GordyR's Beginners Guide to Bodybuilding

Styles said:
willhub, you need to clearly define your goals and decide what level of dedication you wish to put into this.

I would suggest a weight training routine, a clean bulk and then a cut routine as imo you will always look better with muscle mass on you, rather than just being as most are which is extremely skinny with little mass.
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Ok, I'll try and define my goals below, I hope this will make it clear:

I'm 13stone and I am about 5ft 10, according to some BMi calculators I'm overweight. I dont want to be skinny, that would be my worst nightmare but I do want to loose some weight and also get toned (If loosing weight is the right way to go?), IMO I look chubby and there is fat I want to get rid of.

There is this woman accross the road from me that is friends with my mum and (I think) she goes to the gym so that maybe an opportunity to go with someone as I really dont want to go to a gym by myself.

As for dedication I know it sounds silly but I dont know how much I can put in, I've got college and most days dont get home untill half 5, sometimes its earlier, I ride my bike to college on most tuesdays and fridays, 10 miles there and 15 miles back so at least I'm doing something healthy.

I only started to want to loose some weight and get toned up about 8 months ago, before then I was basically sat on the PC 12 hours a day hardly getting up and now I try and do at least 6 miles on my bicycle a day, I think I have done about 10-12 miles today. So over the past 8 months I have improved and I am happier with myself but I dont think anything is happening fast enough which could be releated to my diet. Some days I dont have breakfast as when I wake up I dont feel hungry, sometimes I do but other times I force some breakfast down me and then I feel sick. What I eat for breakfast usually is what I can do the quickest, its rice packs sometimes (You know the uncle bens stuff thats flavoured), sometimes its porridge (Like the instant stuff that looks like fish food or that oatso simple stuff) or cereals like Honey Nut Corn Flakes.

I hope I'm not making myself out to be someone who thinks its easy to loose weight or get toned up because I dont. I also hope that I'm not making myself sound like a lazy ****** who expects stuff to happen just at the click of a finger.


Thanks.
 
willhub said:
I hope I'm not making myself out to be someone who thinks its easy to loose weight or get toned up because I dont. I also hope that I'm not making myself sound like a lazy ****** who expects stuff to happen just at the click of a finger.


Thanks.
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You don't come accross like that, because you're asking for help. I will reply to what you've written, but first I have to finish cooking my early afternoon meal :)
 
willhub said:
I'm 13stone and I am about 5ft 10, according to some BMi calculators I'm overweight.
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BMI is not accurate. There are too many variables it doesn't take into account.


I dont want to be skinny, that would be my worst nightmare but I do want to loose some weight and also get toned (If loosing weight is the right way to go?), IMO I look chubby and there is fat I want to get rid of.
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'Toned' isn't really a term. All you are saying you want to do is loose some 'fat' and show the underlying muscle.

There is this woman accross the road from me that is friends with my mum and (I think) she goes to the gym so that maybe an opportunity to go with someone as I really dont want to go to a gym by myself.
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What about a mate? Maybe someone at the same level as you are so you can work together.

As for dedication I know it sounds silly but I dont know how much I can put in, I've got college and most days dont get home untill half 5, sometimes its earlier, I ride my bike to college on most tuesdays and fridays, 10 miles there and 15 miles back so at least I'm doing something healthy.
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I go to work every day leaving at 7am and I don't get home until 6pm every night and I find time to go to the gym each day so your reasons just arn't going to stick. You either want to do it and have the dicipline to stick to it or you don't.

I only started to want to loose some weight and get toned up about 8 months ago, before then I was basically sat on the PC 12 hours a day hardly getting up and now I try and do at least 6 miles on my bicycle a day, I think I have done about 10-12 miles today. So over the past 8 months I have improved and I am happier with myself but I dont think anything is happening fast enough which could be releated to my diet.
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Well done, at least you have taken an active step towards a healther, better lifestyle. Do you really want to end up being that guy who sits on his PC 12 hours a day again?


Some days I dont have breakfast as when I wake up I dont feel hungry, sometimes I do but other times I force some breakfast down me and then I feel sick.
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Breakfast really is the most important meal of the day. You HAVE to have it, and it has to be decent.

[/quote]What I eat for breakfast usually is what I can do the quickest, its rice packs sometimes (You know the uncle bens stuff thats flavoured), sometimes its porridge (Like the instant stuff that looks like fish food or that oatso simple stuff) or cereals like Honey Nut Corn Flakes.[/quote]

While that's not the worst breakfast I've ever seen there is room for improvement. Why not prepare something the night before? There's always time for that.
 
'Toned' isn't really a term. All you are saying you want to do is loose some 'fat' and show the underlying muscle.
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Ok I want to lose weight and build muscle or just build muscle if losing weight is something not to do.

What about a mate? Maybe someone at the same level as you are so you can work together.
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Nope my m8 who lives near me has no interest in the gym even tho he's stick thin

I go to work every day leaving at 7am and I don't get home until 6pm every night and I find time to go to the gym each day so your reasons just arn't going to stick. You either want to do it and have the dicipline to stick to it or you don't.
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Well If you put it that way I guess I could find time to go to the gym, I would prefer to be able to do it all at home but I know thats not possible, just the gym is in a bad part of town and there is lots of ******* there.


Well done, at least you have taken an active step towards a healther, better lifestyle. Do you really want to end up being that guy who sits on his PC 12 hours a day again?
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Not really no, It makes me happier coz of the fact I do it on a rusty old saracen off road bike with only gears 4-6 working and sometimes I can do it fairly fast, I dunno if 10 miles in 45mins is good.

Breakfast really is the most important meal of the day. You HAVE to have it, and it has to be decent.

While that's not the worst breakfast I've ever seen there is room for improvement. Why not prepare something the night before? There's always time for that.
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I dont know what I should east on a morning apart from porridge, in the fridge there is the great slab of orange flavoured ham but dunno how long that will last maybe I should eat it all.
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"Ok I want to lose weight and build muscle or just build muscle if losing weight is something not to do."

It's pretty much impossible gain muscle whilst burning fat. I see two options here; a clean bulk so that you gain muscle but little fat. Or cut now so that you lower your bodyfat and then bulk. I would personally do the former.

For breakfast you could have museli, porridge, wheetabix with a whey shake.
 
$loth said:
"Ok I want to lose weight and build muscle or just build muscle if losing weight is something not to do."

It's pretty much impossible gain muscle whilst burning fat. I see two options here; a clean bulk so that you gain muscle but little fat. Or cut now so that you lower your bodyfat and then bulk. I would personally do the former.

For breakfast you could have museli, porridge, wheetabix with a whey shake.
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Is museli not bad for you? I love the stuff cant get enough of it when its in the house but I thought it was not very good.
 
$loth said:
That shouldn't be too difficult to do especially with an extra two/three meals a day.

Got a new cycling route:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=...1358,-0.06669&spn=0.024134,0.058365&z=14&om=1

About a mile or two longer than the old one, and takes me about 40 minutes (don't stopwatch it so I can't be exact).
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How does that take you 40 mins? Do you just take it steady? When I bike to college its 45 mins there and thats on a 10 mile route but on the way back its going through town so its 15 miles and takes me about 1 hour to 1 hour 20.

I guess before I try bulking I best start going to the gym first if I can? I've got no hope have I if I cant get to a gym?
 
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Take it fairly steady yea, there's quite a lot up on the way there and I don't stress myself on the way back (it's really nice ride on the way back along the coastal road). I'll time myself next time I go.

Though aren't they similar times :S I'm going back along the coast on that route, so it's about 10 miles, I need to get home somehow :p

Get a gym membership first, preferably one with lots of free weights. Then up the calories.
 
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