New to this.......Help

[jamesg805]

First of all forgive me for the long winded post.
Ok I have been going to a gym and have been training for boxing sporadically for about 3 months. Now I'm at a point with my daily work schedule where i can bang out an hour and a half 4 nights a week and an hour on 2 other nights. Im not fat but i do have the beginings of a beer belly. Im 5'11" and weigh 220. I have always been pretty athletic but i want to box in actual fights by this upcoming summer. I have done some reading ( ALOT ) in this forum and have learned alot but now I need some help.
This is the routine that i have developed and have been following since the begining of this month:I eat at small meals, almost snacks at 7 am, 9am, 1030am, 1230pm, 2pm, 5pm, also when Im leaving the gym at 830pm I'll eat a piece of fruit or 2. I only eat oatmeal, fruit, chicken breast, rice, alot of veggies, eggs, steak, jerky, and an occasional granola bar( they say that diet is 90% of your fitness). Monday, Wednesday and Fridays I jog for 30 min, do some small sets of weights, do a killer ab work out,and shadow box and hit the double-ended bag for a few rounds. Tuesday and Thursday I 1/2 run 1/2 skip rope for 30 min and do heavy weights and either trian with focus mitts( for as long as i can ) or do heavy bag work.
Now what I'd like to know is if I'm on the right track or what? I love being in there and have my music on my MP3 player as i jog ( the Rocky4 soundtrack, VERY inspiring) and I want it bad. This is something that I will not give up on. So whoever knows more about begginers training please hit me up, I dont want to be doing it all wrong.

[koto_ryu]

Sounds to me that if you follow what you say, you're definitely on the right track and will do well. Make sure you're drinking plenty of water (optimum hydration is achieved by drinking an ounce of water every 10-15 min, instead of just pounding a bottle before a workout) and stick with it, and I'm sure you'll see excellent results.

[medic06]

As long as you are not overtraining, it's pretty hard to mess up beginning training. As long as you are persistant and consistent in you training you will go far.

[danrogers29]

yeah ive got some probelms with the training thing too because of a few things, 1 i live at homewith my mother still who cooks me whatever she likes so i cant really have a good diet, 2 i live quite far away from my boxing gym and so cant attend regulary however i do have gym equipment e.g speedball, punchbag, skipping rope out in my garage but the problem is that recently we have had a few refurbishments in the houshold and so the garage is full, this means aswell as the fact i am at full time education in college that i have a lot of problems with regular training

[danrogers29]

ps i think by the sounds of it you have a good training system i wouldnt mind trying to get a system like that going myself although i personally would leave out the heavy wieghts that is only because i am 16 and have a large amount of muscle mass as i am which is bad for speed

[Uber_Tap]

A tip for your cardio workout, something somebody on this forum told me that has worked great. Rather than just jogging for 30 minutes try this:

Do a light jog for 10-15 minutes to losen up your muscles. After your done with your jog run near or at full speed for 2 minutes, and then drop back to a medium jog for 2 minutes. Repeat 5 or 6 times. It will kick your ass, but you will notice a huge difference in your endurance after a few weeks. It is supposed to simulate the type of strain your body indures during a fight.