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Gym 1w
How do I start bulking? As someone with very little gym experience
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Anonymous 1w

figure out your maintenance calories (there’s calculators online, AI, or just track yourself and find it through trial and error), and then increase by about 250-500 calories. 250 is usually enough to see progress over a few weeks, but if you can stomach it and don’t mind putting on weight, that extra 500 calories moves the scale no doubt (former 120 pound dude)

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Anonymous 1w

Eat more

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Anonymous 1w

Make sure you’re hitting the 0.3-0.5g of fat when calorie counting. Realistically, regardless of bulk or cut, the only thing you should be changing is how much carbs you consume. If you lower fat, your hormones get cooked. If you change protein, you either waste cals (too much) or lose muscle (too little).

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

also depending on whether you want to clean bulk or dirty bulk, i’d recommend figuring out the best split of macronutrients for your calorie intake, ideally you want to keep fat low, carbs high, and protein right in the middle/bit higher

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

Okay so how about I’m 270 now 😭 and it’s mostly fat. Probably should’ve given that context

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

In that case don’t bulk. Focus only on being consistent in the gym right now.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2d

you wanna build muscle mass and burn fat simultaneously, so a mixture of lifting weights, cardio, and staying in a slight to moderate caloric deficit

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