Should You Bulk Or Cut Before Building Muscle?

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Bulking Or Cutting First? Here’s The Healthy Way

On today’s episode of Live Lean TV, it’s time to answer one of the most asked questions, should you bulk or cut before building muscle?

In other words, what comes first, a bulk or cut?

First off, I’ve been consistently training for approximately 10 years and I have never done a typical bulk phase.

Sure I’ve cut for projects to get photoshoot ready, but I consistently stay lean, under 9% body fat, 365 days a year.

Some people in the industry say it’s impossible to maintain that level of leanness all year.

What do I think about it being impossible?

Just no.

Consistency, hard work, and following the right workout and diet plan make Living Lean possible.

Regardless of where you stand on the matter, if you’re going to do a bulk or cut phase with your training, in my opinion, there is a right and a wrong way to do it. 

Should You Bulk Or Cut Before Building Muscle?

Here’s my answer to the question, should you bulk or cut before building muscle?:

1. Cut first.
2. Bulk next.

In other words, lose fat first by following a body recomposition workout program like Live Lean Afterburn 2.0.

Then focus on adding quality muscle next, by following a lean muscle building program like Live Lean MASS 2.0.

Here’s the problem I have with bulking first

If you follow a traditional bulking strategy, you put yourself at a higher risk of increasing your number of fat cells, in addition to those you already have. 

Once you add new fat cells, you can shrink them, but you may never be able to get rid of them again.

Your first goal before bulking is to get your body fat %:

• below 10% for males
• below 20% for females

Important: if you train properly, you will reduce your body fat %, but the most important factor is your diet.

Here are the best healthy foods to bulk up without adding belly fat.

How to your reduce body fat % without starving yourself

The fastest way to reduce your body fat % without starving yourself, is to be in a small 300-500 daily calorie deficit, by lowering the amount of calories from carbohydrates.

Then replace those carbohydrate calories by increasing your intake of good sources of healthy fat such as:

• fish oil and krill oil
• flaxseed oil
• borage oil

Boom!

Now I’m interested in your experiences with bulking or cutting.

In the comment section below, let me know:

• Have you ever tried to bulk or cut?
• If so, what were your results with the bulk and cut approach?

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Question For You:

• Have you ever tried to bulk or cut?
• If so, what were your results?

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