New To Weight Lifting, Need Advice

[lax400]

Hi,

I'm fairly new at weight lifting. My parents wouldn't let me lift at all until last month, although still they give me light weights. I can lift 10 pounds 35 times and it doesn't feel like I'm doing much. So, my question is: How much weight should I lift?

 

[needtogetaas]

Hi,

I'm fairly new at weight lifting. My parents wouldn't let me lift at all until last month, although still they give me light weights. I can lift 10 pounds 35 times and it doesn't feel like I'm doing much. So, my question is: How much weight should I lift?

So I take it you can not go to a gym?

 

[lax400]

Yeah I can't go to the gym. So... advice please?

 

[bblazer]

First off, how old are you?

There are a lot of things you can use to get a good workout. Take a look at prisoners in maximum security settings where they don't have access to weights. A lot of those guys are strong as hell and ripped to shreds.

Take a look at this.

B-

 

[lax400]

Well I'm 15 at the momment

 

[SouthernLord]

First off, how old are you?

There are a lot of things you can use to get a good workout. Take a look at prisoners in maximum security settings where they don't have access to weights. A lot of those guys are strong as hell and ripped to shreds.

Take a look at this.

B-

This is solid advice for your situation.

Can you get more weights? Buckets full of rocks or sand? Duffel bag/back packs full of rocks or sand?

A tree or bar to do chin ups on? Most play grounds have chin up bars and parallel bars for dips (no pedo)

 

[lax400]

ok thanks. Also um, does anyone have any tips on building pecs? And wheter or not I should take supplements?

 

[SouthernLord]

ok thanks. Also um, does anyone have any tips on building pecs? And wheter or not I should take supplements?

For pecs: Push ups, parallel dips, dumbbell bench press, dumbbell incline bench press.....There are quite a few other exercises, but I recommend these for the equipment you have available.

For someone your age the only supplements I recommend are whey protein and a multivitamin.

Even better for gaining muscle is whole milk and whole eggs. Drinking a gallon of whole milk a day will bulk you up better than any supplement available imo. Especially for someone in your position.

 

[SouthernLord]

"Milk is quite literally better than steroids for a novice lifter to grow on, and no supplement produces the same effect"

-Mark Rippetoe

 

[lax400]

IS the milk going to help me gain muscle or just make me look big?