Im Trying to Put Weight On

Eat a lot and work hard. Weights might help you get there and if that's the rout you want to go, look up Mark Rippetoes starting strength routine.

 

****ing hell, how you doing mate? Aint seen you around for a year or more.

 

Pizza, McDonalds and all that **** keep away from man...

You want to increase what you are eating when you are eating healthy and up your wholegrain carbs. Wheat rolls, brown rice, etc just double your portions and eat say 2/3 chicken/turkey fillets.

I also would not recommend you eat steak or red meat, which is what a lot of body builders will try and convince you to do. It bloats your stomach and forces your body to work hard in digestion, messing with your training.

 

I'm 6 foot and about 147 pounds... and I am in pretty much my perfect weight class. You sure you wanna put on weight? Maybe you just want to get leaner, in which case train harder and lift heavy weights for a few months.

 

Just get to the boxing gym man, it'll get you in shape. I don't understand why people think you need to show up in top shape, isn't that what the gym is for?

 

Fair enough. In that case, run, swim, bike, lift, chop trees, whatever gets your heart rate up and muscles awake. Only boxing will get you in boxing shape, so in the meantime just get your overall physical fitness up. And eat well of course.

 

Eat. Lift Eat More

 

LOL, actually agree with you.
If your ever around somebody who is BIG you usually can tell how they got that big...EATING!..if there fat it's usually eating/ laying around. Some people it's genetics no matter what, but usually it's simply from eating.
If you seen a BIG weightlifter though you can understand why there big. There whole life is based on eating massive amounts, resting, and lifting.
Food is much more important than exercise will ever be. I think they say it's something like 80/20...80% food, 20% exercise.

 

I don't think you can slap percentages on them. Let's just say one is useless without the other. You can have the best diet in the world, if you don't workout you'll never be in shape.

 

My brother doesn't lift at all, but he eats a lot and sleeps a lot, yet he is strong as **** and two or three inches taller than me. He's also 3 years younger than me. How do you explain that ****?

 

Manual labor? He's physically more active? If you do not exercise muscle, it will not grow. You will simply store the calories, whether they came from good or bad food. All the other nutrients in the healthy food will of course benefit you greatly, but not in terms of strength or muscle mass.