Not exact matches
Traditionally, bulking involves eating
large amounts of food, training hard and heavy, and
gaining an appreciable
amount of muscle along with a good
amount of fat.
The results indicated that a
large intake
of low -
fat products can lead to greater
amounts of consumed energy or calories, which can result in weight
gain.
I eat plenty
of sugar from dates, bananas, and apples,
fats from the
large amounts of nuts I eat, but I don't
gain weight.
Given the
amount of animal
fats gained from the ridiculously
large amount of meats the average american eats there should be no risk
of imbalance that would cause negative effects.
Consequently, the more common approach to
gaining muscle mass quickly is to go through alternating phases
of bulking and cutting, starting by consuming a
larger - than - necessary
amount of calories for a specific period
of time, and following it up with a period where you restrict your calories and lose any
fat gained while retaining muscle.
Take someone who is untrained AND extremely overweight (which these men were) and they'll often drop relatively
large amounts of fat while
gaining muscle at the same time.