Calorie Deficit Vs Calorie Surplus

[meseleto]

I'm sure you guys get this question a few times so hopefully someone has some experience on this. This is what I've read and learned:

If you want to gain muscles and bulk up your going to need to get into what is referred to as calorie surplus. I.e. eating more calories but also in healthier forms like protein.

If you want to get a ripped six-pack your going to need to go into a calorie deficit and consume much less calories than you are currently doing.

If I want that elusive "perfect body" great abs and big muscles, is their one of these that is preferred or will help me attain the other one. Right now I've been bulking up for 2months (boy does it show) and have had my almost kinda two pack reduced to a definitely large one pack.

Any exercises/diet ideas that reduce loss in one aspect while your focusing on the other or is it better to do both. Obviously this is possible because I've seen the pictures all over t.v. ads.

 

[DEF]

You need to do both. 1. Bulk up so that you have muscle. 2. Cut so that you can shed the fat revealing the muscle you just spent months creating. Want more muscle? Repeat. 3. Not sure if that was sarcasm or not, but TV ads can be misleading

 

[malkore]

DEF is right. you cycle between the two until you've reached the muscle size/weight you want, at the right definition. Then you switch to the third eating pattern you failed ot mention: maintenance diet.

eat what you need to maintain what you need, and train to maintain what you've got.