2943: Your Bulk Is Not Working! Here Are the 5 Signs You Are Doing It Wrong

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Sal Di Stefano (2:35)

Bulking, reverse dieting, eating in a calorie surplus, you're trying it, but is it working? Here are the signs that what you're doing isn't working. If this is happening, let's fix it. Let's go.

Adam Schafer (2:48)

You get fat.

SPEAKER_1 (2:51)

Wait, slow down. Let's back up for a second. Doing it wrong, guy. Pay attention to that one.

Sal Di Stefano (2:57)

Let's back up for a second.

Let's explain what bulking is. It's also being referred to as reverse dieting. Same thing. It's the attempt to eat in a calorie surplus or eat more than your body's burning, with the goal being building muscle, maybe balancing hormones, boosting metabolic rate, maybe setting yourself up for a fat loss phase in the future. But the idea is, ultimately, regardless of what the goal is, it could be hormone balancing, it could be better health, better sleep, whatever, we're trying to build muscle. And we're doing so with good strength training programming and we're eating in a calorie surplus. Now, bulking used to be something that only, like hardcore bodybuilders or dudes like me when I was a kid that just wanted to gain weight, because I was skinny, were the only ones that ever tried bulking. Nobody else, the word bulk is a turn off to most people. In fact, that's why we say reverse dieting oftentimes because it's such a turn off. But the idea and the understanding and what it does for the body now has become so popular that you're seeing more and more people understand the benefit and attempt to move in this direction. And in my career, for all the time I've been in the fitness industry, which is well over 20 years, I've seen more women now go on a bulk than ever before. That was almost never the case in the past.