Thanks a bunch for the info! Early days for me, I'm just making a start on some research and my cardio so I have a decent base to work off of.

You’ll also have to keep up the training for as long as you stay big. What often happens to retired sumo wrestlers is that their muscles will immediately start to atrophy and they start to suffer from the various known problems associated with unmanaged obesity unless they work to lose the weight.

This I figured at least, I know with most major muscle gain you gotta keep that stuff up or you'll get atrophy pretty quickly as you said.

That’s a textbook sumo bod and for a moment there I mistook his briefs for a mawashi.

Yeah didn't think about that till recently but totally sumo vibes. Wonder if that was intentional on the artists part or not lol