Should I bulk/cut

throwhawayyyy · 2020-04-17T00:22:53+00:00

You’re 6’1 so you can go down to around 180-190 on a cut. Bf lower than 8% is going to be hard to do natty and not worth it IMO, so just try to get ~10%.

Jessor69 · 2020-04-17T01:03:18+00:00

Use myfitnesspal to track macros, it has a barcode scanner to scan your food or just type it in. If you don't have access to weights atm then definitely cut

rnsbrum · 2020-04-17T02:48:40+00:00

You are ripe for a recomp/cut. If you go over 16-20%, it will be a NIGHTMARE to cut, it will take months and you are gonna hate it. You have basically two options here. Do you wanna get aestheticly pleasing and see some vascularity/abs, or do you want to get shredded? Getting shredded is going to take MUCH more discipline, effort and pain.

There are some calculators online that tell you how much your daily caloric expenditure is, plan your diet based off of that. Macro wise you should be hitting around 2g of proteins per pount of bodyweight, you can play around with carbs, too little carbs and you gonna have no energy/pump, too much carbs will take away all the kcals in your diet, because high carb foods have a lot of calories. Pick foods that you like and that will keep you full, remember to add veggies, they make you full.

Example: Make a table like this one

300g of white race - 500kcals - 60g carbs - 9 grams of protein

500g of white race - 500kcals - 5g carbs - 150 grams of protein

....

Training wise, DO CARDIO. Pick something you enjoy, I really like cycling, I can do over 4h any day and have a fucking blast. You can play sports, as long as you can do it over 5 times a week or daily. Running is a good choice but its boring.

About LIFTING, keep lifting heavy, just make sure you don't go hard as fuck training session, because when you are in a caloric deficit, you are not able to recover as fast. This way your muscles will retain that "mass" aspect.

To track your cardio, use Strava.

To track your diet, you can use MyFitnessPal, a notebook or nothing really. You will notice that after a while you can tell how much you are eating by feeling.

First phase: eat at maintanance and create a caloric deficit with cardio.

Second phase: Maintain your cardio and create a small caloric deficit through your diet(Decrease the amount of calories you are consuming).

Third phase: Here you will be in a constant battle within your mind. This is where the discipline and ability to suffer comes in. If you wanna get aesthetic: Maintain/increase cardio and decrease calories by the same amount you did in second phase. If you wanna get shredded: Increase cardio and decrease calories by double/triple of the amount you did in second phase. (You can still get shredded using the aesthetic plan but I'm assuming you have a deadline)

This is the basic dynamic, create a caloric deficit throught cardio / caloric deficit through diet, you can always play around with those.

Whenever you start feeling very lethargic, you can do a refeed that. Its a recovery day, where you rest, eat what you want and give some peace to your mind. Don't go balls to the walls because you will get a burnout.

You can check out my instagram (@rvbrum), I have a highlight of stories where I show off my cut progress that I did at the start of the year. That was my first "proper" cut. Thats what I learned. I started with a huge caloric deficit at the start, then plateaud, I didn't have anything else to take away, and when I went back to normal eating I lost my shreds pretty quickly.

Snowboard18 · 2020-04-17T02:21:12+00:00

Im bulking right now, good time to get a little bigger to put on some muscle. Planning on cutting once this virus is gone.

sasakuowo · 2020-04-17T01:16:39+00:00

at 6’1 get down to 195-200 @10% and you’ll be fine. 180 @ 10% isn’t that impressive @ 6’1

rnsbrum · 2020-04-17T02:37:56+00:00

Title	Should I bulk/cut
Author	1v1rustfaggot69
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Date	April 17, 2020 12:01 AM UTC (6 years ago)
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