Hi There Guys' Newbie!

[s7v7n]

Hey Everyone,

I have just joined this site and all I have to say is...WOW. This is an awesome site for info...love it here so far, and hope to have a future here with all you! :

Info on me:

My name is Abel, 17 (almost 18), and live in Arizona where I am a Jr. in high school. I have recently been pushing myself really hard at the gym (about 5-6 months now) and haven't really notcied the gains and loses that I would have expected....so maybe that's where you guys' fit into the equation ( I have some bitch tits, that if I don't loose, someone will seriously die...very soon!! I can't stand these damn things anymore...I need help on loosing these, please!!!) Lately, I have been really down on myself, b/c of the above statement....that I have actually been thinking of plastic surgery I just can't seem to get it done, I feel almost like a failure....honestly.

Anyway, here is my normal schedule, and I would appreciate all the help I could get from you experts out there! REALLY!

Monday-Thurs:
Breakfast - Usually nothing but water and maybe a yogurt
Lunch - Water and bagel
Snack - Cerreal or waffels or sandwhich or chicken/tuna - water
Dinner - Cerreal or waffels or sandwhich or chicken/tuna or eggs - gaterade
**Rotate 2 days of upperbody and 2 days of lower body/run for 30mins**

Friday:
Breakfast - Snack --Same as above
Dinner - Usually go out with my g/f or family (cheat night) - iced tea
**Run for 40 mins on eliptical** No wieghtlifting

Saturday-Sunday:
Breakfast - Eggs, bacon, totast...something of the like - coffee/water
Lunch - Sandwhich -water
Snack - Protein Shake
Dinner - Chineese food, Chicken, Steak, something's that not too bad! -iced tea
**Run for 20 mins on eliptical and do StairMaster for 20 Mins** No weightlifting
---------I am also on a cycle every 2 weeks of Hydroxycut-----------------


My goal is :

Loose my bitch tits and some of my stomach as well as get bigger from the wieghts....this would like to be attained by Mid August (just in time for my senior year...Which I can't get over why they arne't gone right now...I do friggin cardio EVERY DAMN DAY! So I have the whole summer plus one month from now to do this) HELP!

All Help will be apprecaited and thankful to me...please contribute to my post! Sorry it was long too!

--Abel

Welcome Abel.

Sounds like you need your diet tweaked a bit. Not enough protein, IMO.

One thing to change right off is to eat a good breakfast every day. Protein, complex carbs, good fats.

Look around the site for some good advice on building a good, healthy diet.

Don't get frustrated. So far, you have found what doesn't work. Make some changes to find what does work!

[s7v7n]

I understand about the breakfast thing....however, getting ready for school already involves me getting up at 6:00AM....I don't know how much earlier I can get up just to have breakfast...any tips on quick breakfasts'?

[Symzie]

I find it hard to eat early in the morning too, I blend some oats, banana, whey and milk and just drink that then have a meal about 2 or 3 hours later

[cursor]

Originally Posted by s7v7n

getting ready for school already involves me getting up at 6:00AM....I don't know how much earlier I can get up just to have breakfast

Well ... it's 5:25 AM here, and I"ve already had my morning shower and made coffee. I'll be done with my breakfast by six. Oh yeah ... today's Sunday!

Adjust your schedule however you need to meet your goals for quality health. Eating right should certainly be a primary concern.

A good bowl of well-made oatmeal, a piece of fruit and a couple scrambled eggs would fill the bill for breakfast. I'm always starved when I wake up!

[nitromoose]

Probably not the best thing to do, but if you're stuck for time make a protein shake. Takes 1 min I sometimes have cereal but not too much with banana, and maybe an apple or yoghurt. I'm not really a breakfast person either.

I know nothing compared to everyone else on here, but:

Perhaps think of something else to replace that Dinner meal of the cereal/sandwich (altho chicken and tuna is good) because of the carbs-at-night debate, although I guess it depends on the actual time your dinner is? What cereal is it? Perhaps change the complex carbs to fibrous ones at that time.

I bought some muesli (the healthiest version) and thought hey this is great and good for me. But the calories are extreme even in small amounts. I'm not sure how much you're having but maybe check the portions of everything? What seems innocent might not be.

- Is the bagel wholemeal bread?
- How many waffles are you having? I've looked it up and it says 90 calories per waffle.

Even if it's not tweaked exactly, it still seems a decent diet though.

I know what you mean about not noticing gains/losses even though you work hard though. I used to get that a lot. Even now I don't change that much, but I'm getting there. People will argue with me, but I'm a strong believer in genetics. Don't give up though!

One thing tho I'm a bit confused on:
You said you want to get bigger from the weights...but on your list it said *no weightlifting*. So are you doing any or not? <puzzled expression>

[s7v7n]

Thanx for all the help and tips guys', keep em' coming! I have been lifting 4 x's a week...Mon-Thurs. I do upper body 2 x's a week and lower body 2x's a week. Fri-Sun. I only do cardio. That's prolly what you saw nitro!

I am really stuck on getting fit...do sit-ups (about 100) and push-ups (about 30) everyday along with everything else I do. I will try watching the carbs at night, maybe I will switch to just chicken/tuna/eggs for dinner. That might help, no? I usually have roughly 4 waffels if I have them....so I will start watching those then...maybe just have those once a week as a change here and there! Cereal, that's usually flakes or Captain Crunch...not the healthiest, but better than scarfing my face in Taco Bell (which I used to!).

Once again, if you need any more info, let me know, I am here because I need help and encouragement to get me through this! I don't want to get plastic surgery....but if I can't do it, I dunno!?

---Abel

[nitromoose]

Try a split where you're only training each bodypart once per week, maybe abs twice if you feel the need. By doing the push ups and situps each day you're not giving your body time to heal and build. Muscle builds out of the gym, not during, so they say. Shove a rucksack with weights within on your back to give yourself resistance on the push ups, and do weighted crunches, scrap the situps.

This is what I'm currently doing to give you the idea:
Mon: chest & triceps
Tuesday: Abs
Wed: legs & ass
Thurs: back, biceps, shoulders
Fri: Abs
And am doing 30-40 mins each day on the exercise bike excluding sunday making sure I burn at least 300 calories.

Like I say I'm no expert, but a couple of months ago I had a 35" waist, now I've got a 32" so I must be doing something right

Maybe tell us which exercises you're doing for the lifting.

[s7v7n]

That sounds like a good idea...hmmmm...maybe nitro you could tell what kind of lifts you do for chest, biceps, legs, and ass. Since I am recently new to this...and there is so many machines at the gym I have no idea what they do...maybe if you could give me some tips on those!

BTW -- nice on the lost nitro, that's freakin' awesome! See these are the kinda gains I wanna see in months, not years, lol.

For lifting:
Upper body: Bench, butterfly's, biceps, lat pull-downs, (don't know what they call it) but I put weight on a bench bar and raise it up to my chest and back down...

Lower Body: Leg extensions, hamstrings, calves, squats, quad extensions.

Like I said, I don't do too much on new stuff or each day different, but I would deffinetly try it, especially since you have worked off it!

Thanx,
Abel

[nitromoose]

I won't be able to help you much with gym machines because I use freeweights at home, but you could pick the exercises and adapt them somehow to something similiar if you want to use my machines: This is my current routine: (altho I've swapped about loads after the last few months):

There's lots of debate about what sets and reps you should do. As I'm just about to start this routine, I'm not sure how many I can do at each weight, so I'm just picking a heavyish weight, and as long as I can do 8-10 reps I'll keep the weight the same. Each week I'll try and do more. Once the reps reach the 10-12 range, then I'll up the weight. I'm just doing 3 sets of each exercise, maybe not effective for some but for me it keeps things simple:

It makes sense to do things like chest & triceps together because you can train them at the same time without having to apply extra exercises. (saves time)

MON: (chest & triceps)
Bench press
Incline bench
Dumbbell flyes
French press
Dips

TUES: (abs)
Weighted crunches
Reverse crunches
Barbell side bends
Stomach vacuums

WED: (legs & ass)
Good mornings
Dumbbell squats
Calf raises
Wall squat - (you know that thing the teacher made you do in PE--where you crouch against a wall and see how long you can last)
Butt lift

THURS: (back, biceps, shoulders)
Deadlift
Bent-over rows
Military press
Chinups
Barbell curl
Lateral raises

FRI: Abs
(as tuesday)

SAT: Forearms (nice easy workout for sat!)
Wrist curls
reverse wrist curls

SUN:
Rest.

So you get the idea You can rearrange things how you like.

I'm not sure whether I should be doing good mornings on leg day because it also works the lower back, but then I only have deadlift (which also works legs lol) for lower back on the back day, so I guess it doesn't matter.

Sadly my leg workout will suck a bit because you can't do much for your legs with freeweights

Good luck!!

[s7v7n]

Awesome info nitro, I apprecaite it, a few ?'s though:


What are dips?
What are French press?
what are Reverse crunches?
Waht are Barbell side bends?
What are Stomach vacuums?
What are butt lifts?
what are Deadlifts?
What are Bent-over rows?


Sorry...I am new to this, but very determined, like I said this has got to work for me...I want it too and I need all the right info!

Also, wrist curl's are where you take the bar and just use your wrist to raise and lower it right? Then what's reverse ones?

[nitromoose]

The best thing to do is (as I don't want to teach you bad form) is to write those names into a search engine, and then they'll tell you exactly what to do.

Reverse wrist curls are just holding it the other way round. (overhand/underhand grip)