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hi all, i'm new to the forum, so i apologize if i break the rules, or if this thread has been posted already or a similar one, and yeah so here's my situation..
I'm 16 years old, about 140 pounds and i'm about 5'11 - 6ft not too sure about the height haven't really checked recently. anyways, i've been working out for a little while now, and for the past couple of months since the summer pretty much I haven't seen any major results. I know that it doesn't just happen overnight, but I wanna know what am I doing wrong?
My workouts when I first started at the gym were not very good, I would just go on random machines and try to do 3x10 on high weights on whatever felt good. Then i started realizing that I need to focus on my muscles more so I was trying curls and stuff.. no real results. So i read this forum the other day and i found a thread where everyone was absolutely raving about the squats and other compound exercises. I had done squats for like 2 or 3 workouts prior to that so I had some experience with the squats, but I didn't really continue with them because I thought that isolation exercises on different days would work (like biceps and chest on tuesdays, and triceps and abs on thursdays, and then biceps and chest again on saturday or sunday, and then back to tris, abs) anyways, I just did the squats and all the compound exercises i could think of and I do notice that it makes my muscles in places that |I didnt even think i was working, sore. But am I really doing anything? will the squats really help?
My body shape is kinda weird.. My biceps are fairly big, well to me atleast because I've always been skinny, so they are big, and especially compared to most of my friends, they are pretty big. My triceps are average, although I have noticed some progress with them, although they still relatively small, I definitely want big triceps, like my buddy who has small biceps, but his triceps stick out of his arm like nuts! they are massive for guys our size.. yeah our arms are quite small i'd guess they're maybe 14 or 15 inches around? i'm not really sure how to measure them, and dont take my word for that I could be either bigger or smaller.. just think of your average teenager's arm size.. add maybe half an inch to an inch to that, and you'll probably have my arm size. My forearms I hate, they are like drumsticks, they look big when I flex them, but they are tiny otherwise. The wrists are too small but I'm aware that there isnt too much I can do about that, and the forearms are fairly small in comparison to the rest of my body. My abs are good, my traps are FREAKING HUGE! i dont even know how they got so big but they just pop out so yeah not too worried about those.. my lats I never really work, i'm thinking of focusing on them later, and my legs are strong, I played soccer and did tae-kwon-do both for 8 years. I can leg press 350 pounds so far, I can probably do more I haven't tried in a while..
Sorry that I'm babbling I just thought that it would be important to give all the information..
anyways, I squat with about 175lbs now, and i dead lift about 120 now. I can only bench like 125 now... that i'm hoping to improve on.. and I can do 3-4 sets of 10 pullups.|
sorry that this is such a disorganized post.. I kinda just put everything that I was thinking into this post. What can I do to improve? take whey protein powder? s0rry for long post
edit: oih yeah, im not complete skin and bones with tiny muscles, i am muscular, and If I flex I look quite muscular, but I'd have to post a picture.
I'm 16 years old, about 140 pounds and i'm about 5'11 - 6ft not too sure about the height haven't really checked recently. anyways, i've been working out for a little while now, and for the past couple of months since the summer pretty much I haven't seen any major results. I know that it doesn't just happen overnight, but I wanna know what am I doing wrong?
My workouts when I first started at the gym were not very good, I would just go on random machines and try to do 3x10 on high weights on whatever felt good. Then i started realizing that I need to focus on my muscles more so I was trying curls and stuff.. no real results. So i read this forum the other day and i found a thread where everyone was absolutely raving about the squats and other compound exercises. I had done squats for like 2 or 3 workouts prior to that so I had some experience with the squats, but I didn't really continue with them because I thought that isolation exercises on different days would work (like biceps and chest on tuesdays, and triceps and abs on thursdays, and then biceps and chest again on saturday or sunday, and then back to tris, abs) anyways, I just did the squats and all the compound exercises i could think of and I do notice that it makes my muscles in places that |I didnt even think i was working, sore. But am I really doing anything? will the squats really help?
My body shape is kinda weird.. My biceps are fairly big, well to me atleast because I've always been skinny, so they are big, and especially compared to most of my friends, they are pretty big. My triceps are average, although I have noticed some progress with them, although they still relatively small, I definitely want big triceps, like my buddy who has small biceps, but his triceps stick out of his arm like nuts! they are massive for guys our size.. yeah our arms are quite small i'd guess they're maybe 14 or 15 inches around? i'm not really sure how to measure them, and dont take my word for that I could be either bigger or smaller.. just think of your average teenager's arm size.. add maybe half an inch to an inch to that, and you'll probably have my arm size. My forearms I hate, they are like drumsticks, they look big when I flex them, but they are tiny otherwise. The wrists are too small but I'm aware that there isnt too much I can do about that, and the forearms are fairly small in comparison to the rest of my body. My abs are good, my traps are FREAKING HUGE! i dont even know how they got so big but they just pop out so yeah not too worried about those.. my lats I never really work, i'm thinking of focusing on them later, and my legs are strong, I played soccer and did tae-kwon-do both for 8 years. I can leg press 350 pounds so far, I can probably do more I haven't tried in a while..
Sorry that I'm babbling I just thought that it would be important to give all the information..
anyways, I squat with about 175lbs now, and i dead lift about 120 now. I can only bench like 125 now... that i'm hoping to improve on.. and I can do 3-4 sets of 10 pullups.|
sorry that this is such a disorganized post.. I kinda just put everything that I was thinking into this post. What can I do to improve? take whey protein powder? s0rry for long post
edit: oih yeah, im not complete skin and bones with tiny muscles, i am muscular, and If I flex I look quite muscular, but I'd have to post a picture.
