I’m 17, 6’3" and around 200lbs. Been bulking for a while now but have put on quite a lot of fat over the past month or so.
So not sure if I should carry on bulking or do short cut, any advice?
Sorry for the bad photos
I’m 17, 6’3" and around 200lbs. Been bulking for a while now but have put on quite a lot of fat over the past month or so.
It depends. If you’re doing everything right, kicking ass in the gym, and eating well but are still starting to pack on fat all of a sudden, I say take something like 6 weeks and wage war on a fatloss approach.
If you’re eating like shit and your training intensity is sub-par, you should try cleaning up your diet and training harder.
Which approach you take also comes down to preference. I wouldn’t go on gaining if I looked in the mirror and felt too shitty about myself to keep going full bore, but everyone has their own visual POV.
That’s how I look at it, anyway.
EDIT: by the way, you’re doing well at 17.
The honest truth is that if you’re only at 200lbs and already putting on a lot of fat at 6’3 your diet needs improvement and you need to lift harder.
now you clean bulk
check back after 3 months and repost
yeah we got no idea Re: your training so i assume you’re not getting enough volume:food ratio. Also if you have a fat gain issue you’re worried about then just throw in some sprints with a prowler or push a bench with plate on it if youre indoors. About 10 or so heavy sprints with a sled will keep you lean.
-chris
Ok - are we looking at the guys pics? Because that doesn’t look like someone who needs to cut anytime soon…
How long have you been bulking and how much have your major lifts gone up during that time period?
[quote]SkyNett wrote:
Ok - are we looking at the guys pics? Because that doesn’t look like someone who needs to cut anytime soon…[/quote]
Who said cut?
Fixing a diet to get more protein and better carbs at the right times is different than dropping calories.
[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:
[quote]SkyNett wrote:
Ok - are we looking at the guys pics? Because that doesn’t look like someone who needs to cut anytime soon…[/quote]
Who said cut?
Fixing a diet to get more protein and better carbs at the right times is different than dropping calories. [/quote]
Not you…
[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:
[quote]SkyNett wrote:
Ok - are we looking at the guys pics? Because that doesn’t look like someone who needs to cut anytime soon…[/quote]
Who said cut?
Fixing a diet to get more protein and better carbs at the right times is different than dropping calories. [/quote]
Blakedaman said “cut”…and that is horrble advice at that stage unless he wants to say goodbye to any muscle he just gained.
Like was said, if he is gaining that much fat at 200lbs then he needs to scale back on carbs a little and continue training as if the goal is to gain.
How often are you squatting and deadlifting? What is your max for each?
[quote]SkyNett wrote:
[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:
[quote]SkyNett wrote:
Ok - are we looking at the guys pics? Because that doesn’t look like someone who needs to cut anytime soon…[/quote]
Who said cut?
Fixing a diet to get more protein and better carbs at the right times is different than dropping calories. [/quote]
Not you…[/quote]
Completely missed the post before mine. My bad.
Personally I’d sit around this weight for a while. Just to “secure these gains”. But of course you can carry on with gaining as well. But my opinion, is that after a “bulk” one should either keep his gains with quality foods, or keep adding mass in a slower rate. But I wouldn’t jump on any serious diet after a successfull bulk. Too much risk. :-
[quote]guel0013 wrote:
How often are you squatting and deadlifting? What is your max for each?[/quote]
Definitely the most important question to answer in this thread!
I find your stomach quite unusual, because you don’t look THAT fat, and yet you can’t see much of an outline of your Abs. At your bodyfat level, I’m still able to see the outline of my Abs…
Anyway, with that said, it looks to me like you maybe do a lot of isolation exercises, but not many really intense compound lifts (e.g. squats, deadlifts etc)…lifts of which tend to help speed up the metabolism, build a solid core etc.
I don’t know for sure, I’m just speculating.
As regards bulking, I’d do what others have suggested (better nutrient timing - especially around workout and in the evening with carbs/high cals) and make sure your training is sound (centred around the big exercises, enough volume / intensity etc). But other than maybe doing a couple short sessions of cardio (if you’re really concerned), I wouldn’t worry about halting the bulk altogether.
People should lay off his abs before they give the man a complex.
He isn’t carrying much muscle…thus why his abs aren’t very developed.
You take the average 240lbs well muscled serious weight lifter at average height and they will have decent ab development when dieted down even if they don’t train them directly…simply because lifting heavy in all of those other exercises activates the abdominals for stability.
Bottom line, he isn’t built enough to look good dieted down like this. He needs more size, not more dieting.
Have recently started squatting twice a week but have not been deadlifting.
Recently had food poisoning which caused we to lose about 10lbs of muscle and thats when I completely lost my abs.
Think I’ll carry on bulking but try to clean it up a bit as well as lowering the carbs and getting more protein.
People have to watch the use of the word “cut”. There’s a difference between dieting down to sub 10% bodyfat and just keeping your body composition in order and getting it back in check from time to time. That’s not “cutting up”. It’s monitoring things while you’re on the way up.
Clean up your diet and start lifting harder…