SLOW CLEAN bulk - thoughts

[Bouncer]

I think gaining 10 lbs while dropping bf% for someone that has been doing it for awhile is hard. Now take into account your vegetarian diet, age, lack of supplement use like creatine, whey, etc, and the fact that you are natural.. I won't lie to you, you have a lot of things working against you.

I think you can do it with hard work but I feel that you are going to have to eat more then you are comfortable with.

[GreyingWolf]

Scrum, your the most knowledgable nutrition resource on this board, so I don't think many people could give you advice. My unqualified and limit experience based comments would be:
1. Quinoa - lots of it for u veggo's
2. Cut back on the cardio when bulking if you are ectomorph
3. Squeeze in a few cycles of UD2 - I am also not able to stick to it due to real life, but I squeeze in 1, 2 or 3 weeks of it when I can and I find 1 and 2 weeks gives awesome results - for me it gets less effective the longer I'm on it.

[lipripper]

Sorry no help for you small guys:D

Lean brother..lean...:pissed:

[Scrumhalf]

I am vegetarian, so it's basically oatmeal, veggies, brown rice, nonfat cottage cheese, tofu and protein shakes, spread out over 5 meals. I will write it up later if it will help. Most of my carbs are consumed between 7am and 5pm. Dinner is usally low carb tortillas, stir fried veggies and cottage cheese.

Fats are from peanut butter and flax oil.

Shooting for about 250 Kcal above maintenance, about a 40/40/20 C/P/F split.

[GrowthMan]

So whats the diet?

[Scrumhalf]

Sorry no help for you small guys:D

Or thin guys.

[lipripper]

Scrum, I'm kinda in the same boat..trying to bulk clean over the next year or so. I want to maintain this small waist and the lean look. Im trying for 1 lb a month..if I can do it. I have been maintaining at current level for 2 months now... jan I'm bumping up the cals a bit and gonna see what happens...

[Scrumhalf]

So I want to do a clean bulk in 2012. Emphasis is on CLEAN, so got to go slow.

I am currently about 139lbs at about 11% BF. I want to gain 7-8 lbs of muscle without ANY fat gain, so hopefully I can end up at 147-148lbs while at 10% BF or less.

I am thinking of a push/pull/legs/upperbody 4 day split. I will be doing 1 hour of fasted cardio 5-6 days a week. Generally 3-4 sets, 8-10 reps per set.

On the nutrition side, I am thinking of running a 250 Kcal calorie surplus on workout days and maintenance on rest days. Macros will be 40/40/20 C/P/F.

I have concerns. Is the cardio plan good? As I get older keeping fat off while gaining muscle is definitely harder. I don't want to overdo the calorie surplus and gain fat. Basically need to walk the thin line between gaining muscle and fat, and not gaining anything at all.

Note I am natty and no plans to change. Also not taking any supps other than caffeine.

I know my goals are different from most on this board but opinions and advice welcome. Looking for any must-dos and do-not-dos based on your experience. I thought about doing a round of UD2.0 but my current work schedule does not allow for it.

As I mentioned, time is not critical. I have all the time in the world - don't want to rush it and end up gaining fat.