i want to up my protein and cal intake to bulk up, ive already gone from 10st 5lb too 12st 0lb since starting training, but i seem to have put on a bit of a belly too so my question is if i do a proper bulking diet will i just become a huge fat ****er, or would the hole point be to add muscle and fat then strip the fat away with a good cut?

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bulking will inevtiably add fat yeah but people generally put up with that to build muscle mass, then cut to strip the fat and hopefully leave a nice lean muscular body

if you're careful with your bulking diet and keep active you can bulk without putting on too much fat

ok m8, thanks for that

cutlers got nothing on me!....... kevin cutler in my avatar ;)

There's a limit to how much muscle mass you can add per week. This limit varies from person to person but is ~0.5lb on average (unless you use AASs). If you gain weight at a much higher rate than 0.5lb a week, a lot of this gain will be fat mass. If your bodyfat % goes above 20%, you may find that you start to gain more fat mass relative to muscle mass. This is a good point to start cutting.

If you cut too quickly, you lose more muscle mass relative to fat mass, so don't try to rush things.

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Any tips on bulking then?

eat more, run less??

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I am bulking at the moment and had a lot of fat stores to begin with and was worried about putting more fat on!... My older bro is a semi-proffesional bodybuilding and his advice is iff you use a good weightgain i use Atlas super weight gainer, then it will not be stored as fat and will be used by the muscle. But this only works if you train at a good rate if your training is not intensive then you may suffer with fat problems, I have actually found using the weight gain with my training i've actually lost weight around my belly and put loads of mass on in such a short period..i know weight 130Kg and happy to carry on but i guess it's up to the person.

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Any tips on bulking then?

-Sort out a good diet (post it up if u want more help)
-Train hard
-Aim for 0.5lbs a week