summer before. Many lifters will talk about starting a “cut” around March in order to get into their “summer” bodies and look their best for the season in which most people wear minimal clothing. A simple internet search on bodybuilding websites will almost always lead to the key words “cutting” and “bulking.” These words refer to the cycling between a “cutting” season and “bulking” season that typically occurs annually.
More specifically, within the realm of bodybuilding-or for anyone just trying to put on muscle mass-the most prevalent fad is that of cutting and bulking. Too many fads exist in the realm of fitness. By Nicholas Remillard, Assistant Arts Editor