14 year old - struggling to find time and find a good program

I'm 14, and have been working out for 2 years, on and off. I weigh 140lbs/70kg and I am 5 foot 7 inches. I tend to make long posts and hope people help me. :p This is my first one about gym.

I'm posting this to find as many tips as possible for two scenarios.

- I started out with doing pushups, ofcourse slowly working up to it, and later on found out that I was doing the wrong form.

I've learnt the right form of the pushup, and doing a pushup shoulder width apart, my highest is 45 reps in one set. For now, I aim on ONLY having a bodyweight exercise routine, getting taller, and on weight loss. My main aim is to build my chest, shoulders and triceps. (Maybe even biceps). I've done loads of research on the matter already, and what I need is some good advice to squeeze in my workout time with my studies (It's an important year).

So for now, I can't hit the gym, all I can do is put aside an hour a day for just walking/jogging and doing pushups on the grass. I need some advice as to how to cover up for my loss after quitting the gym, and losing all the hard work, as after June, I plan to kick it into high gear, and continue with an intense workout routine and a good diet to burn some fat, and strengthen my core. A one hour per day workout routine with 2 rest days per week to preserve what I've done in the gym.

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- My gym routine has always been a split, I would do bodybuilding and fitness. It may seem a bit funny or I dunno, but this is what I used to do before I quit.

November 9th 2012 said:
Warmup:
- Treadmill 2 min 5.8km/h
- Elliptical machine 2 min resistance=15. Speed@Cal/hr=888+ (This was the standard speed I would work at).
------ Stretching --------
Pushups program (I used to follow a program in my iPhone which would get you to 100 pushups in 6 weeks, I need a new program to hit that goal). Basically 5 sets of pushups, 1 min-2min apart where I would hit in total around 80 in 5 sets. My max was 105 in 5 sets in October, recovery time was pretty short in my opinion, I used to follow it anyway.
----- A 2 minute rest ------
Treadmill Cardio @Level 3 (20 minutes of cardio basically, it would hit 6.6km/h at 4% incline, I was still getting used to it).
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Lats @ 22.5lbs - 3 sets with reps set at 15, 20, 25 with 60 seconds between each set, which I would increase every 3 gym days. I did lats just for the sake of working out my biceps and back, it wasn't anything intense, or challenging.
----- A 2 minute rest ------
Situps program (I used to follow the '200 situps' program on my iPhone, it worked out and I've topped it, went off to 215 situps as my record, I could've done more but I found it a little redundant). I quit situps and tried working with leg lifts, basically I just stopped working my abs for now, as I never noted my reps with leg lifts since I started them almost close to when I quit gym).
----- A 2 minute rest ------
Bench Dips - I'd keep two benches, one to keep my feet on, one for my hands, and I'd do dips in the middle of them, for all I know, they were the second hardest dip form out of the 4 standard dip forms. No particular sets, just 16 dips which I would keep increasing. I was about to set my sets, but damn, again, I quit. :(
----- A 1 minute rest ------
Off to the rowing machine, where I would maintain going 350-400m in 1min 30sec. I would keep increasing the number of 'm' slowly as gym days progressed.
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End of gym routine.
I would have a gym day every 3 days. So supposing I have one on Monday, my next one would be on Thursday, and so on. Oh, and this routine would take me 2 hours (or less) in the gym.
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I need to know if my gym routine is all correct for my aims, and if there's anything wrong with it. (As I've heard, splits are not very good). The thing is, my gym is a bit far and I can only go as frequent as 2-3 days a week. I give myself enough recovery time in sense of days between gym. I'm going to continue in June, so any tips?

ANY help at all is really appreciated, since you have to put up with my long ass post. :)
Oh, and I used to do pullups, but I'm a real lazy bum at home.

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My aims;

Build up a good core for proper gymming when I'm older
100 standard pushups in one set, so I can move on to other forms. (Eg; Diamond pushups, my highest being 26 which was yesterday!)
Awesome results and motivation to achieve more
and more which I can't really think of atm
 
If you're going to be doing all those push ups, you should be doing something to balance them out as well. Is there a park nearby, or any railing around the house that you can safely do pull ups or inverted rows with?

As for what you plan on doing when you return to the gym, this http://training.fitness.com/weight-training/basic-novice-program-strength-muscle-54545.html is a good way to get efficient, effective training happening at the gym with only 2-3 days a week of training, and with sessions that last only about 1 hour. If you're still keen on doing lots of push ups when you return to the gym, just replace the 2x10 bench press with 2xAMRAP (as many reps as possible) push ups, or add a couple sets of push ups and pull ups right at the start of each session before any other lifting while you're still fresh.
 
When I was in highschool, they allowed us to use the gym during lunch and after school. That's where I first started working out. If not look into community centers around your hood!
 
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