Is this a good routine for a 14 y/o?

If you're sick of bringing it up, than why do it?...

yeah, free weights are great but there's just no convincing the me (or you) here.

Always start with machine weights before progressing to free weights. It doesn't make sense to go from machine weights to free weights nor does it make sense to just not use machine weights at all and start with free weights (as i've already explained). I don't expect you (karky) to agree with me because that just isn't gonna happen but i'm just trying to give the best advice that i can and i obviously believe that mine is more correct than yours much like you believe yours is more correct than mine.

*Edit* - I just remembered that the original poster is 14, should he be doing a full blown resistance program right now?
 
yeah why not. i just dont get where you get the whole machine thing from? all ive ever read about them suggests they are more dangeoraus than free weights because they force their rom on you. so why not just start with safe bodyweight exercises to teach balance safly?
 
I think bodyweight exercises are great to start with and especially for a 14 y/o. The machine thing, as you put it, simply comes from what i've learnt.
 
Can someone give me some advice on a routine please lol?

And i don't have access to a gym because its 40 mins drive there and back and i don't have a license since im only 14...

But i do have a weight bench at home and 52.5kg ( 115.5lbs ) worth of weights at home and a tree that i can do chin ups/ pull ups on lol.

Also, is it bad to work out late because after i work out i just drink 25g dextrose, 25g whey with milk or water and then go to bed.
 
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Streamline said:
I was talking about yours.

Too many freeweights and not enough machines, too many exercises in total and a split isn't necessary.
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firstly there are only 5 exercises in each that should take less than an hour.

secondly that is not a split it is an A,B, fullbody every bodypart is used in each workout.

thirdly freeweights are the basis of any workout programe,they allow you to use your stabaliser muscles,machines dont ,they also allow a natural movement machines dont,machines have there place but a begginer should never start on them,because if he gets stronger chest muscles and then decides he wants to do bench press he will be using more weight than he would have before and risks injuring himself more.
 
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from eric creesey at t-nation

Now, my final argument: machines require no stabilization. When someone lifts weights, they aren't just training muscles; they’re training their neuromuscular system, which includes efferent (feed-forward) and afferent (feedback) mechanisms. They’re stressing the somatosensory, vestibular, and visual systems. It’s your responsibility to expose them to the richest and most appropriately functional proprioceptive environment from day one.

The argument of starting someone with machines and then switching them to free weights once they’re "comfortable" doesn't hold water. Crucial neural and muscular components of stabilization won't be in place, so it'll be much harder and more dangerous to master the new movement than if the individual had been progressed in a functional manner from the start.

Do you teach a child to throw a baseball by rigging him up to some fancy contraption that fixes his arm into a specific line of motion? Or do you just let him throw, offer subtle cues, and allow him to develop in the most functional sense possible? In a weight training context, I’d much rather have a client pinned under a bar-only bench press attempt as a beginner, than have him train on machines and build a false sense of strength and security, only to be crushed under 135 pounds eight weeks later.
 
Buzz, please go back and read my posts again and it'll make perfect sense to you why he should be on machines TO START OUT WITH...Then, free weights
 
Streamline said:
Buzz, please go back and read my posts again and it'll make perfect sense to you why he should be on machines TO START OUT WITH...Then, free weights
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wrong you should not start out with machines as i pointed out on both above threads.

The argument of starting someone with machines and then switching them to free weights once they’re "comfortable" doesn't hold water. Crucial neural and muscular components of stabilization won't be in place, so it'll be much harder and more dangerous to master the new movement than if the individual had been progressed in a functional manner from the start.
 
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