What do you think? Getting big while also expending lots of energy with my other sport? Maybe its rationalizing but is it possible the extra energy expenditure from the BJJ will be a good countermeasure to make sure I don’t gain quite as much fat?

I think this is a bad idea. Most MMA training is intense and requires a lot of energy and will zap your recovery. If you want to get bigger and stronger, then build your schedule around that. Chasing both of these goals simultaneously is likely to leave you the same size and more frustrated at the end of an unproductive year.

I’m 5’11, used to be ~250 lbs, and I’m down to a lean 155 lbs. I found it funny for a while, getting called “skinny” by girls, but I’m past the humor. (For an ex fat guy, it takes quite a while to stop finding it funny…actually, no…its still funny, lol.) I’m supposedly around 8% body fat.

Anyway, I’m wanting to ‘get big’ now, so I’m aiming to put on 40 lbs in the next year. That means, hit 195 lbs. But the other thing is, I want to spend a lot of time on Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and hit purple belt.

I know I could just pick one goal and put all my energy into that, which I suspect I should do (though THAT thought is a bit worrisome to me heh…odd…).

What do you think? Getting big while also expending lots of energy with my other sport? Maybe its rationalizing but is it possible the extra energy expenditure from the BJJ will be a good countermeasure to make sure I don’t gain quite as much fat?

Thanks for any thoughts
–Tom