Ep. 104- Bulking vs Cutting: What Should You Do? 

Questioning whether to go to sleep or continue watching, until I paused the video at 14:27 at a perfect moment where both Eric and Omar are blinking on the same frame. By pressing , and . keys you can move frame by frame, and so, through my curiosity taking over, I noticed that had I paused the video even a single frame earlier, Omar wouldn't have blinked yet. One frame later, and Eric would've opened his eyes. Thank you Overlords, for this is a sign for ya boi to get off youtube for the night.

When Eric is talking about failed cuts and he's just looking into your soul oof

How are you guys only at 17k subs? People are missing out, man.

Wow love this episode. Eric hit the nail on the head for my life. "cut off your bulk at 15% bf" I need to do a proper serious cut to get under 15% bodyfat, my body does not find it sustainable and I've been there 3 times in my adult life at now 38 YO. forever spinning my wheels, forever unhappy with my body, always wanting more muscle and aways seeing myself as fat so I'm always in a lose/lose scenario. I need real help and guidance here.

it will be great if there time line thanks for the episode

Another fantastic video. I did not know I needed an episode on bulking and cutting, but I did.

Really well done guys. Keep up the good work

I just turned 40 and am probably around 13% BF and floating around 160-162lbs. I really appreciated the maintenance convo towards the end. With COVID, I've been working out at home for the last 10 months. As much as I want to add muscle (and not let my BF creep up too much), it is near impossible right now. Cutting will just make me look too thin. I needed to hear it was ok to just work on getting better at my current workouts and being ok with any incidental recomp. Thanks!

This one was really helpful for my situation , thanks for info 🥲

Love the podcast guys! Keep it up!

Amazing sobering episode. Thank you guys.

Good as always.

I was the last 25 years between 30-35% body fat. When is started to workout, loos fat and building muscle i had to learn, that i can not sustain lower that 20% bodyfat. Means 20% is the point, where i start tu bulk, and arround 25% is the point i cut again down to 20%. Works well for me, and iam happy with this numbers.

Great discussion, thank you both

Just finished my first cut (down to a very sustainable ~12%) in order to give myself headroom for a long bulk. For me I'm glad I did this cut, as I learnt a lot about my ability to diet. Now have the confidence to bulk as I know I can cut to an aesthetic ok level without much psychological cost. Pretty comfortable to run up to ~18% over the next year or more.

Awesome episode misters

Since i really do not have any cares about how i look now ( i care how i look 5 years from now)i was looking for opinions on it. 2 weeks later when life has relaxed and i can chill and listen to my fav cultists (the episodes i havent ) i click on this! And its what im after! damn this is pure gold. Thank you guys a lot . Really

I don't think going by body fat percentage is very helpful for most people. It's really hard to get an accurate reading of bodyfat for most people. Even with the best tools we have available now it's still difficult and eyesight testing is unreliable. We can get a since of directionality, sure, but that's nothing that weight loss isn't already telling us. With that said, I think a waist measurement combined with BMI is far, far better for telling us two things, one, a person's overall health as it relates to the various obesigenic disorders that all fall under that umbrella, and two, how lean a person is. We know that a 6' tall male with a waist measurement of 31-32 inches is very lean, and at very little risk of body weight related disorders. If you're a 6' tall male with a waist measurement of 31", you are very, very close to being in contest shape (if not already), of course assuming adequte nutrition and training. Whereas I would not recommend that a male start bulking if their waist measurement was at or above 37", regardless of what some silly bodyfat machine said because we know risk factors start creeping up beyond that point; the medical literature is clear on this. Body fat has become an obsession in the fitness industry, and a detriment to many individuals mental health I'd wager, while not necessarily being a good marker for overall health (not that anyone cares about that). I would like us to move away from talking about body fat, and instead focus on more useful metrics.

Iron Culture is doing God's Work. Omar and Eric deserve a Million subs to this Channel.

Good job guys

You guys are like the dream team..

im at 260 today. goal weight is 160. ask me every few months so i can update! Thank you!

The Asgards were shredded in both mind and body

I think the experience of combat sports athletes can be added here. For example, Daniel Cormier was arguably at his best at his fattest. As for myself, as a wrestler and later a Brazilian jiu-jitsu competitor, I found that I felt better competing at a higher weight class with extra fluff around my midsection than trying to compete as lean as possible.

Intro had me dying 🤣

When we getting that iron culture lore video?

I recently injured my back and I am mid-cut (about 40%) done. It looks like I won’t be able to lift for a few weeks. How does one approach this problem? It’s crushing my soul. When I get back to the gym, do I abandon the cut and try to regain for a while? Issue is I will have put on fat by then because being stuck at home without lifting has thrown me way off my diet.

Hi Eric, I just saw your video with Jeff. It was wonderful as always, we might haven't interacted much, but I've gone through your content in detail, I mean I've read the muscle and strength pyramids, videos, podcasts and stuff along with Jeff's ultimate guide to body recomposition. Following the advice, although I've good amount of muscle mass, I've been able to drop my body fat% from around 52% to around 30-35%. In the guide, he recommends, staying at a calorie deficit of 20% and further dividing it into macros and stuff, but my main query in the video is that you recommended to lose weight between 0.5-1.5% per week, however, at various places I've seen 1% as the cap, so will you say, it's safe to lose at 1.5% or should we set the max cap at 1%?

Most bodybuilders are concerned with how to most quickly put in muscle mass, regardless of how much fat they put on. P ratio is largely irrelevant to them. P ratio is of interest to academics.

Hey guys, respect for sticking it to the man and getting that patent on the pyramids. Was just wondering if you guys also had dibs on the pyramids on the moon? Or does the patent only cover our own earth. Kind regards, Fellow peach boy

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SO SHOULD I BULK

Liked for the Ancient Aliens theory of bodybuilding 💪👽

Is the other so called fitness podcast mindpump?? 😂

Those food pyramids behind Omar are really convenient.

I haven't made my way through the whole thing yet, but this seems to ignore the advice (for most beginners?) to stay *around* maintenance, maybe a slight difference, get into a good resistance training regimen, and just build muscle without gaining too much fat along the way?

Omar “5min question” Isuf!

All hail the cult!

2:09 its all vegan dungbug roll !! them aliens are no way like that, the vegans are subliminaly trying to instill that image.....get me my meat!

Put a timeline on the videos!!! 😠😡😤💢