Instead of creating a new thread, I thought I would update this one. School has started and I now have membership at the gym I was mentioning above. However, my goals have changed somewhat slightly and I still don’t know exactly how to start going about reaching them. Essentially I need to do a body re-composition.
I like the scale weight range I’m in (especially for MMA) but naturally, I’d like to be as lean as possible at the same weight. I’m already 176 lbs. but my muscle to fat ration sucks (I think I’m at 12-13% but it might be anywhere from 15-18%, I don’t really know). So with a combination of severely lacking some decent muscle and a moderate amount of BF, I look like a skinny-fat n00b 
This means I need to do a re composition.
My schedule will be a little easier than it was during summer, so I will be able to lift MWF (I’m still planning on doing that full-body routine I posted above) with 1 hour of MMA on my off days.
I know this question gets asked all the fucking time, but should I try to do first? I know to recomp I will have to operate in both a caloric surplus/deficit at some point. I figure I could lose 5-10 lbs. of fat first and I wouldn’t look deathly skinny and it would take only ~2 months after which I could slowly switch to a caloric surplus to gain (hell, I’d personally prefer gaining while lean as possible). But, I’ll let those that know a lot more chime in.
