Tristan

Since there's so much nonsense out there and it's hard to tell what is right and true and what is wrong and untrue I'd like to know the opinion of the forum about cycles of bulking and cutting.

Can they be considered an outdated thing of the past or in spite of the inefficiency old-style cutting and bulking are still the only thing we have and will ever have to build muscles and lose fat?

I have always thought of bulking to gain 5 pounds of muscles with 3 pounds of fats and cutting to lose 5 pounds of fats with 3 pounds of muscles a one step forwards and one step backwards approach and so I have always thought/hoped there must be another more efficient way.

Do we have learned a thing or two in the meanwhile and put the long boring (probably unhealthy) long cycles of bulking and cutting in the archive of the last century?

For example what could be an alternative approach for a skinny fat. Someone who appears skinny and bony just because he or she lacks muscles but actually the fat percetage is high enough and most of the fat is stored in the waist?

Thank you for reading