Quote (RewtheBrave @ Oct 3 2016 09:46am)

Hyp is about putting on lean muscle mass. You can bulk while you're doing it by eating more food because bulking is mostly a game of what goes in and what goes out. You can bulk on strength training programs, too. Hyp and bulking aren't mutually exclusive but if you think about it, hyp training has a lot of volume to it; hence, the name, German volume training, for example. So if you're repping it out, you may as well focus on the aesthetic side of things. Whereas if you're bulking, you can do a hyp program, but strength training programs and powerlifting programs allow for a lot of eating without screwing with aesthetic results, because aesthetics aren't the end game.

A lot of bodybuilders bulk and hyp at the same time. They just lean out (dieting, cardio, the kind of stuff Tears is doing now) at the end of the hyp program. Think of it this way. You can bulk like hell and get strong, and then chisel it down, or you can do a lean hyp program and slowly bulk up.

Bulk and aesthetics are two very different end games. Bulking + hype = may as well just bulk in a strength program and whittle it down later. You will build muscle in a strength program but it won't show as much if you're doing hype. Just as you won't bulk as much in a hype program as you would in a strength program.