Need a little help / Guidance please.

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Hey Guys,

I am 19 and in college and have been working out pretty religiously for the past 3 months.

I am 5'9'' and 138lbs. So I am pretty 'small'. I am not fat but I do have a little chub around my stomach not much really tho.

When I workout I usually just use machines, and we have a ton at the weight room for my college. Areas I want to improve are my biceps/chest and abs. When I flex my bicep you can't even really see a bump or anything but im not that scronny (spellcheck). I am fairly strong especially for my size. Anyways what I usually do is we have a bicept machine were I am basically doing curls, I do like 10 reps at 70 by then I can't really do any more so I drop it to 50 and do 5 more.

Then I go over to a inclined chest thing. The seat is a little reclined and you push up and according to it, it is supposed to work your pecks. I do like 110 on that about 10 times. Then I go to this other machine where you stick your arms out to your side and bring them back infront of your face. I usually do 90 on that about 10 times. Then they have a bunch of other machines like the one I first described in this paragraph, but they target different muscles and move in different sorts of directions. Like ones for your shoulders and about 3 are for your pecks but all do different things but are similar.

Anyways I start out with the heaviest I can still do 10 reps with on each machine. Once I finish all 5-6 machines I go to my abs. There is one where you sit on this little seat straight up and there is a thing that rests on your chest and you push it down from a sitting position to do a sort of crunch. I usually do 190 15x on that.

Then there is another ab machine that you kind lay in and its another crunch machine, I do 90 on that 15x if I can.

I keep doing all of the machines and abs until my arms are pretty tired and I can only do like 30lbs on biceps and like 70 on chest machines. So basically I keep going until my arms are realllly tired.

I understand to build new muscle you have to 'rip your muscle' and then let it rebuild. Well one of my many questions is, do you feel this ripping? Because the next day I am usually fairly sore, but when I am working out I just get fatigued I don't feel any pain or any ripping of sorts. One time doing a chest workout a muscle in my arm felt like it ripped and kinda got hot, thats the only time ive ever felt anything like that.

So basically in 3 months of doing these work outs about 3-4x a week I havent noticed much of any change. My chest is a little more toned along with my abs. If my muscles are supposed to be ripping more often what can I do differently, I drive myself pretty hard till im basically like dizy and cant lift more. Are there any supplements that will help? I don't want to get jacked, but I would like to see my abs, my chest not to be so flabby so i can kinda flex it, and see some muscle in my biceps.

If you guys have any questions I can awnser to make it easier for you to help me just let me know, sorry if all this sounds stupid but I don't really know where else to go.

Thanks
 
Nope, you're not supposed to feel 'ripping'. But feeling sore the next day is usually a good sign, as long as it's not painful. I'd suggest getting off all the machines and use free weights, your gains will improve drastically. Replicate the same movement of the machines, just with dumbells or barball.
 
Also I don't know how much my diet is going to affect what i am trying to accomplish which is being a little more toned and seeing some definition to my muscles.

Currently I either skip breakfast or eat something like fruit loops. Thats due to having class at 9, waking up at 8 just to be ready for 9, and I dont really want to wake up earlier then that to go eat at our schools cafe.

Lunch and dinner consists of, something easy like Ramen noodles, or every now and again a microwaveable pizza. Or I wil most days go to the cafe and the things I usually eat are:

Tacos (mostly just lunch, eat fairly often)
Hot dogs (Don't eat to often)
Hamburger (maybe once every 2 weeks kinda gross)
Ham on wheat (I like this sandwhich)
Pasta (I usually have pasta with lunch and dinner, just whatever type of noodles they have out there)

There reallly isnt a ton to choose from at our cafe and thats where I do most of my eating. In my dorm if I get hungry I eat Ramen noodles or popcorn, or maybe a little microwaveable pizza.

What I drink consists of Fruit Punch whenever I am at the cafe, Mountain Dew in my dorm, or Grape Koolaid, and I usually drink some water when I am working out.

What do you recommend on me changing, I cant have a striiiiiiiiiict diet because I eat at this dining center and it would be to expensive to change that, but I can try to change some things.

Thanks
 
you are going to have to change some things about you diet though. I would suggest more whole grains breads, oatmeal,ect. also lean meats such as chicken and fish. as far as your drinks go try to do more water and if you absolutely have to have soda do diet. if your drinking a lot of mountain dew that's probably where some of you flab is coming from. everything is okay in moderation try to stay away from red meats as much as possible. I know some people have this old school notion that you need steak and potatoes, I heard some guy say that in the gym and I was like :mad:
 
Steak and potatoes... mmmmm..... Why do you adivse him to stay away from red meats? Anyways, he is right, you will have to become a little more strict on what you eat. Water and tea (not like iced tea, real tea lol) should be the basis of what you drink, ensure you get enough protein (meats, all dairy, nuts, etc) and stay away from simple sugars (FRUIT LOOPS!! lol, to replacing them w/oatmeal)
 
BlakMagic said:
Hey Guys,

I am 19 and in college and have been working out pretty religiously for the past 3 months.

I am 5'9'' and 138lbs. So I am pretty 'small'. I am not fat but I do have a little chub around my stomach not much really tho.

When I workout I usually just use machines, and we have a ton at the weight room for my college. Areas I want to improve are my biceps/chest and abs. When I flex my bicep you can't even really see a bump or anything but im not that scronny (spellcheck). I am fairly strong especially for my size. Anyways what I usually do is we have a bicept machine were I am basically doing curls, I do like 10 reps at 70 by then I can't really do any more so I drop it to 50 and do 5 more.

Then I go over to a inclined chest thing. The seat is a little reclined and you push up and according to it, it is supposed to work your pecks. I do like 110 on that about 10 times. Then I go to this other machine where you stick your arms out to your side and bring them back infront of your face. I usually do 90 on that about 10 times. Then they have a bunch of other machines like the one I first described in this paragraph, but they target different muscles and move in different sorts of directions. Like ones for your shoulders and about 3 are for your pecks but all do different things but are similar.

Anyways I start out with the heaviest I can still do 10 reps with on each machine. Once I finish all 5-6 machines I go to my abs. There is one where you sit on this little seat straight up and there is a thing that rests on your chest and you push it down from a sitting position to do a sort of crunch. I usually do 190 15x on that.

Then there is another ab machine that you kind lay in and its another crunch machine, I do 90 on that 15x if I can.

I keep doing all of the machines and abs until my arms are pretty tired and I can only do like 30lbs on biceps and like 70 on chest machines. So basically I keep going until my arms are realllly tired.

I understand to build new muscle you have to 'rip your muscle' and then let it rebuild. Well one of my many questions is, do you feel this ripping? Because the next day I am usually fairly sore, but when I am working out I just get fatigued I don't feel any pain or any ripping of sorts. One time doing a chest workout a muscle in my arm felt like it ripped and kinda got hot, thats the only time ive ever felt anything like that.

So basically in 3 months of doing these work outs about 3-4x a week I havent noticed much of any change. My chest is a little more toned along with my abs. If my muscles are supposed to be ripping more often what can I do differently, I drive myself pretty hard till im basically like dizy and cant lift more. Are there any supplements that will help? I don't want to get jacked, but I would like to see my abs, my chest not to be so flabby so i can kinda flex it, and see some muscle in my biceps.

If you guys have any questions I can awnser to make it easier for you to help me just let me know, sorry if all this sounds stupid but I don't really know where else to go.

Thanks
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Geez i was wondering what was going on. I just read your post on JSF for the second time, soild advice there ;)
 
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