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My first bulk ...

  • 16-10-2007 12:08am
    #1
    Gaz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,595 ✭✭✭


    First off , a big thank you to everyone on this forum ... you guys (especially Dragan, G'em, Transform, Hanley, dave_irl, jsb and many others) really know your stuff and have been an excellent resource. CHEERS !

    So, I joined a gym back in March and for the first four months i concentrated on learning the various weights, form and getting my diet in check.
    8 weeks ago i was 75kg with 17% body fat.
    Today I am 83Kg with 18% BF

    My diet was as follows...

    8am - Large bowl of Porridge with full fat milk
    10am - fruit & Protein bar
    12pm - Chicken wrap
    2pm - mass gainer
    4pm - Chicken breast, potatoes , salad
    6pm - bacon and Eggs
    8pm - Nuts
    10pm - Mass gainer

    I found this tough, it is a lot of food and i really had to puch myself to eat at times.

    My workout was 4 days a week, alot of compound lifting , going as heavy as i can to failure.
    I am going to continue like this for maybe another 6 weeks to reach 90kg but then i would like to cut my BF to 10% , is it ok to go from a bulk straight into a cut ? Whats the best approach ? Is it just a case of lowering my calorie maintenance by 500cals a day and upping the (non-existent) cardio ?

    Thanks guys


Comments

  • #2
    dublinek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭dublinek


    It's hard to gain weight and reduce fat at the same moment

    I'm probably at the same situation as you - my weight was 53 and I'm using weight gainer to build mass (currently after 2 months i weight 58). My target is to weight 62-65 (I'm 175 tall)

    What I was advised is to put as much calories onto diet as possible, use weight gainer together with creatine and if at the end I would weight as much as i want and my fat level would be to high - to take thermogenic fat burners and maybe hmb

    Can someone more experienced in suplementation confirm what I've just written?


  • #3
    Running Bing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,841 ✭✭✭Running Bing


    Darth Homer wrote: »
    First off , a big thank you to everyone on this forum ... you guys (especially Dragan, G'em, Transform, Hanley, dave_irl, jsb and many others) really know your stuff and have been an excellent resource. CHEERS !

    So, I joined a gym back in March and for the first four months i concentrated on learning the various weights, form and getting my diet in check.
    8 weeks ago i was 75kg with 17% body fat.
    Today I am 83Kg with 18% BF

    My diet was as follows...

    8am - Large bowl of Porridge with full fat milk
    10am - fruit & Protein bar
    12pm - Chicken wrap
    2pm - mass gainer
    4pm - Chicken breast, potatoes , salad
    6pm - bacon and Eggs
    8pm - Nuts
    10pm - Mass gainer

    I found this tough, it is a lot of food and i really had to puch myself to eat at times.

    My workout was 4 days a week, alot of compound lifting , going as heavy as i can to failure.
    I am going to continue like this for maybe another 6 weeks to reach 90kg but then i would like to cut my BF to 10% , is it ok to go from a bulk straight into a cut ? Whats the best approach ? Is it just a case of lowering my calorie maintenance by 500cals a day and upping the (non-existent) cardio ?

    Thanks guys


    WOW that is a lot of food. Dont think I have ever heard of 8 meals a day before:eek:


  • #4
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Babybing wrote: »
    WOW that is a lot of food. Dont think I have ever heard of 8 meals a day before:eek:
    Probably is a fair bit- but not neccesarily as no portion sizes are given.


    This will show calorific estimate requirments for "bulk/cut"
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=50956807&postcount=4

    some members prefer this approach
    http://teamtestforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=761

    i like it as you are scoffing and dieting on/off all the time, so you are never getting tired of having to eat so much, nor pissed off with having to restrict your calories- more sustainable IMO- though at the moment I am eating like a horse since winter is coming and I like to keep my immune system in check.


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