Eli5 How does bulking make it easier to gain muscle?
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If you’re relatively fit, gaining muscle mass means putting on weight. It’s really _really_ hard to convince your body to put on weight by building only muscle mass without also building fat reserves, or to reduce weight by losing fat and not losing muscle.
Instead of fighting against this and trying to simply gain weight through muscle alone, bulking and cutting overcomes the problem by just letting your weight see-saw in a controlled manner. You put on weight knowing a part of it will be fat, then lose weight knowing some of it will be muscle, but you do all that with an exercise regime that means your body will want to produce more muscle than fat, and then burn more fat than muscle. It’s the two halves of the cycle put together that get you to where you want to be.
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