[quote]LoRez wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]LoRez wrote:
I thought we were talking about 10-15% or less bodyfat.[/quote]
Why? I can tell how muscular someone is at āgasp 16% gaspā.[/quote]
Why?
Because one of these days Iād like to be a much larger version of myself, at 10-15% bodyfat.
I want to know whether Iāll get there faster via the ālean gainsā approach or the ābulk and cutā approach.
Iām pretty sure Iām not the only one.
But thatās why I care.[/quote]
I know thats why you care. Iāve tried both approaches myself. Bulking is best for rapid gains. Itās just common sense, give your body everything it needs and more and it will grow. Once youāve built up a base of muscle and conditioning, then the game changes a little bit. You can stay leaner eating the same calories you were once bulking with. So the increase in calories as a percentage of your total intake is less.
Heres a fact. You need adequate glycogen at all times to maintain cellular hydration, since this acts as a light switch for protein synthesis. You also need insulin, since this is once of the most anabolic hormones your body has. This is even more important when youāre natural. No insulin equals no growth. You get a higher insulin level from eating more food, be it from fats, carbs or protein.
Dairy is insulinogenic. That means it stimulates a higher insulin response than the sum of the carbs,fats and proteins that its made from. Its actually much higher.
If you canāt get your head round that and grow, then nothing will help you.
Ive posted old time strongmen loads of times now but ill refer again to arthur saxon. 5 10, 220 and lean (not by competitive BB standards). Read up on what he used to eat in a day. This was before steroids even existed.
All the old time strongmen ate a shitload, trained a shitload with compound lifts and thats about it. They werenāt counting calories, macros or monitoring their 300 extra calories for the day. Or carbing up, or going ketogenic or anything. Simples
Iād love to hear someone from this time period telling them about lean gains and how they should just eat chicken and salad and watch him laugh in their face, then one arm bent press them.