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Can you reccomend a workout for a 14 year old boy (il give points)?
Hello guys i want to get muscle and get really strong and im willing to do all the reps you say so my equipment is as follows weight bench, 2 dumbells,leg thing at the end of the bench you know the one you left with your legs with weights on it ,and the butterfly curl,ive got a punching bag,a speed ball and a chin up bar il do push ups and situps too.can you guys make a good routine or anything now remember im 14 so i dont want to lift heavy weights to stunt my growth so 25KG to bench MAX thank you guys (points for best answer)
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- ?Lv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
In order to put on muscle you need to continually increase the weight, otherwise your body has no reason to get bigger. This means you need to be lifting heavy weights.
Weight training does not stunt your growth anyway, so change your mind set.
It's also important to remember that lifting weights does NOT put on muscle. Quite the opposite actually, weight training tears small fibres that make up the muscle, then when you rest your body utilises protein and hormones to rebuild these fibres larger and stronger. This process can take up to and over a week, which is why I am giving you a weekly routine.
Here is a rough weekly routine that I made up on the spot. Don't be fooled though, if you follow what I have said you will be amazed how quickly you can get stronger and put on muscle mass.
Day 1:
-10 minute warm up
-Bench press
-Seated press (barbell or dumbbells)
-Chin ups (weighted chin ups if your getting more than about 8 reps)
-Pull ups
-Push ups with feet elevated (so your on a decendindescendingmakes push ups much harder)
-Barbell or dumbbell rows
-Barbell or dumbbell curls
-5 minute warm down
Day 2:
-10 minute warm up
-Leg press
-Squats
-Deadlifts
-Calf raises
-Car push (push a heavy car until your legs give way, this is a killer exercise)
-5 minute warm down
Your workouts should only take 30-60 minutes to complete. Do NOT workout longer than 60 minutes.
Don't do Day 1 and Day 2 on consecutive days, spread them as far apart as possible. For example Monday and Thursday.
Do 2 single rep warm up sets, the 1st with a light weight, the 2nd with a medium weight, then do 1 working set with a heavy weight until muscular failure. Try reaching failure in between 5-10 reps. Lift slowly with proper form.
Exhale through pursed lips on the positive lift, inhale through your nose on the negative lowering.
Each week your goal is to increase the weight or do more reps than the week before. This means keeping a workout log book, if you don't then you're really just wasting your time.
Eat some form of protein every 3 hours, preferably as part of a nutritious meal.
Drink plenty of water, as muscle is about 70% water, so if you aren't hydrated; you won't lift as much.
Gaining fat makes gaining muscle easier, so I advise eating large 3 hourly meals, and don't be to concerned about useless calories, it's not hard to lose fat down the track.
Drink LOTS of full fat milk.
Hope this helps. If you have any questions at all, feel free to contact me.
- 5 years ago
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- 1 decade ago
hey.
if you wanna look buff, then you have to have a weekly schedule.
For example: Mondays, you do crunches and stuff for your abs. Tuesday, you work on your arms and legs. Basically, you alternate every day between abs and legs.
Use heavier weights and fewer reps if you want to bulk up. Eat lots of red meat, this builds muscle. Also, don't do as many reps if you're using a lot of weight. --it's not the amount you do, but the weight.
sounds like you have all of the equipment you need to workout.
goodLuck!
- Anonymous1 decade ago
A great workout to start with is: Bicep curl a weight until you can do it 100 times. Then, double the weight, and repeat the process, always doing 100 reps.
ie 5lbs x 100 (yay!)
next time 10lbs x 5, then 95 x 5lbs until 10lbs x 100
then double the weight to 20lbs x 1 and 10lbs x 99
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- joe714Lv 71 decade ago
scoobys home bodybuilding workout for teens]
video below
scooby has been training for 27yrs.
his advice is better than any routine i could give you