Higher meal frequency can be beneficial during
a bulking phase when you need to eat a lot more food than during a cut.
Usually, they start with
bulking phase when they mainly build their mass, then they switch to a cutting phase when they try to burn the excess of fat to make their muscle more visible.
Not exact matches
Now of course some will say that professionals always rely on drastic diets
when they do a
bulk phase and then decrease their weight radically again.
Then
when you
bulk up sufficiently, you go into the cutting
phase, which is the exact opposite of
bulking.