Nov. 17, 2023

How to bulk without getting fat? | Topic Thunder

How to bulk without getting fat? | Topic Thunder

We’re in Topic Thunder mode again for the holiday season. Topic Thunder is our rapid-fire panel discussion show.

Today’s question: What are your top tips for bulking if you’re NOT a hard-gainer? Do hard gainers exist or are they just people who...

We’re in Topic Thunder mode again for the holiday season. Topic Thunder is our rapid-fire panel discussion show.

Today’s question: What are your top tips for bulking if you’re NOT a hard-gainer? Do hard gainers exist or are they just people who don’t like food?

Our buddy Matt Ogi joined us for this one. You can find him on @matt_ogi on Instagram.

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and check it out. In today's
topic, it's a little bit confusing to

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me, so maybe you can cipher
it, but it says, what are

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your top tips for bulking when not
a hard gainer? Oh? Does that

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mean that he gets too fat?
Probably? Yeah? Right, Yeah,

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it sounds like it, But I
would have phrased it different, sorry,

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buddy. Right. I would have
said, how do I bulk without getting

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too fat. Yeah, uh right? Or like how do I bulke?

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Or is it bad that I gain
excess fat when I I bulke too quick?

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What do I do? Or something? So if someone is like a

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classic card gainer, which they do
exist, but they're really kind of unicorns,

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I think, I think I don't
think they're that common. Well,

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it's not physiological. Yeah, the
physiological mezoic though hard gainer soft gainer just

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isn't a thing. No, I
believe that those people just don't have a

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great appetite. Yeah, or yeah, you raise your relationship with food's just

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different. Yeah you don't. You're
on everyone's unaware of how many calories they

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eat. Yeah, fat people are
well aware. The other way the other

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way. It's true though thaking hard
gainer, No, you choose to be

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little. I don't believe in that. I was like, oh, it's

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just mental, Like hard gainer is
just an excuse that you're not eating enough.

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Yeah, and I mean you could
do so then reverse that. The

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fat people say it right now on
your debut, tough guy. Then you're

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eating fat fat people is just an
excuse that they're right. Portion is small,

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but their places as big as my
head, that's true. I mean

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everyone's no a thick ONMS that came
and said like, uh yeah, I

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really don't eat that much. I
just don't know what you got here somehow.

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Yeah, and the chance is that
it's a real fucking issue, or

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like one in a trillion. And
then even if it is a real issue,

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the hard gainers fucking can't lose weight, fatty whatever whale, I don't

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care, you can't. The calorie
deficit still like, the concept still works.

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Your calories just look different because people
say, like, well I try

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a calorie deficit and it didn't work. Well, Like, no, that

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means you weren't in a calorie deficit
like by definition. Yeah, like like

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your calories may need to be lower
than someone else who is five hundred pounds

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in fucking six foot, but like
your shit will still lose weight if you're

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eating properly less. Yeah. And
the thing about the semaglue tide and all

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those gelp or whatever ones stimulators or
whatever the fuck they're called, is that

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they just make you less hungry.
And so yeah, you you eat less,

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so you lose weight, and it's
you know, like to fifteen percent

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of your body weight. So just
if you take people who naturally are like

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that and they want to put on
weight, they tend to have to eat

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more calorie dense foods, which can
be gross in some ways or it could

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be good in some ways, depending
upon Yeah, depends, But has there

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anybody has there? Have you encountered
anybody who was not just naturally lean but

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fucking skinny who actually ate as many
calories as it would take to gain weight.

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Yeah? Probably not, or and
if they did, it's not consistent

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cost then or it's not tracked,
and then yeah, oh I had all

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this, but like if you're not
really tracking it, you don't know what

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you really have. It's like one
meal, your four thousand calories, it's

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probably twenty eight hundred. Yeah,
yeah, And even that, the chances

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are the people that are that skinny
not only not eat enough, but they're

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probably like jittery. They probably walk
a lot. They might be a fucking

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nurse, so they're stumping around the
hospital a day. Yeah, so their

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overall energy expenditure so high. So
for my dude, here top tips for

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bulking when you're not a hard gainer. I mean, I guess you don't.

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I don't think you need tips right, that's the easy part. Yeah,

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you're basically telling me. That's why
I was confused, Like you're basically

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telling me you can gain weight.
Yeah. Yeah, So I don't know

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what Tippy want. I guess like
still track tracking. Tracking is good because

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then like you won't go overboard,
avoid the super calorie dense foods, but

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make sure that you're eating it,
eating in surplus less McDonald's. Yeah,

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if you're actually trying to gain weight, but it's easy. Yeah, that's

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why you can't eat it maintenance and
gain weight. No, I'm just confused.

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Uh yeah, I think watch tracks
then yeah, I don't know what

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is is because even calorie dense foods
isn't an issue. If you're trying to

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gain weight and you're tracking, Yeah, it depends on how fast you want

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to do it too. Yeah,
but if you're tracking, yeah, that

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decides you, don't you know,
you set your target and then the path.

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Yeah you really do. Yeah,
you really do. And obviously I'm

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on the other side, like losing
weight's much more difficult for me than gaining

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weight, and just by my love
for food and inactive lifestyle, so like

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I can't really relate to if I
wanted to snap my fingers gain weight to

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be so easy. Eating is the
easiest thing on the planet. Fat typically

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is for me too. Yeah,
just eat. It's the not eating that's

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hard. Yeah, of course,
and moving more. And I don't know

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about you, but I can eat
one. I'm full, like totally well

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and anything. That's what people will
just fast up, bro, you put.

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I can over eat broccoli salad like. I can overeat anything. I

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can overeat steak. I can overeat
probably eggs or something's the only thing.

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But even still, I'm throwing hot
sauce on it. I could overeat.

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I mean, I eat a pound
of ground beef easily. I've eaten two

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pounds of ground beef in one bowl. You uh, okay. So if

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you have a meal prep day where
you're doing like three, four, five

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days of meals or whatever, do
you have to restrain yourself to make sure

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that you that it actually stretches that
far while you're preparing it, It's like,

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oh, this is done. This
is good. Yeah, I mean

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lucky for right now, for my
life, I don't have to do it.

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I cook like one day at a
time. Yeah, just based on

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how I built my schedule and shit, so I literally cook a pound of

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ground beef a pound of vegetables.
I eat it, rinse, and repeat

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the next day. I shop a
couple days ahead, four days, I

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hope. So yeah, I hope
you're not on a daily A lot of

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people do d I don't know.
The pandemic is talking to some of the

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pandemic changed a lot of like habits, even for me, Like I don't

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go to the grocery store anymore.
One I don't have a car, but

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two, like for the last three
years, I just I just like get

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it delivered when the grocery store is
downtown or trash. Yeah, I don't

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want to drive far out to go
get groceries, like of time it would

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take me. Yeah, I would
rather just have it delivered. I haven't

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done that. I've had other stuff
delivered, but yeah, I mean six

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bucks or some shit, and on
Amazon is basically free. Yeah, it

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is a shit. Oh I lied. I actually had cereal delivered this week

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from Amazon because I couldn't find my
brand fiber one. I'm a but see,

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I ended up with the flakes and
like here here I have usually have

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a like pretty tasteless fiber cereal right
as a base. And then I throw

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some like great harvest flakes on top
of that, and then I throw a

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little bit of like some sugary cashy
thing on top of that. Mix it

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together so it actually tastes like something
all the way through, but isn't like

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I'm not into box of cashi.
All right, final answer, I would

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continue some kind of movement in cardio. Cardio and bulking is absolutely fine.

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Monitor your calories, keep them fucking
consistent, and then have like less cheat

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days, like if your goals are
really to be jacked, skinny or bulking,

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like, cheat days just kind of
can't be a thing. I know

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they like popularize on the internet because
of sucking the rock Johnson and Ship,

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but he's d one genetics and steroid
out of his brain, so it's probably

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not you. So the cheat days
have to be minimized calculator calories and continue

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some kind of cardio so you don't
die. There we go, All right,

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ude, shout it out. What
do you want? You got twenty

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instagrams? Give give them one to
follow? How do you have so many

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Instagrams? I don't understand. I
literally have two. Now you're just lying

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because then each I think I've seen
three and by nature each Each instagram has

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at least one, if not two, equal fens does so, I know

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you probably have. It's two instagrams, right, and then the fence does

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Matt at I know the fista is
probably some anime icon, you know,

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like butt Pokers nine xxx. That's
not that's not me. I don't know,

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man, I got two, all
right, well, then hit them

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with two yeah underscore O G I
all right easy, I'm saying, Mike,

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