How to build up muscle?
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As said above, the body will own grow in proportion, so just working on your chest and arms won't work. You need to do your lower body and legs too. Maybe not as much, but still a significant amount of time.
Don't go mad on just protein, pumping weight and guzzling chicken won't always work that well. You need to add complex carbs and healthy fats to your diet as well. Try and get your diet sorted first if you can, then when you start hitting the weights, your body will be ready. It is quite hard, as your appetite won't increase until you start lifting, but if you can get your metabolism fired up and a good diet in your belly, you'll notice results much quicker.
Don't go mad on just protein, pumping weight and guzzling chicken won't always work that well. You need to add complex carbs and healthy fats to your diet as well. Try and get your diet sorted first if you can, then when you start hitting the weights, your body will be ready. It is quite hard, as your appetite won't increase until you start lifting, but if you can get your metabolism fired up and a good diet in your belly, you'll notice results much quicker.
dave2k2005 said:
To get larger arms you need to put weight on all over your body. You can't just do hundreds of bicep curls and expect your arms to get huge.
dave2k2005 said:
Absolutely not. The whole growth stunting thing is an age old myth.
GordyR said:
I'm not really looking for huge arms, more for strength, but it's pretty much the same for both, right?
btw guys,
Is there anything I can use to increase the strength in my wrists? Theres something thats always been odd with my wrists and they kill after I do weights/if I lift heavy objects.
Is there anything I can use to increase the strength in my wrists? Theres something thats always been odd with my wrists and they kill after I do weights/if I lift heavy objects.
Mr_White said:
I can do 10 press ups quite easily at a time. So what you're trying to say is do 10 press ups at 10 different times throughout the day?
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I think that you are at a good age to start doing weights, and trying to build muscle. I am 15 (nearly 16), and I started doing weights, more seriously (i.e. lifting regularly) when I was about 15, and I have seen some great improvement in the past few months.
If you have a strong will-power; eat well, and lift weights, you will see results. If you get into the routine now, you will have less of a struggle later.
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If you have a strong will-power; eat well, and lift weights, you will see results. If you get into the routine now, you will have less of a struggle later.
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Rip muscle fibres..
Eat protein...
muscle fibre repairs/grows...
Repeat x 1,000,000
Eat protein...
muscle fibre repairs/grows...
Repeat x 1,000,000
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I'm 6', weigh just under 12 stone and my biceps are smaller than the underlying arm... yet I can do 10 full rep fingertip chin-ups from a door framedave2k2005 said:I'm not really looking for huge arms, more for strength, but it's pretty much the same for both, right?
Size isn't everything
I recommend to eat healthily - protein/carbs etc with every meal and play some sport!.. or even do some DIY/farm work...
*I've been a rock climber for about 6 years
dave2k2005 said:
Yup, if you do that every day, then you should certainly notice a difference after a couple of weeks, and it's something you can just keep doing and building upon if you feel like, it's a good way to start out in my opinion.
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Just scanned through the thread and havent seen anyone mention that you must make sure you are drinking enough water during training.
I cant remember how much of your body mass is made up of water, but you must keep your body sufficiently hydrated during training and out of training.
I cant remember how much of your body mass is made up of water, but you must keep your body sufficiently hydrated during training and out of training.
Amp34 said:Oh you can! It was great fun watching all those body builders with massive tops and tiny snooker cue legs training on the freeweights. The only reason I went to work.
Indeed... It can be achieved to a point. But there is a difference between having a huge upper body with tiny legs and having huge biceps with tiny chest, triceps, back etc...
Doing purely bicep curls will get you nothing other than a better peak on your biceps. Overall mass is key. If you train just one bodypart then the rest of your body will eventually become a limiting factor.
For arm growth all you really need is a combination of heavy benching and rows along with a little supplemental isolation work like curls and pressdowns/skullcrushers. By default the bench and rows will be hitting your chest and back also. It is incredibly hard to see any substantial growth from just one bodypart without making others grow along with it. And it begs the question... Why would anyone want to anyway?
If that makes sense...
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Mr_White said:
I am similarly 15 well, nearly 16...anyway, less of that.
I do a similar thing, interspersed with situps and a couple of 10 kilo weights.
Would I be better off dropping the weights or pressups or keep them both ?
I also regularly go on runs, sprint frequently and play football.
Matt
mattbrown91 said:
If all you want to do is keep fit then sure, pressups and runs/sprints will do the trick. However if size is your goal then pressups will only take you so far... In fact not very far at all. If you seriously want to grow you need to be lifting some serious weight and in a consistent calorific surplus. Forget the 10 kilo dumbells. Get yourself to a gym and start benching/rowing/squatting etc.