PANTS!!
I know it’s a random thought, but that’s what blogs are for right? I’m currently trying to bulk up, but I’m finding I’m not very good at it. I’m fairly new at this, but think the basic concept is pretty straighforward . . . eat more (not anything you want, just more, clean foods with good protien) — lift hard — put on muscle (& weight). It would be great if all the gains could be pure muscle with no body fat, but you’ve got to provide nourishment to create all that new muscle, and it seems pretty hard to divert every calorie exclusively to the muscles; some creates a little fat, right? The punch line is, after achieving the gains you want in muscle, you change the diet, adjust the work-out, lose the fat and are left with more chisled muscle that you had before . . . have I said anything that’s wildly wrong yet?
Here’s the rub . . . during the bulking and before the cutting, it seems sort of inevitable that the waist expands a bit. At least mine does, and every time my waistband starts feeling a little tight, I back off and never get that far in adding on the mass. I’m confident that I would lose that little bit extra around the waist once I started cutting, but I still have to get dressed for work in the meantime. What to people do . . . have two sets of pants, one for bulking and one for cutting? I know it’s a pretty obvious solution, but I had just never contemplated an expanded wardrobe as one of the costs of taking this seriously. Gym, yes; protien, yes; more food, yes — I just had never thought about the cost of having two sets of pants!
