Yea... and when you're lifting 80 percent of your max or higher how many reps can you do? Say 3-5 maybe!?!? If you want mass, lift like that. If you want just strength, lift lighter, more reps. As far as eating more yea, eat more. Make sure its healthy stuff though, not Hersheys and Twinkies. Otherwise your just gonna gain fat mass, not muscle mass.
Strength training typically produces a combination of the two different types of hypertrophy: contraction against 80 to 90% of the one repetition maximum for two to eight repetitions (reps) causes myofibrillated hypertrophy to dominate (as in powerlifters, olympic lifters and strength athletes), while several repetitions (generally 12 or more) against a sub-maximal load facilitates mainly sarcoplasmic hypertrophy (professional bodybuilders and endurance athletes). 2-8 Reps of 70-90% of your max will create strength/explosiveness as long as you're training correctly. Reps over 8 will allow for muscle growth and size typically with the proper training regimen. Compound lifts (bench, squat, deadlift, rows, cleans) are much more suitable to the sport of boxing where movements are explosive and in short bursts. Going into the gym and doing biceps and triceps won't make you a faster or stronger fighter. You may just get a couple more looks at the beach.
[FONT=verdana,arial][SIZE=-1]Ectomorph - the naturally skinny body type of the three different body types. Unlike the mesomorph and the endomorph, the ectomorph is the person that has probably been very skinny their entire life. It's not because of a great diet or workout, it's because they are born with a super fast metabolism. This gives them the "ability" to eat pretty much whatever they want, pretty much whenever they want, and pretty much never get fat and never gain weight. [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=verdana,arial][SIZE=-1]Endomorph - the naturally fat body type. If the three different body types were in some kind of diet and workout High School together, the endomorph would be voted "Most Likely To Kill An Ectomorph." These are the people who could eat half as much as what an ectomorph or mesomorph eats and still gain weight. The endomorph is naturally "big boned" and has what some people might describe as a body that is roundly shaped. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=verdana,arial][SIZE=-1]The endomorph has the slowest metabolism of the three different body types and can therefore gain weight the quickest and easiest. This is great for gaining muscle and strength, but terrible for losing and keeping off fat. It's basically the complete opposite of the ectomorph. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=verdana,arial][SIZE=-1]Mesomorph - the luckiest body type of the three different body types. The prototypical athlete, fitness model and bodybuilder. Where the ectomorph and the endomorph both have a positive and negative side, the mesomorph has pretty much the best of both worlds. They gain muscle almost as well as an endomorph, yet can lose fat almost as well as an ectomorph. [/SIZE][/FONT]
You must be reading strength and conditioning written BY dummies not FOR dummies. You're advice is completely wrong and I'd advise you to do some better research before posting inaccurate information.
My mistake Cluke. I had endo and ecto backwards, I just looked it up though. You're right, Im wrong, go Callazo.