Cut vs Gain: How to Structure Your Phases
Ask the internet whether you should cut or bulk first, and you’ll get two confident, contradictory answers delivered with equal authority. One voice says “you can’t build muscle in a deficit, bulk first.” The other says “you can’t look good buried in fat, cut first.” Both are selling you the same underlying mistake: the idea that cutting and bulking are opposing philosophies rather than two phases of the same repeating cycle. ...