[quote]Varqanir wrote:
[quote]CroatianRage wrote:
[quote]crowdhater wrote:
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Thibs also sez: lol don’t do it.
[quote]paulieserafini wrote:
lol don’t do it.
Don’t do a fast food bulk.
I feel like I shouldn’t have to elaborate.
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You don’t have to elaborate.
Christian Thibaudeau already did.
For people too lazy to read the article, Christian’s thesis is twofold:
- “Bulking” is kinda dumb.
- Bulking on junk food is even kinda dumber.
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If your a natty you cant grow eating clean all the time it just doesn’t happen. [/quote]
I’ll also point out that while he said fat loss isn’t linear and your body adapts to a caloric deficit, he never mentions the opposite of this. Perhaps muscle gain is also not linear and might require a little nudge to maintain. Whether this comes in the form of a massive influx of calories or gaining a little fat to move more weight, who’s to say?
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Well, the man himself is sitting right there in the moderator’s chair right now, ask him if you like.
However, he did mention in the article that the body does adapt to caloric surplus: by storing fat!
Not only by stuffing more fat into the fat cells, but by increasing the number of fat cells, so that more fat can be stored.
Very, very difficult, by the way, to grow new muscle cells. New fat cells? Easy as pecan pie. [/quote]
I understand that the body may be forced to create more fat cells if it’s own are overwhelmed, but I don’t think this is happening from intermittently stuffing yourself full of crappy food, assuming you don’t let yourself get too fat. It appears we agree with each other but are talking about different things. You can’t build muscle without having some sort of caloric surplus. I just question what happens when the slight surplus that allows for only lean muscle gain stalls out and what it would take to break through this plateau.
I honestly don’t know the answer to this, but the seemingly tried and true method is adding more weight, whether it be to the bar or to your belly. Adding to the bar is very difficult, to the belly, easy as pecan pie.