Have you ever seen the movie American Beauty? Remember the part where Kevin Spacey is chasing after the Jims and he asks them about getting into shape? They ask "Are you looking to lose fat or get increased strength and flexibility?" and he responds "I want to look good naked.". Well that's basically me.
I'm 16 years old and I'm in somewhat bad shape. I'm a junior in high school now. I used to play football in middle school and in my freshman year of high school, but the coaches took it way more seriously than I did so I stopped playing. After that I still ran like 2 miles a day after school with a friend of mine that still played football and did some intramural sports like flag football. But then in the winter of my sophomore year I kinda just stopped.
I would still play ultimate frisbee with friends 2 or 3 times a week on the weekends and after school, but that was pretty unreliable and not very good of a workout, and I've lost a little muscle and gained a little fat. I haven't gone running since the winter of my sophomore year either.
Anyway, my mom just got a new job that pays quite a bit more and we're getting a pool this summer. I want to lose the little bit of pudge that I got and get a little bit of muscle so I can have friends over to the pool. I'm pretty self-conscious, which I'll admit is a flaw, but there's not much I can really do about that. I'm a teenager.
What I'd like some help with is learning what I should do to get into better shape. Do you think that getting a personal trainer would be worth it? My mom at least used to be a member at Lifetime Fitness, so maybe I could do that. This is going to sound really spoiled and ****, but money isn't really a problem because I don't really ask for much she's gotten a newer, higher-paying job.
It's winter now and even though I've tried to keep physical by skiing with friends every other weekendish I feel like I'm getting a little more out of shape. But I don't play any organized sports or anything because I don't really find them fun. I love to play frisbee and football, just stuff where you go to the park and mess around, that's fun. But because that's not really serious stuff, I don't have much a need for "increasing my meta-hypo-quadricep force output". As I said earlier, I just "want to look good naked".
I also don't want to go the weightroom at my school. I used to play football at the pivotal first year of high school, so I made friends with a lot of jocks and stuff and obviously they're all stronger than me now, but because I don't go to the gym or anything they don't notice it really. And I know that all my friends will give me **** if I go in there and start benching 105 when they're doing 200.
So is getting a personal trainer worth it if it's important that I don't have to go through the embarrassment of being pathetically weak and money isn't an option? Or is it just simply not worth it because I don't have any real practical usage for it because I'm not in organized sports?
I eat pretty healthy (fast food MAYBE once a month, pizza maybe once every three weeks) and don't really mind running, despite not having done it strenuously in a while. Here's the parts of my body I want to improve most, and the condition they're in at the moment:
Chest - I basically don't have pecs. You can sorta see my ribcage start to protrude.
Biceps/Triceps - They're pretty flabby right now, as I haven't really done anything with them except play pool, push myself along with my poles while skiing, and play videogames.
Abs - They're kinda flabby too, but I feel like they're not that bad and if I burned that little pouch of fat on the bottom and just thinned out the rest, I could start to get some definition.
I want volume of muscle, not strength. Strength is great and all, but I don't have any practical application for it, nor do I want to. I just wanna look a little bitter in a swimsuit. Is there specific routine I should go through, like doing a thousand pushups, a thousand situps, 500 bicep curls, 500 tricep curls, and running 30 miles a day I should do? Should I get a personal trainer? Should I just suck it up and find a friend that won't humiliate me?
Also, what should I eat? I'm really good at not doing things, better than I am at doing things. I don't drink soda at all really except for Sprite maybe once every two weeks when I'm out or at someone's house and there's nothing else to drink, and I like a lot of foods.
Please, need some help. I'd like to get bigger pecs, arms, and a more defined stomach before June rolls around.
I'm 16 years old and I'm in somewhat bad shape. I'm a junior in high school now. I used to play football in middle school and in my freshman year of high school, but the coaches took it way more seriously than I did so I stopped playing. After that I still ran like 2 miles a day after school with a friend of mine that still played football and did some intramural sports like flag football. But then in the winter of my sophomore year I kinda just stopped.
I would still play ultimate frisbee with friends 2 or 3 times a week on the weekends and after school, but that was pretty unreliable and not very good of a workout, and I've lost a little muscle and gained a little fat. I haven't gone running since the winter of my sophomore year either.
Anyway, my mom just got a new job that pays quite a bit more and we're getting a pool this summer. I want to lose the little bit of pudge that I got and get a little bit of muscle so I can have friends over to the pool. I'm pretty self-conscious, which I'll admit is a flaw, but there's not much I can really do about that. I'm a teenager.
What I'd like some help with is learning what I should do to get into better shape. Do you think that getting a personal trainer would be worth it? My mom at least used to be a member at Lifetime Fitness, so maybe I could do that. This is going to sound really spoiled and ****, but money isn't really a problem because I don't really ask for much she's gotten a newer, higher-paying job.
It's winter now and even though I've tried to keep physical by skiing with friends every other weekendish I feel like I'm getting a little more out of shape. But I don't play any organized sports or anything because I don't really find them fun. I love to play frisbee and football, just stuff where you go to the park and mess around, that's fun. But because that's not really serious stuff, I don't have much a need for "increasing my meta-hypo-quadricep force output". As I said earlier, I just "want to look good naked".
I also don't want to go the weightroom at my school. I used to play football at the pivotal first year of high school, so I made friends with a lot of jocks and stuff and obviously they're all stronger than me now, but because I don't go to the gym or anything they don't notice it really. And I know that all my friends will give me **** if I go in there and start benching 105 when they're doing 200.
So is getting a personal trainer worth it if it's important that I don't have to go through the embarrassment of being pathetically weak and money isn't an option? Or is it just simply not worth it because I don't have any real practical usage for it because I'm not in organized sports?
I eat pretty healthy (fast food MAYBE once a month, pizza maybe once every three weeks) and don't really mind running, despite not having done it strenuously in a while. Here's the parts of my body I want to improve most, and the condition they're in at the moment:
Chest - I basically don't have pecs. You can sorta see my ribcage start to protrude.
Biceps/Triceps - They're pretty flabby right now, as I haven't really done anything with them except play pool, push myself along with my poles while skiing, and play videogames.
Abs - They're kinda flabby too, but I feel like they're not that bad and if I burned that little pouch of fat on the bottom and just thinned out the rest, I could start to get some definition.
I want volume of muscle, not strength. Strength is great and all, but I don't have any practical application for it, nor do I want to. I just wanna look a little bitter in a swimsuit. Is there specific routine I should go through, like doing a thousand pushups, a thousand situps, 500 bicep curls, 500 tricep curls, and running 30 miles a day I should do? Should I get a personal trainer? Should I just suck it up and find a friend that won't humiliate me?
Also, what should I eat? I'm really good at not doing things, better than I am at doing things. I don't drink soda at all really except for Sprite maybe once every two weeks when I'm out or at someone's house and there's nothing else to drink, and I like a lot of foods.
Please, need some help. I'd like to get bigger pecs, arms, and a more defined stomach before June rolls around.