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You know that the “calories out” can change a lot, so the 500 kcal surplus wasn’t actually a 500kcal surplus. Your body just expended more and thus your initial 500kcal increase doesn’t mean it was actually a 500kcal surplus.
@@JobWClips Yeah it's so hard to estimate TDEE. As TDEE can fluctuate over time wildly. I was able to bulk up from 128.2 lbs to 146.2 lbs in less than 7 months. But in the last 3.5 months my scale would just yo-yo up and down and my weight stalled. I got all the way up to 150.2 lbs the morning after eating all-you-can-eat Asian food. But in reality all those carbs caused me to retain water. After I pissed all that water out and took multiple dumps, I got back down all the way to 144.4 lbs in the morning where I was the most dehydrated. Now I'm sitting at 146.4 lbs. And my 7-day average is 146.2 lbs. As you put on more and more muscle mass, your TDEE skyrockets like crazy. The intensity of my PPL training as of late probably is contributing to higher TDEE as well.
As a 34 year old man who spent most of my teens worried about losing any abs I had It took me a good woman to show me that eating well, lifting big and working construction gave me a strength and a confidence superior to having abs. I fell back into the abs mindset last year and lost A LOT of strength. So to this end gentlemen, I have now entered the Turbobulk. May the lord be with you all
@@dusterman360 I’ve just decided to end my cut as well, my goal was to get a 6 pack but a 4 pack will suffice. I’m a masonry labourer and have had no energy at work whilst in a deficit, on top of that training 6 days a week between weights and boxing. Always struggled with body image issues but sometimes getting that little bit leaner isn’t worth it, bulking and fuelling your body is much healthier
I actually bulked into abs by doing direct ab training. Was 130ish with flat stomach but at my peak I was 150 fluffy but with visible abs still after 9 months of consistent bulking. Took a month to clean up so I could permabulk through next year and hopefully further.
Thanks, this video came right on time iam in the midst of my first ever true bulk. Also I wanted to point out I usually hate when UA-camrs say "like subscribe" and all that BS but when you get to that "before we continue it's the algorithm" section I always have a smile on my face and your clips dancing are halarious. Keep up the good work man you're definitely heading to the right direction
I’m a senior in high school (6 foot) and have gone from 170-195 in the past 8 months. Gonna try to get to 215 by July. Want to continue to take advantage of where I’m at. Big three Lifts have gone up so much since bulking. I maintained at 170 for a year before bulking and surprise I gained no strength or muscle. Bulking is the only way!
18:05 one thing for certain is. Your appetite adapts to your calorie demands to an extent as well. When left unchecked i used to eat about 2000-2500 cals. After bulking for a while and slowly increasing my intake to 4000. Tracking my intake at the end of unchecked unmonitored days i ate about 3000-3500. It may feel like force feeding in the beginning but bulking gets easier
I’m so glad i found your channel relatively early on in my lifting career because I would’ve made bo progress without you, getting close to a 1 plate ohp now thanks to you 🙏🏽🙏🏽
That's a satisfying PR for sure. OHP is badass. My PR is 148 lbs (67 kg). Probably have some more, but I'm working on muscular asymmetry in my arms and shoulders, so I'm not pushing it directly at the moment. Gotta get that 70 kg at least before the end of the year. Maybe 72 kg.
The biggest mistake that I made was “not working out hard enough”. I went from 115 to 160 lbs in 1 year. I’m doing a mini cut now. But, working out hard was definitely the biggest factor for me.
@@REVIVALFitness I'm the exact opposite, I went too hard and got some nagging injuries that forced me to dial it down. I followed the advice of some UA-camrs that recommended that "if you're bulking, you need to be dying during your training sessions" so I upped my volume too much, I squatted 3 times a week, deadlifted 2 times a week, benched 3 times a week, did a shit ton of back volume (pull ups, rowing, single hand rowing etc) and now I'm dealing with some hip pain sadly. But I'm happy with my progress tbh.
It doesn’t help that we have “experts” like Mike Israetel recommending a crazy number of sets. When you’re doing too many sets you’re going to downgrade your effort so you can complete the workout.
@@rubiecherie1433 Mike isratel does not advocate “a crazy number of sets”. He advocates training between MEV and MAV, which is different person to person. Advanced trainees like himself require a lot more volume than the average gym goer to make muscle gains.
I've been bulking since I started lifting about 8 months ago, gained 30lbs (190-220, 6'0) from assumedly newbie gains. I also went from barely benching the bar to being in the 1,000lb club (275 bench, 350 squat, 375 deadlift. I started squatting later than bench, and DL later than squatting)
Thank you for pointing out the horrendous misinterpretation of the 1st law of thermodynamics. Also hilarious how people think mass and energy are the same thing.
I mostly agree but the first law of thermodynamics does still apply to the human body. The problem is not with the law, but rather with the fact that the "calories out" portion of the law is dictated by many factors that the average person is unable to determine, such as varying metabolisms etc, as you mentioned.
I was 102 before, now 145. Last year I stopped and lost 30lbs of previous gainz. That’s when I found your channel and I want to say thanks for pushing me to keep bulking.
Started my journey 5 months ago, and now I’m up 25lbs with a 2-4 pack and a bicep vein. I’ve gone from 148 to 173, and will bulk for at least another year, LONG LIVE THE GAINS!
I love the bulking content. At 6’3, 2200 calories dropped me to 119lbs (I have pics for proof.) Now at a much happier/healthier 200ish lbs generally following your line of thinking.
Glad to hear you're feeling better and I'm sure stronger as well. Good work bro. At 6'3" 119 you would have to be quite emaciated, I would think. I am 6' and have been as low as 135lbs and I was super thin , but I have a pretty big bone structure. Are you small boned/ slightly built? I feel like with my structure at your height and weight I would been in hospital
@@randykandle8622 119 was not healthy at all, broke a couple bones during that time. That said, I am VERY small boned. Even at 200lbs, I wear 28inch waist pants.
Ya I got carried away and gained 14 pounds in two months. From 154 to 168. That being said this was before I had started serous training in the gym. So I’ve gone from 125 bench, 185 squat, 225 deadlift, to 165 bench, 225 squat, and 275 deadlifts.
You inspired me to go in a bulk (raised my kcal intake by 500) just to see if its working. gained around 30 lbs and was skeptical at the beginning but damn it feels good Thank you
Then there's me who has the opposite problem. I can eat nonstop. I have no problem eating thousands upon thousands of calories in just a single meal. I have to watch myself from eating too much even while bulking. I have days where I'm at a very slight surplus but I also have days where I eat 5 6k calories plus. I'm a former fat person so that probably plays into it but I'm slowly getting better at not eating too much.
It’s trade offs ultimately. In most cases, bigger appetite = easier time adding size and strength. Smaller appetite = easier time getting/staying leaner.
I’m 165 pounds 10 percent bodyfat thanks to bulking my peak weight was 190 shoving food down my throat now I’m just maintaining since I don’t really care about getting bigger a stronger I think I look good now and it’s easy to maintain.
On No 6 - It's not even the appetite thing that makes you eat more, it's just so addicting to see numbers go up when you start bulking and it just keeps going up the more you increase your calories. At ~19 % now and after injury with summer on the way I just have to keep myself from stuffing my face to regain the strength.
You don't have to be afraid of that 20% mark. It is just a number. It isn't always the point where you should cap it off and cut. It's a reasonable number, but I'm 21-22%, maybe even a tad more, and I feel great. Cutting as soon as you hit 20% makes more sense for bodybuilders, because it is true that you'll have to cut for longer if you've got more to lose, and then you can't do it forever before the strength and muscle size start crashing and you have to eat a bit more for a while. If you wanna stay one 30-60 day cut away from being lean, follow that for sure. I've been bulking longer than usual, since May of 2022, and I'm feeling good. I've gone from like 190 to 210 (3300 cals was a slim surplus, I realised after a while), and I've added so much strength and size. Added over 45 lbs to my deadlift, honestly probably 40 lbs to my squat, and I've gotten a lot better at bench (Haven't tried a 1-rep PR in a long time, still at 225 officially 😎). I look forward to seeing what I look like at 15% bodyfat.
Bulk and chest hair gang 👑 I made one mistake during my 1,5 year bulk. Upping the calories early, but it was an important lesson, since I had no idea what my TDEE (roughly) was. Now I maintain at 3250kcal.
The reason I would say I am training for hypertrophy and not strength, is because I am less focused on lifting heavy and more concerned with proper strict technique even if that means lifting less weight and only until I get good at lifting comfortably with proper form a certain weight do I go up to the next weight. Most of the dudes who are purely in the gym for strength, tend to just focus on moving the weight from point A to point B with the most of weight they possibly can, rather than truly isolating the muscle they are working on, for them lifting the heaviest they possibly can is their primary focus, now this may be considered ego lifting but this is why I would differentiate myself and say I am training for hypertrophy rather than strength because of how most everyday people think
I know you are against it, but in my experience with many skinny guys and how I terminated ny skinny form at 20 years old, YOU HAVE TO COUNT YOUR CALORIES... for at least a month, set a regular food intake you can maintain FOREVER with an App to count calories and a scale to set the proper portions. Yeah there is always an error margin, but you can check exactly the amount of food you have to eat to mantain and food to surplus. After a few weeks you should already know the amounts to avoid wasting time and lying to yourself "I eat a lot but I can't gain bodyweight". Most of the time natural skinny guys eat a surplus two or three days of the week and deficit 3-5 days, they aren't conscious about the consistency they must follow and that the surplus IS EVERY SINGLE DAY. Only after every few months you should recalculate your energy requirements because after gaining weight you also burn more energy. But trying to eat properly without objetive guidance is like shooting with blind eyes expecting to someday hit the target.
Fck dude, you literally opened my eyes by giving your 500 cal example after losing around 180 pounds from 330-340pounds to 165 pounds around 14-15% body fat I'm about 6ft 1, I started gym around 18 percent bodyfat but since I was cutting forget newbie gains I was LOSING muscle now after eating on a surplus I'm gaining weight mostly muscle and losing fat at the same time(I was 162ish pounds 17ish percent bodyfat before the bulk).Thank you so much for doing what you do.
its funny to me all these guys say "ITS ABOUT HYPERTROPHY BRO NOT STRENGTH" when I put strength as first as foremost personally lol (although obviously there's not much of a difference)
@@REVIVALFitness ha. Sorry, man. Not trying to teill. Just being a bit tongue and cheek. This was a list of "don't"s and I'm basically asking if you have videos that covers the "dos"
If you get bigger you're definitely gonna get stronger. The thing is, if you get stronger, I don't necessarily agree that that makes you bigger. Strength specific training increases the recruitment of motor neurons, so you tap into more of the muscle that's already there. So strength and muscle aren't exactly the same thing. It's more like: Strength = Hypertrophy × Neural adaptations As you get more advanced this is something that's probably good to keep in mind IMO. Hope that helps 🙏
I hear you. But neural adaption has a pretty quick ceiling in my estimation. If you’re doing low reps or training maxes on a regular basis, you can only tweak your form so much. You have to get stronger on the accessories and pick suitable ones.
If you are a skinny guy doing a proper bulk will change your life especially when your young because you are giving your body an abundance of nutrients that it can use for your development If you have a shit appetite finding a middle ground between a dirty and clean bulk may help
One more thing is after you bulk I would not recommend cutting but doing a body recomp this way you stay the same weight and you will be able to trim the fat as well as gain muscle This of course only applies depending on what you want to look like but if you want to look like a bear and you could rip someone’s head off then this is the move
I’m more interested in how to maintain with diet and training. You will obviously gain a little weight overtime or I will anyway…how do we approach this…I few like I have to go on mini cuts every few months and it’s a pain
Good video, man! Thanks for saying something about that completely corrupt dietary recommendation! I'm one of those guys who don't struggle with eating. I eat clean food. Basically the same stuff every day with a little variation. I feel good and I'm fit at about 210 lbs and low 20s% bodyfat, 5'8. I'm bulking with about a 500 calorie surplus, which is easy. 3500 calories. You always say that 20% is the cutoff point, but eh. It doesn't really matter. I can get down to my preferred lean point of 15% in 1 ½-2 months no problem.
@@REVIVALFitness Actually its an open system because you eat food and dont just radiate heat. But it doesnt matter energy is conserved in all systems that doesnt break time translation symmetry. The things you mentioned just change how the input and output equations looks but its still total_energy = energy_in - energy_out. Of course your right that this makes it harder to track. But I think anyone who have tried tracking knows they have to adjust calories to reality. Thats why you adjust them to weekly averages and not daily fluctuations. If you know what you are doing at least.
It is indeed not true that the body + food/environment is not a closed system, it is as Energy is conserved here. There is of course a lot of caveats here, obviously it cannot be the energy of the food that makes you fat alone, otherwise m = E/c^2 so clearly it's about how the body chooses to allocate the macronutrients. Perhaps muscle gain per lbs takes more E than fat gain, I would not be surprised.
When I did the 10K cal eating challenge video, my weight went up by 0.9 lbs from start to finish, but I ate well over 7000 cals and a few pounds of food in that time. People in the comments couldn’t comprehend it.
Olive oil is my favorite way to get in an easy 100-300 calories in a day. Put that in a salad with your green of choice, nuts, tomato, onion, vinegar and some shredded cheese. Boom you just made a salad with 500+ calories and hit almost all your micronutrients. All in 15 min of preparation. People also need to stop being afraid of bread and pasta. The problem is they eat processed white bread that's stripped of all its fiber and then has the vitamins artificially added back in. That''s actually why they can rate the sugary cereals so high- they add the vitamins back in the factory lol
I started lifting in 1982 as a very underweight 15 year old depressed kid. I forced myself to eat six meals a day and started lifting hard. Every set to failure. Your basic three sets per exercise, 6-12 reps per set. Every body part 3 times per week. Your basic 1980's bro science schedule. Results?... I gained 25 pounds, grew a half an inch, in the first 3 months. When you go from five foot nine and half inches, to five foot ten, and 125 pounds to 150 pounds, you feel like the hulk. It makes me sad that so many teenagers are depriving themselves of these incredible hormone fueled newbie puberty gains.
I’ve gotten dozens of comments from guys who were overweight/obese and then cut so hard they became rail thin and developed EDs. Like a pendulum from one bad side to the other.
Same, I finally blasted through my plateau, though. Couldn't get past 215 on the bench for weeks, and within 13 days, I'm hitting 230 plus fairly easy. I've benched more, but I was fat and then got depressed and quit. It's a hard journey, but that's what makes it worthwhile.
I work quite as a labourer and I also go gym 4 times a week would it be wise to increase my calories as it’s currently 4,000 a day or should I just leave it as it is?
On the barbell supremacist point, as a beginner do I just blindly copy the starting strength program, or do I add some isolation like Lateral raises, leg curls etc?
70% of the time you should be bulking, for sure. People are so obsessed with having six packs because of Kinobody and Greg that they're constantly trying to cut and then when they get lean, they look like a twig. You have to pack on the muscle first. I'm around 16-19% range at the moment and I've been bulking for 7 weeks. Honestly, I don't care about the extra fat (within reason) as long as I know I'm building muscle underneath for the long-term - then cut down when the works done and look 100x better, and dieting won't mean I'm eating fucking 1500 cals a day
'' People are so obsessed with having six packs'' This is what I've been saying for a little while. In addition, if *most single men admit it they hope getting a six pack will get them more females. Granted that may happen for a small % of men but for the vast majority it doesn't get them lots more females. The only people who see your six pack is the person who has one when he constantly stares at themselves in the bathroom mirror , his partner (if he has one and other people when he goes swimming or shirtless on holiday. It's a lot of hassle for something that nobody *really cares about. All any body *really needs to aim for is a flattish stomach.
Just wanna thank you for opening my eyes, I was a former maingainer, found your Doucette nuke video, started bulking... 9 months in, went from 69kg to 83.3kg at 178cm tall (5'10) (weighed when depleted in the morning), still have some abs but gained little love handles, I'd say I'm 16-17% bodyfat (I got so obese omg). A month ago some random person I didn't know noticed I lift under a winter jacket, that truly made me realise how much this bulk was worth it. My arms blew up from 12-13 inches to 15.3 inches, strenght more than doubled, I stand out in a crowd, everyone I know irl noticed me getting much bigger. It's really eye opening when you start making real gains and you get positive feedback from every single person you know, thank you man. I plan to push it to 85kg before I jump into my first cut
Anything you can fit into your lunchbox or brown bag. I can’t really pinpoint anything because there’s so many options. But some kind of meat, perhaps on a sandwich, string cheese, peanut butter and jam sandwich, fruit etc. Milk is good if you have an ice pack.
6 foot 3 244lbs. Around 22% (ish) bodyfat. 6 months resistance training. Bit podgy around the belly because I've recently lost A LOT of weight very quickly. Was trying to 'recomp' but did not feel it. Currently on 4000 calories and changing to the big moves and strength training. The scales are slowly moving up, which is hard coming from being heavy. Feeling bigger and stronger already which helps motivation. Hopefully bulk with an aggressive cut every 12 weeks. Its a 2 year process. But I still ask myself, should I bulk?
If you’re above 20%, which given your weight likely checks out, you should probably focus on losing fat first, then focus body recomposition, unless you’d rather bulk, which you’d then have to get even leaner cuz starting a bulk at 20% is a bad idea.
@@AdamGregory04 I've tried to recomp. I've lost quite a lot of fat, and I certainly don't look 244lbs. My arms, back and legs are quite lean. I'm just hanging on to belly fat. If anything with a t shirt on I don't look remotely fat, it's a weird situation. I've currently lost 84lbs. Losing weight gets a bit grinding. I'm extremely efficient at losing weight though. And in the few weeks I've been in a slight caloric surplus (more of a lean bulk) my strength is improving. It's such a weird predicament! I'll run a bulk during my next cycle, see what happens. I'll be a Guinea pig.
I agree with most of what you said except the thermodynamics part. The thermodynamics 100% applies and the human body cannot defy it. Any discrepancies are due to inaccuracies in the data collected and not accounting for all factors.
@@REVIVALFitness That is irrelevant. Thermodynamics applies to both open and closed systems. "The first law of thermodynamics states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only altered in form. For any system, energy transfer is associated with mass crossing the control boundary, external work, or heat transfer across the boundary. These produce a change of stored energy within the control volume." Outside of having magic powers, there is no way for a human to violate any of the laws of thermodynamics. Paraphrasing from my comment earlier any discrepancy between theoretical fat/muscle/other energy store gain and calories is due to not calculating everything to 0% error, from a practical perspective that is pretty much impossible to do perfectly. Ultimately you can't create something out of nothing. If you can prove thermodynamics doesn't apply to humans I think you need to go and collect your Nobel prize in physics.
12:32 the graph is total bs, cheeroes is just added sugar and is processed, egg in butter and ground beef and whole milk and chicken fillet grilled should be at the top
What If I am 17-18% bodyfat as a male, but Im still skinny-fat?. I am 6'0 176 pounds. According to the previous videos I should bulk, cuz as Iv said before mainly Im skinny with not that much muscle. On the other hand I am close to 20% of bodyfat, which is a point that I should cut according this............
I had to stop counting calories because I got so obsessed with the numbers, I wouldn't eat even if I was starving. Of course this was 3-5 years ago when I was just doing Cardo. Now I'm roughly 4 months into calisthenics with some resistance band training and I've lost about 20 pounds, and I don't count calories now. I just listen to my body and eat slow enough so my stomach can tell my brain 'hey dumb dumb we full' Honestly if I wasn't vegan, and I didn't have a physically demanding job during most of that time I probably would have gotten into the 300lb range, and I'm 5'8
the "law of thermo dynamics ☝🤓" counter you made is what people need to hear. calories are calculated in a calorimeter, which is a combustion chamber in a lab. this is not comparable to the human body, obviously. calories are a good guide of how much food you are eating but its entirely possible to get chubby on a deficit and skinny on a surplus depending on the actual food. yes and im glad you slammed the tufts chart. bought and paid for marketing bs. this is why we like you! lol
What’s a better nickname? 1. MK “But Fundamentally” Angeletti 2. MK “I’ve talked about this before guys” Angeletti All seriousness though, good video and really good points brought up 👍
It isn’t difficult math, ppl. Every couple of weeks, find a reliable website, calculate ur BMR w current weight to determine amt of calories you burn daily. Then boost that calorie number 200-500 daily to bulk, or lower 200-500 daily to cut. If the calculator is reliable and includes your daily activity levels, age/height/weight, it’ll work just fine.
3:23 Being complex and having things such as a metabolism and an endocrine system is not what makes something a close system or an open system from a physics standpoint. The human body is an open system, but not because it has complex internal processes. Most crucially, the human body is subject to the laws of energy conservation. In the context of the human body, the thermodynamic basis of CICO is that the only way for energy to enter the human body is via food and the only way for it to leave the human body is in the form of work or heat. From a thermodynamics standpoint, the human body is a heat engine. This is why humans can’t get fat by consuming less energy than they expend in terms of work and heat, despite the claims of the fat acceptance activists.
If somebody's metabolism and hormones are very out of whack, yes, they could gain fat even if their energy expenditure is at the maintenance or deficit level. 'Get fat' is also highly relative. Eating a standard western diet for decades can do that to you. CICO doesn't account for other factors, even food quality/nutrient density. A person eating the standard western diet is not going to have the same body fat (or weight) as eating all whole food meals, for example, even if 'calories' and macros are the exact same. If the human body is a heat engine, the fuel you give it makes a major difference.
At this point, I'm just eyeballing the food and permabulking, mate. I've got a huge appetite and always struggled with being fat. Now I'm fat AND jacked, lol. But in all seriousness, switching from maingaining and meticulously counting every kcal in MyFitnessPal on a PPL split (I know, okay?! xD) to just bulking and training with RPE9 on every set, 6-9 direct sets per muscle, changed my life and physique. I went from 98kg fat to 87kg during the first 15months of training. I doubled all my lifts within the first 8 or so months, then just plateaud hard gaining 2kg of weight over 7 months and stood at 12%bf. During that, I fell for the next meme of the 12-20 (but really rather 20) sets per muscle per week and did an all day everyday split. Got tendonits and tennis elbow. Now I bulked for 6months straight, limited the volume and focussed on RPE and ROM. 95kg now, probably somewhere between 15-20% bf and breaking all the plateaus. I am also finally mobile enough and got the core strength to do conventional DL. My heart's telling me, that I am too heavy (may it be muscle or fat) and will introduce cardio now. I implore you all, listen to RF and try things out. I feel like he's got the most broadly applicable advice out there.
Most of those cereals contain lots of processed sugar and seed/vegetable oils, which are unstable fats that cause free radicals which leads to cancer if I'm not mistaken. People really need to initiative on what they put in there body if they truly care about their health and physique, you really composed of what you put in your body, and of course the other lifestyle habits.
You can’t say they directly lead to cancer (too blanket of a statement), but cancer cells feed on glucose and lots of free radicals certainly wouldn’t help your case. Seed oils and processed sugar are in almost everything now you see in standard grocery stores, even the “health conscious” ones. Have to read carefully.
Greg D never made a response to u? I’m surprised since u name drop him every video! Bulk is good for who needs it. Skinny young guys and advanced ppl everyone else just eat food and work out for years u will build muscle, the things now is less and less ppl have patience and enjoy the process of going to the gym
Do you think that maybe the main reasoning if only reason why dietitians don’t hardly ever mention that people can purposefully do calorie burning things throughout the day to be able to eat more then 2000 calories a day aka have more freedom when it comes to their meals is because by shoving the advice down their throat that they should only eat 2000 calories a day it’ll eventually make people who follow the advice crack and go into a binge or several binges and make them potential clients of their’s and bring more money to them in other ways and other people?
@@REVIVALFitness sorry about that, sometimes i forget that what I’m saying only grammatically makes sense to me because I know what I’m trying to say. Did you understand parts of it?
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You know that the “calories out” can change a lot, so the 500 kcal surplus wasn’t actually a 500kcal surplus. Your body just expended more and thus your initial 500kcal increase doesn’t mean it was actually a 500kcal surplus.
@@JobWClips Yeah it's so hard to estimate TDEE. As TDEE can fluctuate over time wildly. I was able to bulk up from 128.2 lbs to 146.2 lbs in less than 7 months. But in the last 3.5 months my scale would just yo-yo up and down and my weight stalled. I got all the way up to 150.2 lbs the morning after eating all-you-can-eat Asian food. But in reality all those carbs caused me to retain water. After I pissed all that water out and took multiple dumps, I got back down all the way to 144.4 lbs in the morning where I was the most dehydrated. Now I'm sitting at 146.4 lbs. And my 7-day average is 146.2 lbs. As you put on more and more muscle mass, your TDEE skyrockets like crazy. The intensity of my PPL training as of late probably is contributing to higher TDEE as well.
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As a 34 year old man who spent most of my teens worried about losing any abs I had It took me a good woman to show me that eating well, lifting big and working construction gave me a strength and a confidence superior to having abs. I fell back into the abs mindset last year and lost A LOT of strength. So to this end gentlemen, I have now entered the Turbobulk. May the lord be with you all
I work construction too and at the end of my last cut i felt like I could barely make it through the workday. And I wasn’t even that lean.
@@dusterman360 I’ve just decided to end my cut as well, my goal was to get a 6 pack but a 4 pack will suffice. I’m a masonry labourer and have had no energy at work whilst in a deficit, on top of that training 6 days a week between weights and boxing. Always struggled with body image issues but sometimes getting that little bit leaner isn’t worth it, bulking and fuelling your body is much healthier
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I actually bulked into abs by doing direct ab training. Was 130ish with flat stomach but at my peak I was 150 fluffy but with visible abs still after 9 months of consistent bulking. Took a month to clean up so I could permabulk through next year and hopefully further.
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Thanks, this video came right on time iam in the midst of my first ever true bulk.
Also I wanted to point out I usually hate when UA-camrs say "like subscribe" and all that BS but when you get to that "before we continue it's the algorithm" section I always have a smile on my face and your clips dancing are halarious. Keep up the good work man you're definitely heading to the right direction
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I’m a senior in high school (6 foot) and have gone from 170-195 in the past 8 months. Gonna try to get to 215 by July. Want to continue to take advantage of where I’m at. Big three Lifts have gone up so much since bulking. I maintained at 170 for a year before bulking and surprise I gained no strength or muscle. Bulking is the only way!
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Lol 215 then what 240 270? Ur just just gonna get fat and realise u should've bulked slower. Set more realistic goals rather than just overeating
Did you make it or where did you end up?
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18:05 one thing for certain is. Your appetite adapts to your calorie demands to an extent as well. When left unchecked i used to eat about 2000-2500 cals. After bulking for a while and slowly increasing my intake to 4000. Tracking my intake at the end of unchecked unmonitored days i ate about 3000-3500. It may feel like force feeding in the beginning but bulking gets easier
I’m so glad i found your channel relatively early on in my lifting career because I would’ve made bo progress without you, getting close to a 1 plate ohp now thanks to you 🙏🏽🙏🏽
Great work
That's a satisfying PR for sure. OHP is badass. My PR is 148 lbs (67 kg). Probably have some more, but I'm working on muscular asymmetry in my arms and shoulders, so I'm not pushing it directly at the moment. Gotta get that 70 kg at least before the end of the year. Maybe 72 kg.
@@TheBcoolGuy on god it is bro its such a cool movement. Hope you fix that muscular imbalance and keep working bro!
The biggest mistake that I made was “not working out hard enough”. I went from 115 to 160 lbs in 1 year. I’m doing a mini cut now. But, working out hard was definitely the biggest factor for me.
Coasting through exercises is the standard in commercial gyms
@@REVIVALFitness I'm the exact opposite, I went too hard and got some nagging injuries that forced me to dial it down. I followed the advice of some UA-camrs that recommended that "if you're bulking, you need to be dying during your training sessions" so I upped my volume too much, I squatted 3 times a week, deadlifted 2 times a week, benched 3 times a week, did a shit ton of back volume (pull ups, rowing, single hand rowing etc) and now I'm dealing with some hip pain sadly. But I'm happy with my progress tbh.
It doesn’t help that we have “experts” like Mike Israetel recommending a crazy number of sets. When you’re doing too many sets you’re going to downgrade your effort so you can complete the workout.
@@rubiecherie1433 Mike isratel does not advocate “a crazy number of sets”. He advocates training between MEV and MAV, which is different person to person. Advanced trainees like himself require a lot more volume than the average gym goer to make muscle gains.
Experts recommending u to squeeze ur scapula back and down... and wonder why everyone gets injured on bench
As someone who tries to bulk, I really appreciate the advice from the BulKING himself. Thanks M.K.. You're kind of like a fitness brainiac.
Thanks man. Gains + brains 💪🏼🧠
As far as I'm aware, this video isn't from Jack.
@@narayasuiryoku1397 ha ha no.
I've been bulking since I started lifting about 8 months ago, gained 30lbs (190-220, 6'0) from assumedly newbie gains. I also went from barely benching the bar to being in the 1,000lb club (275 bench, 350 squat, 375 deadlift. I started squatting later than bench, and DL later than squatting)
Those are damn good for 8 months
What the hell is in that milk?
@@TheBcoolGuyGOMAD is the answer to experience steroid-like gains
so informative and not bs’ing for clicks good vid bro
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Thank you for pointing out the horrendous misinterpretation of the 1st law of thermodynamics. Also hilarious how people think mass and energy are the same thing.
It’s pretty sad that I, a gym bro with no higher education in science, know this better than fitness influencers with PhDs.
I mostly agree but the first law of thermodynamics does still apply to the human body. The problem is not with the law, but rather with the fact that the "calories out" portion of the law is dictated by many factors that the average person is unable to determine, such as varying metabolisms etc, as you mentioned.
I was 102 before, now 145. Last year I stopped and lost 30lbs of previous gainz. That’s when I found your channel and I want to say thanks for pushing me to keep bulking.
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Started my journey 5 months ago, and now I’m up 25lbs with a 2-4 pack and a bicep vein. I’ve gone from 148 to 173, and will bulk for at least another year, LONG LIVE THE GAINS!
I love the bulking content. At 6’3, 2200 calories dropped me to 119lbs (I have pics for proof.) Now at a much happier/healthier 200ish lbs generally following your line of thinking.
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how did you survive this low bodyweight.
Glad to hear you're feeling better and I'm sure stronger as well. Good work bro.
At 6'3" 119 you would have to be quite emaciated, I would think. I am 6' and have been as low as 135lbs and I was super thin , but I have a pretty big bone structure. Are you small boned/ slightly built? I feel like with my structure at your height and weight I would been in hospital
@@randykandle8622 119 was not healthy at all, broke a couple bones during that time. That said, I am VERY small boned. Even at 200lbs, I wear 28inch waist pants.
@@kyemasino3917 do you have sunken ribs by any chance? this sometimes happens to very skinny and tall people
Ya I got carried away and gained 14 pounds in two months. From 154 to 168. That being said this was before I had started serous training in the gym. So I’ve gone from 125 bench, 185 squat, 225 deadlift, to 165 bench, 225 squat, and 275 deadlifts.
You still have a lot of strength to gain. Enjoy.
Subscribed just for that Greg impression 😂
LMAO that greg impression
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3:29 😃Matt,the physics bro
you should do a video on how to customize a 3 times a week full body program
He has a workout program describing this exactly. Support him by buying it
You inspired me to go in a bulk (raised my kcal intake by 500) just to see if its working. gained around 30 lbs and was skeptical at the beginning but damn it feels good
Thank you
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The greg voice always kills me 😂
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Then there's me who has the opposite problem. I can eat nonstop. I have no problem eating thousands upon thousands of calories in just a single meal. I have to watch myself from eating too much even while bulking. I have days where I'm at a very slight surplus but I also have days where I eat 5 6k calories plus. I'm a former fat person so that probably plays into it but I'm slowly getting better at not eating too much.
It’s trade offs ultimately. In most cases, bigger appetite = easier time adding size and strength. Smaller appetite = easier time getting/staying leaner.
I’m 165 pounds 10 percent bodyfat thanks to bulking my peak weight was 190 shoving food down my throat now I’m just maintaining since I don’t really care about getting bigger a stronger I think I look good now and it’s easy to maintain.
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This man makes a lot of sense.
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2:28 Legit question: Why does Greg talk like Gilbert Gottfried? Is he half-serious half-satirical?
It’s a gimmick to make him more memorable, which works.
i'm up to 190bw now, and my lifts are stronger than ever. i appreciate the content man, i've come a long way bc of it
No problem king
I can’t wait to bulk, I wanna get a little thinner first, but the fat loss phase will be over soon and I’m so hype honestly lol
On No 6 - It's not even the appetite thing that makes you eat more, it's just so addicting to see numbers go up when you start bulking and it just keeps going up the more you increase your calories. At ~19 % now and after injury with summer on the way I just have to keep myself from stuffing my face to regain the strength.
Getting stronger every week is definitely appealing, especially when you’ve spent a long time barely making progress.
You don't have to be afraid of that 20% mark. It is just a number. It isn't always the point where you should cap it off and cut. It's a reasonable number, but I'm 21-22%, maybe even a tad more, and I feel great. Cutting as soon as you hit 20% makes more sense for bodybuilders, because it is true that you'll have to cut for longer if you've got more to lose, and then you can't do it forever before the strength and muscle size start crashing and you have to eat a bit more for a while. If you wanna stay one 30-60 day cut away from being lean, follow that for sure. I've been bulking longer than usual, since May of 2022, and I'm feeling good. I've gone from like 190 to 210 (3300 cals was a slim surplus, I realised after a while), and I've added so much strength and size. Added over 45 lbs to my deadlift, honestly probably 40 lbs to my squat, and I've gotten a lot better at bench (Haven't tried a 1-rep PR in a long time, still at 225 officially 😎). I look forward to seeing what I look like at 15% bodyfat.
You should go on the road with that Doucette impression. It might kill
I’ll need a parrot as my co host
Bulk and chest hair gang 👑 I made one mistake during my 1,5 year bulk. Upping the calories early, but it was an important lesson, since I had no idea what my TDEE (roughly) was. Now I maintain at 3250kcal.
Man…this TUFTS food compass is absolutely insane…so much for semantics…
Reese’s puffs and soy milk. A high performance breakfast!
The reason I would say I am training for hypertrophy and not strength, is because I am less focused on lifting heavy and more concerned with proper strict technique even if that means lifting less weight and only until I get good at lifting comfortably with proper form a certain weight do I go up to the next weight. Most of the dudes who are purely in the gym for strength, tend to just focus on moving the weight from point A to point B with the most of weight they possibly can, rather than truly isolating the muscle they are working on, for them lifting the heaviest they possibly can is their primary focus, now this may be considered ego lifting but this is why I would differentiate myself and say I am training for hypertrophy rather than strength because of how most everyday people think
Ikwym. ‘Hypertrophy’ training is basically more or less powerlifting accessory work done to the highest degree.
I know you are against it, but in my experience with many skinny guys and how I terminated ny skinny form at 20 years old, YOU HAVE TO COUNT YOUR CALORIES... for at least a month, set a regular food intake you can maintain FOREVER with an App to count calories and a scale to set the proper portions.
Yeah there is always an error margin, but you can check exactly the amount of food you have to eat to mantain and food to surplus. After a few weeks you should already know the amounts to avoid wasting time and lying to yourself "I eat a lot but I can't gain bodyweight".
Most of the time natural skinny guys eat a surplus two or three days of the week and deficit 3-5 days, they aren't conscious about the consistency they must follow and that the surplus IS EVERY SINGLE DAY.
Only after every few months you should recalculate your energy requirements because after gaining weight you also burn more energy.
But trying to eat properly without objetive guidance is like shooting with blind eyes expecting to someday hit the target.
Fck dude, you literally opened my eyes by giving your 500 cal example after losing around 180 pounds from 330-340pounds to 165 pounds around 14-15% body fat I'm about 6ft 1, I started gym around 18 percent bodyfat but since I was cutting forget newbie gains I was LOSING muscle now after eating on a surplus I'm gaining weight mostly muscle and losing fat at the same time(I was 162ish pounds 17ish percent bodyfat before the bulk).Thank you so much for doing what you do.
Thanks for sharing man 🤝
its funny to me all these guys say "ITS ABOUT HYPERTROPHY BRO NOT STRENGTH" when I put strength as first as foremost personally lol (although obviously there's not much of a difference)
Good advice on certain pitfalls. But I feel like you removed every possibility. 😮 What are the things you actually recommend doing?
I'm not sure how I 'removed every possibility.' I don't know how to answer this.
@@REVIVALFitness ha. Sorry, man. Not trying to teill. Just being a bit tongue and cheek. This was a list of "don't"s and I'm basically asking if you have videos that covers the "dos"
I just noticed during your Barbell row Clip at around 7:54 there are two dudes filming a skit right in front of you. It's a real life Easter egg.
I don’t even think it’s a skit.
If you get bigger you're definitely gonna get stronger. The thing is, if you get stronger, I don't necessarily agree that that makes you bigger.
Strength specific training increases the recruitment of motor neurons, so you tap into more of the muscle that's already there. So strength and muscle aren't exactly the same thing. It's more like:
Strength = Hypertrophy × Neural adaptations
As you get more advanced this is something that's probably good to keep in mind IMO.
Hope that helps 🙏
I hear you. But neural adaption has a pretty quick ceiling in my estimation. If you’re doing low reps or training maxes on a regular basis, you can only tweak your form so much. You have to get stronger on the accessories and pick suitable ones.
If you are a skinny guy doing a proper bulk will change your life especially when your young because you are giving your body an abundance of nutrients that it can use for your development
If you have a shit appetite finding a middle ground between a dirty and clean bulk may help
One more thing is after you bulk I would not recommend cutting but doing a body recomp this way you stay the same weight and you will be able to trim the fat as well as gain muscle
This of course only applies depending on what you want to look like but if you want to look like a bear and you could rip someone’s head off then this is the move
That healthy food chart made me laugh my ass off
They’re laughing in peoples faces at this point
I’m more interested in how to maintain with diet and training. You will obviously gain a little weight overtime or I will anyway…how do we approach this…I few like I have to go on mini cuts every few months and it’s a pain
Good video, man! Thanks for saying something about that completely corrupt dietary recommendation! I'm one of those guys who don't struggle with eating. I eat clean food. Basically the same stuff every day with a little variation. I feel good and I'm fit at about 210 lbs and low 20s% bodyfat, 5'8. I'm bulking with about a 500 calorie surplus, which is easy. 3500 calories. You always say that 20% is the cutoff point, but eh. It doesn't really matter. I can get down to my preferred lean point of 15% in 1 ½-2 months no problem.
No, you were wrong. You're going down to 170, buddy. But not before you experience a pretty serious knee injury.
The human body is a closed system in contact with a reservoir, the environment. Energy is conserved.
It’s an open system because hormones, metabolism, nutrient quality etc impact how the food is utilized and broken down.
@@REVIVALFitness Actually its an open system because you eat food and dont just radiate heat.
But it doesnt matter energy is conserved in all systems that doesnt break time translation symmetry.
The things you mentioned just change how the input and output equations looks but its still total_energy = energy_in - energy_out.
Of course your right that this makes it harder to track. But I think anyone who have tried tracking knows they have to adjust calories to reality. Thats why you adjust them to weekly averages and not daily fluctuations. If you know what you are doing at least.
I’m 6’1 , 195lbs , 19% bf, 8 months lifting. Is bulking advised or will it make me fat?
We need to get the bulKING a crown 👑
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It’s the algorithm
What about Athlean X's 5 things you must do in the gym?
It is indeed not true that the body + food/environment is not a closed system, it is as Energy is conserved here. There is of course a lot of caveats here, obviously it cannot be the energy of the food that makes you fat alone, otherwise m = E/c^2 so clearly it's about how the body chooses to allocate the macronutrients.
Perhaps muscle gain per lbs takes more E than fat gain, I would not be surprised.
5:18 - the highlighted point on not gaining the exact 500 cal surplus in scale weight over that time is a very good graphic
When I did the 10K cal eating challenge video, my weight went up by 0.9 lbs from start to finish, but I ate well over 7000 cals and a few pounds of food in that time. People in the comments couldn’t comprehend it.
Olive oil is my favorite way to get in an easy 100-300 calories in a day. Put that in a salad with your green of choice, nuts, tomato, onion, vinegar and some shredded cheese. Boom you just made a salad with 500+ calories and hit almost all your micronutrients. All in 15 min of preparation. People also need to stop being afraid of bread and pasta. The problem is they eat processed white bread that's stripped of all its fiber and then has the vitamins artificially added back in. That''s actually why they can rate the sugary cereals so high- they add the vitamins back in the factory lol
I started lifting in 1982 as a very underweight 15 year old depressed kid. I forced myself to eat six meals a day and started lifting hard. Every set to failure. Your basic three sets per exercise, 6-12 reps per set. Every body part 3 times per week. Your basic 1980's bro science schedule. Results?...
I gained 25 pounds, grew a half an inch, in the first 3 months. When you go from five foot nine and half inches, to five foot ten, and 125 pounds to 150 pounds, you feel like the hulk. It makes me sad that so many teenagers are depriving themselves of these incredible hormone fueled newbie puberty gains.
Puberty is nature’s steroid cycle
Enhancing the algorithm
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I gain love handles from bulking but I been eating dirty now I’m eating clean
I really don't want to gain fat because I used to be overweight. But fuck it, I'm starting my bulk today. It is gonna be worth it in the end.
I’ve gotten dozens of comments from guys who were overweight/obese and then cut so hard they became rail thin and developed EDs. Like a pendulum from one bad side to the other.
@@REVIVALFitnessbeen there done that
Same, I finally blasted through my plateau, though. Couldn't get past 215 on the bench for weeks, and within 13 days, I'm hitting 230 plus fairly easy. I've benched more, but I was fat and then got depressed and quit. It's a hard journey, but that's what makes it worthwhile.
5%er here. Dirty bulking for life. Gotta do whatever it takes right babe ?
BOCPAD - bowl of cocoa pebbles a day
POBJBB - pint of Ben & Jerry’s before bed
@@REVIVALFitnessthe seefood diet. See food, eat it.
Go on a cut. Cut out all excuses and stuff your face.
Great new video for the algorithm
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I work quite as a labourer and I also go gym 4 times a week would it be wise to increase my calories as it’s currently 4,000 a day or should I just leave it as it is?
15:05 I've seen this B roll clip a million times
Awesome video.
bulking ftw
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Uploaded right after I finished the Morning Joint Joey Diaz podcast. Gonna be a good mf day 🤝
Right on man. I haven’t watched Joey in a while.
On the barbell supremacist point, as a beginner do I just blindly copy the starting strength program, or do I add some isolation like Lateral raises, leg curls etc?
Getting fat while bulking isn't bulking, it's just gluttony.
1) Dirty bulk because you’re a sugar addict with a childlike palette
2) Gain a lot of fat
3) “See, bulking makes you fat”
Ehh ill just do a mini cut
I weigh 190lbs and have a lil bit of love handles but don't look fat in clothes, should I recomp from here or keep lean bulking?
This goddamn channel is so underrated
comment for algorithm
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I got from 135 to 170 in my first 6 months at 15.
Dang 💪🏼📈
Mog me. 25 lbs in 1 year
@@dvm7005 not all muscle obviously but at 135 and 6 I was so skinny that I appreciated the extra fat
70% of the time you should be bulking, for sure. People are so obsessed with having six packs because of Kinobody and Greg that they're constantly trying to cut and then when they get lean, they look like a twig. You have to pack on the muscle first. I'm around 16-19% range at the moment and I've been bulking for 7 weeks. Honestly, I don't care about the extra fat (within reason) as long as I know I'm building muscle underneath for the long-term - then cut down when the works done and look 100x better, and dieting won't mean I'm eating fucking 1500 cals a day
'' People are so obsessed with having six packs''
This is what I've been saying for a little while. In addition, if *most single men admit it they hope getting a six pack will get them more females. Granted that may happen for a small %
of men but for the vast majority it doesn't get them lots more females. The only people who see your six pack is the person who has one when he constantly stares at themselves in the bathroom mirror , his partner (if he has one and other people when he goes swimming or shirtless on holiday. It's a lot of hassle for something that nobody *really cares about.
All any body *really needs to aim for is a flattish stomach.
Just wanna thank you for opening my eyes, I was a former maingainer, found your Doucette nuke video, started bulking... 9 months in, went from 69kg to 83.3kg at 178cm tall (5'10) (weighed when depleted in the morning), still have some abs but gained little love handles, I'd say I'm 16-17% bodyfat (I got so obese omg).
A month ago some random person I didn't know noticed I lift under a winter jacket, that truly made me realise how much this bulk was worth it. My arms blew up from 12-13 inches to 15.3 inches, strenght more than doubled, I stand out in a crowd, everyone I know irl noticed me getting much bigger. It's really eye opening when you start making real gains and you get positive feedback from every single person you know, thank you man. I plan to push it to 85kg before I jump into my first cut
Good work 🤜🤛
hey man i know its a late response but how much did you eat and how did you know how much to eat?
Thanks
Ive said over and over guys...
What is something I can bring with me for lunch at school to get the calories and that will hold me over till I get back home.
Anything you can fit into your lunchbox or brown bag. I can’t really pinpoint anything because there’s so many options. But some kind of meat, perhaps on a sandwich, string cheese, peanut butter and jam sandwich, fruit etc. Milk is good if you have an ice pack.
Hey that thermodynamics law will apply to every thing in this universe as the universe Is a close system no hate you have really nice content
Thank you, but you’re not correct about that
6 foot 3 244lbs. Around 22% (ish) bodyfat. 6 months resistance training. Bit podgy around the belly because I've recently lost A LOT of weight very quickly.
Was trying to 'recomp' but did not feel it. Currently on 4000 calories and changing to the big moves and strength training. The scales are slowly moving up, which is hard coming from being heavy. Feeling bigger and stronger already which helps motivation. Hopefully bulk with an aggressive cut every 12 weeks. Its a 2 year process.
But I still ask myself, should I bulk?
Oh, and one for the Algorithm.
If you’re above 20%, which given your weight likely checks out, you should probably focus on losing fat first, then focus body recomposition, unless you’d rather bulk, which you’d then have to get even leaner cuz starting a bulk at 20% is a bad idea.
@@AdamGregory04 I've tried to recomp. I've lost quite a lot of fat, and I certainly don't look 244lbs. My arms, back and legs are quite lean. I'm just hanging on to belly fat. If anything with a t shirt on I don't look remotely fat, it's a weird situation. I've currently lost 84lbs. Losing weight gets a bit grinding. I'm extremely efficient at losing weight though. And in the few weeks I've been in a slight caloric surplus (more of a lean bulk) my strength is improving. It's such a weird predicament!
I'll run a bulk during my next cycle, see what happens. I'll be a Guinea pig.
@@AdamGregory04 I actually look a bit like you in your profile, only with a podgier belly.
I agree with most of what you said except the thermodynamics part. The thermodynamics 100% applies and the human body cannot defy it. Any discrepancies are due to inaccuracies in the data collected and not accounting for all factors.
You are wrong. The human body is an open system.
@@REVIVALFitness That is irrelevant. Thermodynamics applies to both open and closed systems. "The first law of thermodynamics states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only altered in form. For any system, energy transfer is associated with mass crossing the control boundary, external work, or heat transfer across the boundary. These produce a change of stored energy within the control volume." Outside of having magic powers, there is no way for a human to violate any of the laws of thermodynamics. Paraphrasing from my comment earlier any discrepancy between theoretical fat/muscle/other energy store gain and calories is due to not calculating everything to 0% error, from a practical perspective that is pretty much impossible to do perfectly. Ultimately you can't create something out of nothing. If you can prove thermodynamics doesn't apply to humans I think you need to go and collect your Nobel prize in physics.
12:32 the graph is total bs, cheeroes is just added sugar and is processed, egg in butter and ground beef and whole milk and chicken fillet grilled should be at the top
What If I am 17-18% bodyfat as a male, but Im still skinny-fat?. I am 6'0 176 pounds. According to the previous videos I should bulk, cuz as Iv said before mainly Im skinny with not that much muscle. On the other hand I am close to 20% of bodyfat, which is a point that I should cut according this............
Bulk
Bless the algorithm.
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I had to stop counting calories because I got so obsessed with the numbers, I wouldn't eat even if I was starving. Of course this was 3-5 years ago when I was just doing Cardo. Now I'm roughly 4 months into calisthenics with some resistance band training and I've lost about 20 pounds, and I don't count calories now.
I just listen to my body and eat slow enough so my stomach can tell my brain 'hey dumb dumb we full'
Honestly if I wasn't vegan, and I didn't have a physically demanding job during most of that time I probably would have gotten into the 300lb range, and I'm 5'8
the "law of thermo dynamics ☝🤓" counter you made is what people need to hear. calories are calculated in a calorimeter, which is a combustion chamber in a lab. this is not comparable to the human body, obviously. calories are a good guide of how much food you are eating but its entirely possible to get chubby on a deficit and skinny on a surplus depending on the actual food.
yes and im glad you slammed the tufts chart. bought and paid for marketing bs. this is why we like you! lol
It’s shocking how many PhD holders and other ‘experts’ parrot this line over and over. Anything to justify their incessant sugar consumption.
Algorithm comment for you being a fucking legend
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I have a question are you gonna hit the 315 bench brah
Probably not in the immediate future
Bulking until FULL
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What’s a better nickname?
1. MK “But Fundamentally” Angeletti
2. MK “I’ve talked about this before guys” Angeletti
All seriousness though, good video and really good points brought up 👍
Don’t forget “per se,” “I made a video about it,” and “which leads us into…”
It isn’t difficult math, ppl. Every couple of weeks, find a reliable website, calculate ur BMR w current weight to determine amt of calories you burn daily. Then boost that calorie number 200-500 daily to bulk, or lower 200-500 daily to cut. If the calculator is reliable and includes your daily activity levels, age/height/weight, it’ll work just fine.
I did a way too aggressive bulk for close to 2 years. 500-800 cal surplus. 2 years I gained 45lbs
💪🏼📈. According to the math we’ve been given, you should’ve gained upwards of 100 lbs.
3:23 Being complex and having things such as a metabolism and an endocrine system is not what makes something a close system or an open system from a physics standpoint. The human body is an open system, but not because it has complex internal processes. Most crucially, the human body is subject to the laws of energy conservation.
In the context of the human body, the thermodynamic basis of CICO is that the only way for energy to enter the human body is via food and the only way for it to leave the human body is in the form of work or heat. From a thermodynamics standpoint, the human body is a heat engine.
This is why humans can’t get fat by consuming less energy than they expend in terms of work and heat, despite the claims of the fat acceptance activists.
If somebody's metabolism and hormones are very out of whack, yes, they could gain fat even if their energy expenditure is at the maintenance or deficit level. 'Get fat' is also highly relative. Eating a standard western diet for decades can do that to you. CICO doesn't account for other factors, even food quality/nutrient density. A person eating the standard western diet is not going to have the same body fat (or weight) as eating all whole food meals, for example, even if 'calories' and macros are the exact same. If the human body is a heat engine, the fuel you give it makes a major difference.
Great video btw.
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At this point, I'm just eyeballing the food and permabulking, mate.
I've got a huge appetite and always struggled with being fat. Now I'm fat AND jacked, lol. But in all seriousness, switching from maingaining and meticulously counting every kcal in MyFitnessPal on a PPL split (I know, okay?! xD) to just bulking and training with RPE9 on every set, 6-9 direct sets per muscle, changed my life and physique.
I went from 98kg fat to 87kg during the first 15months of training. I doubled all my lifts within the first 8 or so months, then just plateaud hard gaining 2kg of weight over 7 months and stood at 12%bf. During that, I fell for the next meme of the 12-20 (but really rather 20) sets per muscle per week and did an all day everyday split. Got tendonits and tennis elbow.
Now I bulked for 6months straight, limited the volume and focussed on RPE and ROM. 95kg now, probably somewhere between 15-20% bf and breaking all the plateaus. I am also finally mobile enough and got the core strength to do conventional DL. My heart's telling me, that I am too heavy (may it be muscle or fat) and will introduce cardio now.
I implore you all, listen to RF and try things out. I feel like he's got the most broadly applicable advice out there.
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Most of those cereals contain lots of processed sugar and seed/vegetable oils, which are unstable fats that cause free radicals which leads to cancer if I'm not mistaken.
People really need to initiative on what they put in there body if they truly care about their health and physique, you really composed of what you put in your body, and of course the other lifestyle habits.
You can’t say they directly lead to cancer (too blanket of a statement), but cancer cells feed on glucose and lots of free radicals certainly wouldn’t help your case. Seed oils and processed sugar are in almost everything now you see in standard grocery stores, even the “health conscious” ones. Have to read carefully.
Is it fine to eat 3-4 bagels with Nutella when bulking or is this too unhealthy?
You can, not the best tho
Best videos
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Another episode of Bulking Bad season 1 episode 2
Jesse… we need to eat
@@REVIVALFitness I'm thinking of two Jesse's I know
I understand your point of view, but I prefer a bulk with only 3 almonds.
That might be a lot man. 1.5 is better.
Long live the Bulk King 🤴
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Greg D never made a response to u? I’m surprised since u name drop him every video! Bulk is good for who needs it. Skinny young guys and advanced ppl everyone else just eat food and work out for years u will build muscle, the things now is less and less ppl have patience and enjoy the process of going to the gym
Do you think that maybe the main reasoning if only reason why dietitians don’t hardly ever mention that people can purposefully do calorie burning things throughout the day to be able to eat more then 2000 calories a day aka have more freedom when it comes to their meals is because by shoving the advice down their throat that they should only eat 2000 calories a day it’ll eventually make people who follow the advice crack and go into a binge or several binges and make them potential clients of their’s and bring more money to them in other ways and other people?
You gotta use periods and commas, man. I can’t make sense of all of these words in a run-on sentence.
@@REVIVALFitness sorry about that, sometimes i forget that what I’m saying only grammatically makes sense to me because I know what I’m trying to say. Did you understand parts of it?