Quote Originally Posted by The Game
Hey bro,CC for joining the best boxing website in the world.PERIOD. I am no expert but aving read responses from AdamGB and GreyNotSold(the main men here who know everything about everything),the question would be why you want to put on weight? Being bigger and muscular in boxing is not really the way to go,it'll slow you down and is not practical. Also,you talk about 6 pacs(which are great for the chicas) BUT have no relevance in boxing,there's guys without 6 pacs that I know who could rip me apart!! You need that type of calorie intake if you want to be some type of body builder,not for boxing,you should be focusing on fuelling your body with carbs from foods like pasta,cereals,bread,rice etc.
As for supplements,there are always debates as to whether they are actually beneficial(I'm guessing you are referring to protein ones?),I'll let someone more experienced answer.
Sorry if I'm not much help,I'm just started training etc and just wanted to put my little knowledge into effect. How did I do guys(Adam/grey?)
cc

good points there, not really much more I can say... if the kid really wants to put on Muscle Gutshot is the guy to talk too... our resident nutritionalist... :P

I will basiclly repeat what you've said, why do you want to gain weight? As it stands at 6 foot 2 and 170 pounds you could probably do with putting on a bit more weight but if its a struggle put any sort of weight on you're probably better off stick to where you are natural.

Instead of looking in the mirror or worrying about not filling the arms out on your T shirt, worry about how you feel in the gym, if you feel like you can gain weight with out slowing up do it, but do it slowly and clean and if your having to eat insane amounts of food to gain, stop. You've found the limits of you're natural weight.

Body building is about adding unatural weight to your frame, boxing is about performance.

As for your six pack, don't worry about it... :P Mine comes and goes all year round but what does stay are a set of powerfull, effecient abs... you can always see them but only if I let my fat get low I get a 'six pack'... but that doesn't mean that when theres a bit more fat on my abs that they're any weaker.

Oh and as gut says, but the weight on all over... legs are more important to a boxer then arms anyway plus the fact that 'Chicken legs' just make you look weird and the bigger your upperbody is compared to them, the funnier :P