I've been thinking about this for a while and the more I did the more broscienced it seemed.

The biochemical golden rule clearly states the following:

  1. If you eat more than your TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure) you'll gain weight.

  2. If you eat less than your TDEE, you'll lose weight.

  3. If you eat exactly equal to the amount of your TDEE, you'll maintain weight.

I know what you're thinking about: you bulk to build fat and then transform that fat to muscle, right?

Think about it, does it really work that way? Legit transform triglycerides into muscle tissue?

A. They both have very different molecular structure and the fatty tissue is often broken down and burnt for energy. How on earth could it be transformed into the muscle tissue? Triglycerides into glycogen, yeah, makes sense. But into muscle tissue? Nah.

B. Muscle growth occurs when the total volume you're lifting (Reps x Sets x weight) for specific exercises is increasing every week. When you damage the muscle tissue with a weight it's not used to, it'll adapt to it after recovery adding more tissue hence growth (i.e has nothing to do with fatty tissue)

C. Muscle loss occurs when you go on a low protein diet or when you fuck up your hydrogen balance (that's why drinking water is very crucial and eating salt isn't necessarily that dangerous)

So my idea is, you can still cut calories and workout in the gym. You'll still burn fats and if you keep your proteins intake in check as well as your electrolytes, and your good carbs, so as to fill your depleted glycogen stores, you'll still burn fat and you'll keep building muscle. At some point, you'll eventually stop cutting because you'll run out of the energy from your fatty tissue and you'll need to run on fuel provided by food otherwise you'll pass the fuck out during a workout.

Therefore, I don't see the point of deciding whether to bulk or to cut. If it were that way, if transforming that fat into lean muscle mass were true, then big fat guys would be the most jacked after going on a diet and exercising.

Enlighten me, gentlemen.