The Problem: Conventional Bulking = Piling On The Fat!
The most common issue by those seeking serious muscle gains is the unwanted addition of bodyfat along with the muscle. Up until now you have believed that to get big you need to “eat big”, which is a philosophy weight lifters have lived by for years... and rarely questioned.
Big mistake.
As you might personally know, big eating, which promotes indulging in plenty of food, can be an equally effective fat-gaining strategy.
Besides the obvious health reasons of gaining excess fat, here are six more reasons why conventional bulking is a bad approach to trying to achieve your physique goals:
- Most bulk up diets involve junk food that floods your body with trans fats, corn syrup and unhealthy amounts of salt, sugars and fats.
- The idea that a “calorie is a calorie” is nonsense. Calories from steak and potatoes are great for building muscle; calories from pizza and beer are not.
- Bulk up diets develop insulin resistance, which makes long term muscle gains an uphill battle. Insulin resistance makes your carb intake more likely to go preferentially to fat stores, not muscle tissue.
- Since insulin resistance is hard to reverse, the fatter you get the harder it is to become lean. This is why leaner individuals can eat more calories without getting fat.
- The fatter you get, the more aromatase enzyme your body will produce as your testosterone is converted into the female sex hormone, estrogen. Essentially you’re turning your testosterone in exchange for estrogen – a great form of self-castration!
- The more fat you pack on your stomach, the less effective your thyroid hormone production becomes. This is not a hormone you want to turn off as it’s responsible for fat-burning.
