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Hey, I'm trying to do some serious body building, well, as serious as you can get w\ 10 and 25 pound weights. Now here is my work out plan for days I work out.

Generaly I will do 10 or 20 pushups to warm up, usualy I make a triangle with my hand and push my body up, I find these work better than regular pushups. Then I will work the abs with 3 sets of 35 weighted crunches, where I just hold a weight behind my head and do crunches.

Then I will use my 10 pound weights {yeah yeah don't laugh} for curls untill failure. For me I will usualy get to around 150 reps on each arm. Then once I finished with the second arm, I will switch and do it again untill failure, so I usualy get around 230 reps or so. Afterwords I will do various arm exersizes getting anything I don't think I got well enough, generaly I will place a weight on a chair and pull it back to work out my triceps. And I will take my 10 lb weight and place it at my side and while keeping my arm straight raise it above my head to work the deltoids.

Then I will strech my joints for medical reasons, to keep a long story short, I spent a lot of time in bed, so now my tendons are ungodly short so I spend a lot of time streching my legs tendons in particular, thus I don't tend to work these muscles out for fear that they may tighten up to the point I used to be at where I would literaly walk on my tip-toes.

Now I have three questions, 1. When I do this work out, I noticed that my muscles will continue to ache two or three days after the workout, so I don't work them out untill they stop aching, my logic is that the muscle is still torn and therfore rebuilding, so the question is, should I workout if the muscle is still sore?

2. Is this enough of a work out to be sufficient in gaining any muscle at all? If not what should I change?

3. Can anyone give me some lingo for the exersizes I'm doing? I'm certain that there are words for these, but I have no idea what they are.
 
buy a bench and barbell..your not going any where with 10 and 25 lbs weights..
 
Sorry to tell you, your routine is pitful if your a serious bodybuilder. The only thing that is even good ab your routine is the pushups and crunches. You won't see much gains from even that. I recommend you go to the gym. You neglect to work major muscle groups which is wrong. If you stay home you need to add squats, pullups, lunges, etc.. and as for doing 230 reps that is crazy! You will gain nothing. do 3 sets of 10 with heavier weights.
 
230 reps, that's just damaging the muscle, and not setting it up for growth.

get a bench, get heavier dumbbells or a barbell and olympic plate set.

pushups with a diamond hand placement puts most of the strain on your triceps. since this is easier than normal pushups, it sounds like you have a weak chest (I can relate to that) and thus you should do normal, or even wide stance pushups, until your chest is brought up to speed.
 
LoL, yes, I know that my workout is not that good, thats why I asked for help. If I had any money to put up for weights I would, but I'm in a huge financial bind right now, and I simply cant get a bench or extra weights. Now I'm by no means a pro body builder, lets get that straight right now. I'm putting the idea of real body builder up on the shelf for a few years, but I want to get stronger, so I need help with a better routine.

Basicly the only thing I have to work wth is my own body weight and the afore mentioned dumbells {10 and 15 lbs}. I would go to a gym, but one: gyms usualy require membership fees, which is reasonalbe but I can't afford it. Two: the nearest available gym is ~20 miles from my house and I can't get there in a reasonable time.

Now I would like to ask how is it that doing the curls untill failure will not build muscle but doing 3 sets of 10 with bigger weights will, assuming I would not go to failure with the sets?

In short yeah I'm not a pro at body building, but I need some help\suggestions for a good routine. Thanks for the advice already given.

EDIT: Oh yes, and what are "wide stance push-ups"? Man I need a exersize lingo dictionary.
 
Wide Stance Push-ups. As you say them... you simple spread your arms farther apart.

The key to weight training is resistance... level of resistance. If 150 reps at 10lbs can work, why not simply do 300 reps with 5 lb weights? Or just make a fist and pump your arms for 4 hours. You'll feel it. You're muscle reacts accordingly to the resistance you use. There is a balance which isn't easy to distinguish.. but extremes going either way (heavy weight too few reps or light weight too many reps) is never recommended to promote growth or improvement. At best and done right (high numbers of light reps) you're only warming the muscles up.

Buy yourself a heavier set of dumb bells. You don't need a gym and a bar bell isn't necessary though its not a bad option.

Your body weight is more than those 10 lb dumb bells... push-ups until muscle exhaustion would be more beneficial.

10-15 lb weights can be useful if you have weaker areas... I do raises with them. I can't do more than 20-25 (10lb) before my muscles give out on a first set. Wrist curls... Can do push-ups with them...

But definitely invest in a heavier set. Not much money. Throw in some squats, lounges and presses into your routine.
 
When you do 230 reps of 15 lbs, you're working the slow twitch muscle fibers..which are endurance muscles.
Essentially, you won't build size or strength by lifting that way...you'll just increase the number of reps your muscle can do with a meager 15 lbs.

Go to a fitness store, and try out the dumbbells. You'll probably want 35-40lbs for chest presses and dumbbell rows, and 20-25lbs for curls, tricep extensions, shoulder presses.

If you really want to improve, that's what you have to do. If you cannot afford it, then cut the reps down to a reasonable number, and call it 'staying in shape'...because its a far cry from body building.
 
Ah thankyou for the advice, I will try a much different way now. I will try to devise a better way to do a workout untill such a time that I can afford said equipment. thanks you guys have been good help =}
 
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