Struggle with Bulking
For a major part of my adult life I’ve been unfit, unhealthy and at one stage I was regarded as being clinically Obese.
Over the past 5 years I have done what I consider as a great job to get from 106 kg to where I am today. I decided that over our winter (its autum and just had 8 days over 35c breaking a 80 year record) I would try to bulk up as much as possible.
The problem I’ve encountered is 3 fold;
( 1 ) The amount of food I need to consume. When I was overweight it wasn’t that I ate alot, I just ate the wrong foods and drank more Coca Cola than anyone should drink. My sister comented many times while I was cutting up that she was amazed at the amount of food I was now consuming. Now that I am trying to bulk I’m eating double what I was for cutting and I just can’t do it.
( 2 ) I’ve work so hard to loose the fat that was sitting comfortably around my waist. I now that with the bulking stage a certain amount of body fat will be put onto the frame. Unfortunately I am not yet mentally strong enough to deal with this.
( 3 ) I miss the cardio aspect of training, I love getting out for a run and a bike ride and unfortunately I can do the extra eating needed to keep up with the cardion training I wish to do
Thus I will be returning to my enitial goal of getting my body fat below 10%, wish me luck
March 9, 2008 at 7:37 pm
(1) First, choose foods that will give you the most bang for your buck. By that I mean there are higher calorie foods that don’t leave you feeling as full/bloated. MRP’s also help me…alot easier for me to drink a shake than to keep downing food.
(2) I know what you mean here…at one time I lost 50 lbs just to get back to where I was at in highschool. Remember, if you see you’re gaining too much fat you can decrease your calories…or quit bulking altogether if you feel you need to.
(3) Unless you’re trying to bulk up for a competition in the next year, why deprive yourself of this? (assuming you’re not doing a ton of it every single day)