Need advice on building upper body

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Well anyway I need some advice on building my upper body strength. Im still in high school, so right now all I can do about every school night is do sets of curls and benches for 30-45 minutes every night before studying for tommorrow's tests and going to bed. By the way by benches I mean benching with my curling bar on the floor.

Summer is right around the corner, so I figure ill make my mad dash to the finish line here, by getting a membership to the gym. Im 16, 5'6" in height and weigh 127 lbs, and from what ive read body building is the easiest around this age because your body is in a rapid state of developing. And I have no diet, meaning ill eat whats on the table basically. So anyway I want to work on my upper body strength mainly with a few half mile jogs thrown in there to tone my cardio.

Thanks for reading and thanks for the advice.
 
what kind of equipment do you have? Also,( from what I heard) working out your lower body will actually help improve your upper body strength.
 
You will need to work lower body to get the results you need for your upper body - lower body resistance work uses the largest muscles in the body and therefore release the most testosterone, which can then be used for all of your muscles.

Toning is a myth, you can look 'toned' but this is the result of increased lean muscle and reduced body fat. You unfortunately cant do both at the same time as you need excess amounts of kcalories to bulk up and reduced amounts to lean down.

Id argue against 16 being the best age for extra muslce development, as you're still growing and your body needs all the energy it can for you to grow normally. However, you will find that you can lean up quite easily and provided you can eat enough you will add muscle.

Stop the curls and floor presses. Benching off the floor means your arms are getting nothing like the range of motion they need to do what they need to to bench correcty. Curls are an isolation move in that they work just a small amount of muscle - you really need a routine that will work your entire body. Plus 45 mins of 2 movements means your not shifting the amount of weight you need to encourage muscle growth, and overtraining will start to break muscle down.

Pick an existing routine and develop it to what you can (i suggest New Rules of Lifting, you can buy it from amazon, its ideal for beginners and it certainly sorted me out!). You need to work your body in a variety of ways and make sure you do it safely.
 
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