Help Getting Stronger

[amat]

OK, I realize this isn't exactly boxing related but whatever.

OK, so I just recently graduated from high school. I'm going out for the basketball team and I feel I need to add some weight. I'm not big, 6'1 150 lbs. I don't have much fat on me at all, that was my first goal was to get as trim as possible and I think I have done that. Earlier this year I started running regularly again, cut down on most of the extra cirricular stuff and started eating and drinking much healthier.

I didn't really have a program to do this, it just involved running whenever I felt like it and just tried to be as active as possible. Right now I'm probably in my best shape I've ever been in. I can go out and run the court for 3 hours at a time with really no problem at all. That's something I've never been able to do before.

But I'm a fairly wiry guy. 6'1 150 lbs and that fluctuates, sometimes I step on the scale and I'm 145 pounds sometimes I'm 10 lbsmore then that. But I don't have a whole lot of muscle on me, I want to be able to play the point in the post I have really been working on getting my game with my back to the basket improved but that is definitely my weakness as the bigger guys are having their way with me in the post.

So I need to bulk up. Not much, I just want to build some muscle so I'm not so wiry. I wish I had some pictures but I don't, but you can see my profile picture if that helps at all. I've made repeated attempts in the past at building muscle but it's just never worked out. My brother had virtually the same body type as my all throughout high school and then bulked up after high school pretty huge with the help of creatine. But I don't really want a whole lot of muscle mass, just want to get stronger.

The problem is I don't have any access to any sort of gym right now. I do have a set of dumbells and medicine balls and all the time in the world, but that's about it right now. I will in September when I start school and can use the school gym but I was wondering if there was any way using bodyweight excercises or something that I could help build strength?

Post kind of made in haste any questions please ask. Thank you.

[donnydarkoIRL]

Hi Amat,
Welcome to the ATT board man.

In seeking to build strength, bodyweight exercises are one of the finest tools that you can employ....
Check out this thread, with some great suggestions from Salty amongst others.
http://www.saddoboxing.com/boxingfor...xcercises.html

Squatting may be an excellent methos of improving overall strength.
It will certainly aid your explosive power and perhaps by solidifying the calves with raises/seated raises you can maximise the strength of your legs.

Also, take a glance at they description of whey protein in this thread;
http://www.saddoboxing.com/boxingfor...ictionary.html

Good Luck.

[donnydarkoIRL]

Also I'm looking into a new system of training I believe to be ideal for basketball and boxing.

[Salty]

I've got a complete jump improving workout for 3x a week, defently works as I was able to dunk the ball at 5"11. Will search for it mate and post it here if I can find it for you, you will notice results within two weeks easy.

[amat]

I've got a complete jump improving workout for 3x a week, defently works as I was able to dunk the ball at 5"11. Will search for it mate and post it here if I can find it for you, you will notice results within two weeks easy.

That would be cool. I can dunk off and on but a couple inches would be nice. My biggest problem is palming the ball.

Thank you all.

[Salty]

I've got a complete jump improving workout for 3x a week, defently works as I was able to dunk the ball at 5"11. Will search for it mate and post it here if I can find it for you, you will notice results within two weeks easy.

That would be cool. I can dunk off and on but a couple inches would be nice. My biggest problem is palming the ball.

Thank you all.

It improved my leap by over 6 inches in six weeks so you'll be getting a lot more height . You'd be able to do two handers then. Still looking mate know I hve somewhere in my room.

[amat]

Thought I lost this thread, was in the training logs

Anyways, am a week through. Really enjoying it so far though I've added tabata squats at the end of it all to get my heart rate going since I've pretty much done off with all running after realizing how sore I was.

Definitely going to stick with this for all six weeks, still looking for an upper body program kind of been making stuff up as I go along.

Scrap I'll give what you said a try if I got it right, I'm pretty sure I've done something similar before but in one smooth motion not in inches, will give it a go one of these days.

[Douglas]

Remember to eat lots of protein.