>>76455301
right back at you
your theory that it is an absolute necessity to build muscle was literally born out of low IQ broscience from like 70 years ago.
The bulk of the literature shows that advanced athletes can build muscle on a small deficit. Only competitive bodybuilders prepping for a show and suffer actual energy status deficiency due to lack of energy stores in their own bodies actually experience atrophy in a deficit, no one here is at that level.
Also the longer you push yourself during a bulk the longer you will have to cut anyway, even according to your broscience you will start to lose whatever muscle you think you built in a bulk the day you start cutting, it is nonsensical broscience that refutes itself and leads no total nihilism.