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@rainn If you neither bulk nor cut you cannot increase your bodyweight which at the least caps your LBM to your current bodyweight (and I think common experience permits further extrapolations than that).

@rainn Compared to very slow bulking without cutting or compared to neither bulking nor cutting? Because the latter possibility is easily refuted for hypertrophy.

@jamierite74 I agree with the success leaves clues notion but at the same time it's hard to say here when there's a natural tendency for people to prefer long bulks anyway.

@losteve19 Imo Israetel is a little too fond of tidily constructed and seemingly logical programs (diets or workout routines) that are not particularly well grounded in research. SBS imo does a much better job of not pretending the science is less ambiguous than it is.

@jamierite74 Is there really evidence that long bulk:cut cycles are more efficient than short ones? I can see some reasons why it might be true (for example there may be lower productivity at the start of a bulk because you may be somewhat detrained for strength which may reduce your ability to...