same here TBH I was always buying stuff new, but it gets costly I bought a bench a while back for £50 odd quid and my brother got a better one with weights etc for £15 The worst thing was his looked newer Recently bought a punch bag filled with fittings for £19. Its a good un and on amazon it was in the £80 - £100 region. It was still wrapped up and never been used
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First off get a decent protein shake, your looking at about 1-1.5 gram of protein per pound of body weight to build muscle Look up your BMR (not bmI) and that will give you the amount of calories you need to maintain your weight, add 500-1000 ontop of that to build your weight for your chest, do incline flies/incline bench press to work your upper chest more and flies, bench press, etc to work your chest in general ignore the weights, if you have to drop down to ***got weights do it, FOCUS ON YOUR FORM, especially for flies, generally your stronger side will go down more/your arm will stay straighter giving that side more of a workout, thus lopsided tits. don't move your arms when doing flies, your arms are purely leavers to move the weights using your chest for your shoulders, do shrug but DO THEM SLOWLY keep your shoulders back and slowly lift the weights up, pause at the top, and lower slowly and repeat and don't focus on as heavy weights as you can, that's just stupid find the heaviest weights you can do WITH THE RIGHT FORM sure i can curl 30KG dumbells if i just swing them up but that's just ******ed. TRAIN YOUR MUSCLES, NOT YOUR EGO generally if you wanna get bigger focus on your compound movements (exercises that use more than 1 joint) sigh as bench press, tricep dip, pull up/pulldown etc etc I'd suggest downloading an app called Jefit, it can track your routine, your weights, reps, gives you a timer between and everything you need anything else feel free to PM me <dance>
Usually go 5 times a week.. Best advice Id give, is work in muscle groups, and do 2 days on, and 1 day rest, then repeat. So day 1 you do chest and back, then the next day you do arms and shoulders, and then have a rest day then repeat. For the Chest try and do Incline and decline bench press and also some fly's to work the differen't muscle's in your chest, even keep it simple and do press ups and build it up they are actually one of the best things for the chest.. As some one said earlier start low even if for a month or so and gradually work up, especially bench press people seem to have a complex of starting heavy early with that. In a session, say your Chest and back session, try and do 3 sets of 8 on each muscle group, so 3 chest and 3 back in this case, however obviously alternate them during a session e.g 1 chest and then 1 back to reduce fatigue. Also myprotein.com is one of the best and cheapest suppliers think its like £16 including delivery for 3 months worth (depending how much you use). Also try and find a mate who goes to the gym who has similar goals, this way you can motivate each other and it means when you do have to move up a weight you have someone to spot you, so you are fully confident you won't hurt yourself. Also if they are your mate it is less of a chore and more just socialising. All pretty basic stuff but can equal good gains.
But it's so easy to get the right form with shrugs that you can use heavy weights. The range of movement is so small that you have to use heavy weights otherwise you might as well not bother. And I'm not one of these "always use the heaviest weight" bores in general, shrugs are just different.
not done any weights for awhile they bore the **** out of me so just do bodyweight exercises now using a pull up bar and dips. much better
True to an extent, but alot of people get it wrong, i've seen alot of people rotate the shoulders rather than going up and down, people to it too quickly that it's basically momentum and no muscle work, or just forgetting the pause at the top
