gaining muscle with own bodyweight?

[Machine Gunz]

can u put on size from using ur own bodyweight by doing pushups, chinups, dips etc?

[Kayo]

yes...yes u can

[Banderivets]

Sure you can.

I moved from 180 to 200 doing exactly that.


And after not touching a bench in few years I benched 115lb bar 400 times. Most people tell me its retartedly too much.

Vertical pushups, deep chair pushups, knuckle, regular....

Its just hard work. I wokrout 5 days a week 1 hour or 1 and a half a day.

Eat right.

[potatoes]

Yes, but weightlifting is much more effecient at artificially pumping up the muscles. The increases in size and strength are largely an illusion inasmuch as they disappear quickly after training has been terminated. This is why steroids became popular. The real gains in musculature are more rapid and last longer. The question is why would you want it? Few if any of his opponents pushed Joe Louis around the ring, yet he used only natural training methods. Condition you body for boxing and accept your appearance as it is. If some guy kicks sand in your face on the beach, you don't need Charles Atlas's muscles, you need Joe Louis's boxing skills.

[KingDosia]

Yes, but weightlifting is much more effecient at artificially pumping up the muscles. The increases in size and strength are largely an illusion inasmuch as they disappear quickly after training has been terminated. This is why steroids became popular. The real gains in musculature are more rapid and last longer. The question is why would you want it? Few if any of his opponents pushed Joe Louis around the ring, yet he used only natural training methods. Condition you body for boxing and accept your appearance as it is. If some guy kicks sand in your face on the beach, you don't need Charles Atlas's muscles, you need Joe Louis's boxing skills.

This guy is stuck in the past. And quite frankly an idiot...

You can enhance strength buy those methods. They are at the root of any good training program. You are not going to gain a lot of muscle mass with those exersizes though. It's like youre hitting a ceiling Your muscles won't be pushed any further. They need extra resistance to really add power. Potatoes would like you to think you can pick up a book by some old fighter and shadow box yourself into champion form. The fact is boxing is slowly starting to come around " as the old heads leave the sport" and see eye to eye with scientific evidence that training muscles with resistance, enhancing strength and endurance, "somthing that for some reason Potatoes thinks is BAD" is the best way to optimize an athletes performance. Add that to your skills training and you'll have an all around program that will give you all the physical tools you need to suceed

[mini_tyson]

can u put on size from using ur own bodyweight by doing pushups, chinups, dips etc?

yeh for sure, especally if your boxing u would rather get big by using ur natural body weight u will be physicly stronger but therz no problem with using weights just depends on how u go about it.