Sport Combining Bulking and Cutting

[Z1P2]

Is it theoretically possible to both bulk and cut durring the same week by changing the diet daily?

Here's what I mean:

Monday: Cutting Diet, HIIT Excercise in the morning
Tuesday: Bulking Diet, Weight Lifting Excercise in the morning
Wednesday: Cutting Diet, HIIT Excercise in the morning
Thursday: Bulking Diet, Weight Lifting Excercise in the morning
Friday: Cutting Diet, HIIT Excercise in the morning
Saturday: Bulking Diet, Weight Lifting Excercise in the morning
Sunday: Bulking Diet, No Excercise

Would that cause a person to both gain muscle durring the bulking days, and lose fat during the cutting days? Or is it too close together and would only work against itself to accomplish nothing? I'm just thinking that if a cheat meal is a good way to keep the body from going into energy storage mode, then this would definately keep the body guessing and would possibly result in faster results? But I don't know how often you can or should cycle between cutting and bulking.

 

[Hoss]

AKA carb cycling (Well, not really. I have a feeling your talking about eating clean one day and eating sh*t the other; if so that won't do anything except get you fat. Keep in mind, there are no 'cheat' meals in a strict diet, only high carb days to keep you thyroid on its toes). Although carb cycling is very effective, but even harder to master to make it effective. My advice unless you know someone who has successfully done this, pass.

 

[Z1P2]

It doesn't work that way, you don't get results in a day - which is what would be required for this to work.

You don't get end results, but you have to get some results, otherwise you'd never get anywhere. Sure they are too small to measure on a daily basis, I'm just wondering if I'd just be losing the same muscle I just put on the next day... or if I'd put on just a tad more than got burned in a day of cutting, and if I burned just a tad more fat than I would put on durring a day of bulking. That's all.

How often would you recommend switching between bulking and cutting?


PS - also wasn't talking about eating like crap... just switching between cutting and bulking diets (ok, I admit I don't even know what a bulking diet is, since I havn't done any research on them yet).

 

[AJP]

You don't get end results, but you have to get some results, otherwise you'd never get anywhere. Sure they are too small to measure on a daily basis, I'm just wondering if I'd just be losing the same muscle I just put on the next day... or if I'd put on just a tad more than got burned in a day of cutting, and if I burned just a tad more fat than I would put on durring a day of bulking. That's all.

How often would you recommend switching between bulking and cutting?


PS - also wasn't talking about eating like crap... just switching between cutting and bulking diets (ok, I admit I don't even know what a bulking diet is, since I havn't done any research on them yet).

How do you know you would have to get some results? Think of it this way, nutrition is a huge part obviously, but it's important to feed your body the day of and days after you lift in order for your body to repair and recover.

Most - if not all - people want to do this: "put on muscle and lose fat at the same time, " essentially, but your body won't respond well to it because it takes an extended period of time to train your body to react to whatever your goals are. Bulking and cutting cycles are usually for months. For example, right now I'm bulking, and it's a 3 month period, and after that (in february) I'll cut like a madman.

No, it's not a good idea...to finally get to the point

Figure out what you want to do exactly, if you wanna maintain what you have, then do it. If you're gonna bulk, get serious and starting eat (clean if possible) and throwing heavy things around. If you're gonna cut, get the diet in order...and keep lifting, obviously.

 

[Z1P2]

Well I was just saying that no matter whether you are bulking or cutting, you are getting results each day, just too little to measure. I wasn't saying this would work, because that's what I was asking about. But that answers a lot of my questions... thanks.