Need some help gaining weight!

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tmalik70

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Hey,

I'm 19 years old and am just under 6 foot tall. I haven't got a weighting scale so don't know how much I weight but I'm really skinny! Espessially my forearms! Anyway I wanna start building some muscle mass so have got some advnatedge weight gainer and a workout plan. I used to help me with excersises. I only have 2 dumbells which weight 6.8kg each. That's the only equiptment I have to use.

Anyway I started a couple weeks ago doing an excersise from each body class from the site. I did 20 reps on each body part 6 days a week and have seen basically no improvement.

Starting from today I'm switching to another workout plan that's gonna give me more reps and rest each body part after excersise.

Monday - NONE
Tuesday - Back/Shoulders
Wednesday - Traps/Triceps
Thursday - Biceps
Friday - Legs
Saturday - Push Ups/Crunches
Sunday - Chest

That's a draft of what I'm planning on doing. Using an excersise from that site I'm planning on doing 50 reps on each excersise at that weight. I just need some confirmation on whether this is any good or does it need improvement?

I'm not too sure on this because I'm only working the body part once a week so should I be doing more?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks.
 
As a student whose short of money I can't afford a gym membership so I wanna use this to help get me goingso when I can afford to go to a gym I'll get even better.

My diet isn't good at all, Usually made up of fast food and junk food. I've been trying to eat healthy but the lure of eating whatever I want and not getting fat is too appealing! I'm working on getting a good diet so if my workout plan is good hopefully it all fits together well.

I also changed my workout plan because the one before was too light IMO. Here's the new one,

Monday - NONE
Tuesday - Back/Shoulders/Crunches/Wrist Curls
Wednesday - Traps/Triceps/Chest
Thursday - Biceps/Legs/Push Ups
Friday - Back/Shoulders/Crunches
Saturday - Traps/Triceps/Chest
Sunday - Biceps/Legs/Push Ups

50 reps for each excersise. Is this better then my old one? I just wanna know if this is good for a beginner like me and if it isn't how could I improve it?

Thanks.
 
you should go look at the sticky posted in the weight training section. 50 reps is not good at all for gaining muscle. for a typical beginner, most recommend full body workouts 3 times a week with a rep range of 6-10 with 2-4 sets. Make a post in the weight training section if you want to know more.
 
You say you're a student. College or high school? Many colleges have gyms on campus that you can use, so do many high schools. Many commercial gyms will give discounts to college students.

You're not going to make gains with those light weights. If you absolutely cannot join a gym, check craigslist for used equipment.

And you will have to get serious about eating. Yes, you can eat all you want and not gain anything, but you're not feeding your body properly, so gains will be miniscule or nonexistant.
 
I know going to a gym 4 days or more a week can be very hard. Thats why I'm currently buying a FULL gym for my house. ****, body building costs so much money....

The most important thing is nutrition, working out is easy, eating is hard. Buy a good quality whey protein, or weight gaininer. That will help get you the nutrition you need, but nothing beats a real food meal.

Raise your calories. If you're skinny thats obviously what you need to do. I'm slowly upping my daily intake from 4000, to 4500. Try 3000 a day, if that doesn't work, 3500, so on and so on.

You don't need a scale anyways, the mirror is much better. I haven't gained much weight, but I notice that I've gained a lot of muscle.
 
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