If you're skinny-fat should you bulk or cut?

why have you been asking this for like a week

>>76343162 (OP)
yes

>>76343162 (OP)
Picrel is fat fat, not skinnyfat.

how do you fix narrow shoulders and wide hips?

if u have a fat gut / love handles u should giga cut until youre ultra lean, and then start from there

Im saying this as someone who wasted the first 10 years lifting focusing on bulking, gaining size, gaining strength, etc

I could have looked better in the first year if i had just death cut to a shredded body and then started a very controlled slow bulk after that

>>76343162 (OP)
Bulk. I had a similar build to picrel and always tried to cut, just ended up a slimmer version of pic rel. switched to bulk and now I have visible muscles and a broad chest

Bulk or cut? I’m this mode
5’11 ~74kg

>>76343162 (OP)
CUT
>>76343673
CUT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

>>76343560
You can’t

>>76343673
Nigga youre just fat. Dough boy ass niqqa

>>76343673
cute tits

>>76343673
Just lift weights. That beer belly’s going to be around for a long time even if you cut so whether bulk or cut you’re going to look like shit until you get muscles

>>76343781
>>76343766
>>76343693
How the fuck is he so fat at 74kg? That is not a high weight for someone who is 180cm
He literally must have zero muscle I’m guessing?

I’m the same weight, 3’ shorter and look nothing like that

>>76343789
probably lying about weight and height + what you said

>>76343569
This, I went on a giga bulk to build muscle while skinny fat and just ended up fat (but stronger), then when I cut I lost all the muscle and strength while the love handles were still there.

It's true "you burn more fat if you have muscle" but it's only like 5% more at best. Just get as lean as you can while lifting high reps isolation exercises, some cardio and try to get 200 g protein a day. Basically do the opposite of what /fit/ says

>>76343162 (OP)
I can't believe you've been spamming this for over eight years.

>>76343162 (OP)
I can't believe you've been spamming this for over eight years

mfw got fat on a gigabulk out of gluttony then fucked up a long cut and got burnt out on it
now I'm gonna bulk slow and eventually try out PSMF because fuck cutting for months

Chrome detective is on the case

>>76343673
What gender are you? Not even meming

>>76343874
If you lost all your muscle and strength, you didn't have any to begin with

>>76344259
First day on the board?

>>76343162 (OP)
The answer for 95% of anons is lean bulk. Only the obese and those who are finishing up a bulk should consider cutting.

Recomp or very weak deficit, like 100 cals.

You'll never regret being too lean

>>76343162 (OP)
Depending on how fat you are you can either recomp or lean bulk. You could also cut first and then gigabulk, but that's a bit of a waste of time imo (and novices generally don't do very well on gigabulks, that's more of a thing you do once or twice as an early intermediate).

>>76344338
>You'll never regret being too lean
You always regret being too lean when you're small and disappear in clothes. Being lean when you have no muscle is also useless because there is no muscle to reveal with better definition, you just end up bony with faint abs even at a ridiculously low bf%.

>>76343162 (OP)
That is testorone issue.

>>76343162 (OP)
Recomp is king
Go put on muscle, eat well, sleep well to recover, train hard as fuck while tapping into your own fail and still eating 3x a day

>>76344518
recomp is real only on gear or for beginners

>>76344757
only beginners do these threads.

>>76343162 (OP)
skinnyfat is just lardass cope. You're fat, lose weight. You're DYEL, lift weights. That's it.

Just lift
For fuck's sake just fucking lift weights. You're at that point where doing any form of exercise is going to be a huge improvement.

>>76343162 (OP)
It's in the fucking name: you're fat. So cut.
Less food, more protein, lift hard, cardio. That's it. It's no mystery.

>>76344786
Skinnyfat means like 20bmi or less but still kinda doughy. Op pic isn't skinnyfat but the condition is real.

>>76344811

>>76344828
Fucking kek. It do be like that.

>>76343789
Probably not 5'11 and much fatter then that

>>76343673
>doctors will call this healthy

>>76343162 (OP)
cut to nothing, then lean "bulk".

>>76343673
Bulk for sure. GOMAD even.

if you're skinny fat just maintain usual diet and train and modify said training until you like what you see before you go changing stuff

>>76343162 (OP)
You should lift.

>>76343908
Twinkstalker had been spamming many things for years. There needs to be studies done into his mental illness.

>>76347909
Ok

>>76343673
What causes that estrogenic fat distribution?

>>76343673
Wtf, I'm the same height at 79kg and look like a skeleton in comparison.