Quote Originally Posted by grahamb
Hi Latino

From personal experience any boxing training will not build bulk as such, but will build fast-twitch muscles - lean toned muscle. I might be totally wrong - so please correct me if I am!Â

I used to lift weights and was 12.5 stone about 1.5 years ago - I stopped doing weights and started training at a boxing gym. My weight now is a little over 11 stone, but when I still try and lift weights I'm nearly as strong as I was when I was weight training, although I'm 1.5 stone lighter!

I traing 3-4 times a week doing a very hard session with a few pro's. This involves circuits, pad work and sparring.

I look crap compared to what I used to look like (apart from my abs), but my speed, fitness and power is a lot better than when I did weights. My advice would be, if you want to look good and keep semi fit then keep up what you are doing! If you want to go bang at the boxing, cut out the weigths!

Good Luck!
Boxing training works both types of muscle fibre, not as much as different types of training but you will likely gain muscle mass from doing it, heavy bag work with lots of explosive combinations and hill sprinting etc will build muscle mass, strength and explosive power, shadow boxing and skipping and long distance running etc will make muscles more effecient and of course thats just the muscular side of things.

Theres the whole Energy system, cardiovascular and resporitatory system getting worked aswell, when you do boxing training properly you work every aspect of your fitness, so you cna have smaller muscles than a man and still be able to perform as well as he can, even in terms of strength alot of the time.

All my mate trains are his muscles, he's got to be a few stone heavier than me, yet when we have fun wrestles of what ever he dosn't over power as much as a lad with my fitness would if they were his size.

you probably lost more fat and poor muscle fiber than you do muscle aswell, you can look in the mirror with a lot of weight lifters and although they look defined and train hard, because of the nature of their training they're not always 100% lean muscled. Boxing on the other hands works you right to your core

I see guys my height and my weight who look much bulkier than me, better muscle mass is more compact than poor muscle mass of the same weight, alot of the time these guys take too many suppliments, problem is some of them don't lift to acheive a weight, they just want to fill the sleeves of their top out, so they don't watch what goes into their system properly and they don't care about how effecient the actual muscle on their frame is.