Should You Bulk Up With Fat To Gain Muscle Mass?

Many guys who are new to muscle building think that they must undergo a bulking phase to gain muscle with the expectation of gaining a great deal of fat in the process. I'm here to tell you that bulking up with excess fat is optional for gaining muscle mass. You can use a different approach to gain muscle and size without filling your body with fat.

The practice of bulking up should especially be avoided by people who have a tendency to easily gain excess fat and have problems losing it. The more fat that you gain, the more fat cells you'll have and the harder it'll be to get lean. Although you can shrink fat cells, as long as you have them in your body they are going to be with you forever.

This is one awful thing about fat cells. No matter how hard you may try You just cannot get rid of them. You don't have to put yourself in this frustrating situation.

There is an upside, you can gain muscle mass while staying lean. It's harder for a person with a large amount of body fat to avoid gaining fat but with the right effort, persistence and patience it can happen. A person who is obese may possess as much as 3 times the number of fat cells compared to someone who has been lean their whole life. An obese person would have to work much harder to keep a low body fat level which is due to the fat cells that they already have. Someone without excess body fat can usually stay that way with much less effort.

My recommendation to build muscle while minimizing body fat is to first lose the fat before you start building muscle if you are overweight or obese. Then when you are down to a lower level of body fat start a mass building phase which incorporates the right methods to build lean muscle with very little fat. Avoiding gaining the excess fat in the first place is one good approach to stay lean. Getting your body fat level down to a healthy range is not difficult with the right fat loss diet and workout.

First of all start with a moderate calorie intake that is high enough to gain muscle but at the same not too high to give excess fat a chance to accumulate. A good rule of term is 18 calories per pound of your body weight. Start with this total and make adjustments as you go along your program. You may also want to manipulate the carb proportion of your macronutrients based on your body type.

And always keep your weight training workouts intense by lifting heavy and stick to progressive overload.
Try your best to stay on top of the process, and you won't find yourself in the frustrating position of trying to lose excess body fat. It's much easier that way.