WHY BULKING TO GAIN EXTRA WEIGHT IS A WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY?

Throughout the years, it has been thought to the general weight lifters that to gain more muscle one must bulk up in order to put on a massive size and muscle mass, but is this true? In today’s article, we’ll be sharing some facts and my opinion on why it’s a waste of time and money to bulk up. In order to gain weight, we need to be on a caloric surplus, but people tend to go overboard by increasing a ton of calories, and hopefully, it will enable us to gain muscle.

Fact number 1, weight gain does not mean muscle gain, most of us thought that by increasing in weight means muscle gain, but high chances of it is water retention and fat gain instead of muscle. Due to the fact that we do not gain muscle as fast as we think. We generally gain around 0.2kg to 0.45kg per year of muscle with the right nutrition and workout plan. If you just starting to train for a year then you can gain even more than that. You will notice that your muscle gain is much slower as the years go by, this is because our body has adapted to the same workout routine and the same amount of calories that we did throughout the year.

Secondly, the general public would think that using mass gainer to bulk is a good idea, but in our opinion, it’s a waste of money. There is 3 reason why we say its a waste of money, Firstly, mass gainer usually contains around 14-15 servings per bag, and in the nutritional recommendation, they will normally recommend you to take 1-2 serving per day, which is rather expensive to buy a bag of mass gainer every 2 weeks. Secondly, mass gainers usually give you a massive caloric surplus, from 800 calories up to 1600 calories in some brands. This will obviously cause a lot of fat gains when you have a very high surplus of calories in a short period of time. And lastly, no matter what kind of mass gainer it is, you will still need to add it with water to consume it, this will make you full for a short period of time but will make you hungry within an hour or so. This will cause you to eat even more and therefore increasing your calorie surplus even more, which later on you will notice a lot of fat gains and water retention.

In conclusion, the best way to bulk up is to gain little by little. Instead of a massive surplus, have a 100 – 200 caloric surplus, from there you can observe how your body react and make changes
before it too late.