A bulk has never really interested me personally as ive always thought the lean look would do for me, but reading john's progress ( :tu: brilliant work if i do say so myself) and noticing he has begin to cut calories is making me wonder about something.

You'll obviously lose fat and prob some muscle, but if you came down from 4000 calories to say something like 2000 calories, would you not have just only slightly more muscle than pre-bulk?. If your not providing enough calories to support them, or would you still be able to keep quite a lot without consuming large amount of calories.

I ask because I want to look fairly muscular with a shirt or something on but I dont like eating more than 2000 cals or more worth of food a day to maintain it.

Sorry for the waffling. Thanks for reading. :nod:

You'll obviously lose fat and prob some muscle, but if you came down from 4000 calories to say something like 2000 calories, would you not have just only slightly more muscle than pre-bulk?. If your not providing enough calories to support them, or would you still be able to keep quite a lot without consuming large amount of calories.


Ok, Remember how big your BMR is to your activity level, for most twice as much. Why? Muscle metabolism makes up the vast majority of BMR. If you have more muscle, you have more metabolism, therefore you can eat more calories without gaining fat. Becouse you build those muscles, john added 25 lbs, you don't have to work out as much to maintain them.

So if you desired, you could cut, keep exercising at a reduced pace and gain muscle and lose fat on reduced calories.

Remember you can be your best lab rat. Cut, bulk, cut again and find out what happens. Exercise needs to be for a lifetime, experiment.