2862: Why Your Bulk Is Making You Fat (And How to Fix It)
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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How can you bulk without gaining body fat?
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What are the steps to find your maintenance calories?
This is Mind Pump. Today's episode had a bulk. or build without gaining body fat, we explain it all to you. By the way, if you want to know, you want to get an estimate of how many calories you need to eat to build or even lose, go to mapsmacros.com.
How much of a calorie surplus should you aim for while bulking?
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Where should the extra calories come from during a bulk?
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Why is sleep crucial during a bulking phase?
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How does increasing protein intake help minimize fat gain?
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Why should you avoid junk food while bulking?
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Bulking is the process by which you're trying to gain size and strength. But it's muscle you want to gain, not body fat. This is the struggle. People bulk. They end up gaining more body fat than muscle. What's going on? We're going to break down how you can bulk without gaining body fat. Let's make it all muscle. Let's get into it.
This is cool because this is a lot of our reverse diet strategy, which is a bulk.
That's right.
Rebranded. It is. Yeah. Reverse dieting, I think, is just a safer term used by coaches and trainers to not scare people away that do not want to get bulky or put on much weight. But it's the same concept. We're slowly going to increase calories over time to help build muscle, speed your metabolism up. And so the steps that we're going to go through right now are very similar to the steps that our coaches take our clients through in order to help them reverse diet or to bulk without putting on a bunch of body fat.
Yeah. The benefits of bulking are great. This is actually what most people should do. at least part of the time, if they're strength training.
Especially when they first start.
Yeah. The goal with strength training is to build muscle. That's what strength training does. It makes you stronger and it builds muscle. Now, you could be strength training for fat loss- But again, if you're strength training for fat loss, the goal is to build muscle. The reason why strength training can be so powerful for fat loss is it can move your metabolic rate in a positive direction. So it can, for lack of a better term, speed up your metabolism. It also preserves muscle when you inevitably go in what's called a cut, when you drop your calories below what you're taking in, so you lose body fat. So the goal with strength training is to build muscle. So bulking, the process of bulking should be something that everybody who strength trains should employ at some point during the year.
And of course, depending on how much muscle you want to gain or how strong you want to get, that plays a role in how often you do this. But if you never do this, if you're strength training and you're like, you're never getting a bulk, here's what's going to happen. You're never, it's going to be very difficult to build muscle. It's going to be very difficult to move your metabolism in the right direction.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:06
2
How can you bulk without gaining body fat?
0:06–0:17
3
What are the steps to find your maintenance calories?
0:17–0:34
4
How much of a calorie surplus should you aim for while bulking?
0:34–0:36
5
Where should the extra calories come from during a bulk?
0:36–0:46
6
Why is sleep crucial during a bulking phase?
0:46–0:52
7
How does increasing protein intake help minimize fat gain?
0:52–0:56
8
Why should you avoid junk food while bulking?
0:56–27:08
Speakers
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