Muscle for Life

Bulking is a controversial topic.Some say it’s the only way to gain muscle effectively, and others say it’s a relic of the Dark Ages bodybuilding.“You gotta eat big to get big,” the former say. “No,” the latter reply, “you just have to eat right.” That is, traditional bulking maintains that, to achieve maximum muscle growth, you should do whatever it takes to cram down thousands of calories per day (GOMAD, for example), and accept rapid fat gain as a price to be paid.Followers of the new philosophy, however, say that you don’t have to eat a large surplus of food and gain a large amount of body fat to build muscle effectively.If you train right, and ensure you’re recovering adequately, they claim, you don’t need to cudgel your body with calories to grow.Who’s right? Well, both are.Old-school bulkers are correct in that you need to eat more food than usual to build muscle efficiently, and new-schoolers are correct in that ballooning your body fat percentage is not only unnecessary for muscle building, but det