When you add a lot of muscle to your body quickly, you will gain some fat with muscle. This is the way that nature handles the process of weight gain and if your goal is to get larger, you must accept this fact. Gaining muscle requires calories, and you have to absorb more calories for your body to grow more muscle mass. But, you have no way of making all of the extra calories go directly to the growth of your muscles. Some of these extra calories will end up as fat.
In order to get the biggest appearance changes for a set time frame, you have to repeat the process of focusing on gaining muscle mass and then focusing on dropping extra fat. Again and again.
Because your muscle level will determine so much of your metabolic rate, it's much easier to get rid of the fat after you have built up the size of your muscles. That is why building you muscle up first is the best strategy for muscle building.
In terms of the information, your next step should be: build as much muscle size as possible while minimizing body fat gains. Your goal during a bulking phase is not to lose body fat; it's just to gain as little as possible.
We can accomplish this with the following 3 ways.
Precise caloric surplus is required.
Optimal nutrition is what we heard all the time, but what about "super nutrition". Something you should know regarding the extra calories that help muscle growth is that you will gain more fat than you should if you eat too many foods that generate too much calories for your muscle growth.
Calculate the calories that you need for maintaining your weight and add 15 to 20% of additional calories to it. That is a good extra calories for your muscle growth. Don't go any higher if your calories intake fallen in this range.
Pay attention to your nutrition choices.
Your food intake is very important; you should eat natural fiber carbohydrates, lean meat and healthy, unsaturated fats. Stay away from high amount of saturated fats, eat more lean protein and eat high/natural fiber carbohydrates to keep your blood sugar level stable is key for building your muscle.
Start cardio workouts.
Cardio workout is no needed to be overdone. When you get more muscles, cardio workouts can decrease the fat storage in the muscle building process. Just perform short and high intensity cardio workouts. Don't perform long workouts, 10 to 20 minutes workout are good and can prevent muscle loss.
After you have gotten larger muscles and you're happy with their size, begin changing to a cycle of fat loss and concentrate on getting rid of your extra body fat and keeping your new muscle size. But, remember that while you're getting larger, you will gain body fat. What you should learn is not attempt to totally avoid fat, but try to minimize it, and as small as possible.
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