What's Harder: Bulking or Cutting?

Which is harder?

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In the beginning I would have thought bulking was harder because I wasn't used to eating over 1700 cals, now I get hungry and my body is used to eating around 2500 calls, so I think cutting right now would be harder because i'd have to deal with the constant hunger.

Though bulking is also hard, but its more of a mental battle.
 
Bulking. Simply because the workouts are much more taxing mentally and everything that goes into it is more intense.

That and I have been much more focused on strength. I will stand by the idea that it is harder to be truly strong than anything else.

Cutting, all there is is eating the right stuff. Which is the simplest part if training.

Time to eat this, huh, ok. :yelrotflmao:
 
Personally, bulking is much more fun. I get to eat more, and every visit to the gym means adding a little more weight to the bar.

During cutting, while I make sure not to lose strength, I definately hit a wall in strength progression, but I guess that goes without saying.
 
Although i dont have a problem with either.

Cutting is defenitely harder

In the context of someone quite overweight looking to maintain a healthy weight compared to a skinny personl looking to bulk.
 
Bulking is harder for me, but I mean that in a purely mental way.

My body will respond to either. But with cutting, you get much more readily observable results faster. So I find it mentally easier.
 
Bulking is harder because I lost motivation really fast because it looks like I'm getting fater when its usually bloat, water weight, or anything else. Just the size of your stomach increasing looking bigger..

I'm bulking right now with my 5x5 program. Doing alot better this time around.
 
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cutting as there is to much food in the world that I have still yet to taste. That and it is the start of silly reason already so I will be pretty much drinking heavily at least once per week for the next month and a half to 2 months
 
Bulking - Because I have a very small consumption capacity so I spend my whole day feeling sick when I'm trying to gain weight
 
Hmm.. it's really hard to say. Once I get into it for each of them it's not that hard. Cutting and bulking is a bit hard in the start when you have just come off the oposite cycle. It's hard getting used to eating tons/less when you're used to eating less/tons. If you catch my drift.
 
Karky said:
Hmm.. it's really hard to say. Once I get into it for each of them it's not that hard. Cutting and bulking is a bit hard in the start when you have just come off the oposite cycle. It's hard getting used to eating tons/less when you're used to eating less/tons. If you catch my drift.
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Yeah, when I stopped bulking a couple of weeks back I found it hard to sleep at night because I was so hungry it hurt.
I voted for bulking because even though cutting is psychologically harder for me, physically it's easy.
 
CCR said:
Yeah, when I stopped bulking a couple of weeks back I found it hard to sleep at night because I was so hungry it hurt.
I voted for bulking because even though cutting is psychologically harder for me, physically it's easy.
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That's my basis for asking the Q. I think for the people who say cutting is hard, it's beacuse they just don't like the diet.. Even though you can cut fat a lot quicker than you can gain muscle.
 
bulking is harder for me. It simply takes me longer to put on musclea nd make gains than it does for me to lose weight. I also tend to gain fat easily (my diet isn't exactly perfect though).

Bulking requires constant eating, and I don't like to feel full all the time, makes me feel fat, and move slowly. On my cut, I almost am not even hungry and I still manage to lose between 5-10 pounds (of fat, or so I assume because I experience no loss of strength, at least over a 3 month cut) a month.
 
cutting is a lot harder! You can't really just sit there and starve the fat off.. you gotta do all kinds of cardio to burn calories. There's the starvation mode issue.. and you have to be hungry a lot of the time to really get results.. (I do anyway).

I guess the only thing easier about cutting is my lifting routine.. but the HIIT makes up for it.

With bulking you just eat a lot of great clean food, you are never hungry, and you train hard with pure weights (that's how I do it).

I dunno, for me I gain much quicker than I lose. It took me about 80 days to get off 2.5 pounds of fat the last time I cut!

Maybe I just suck at cutting.. I dunno. I'm gonna try a keto diet next time.
 
evolution said:
Cutting.

Because who wants to eat broccoli, chicken, and sweet potato for every single meal. :)
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My thought's exactly.

I hit bulking by mistake but cutting is def harder for me.
 
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