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Originally Posted by blankall
Depends a bit on your experience working out and how much fat you have. If you are 50+lbs overweight and have never worked out before, it's definitely easy to both gain muscle and lose fat.
If you're an experienced weightlifter who wants to cut down to 10% bf, it's very very difficult to do so and gain muscle at once....unless like you say, you're taking the juice.
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The funny thing is you have described the last 5 years for me in a nutshell- I began with an initial loss of about 50lbs- trimming down to a very lean 175ish, followed by a few bulking/cutting cycles that were each about 1 year in length. There definitely has been a positive gain in each consecutive cycle, but never anything as dramatic as the first initial loss, and each consecutive attempt seems to be more and more just gaining and then losing the same weight. That said, bulking and cutting kind of naturally works well with the flow of the year anyway- nice to be bulking and lifting heavy in the winter while trimming down for the spring and summer. All in all, I think I am most content though at the beginning of a bulk when I am getting in a decent amount of calories, not tired or drained at the gym, but still looking decent. I definitely took this most recent cut too extreme and for too long and the lightest I have have been since I was about 18 or 19... which if you consider the point of a bulk & cut to be a net gain in overall muscle mass, then I essentially failed.