“I’m female, my fat loss has stalled, I want to focus on muscle gain. How big should my surplus be for a bulking phase?”   I’ve received this questions in dozens of different forms over the last year. More so than ever before so I wanted to record a full podcast to ‘call out’ this erroneous trend. There’s a little hardcore physiology in here for the geeks too, see www.Martin-MacDonald.com/EP28 for the references.

TOPICS

01:43 - Why women should never bulk

04:49 - There’s only one group of people who should consider bulking

08:10 - The different principles that govern fat loss vs muscle gain

15:13 - If you do bulk, this is what you should consider first

23:45 - My advice to women thinking about bulking

26:23 - Why bulking is not a one size fits all strategy