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Eating like a linebacker and calling it science because gains don't lie, but your gut might.
means To deliberately eat in a calorie surplus so you gain weight, with the goal of building muscle (and inevitably, some fat along for the ride).
from Bulk traces back to Old Norse 'búlki,' meaning a ship's cargo or heap of goods — the mass piled in a hold. English borrowed it for 'size, volume, main mass,' and by extension 'a large, shapeless lump' of anything. The gym sense — intentionally packing on mass before 'cutting' it back down — is modern bodybuilding slang, but it's just the old cargo-hold meaning finally applied to the body itself: you're the ship, and you're loading up the hold.
- origin era
- bodybuilding slang popularized in the 1980s-90s
- phases
- dirty bulk vs clean bulk is a religious war
- inevitable sequel
- always followed by a cut, allegedly
- caloric math
- surplus of 250-500 calories daily is the sane version