strong lats??

I won't comment on the benifit of lats for boxing.
The muscles on the side of your body Latisimus dorsi, give you body the Wide V look
The best excersise for building big lat spread is seated rows
Sitting on your a** with legs straight out in front knees slightly bent
pulling on bottom pulley of a a cable machine with weight stack.
you have to tilt "forward " on your hips or a** bones and then curve your back so your belly is sticking out.
Form is VERY important in this excersise.
you can do a pull with palms up or down on a bar or together on a v HANDLE WITH THUMBS UP.
Pull to middle of chest or with palms up to your sides keep the hands high about mid chest.
keep elbows in
a small rocking is ok to move the weight.
start light, warm up. go big.
I used to do a weight stack and finish with sets of 12 at 700 or so pounds.
On smaller weight stacks you can do it with a guy standing on the stack
Along with bench press a huge excersise to build upper body power and size.
One of the basics
Bench,rows,curls,squat,deadlift.leg press.tricep pushdown

Thanks for the advice Chris L. Glucosamine + chrondotin is very popular amonst runners I know aswell. :-)

The problem with taking the Glucosamine pills is that it wears on your liver down the line. Which brings me to something called "DMSO", look that up, and you're at it you should also you should look up "castor oil".

Basically DMSO is a topical oil derived from trees that acts as a transporter for differen't medicens and substances. Castor Oil is known for it's wide spectrum healing properties but it needs something like DMSO to penetrate through the skin and get absorbed into the body.

It's miraculous, and you should look it up. ;)

All good thanks! :) I work in a lab and I think we have it in our chemicals stocks for diluting insoluble antibiotics so it makes sense that it would get into places water doesn't! I'll definitely look it up :)

I have heard people rave about the benefits of oil aswell. I've been told to have an oil bath after every workout but time wise it's not always practical so anything which can help you absorb enough in application a week versus every night is a bonus!