Bulking advice?

[Mysteryman19]

I've lost over 40 pounds in the past year, but now I want to start building muscle. I'm pretty lean but I'm not sure if I should keep cutting to get more ripped or just start bulking. I definitely could use some more muscle mass, but I don't want to get fat. How did you know when to bulk and for how long?

[Heemus_Christ]

that's amazing good job. so now what you want to do is find fat and muscle mass. you wanyt to keep your fat below 10 to 15 %. if you look at that you'll be good and you can lift and build muscle any timebecause you can convert fat into muscle. make sure you eat a lot of lean meat and consume a lot a protein. chicken breast turkey and fish a good examples. and chicken can also help cut belly fat. you also want to drink either shake or milk. chocolate milk does wonder and you want to eat stuff like peanut butter eggs rice. and eat a lot but keep it healthy. no grease, butter, fried nothing and always cook your self so you know what your eating. and water is key to the growing process and it help with blood circulation. keep your cardio going. a little every day, and set a day or two for a full cardio work out. it will keep you r fat in check. and as long as you working out, eating healthy and keeping up cardio you'll see improvement in all direction. what's you workout schedule?

[Mysteryman19]

Thanks for the input, and I lift three days a week with cardio with two days of upper body and transition with core and lower body on the last day. If I would guess I would say I'm around 12-14% body fat

[Heemus_Christ]

you should go to 5 day. like for example

s- off
m- arms
t- legs
w- backs, shoulders
t- off alt /cardio
f- abs
sat-cardio

so always try to alternate upper and lower and best result try not use same muscles in two consecutive days. your going to want to take it to the next level but at your own pace. and is your abs starting to show it usually start when you drop to around 12% body fat

[Imafreespirit]

woah! congrats on the accomplishment :) Whether you decide to bulk up or get ripped is up to you really. if you do wanna bulk up you just gotta eat more than what you burn, just make sure you eat the right kinds of food, some people do dirty bulks and they just eat whatever, don't be like that hah its not good you. Do more strength based training, work more on low reps higher weight and maybe incorporate more drop sets, I feel like thats really useful. I would also limit cardio if you are trying to bulk coz you are just going there to burn calories and as I said, if you wanna gain more muscle mass, you have to eat more than what you burn, so you make it harder if you incorporate too much cardio haha
Figure what your macros should be like and you are gonna be all set! good luck!

[Wingedz]

Eat a lot of goddamn eggs and eat a load of tuna.

[Mysteryman19]

That didn't answer my question at all

[Wingedz]

Keep eating.

[Mysteryman19]

I don't need to know how to bulk, just WHEN to start doing it.

[Wingedz]

When you look like you are getting skinner not by body fats or weight, and get tired easier.