Best way to train and bulk up whilst training in MMA-

Depends what you do in your workouts and if you're consuming enough calories...

 

Agree with Virus. It is going to be very hard to "bulk up" given the amount of calories you will expend doing MMA and the lack of rest your body will be receiving. You should be doing very light MMA workouts, nothing taxing. If your goal is to bulk up, train compound, heavy movements 5-8 reps.Limit the auxilary lifts. Eat a lot of quality calories, high in protein, etc.

 

What are your training aims? Are you training MMA to compete?

 

For maximum hypertrophy you need to stimulate the muscle as many times as possible during the week while not burning out the CNS. Since you're doing MMA training as well this would be a tough thing to do.

 

Look at it this way, If you're training any combat sport to be competitive, you shoudln't be gaining weight unless under exceptional circumstances. (ie. You're really really weak at your weight, or you've beaten everyone at that weight)

If you're serious about bulking up, you shouldn't be doing any exercise the burns calories you could be using to build muscle.

of course, a compromise is very possible, but you'll have to decide if the lifting is a supplement to your martial arts, or if your martial arts are a supplement to your lifting.

 

Overeem is also about 6'5 and a heavyweight. Once you're in the heavyweight division, gaining as much weight as your frame can support is a good tactic. When you're 5'10 gaining weight is just going to push you into a category where everyone else is over 6'.

Also, Overeem is a professional with a VERY high probability of being chemically enhanced.

Trust me, I'm about 2 weight classes above what I should be at 5'6 because of my square frame and it makes life hard. As far as being a competitor goes, being as light as you can be while retaining your athleticism is almost always the best tactic.

 

Very tough. My advice is scrap the idea of "bulking up" and work on MMA skills. Once you have a skill base then entertain other ideas.

 

You aint Tyson.

You aint Tua.

You aint Fedor.

 

I agree with viru§, Onepunch and vonLPC. For competition, I feel priorities while training should be:
1st - Developing skill.
2nd - Improving strength and conditioning.
3rd - Everything else.

 

You're already short for your weight.

You can get strong without gaining size. Look into powerlifting and olympic lifting. A lot of GSPs recent improvements have come from oly lifts. It builds incredible explosiveness with minimal weight gain, but it also requires a proper coach and a lot of discipline and time. Lifting heavy is a skill unto itself, and skill training for MMA should come first.