Is it possible to add muscle and keep fat down?

[kamaboko]

I've been playing with my diet and workouts forever....or so it seems. What is the trick? Does one have to bulk up, gain a shit load of fat, trim it down, then do the whole process all over again? Or is it possible to gain muscle and keep the fat under control?

Thanks

 

[Kid Dynamite]

Yeah, you can gain muscle and keep from becoming a blimp. Just eat relatively clean and a few hundred cals above maintenence. Bulking up doesn't mean you have to turn into a fatboy.

 

[110%]

if u want to gain muscle without gaining fat just follow a maintenance diet, roughly 15 X bw for total cals consumed each day with whatever macronutreint breakdown u choose, around 40/40/20 carbs/pro/fat i prefer. though you will gain muscle at a much faster rate when bulking. i prefer to do a cutting then maintenance for a while, thenb ulk during winter and fall and cutt towards spring, maintenance during summer. though i had some problems with bulking and cutting recently, hopefully thta doesnt happen next time around (ended up gaining 26 lbs and only kept 4 lbs at about 1 or 2% lower bf than when i started after i finished cutting)