im about 6 feet tall, weigh 160, freshman in highschool, look thin but once i take off my shirt i look chubby. i come from a family where nobody works out, the only equipment i have is two eight pound weights which i currently lift (100 times per day, no results seen yet, been about a week) i haven't been doing anything else. i play video games way to much, i can easily fill a lot of that video game time with going running, or doing push up, etc... my main problem is that i dont know what i should be doing, any help is awesome.
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I know nothing please help me out. (14 year old)
- Thread starter ThrenchLP
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Do you have access to a gym at school? If not, would you be able to coerce your parents into buying a gym membership for you? Or, better yet, getting a part-time job so that you can pay for one yourself? Because those two 8lb weights won't get you very far. You want to be able to train the whole body, and you want to be able to progressively increase the amount of weight you're using.
Yeah my highschool is only 4 years old, very nice weightlifting area from what ive heard but in order to use it i have to wait until next year in order to sign up for the class, there's no gyms that i know of near my house, i could definitely get my dad to buy me a set of weights though but nothing to special.
Haha, what area do you live in cause I am currently a freshmen too and my school is 4 years old also. I would recommend you be doing a sport. That's the number one thing you can do right now that can help you and get in shape. I just finished Football season and it has helped a lot and we lifted. Rugby as a winter sport is a great thing to choose cause if you have great coaches you lift, run, etc. and will help you build endurance and muscular strength.
Alright, if you won't have access to your school's weightlifting area until next year, I'd suggest just to do bodyweight squats (or goblet squats with the dumbbells), push ups, dumbbell overhead presses, pull ups, dumbbell upright rows and dumbbell swings (actually, these are a more advanced exercise, so start with dumbbell deadlifts, then learn swings). Do some research on how to do each of these exercises, and spend from now until you have access to the school gym focusing mostly on just learning good technique with these exercises. Focus on good form and do them often, so that you'll have a good base of competence by the time you get to use the real weights.