JMajor isn’t it weird how some areas have highschoolers that look like little wee babies, and others are hulking beef-monsters. it might have to do with the importance of sports in those areas, and maybe the drinking water lol.
Picture #3 is very revealing–look at the way your head and shoulders are hunched over; your posture is terrible! Do some scapular retraction push-ups and some wall-slides for shoulder mobility. You need to stand up straight, boy! (I’m old enough to be your mother, so I may as well sound like one.)
You’re not scrawny: You’re “skinny-fat”. You’ve got too much fat on you but not enough muscle. You’re still very young, so this is a great time for you to start working out and establishing good eating habits.
There have been some excellent articles posted here the past few months about correcting bad posture. Read them!
I remember my freshman year…in Tampa this kid would have been the locker room bitch. Must be the drinking water shultzie
oh god your skinny your not big please eat and lift and do not cut the shoulder blades are because you have no back at all you just have bones. i can see your routine looking like
Curls 100x20
Bench Press: 50x10
You remind me of this kid in my highschool that keeps telling me he lifts 4 hours every day and whenever i see him in the gym hes doing a variation of a curl or a chest exercise. And hes still the skinniest kid ive ever met in my life but thinks he is diesel because you can see the hair thin vein is his arm.
OP ur in the right place.
1- EAT!!! ur 15, your body is STILL grow it needs FOOD!!! Good quality food! Especially when ur lifting.
–So don’t go “cutting” and what-not.
2- Work on fixing ur POSTURE. From that pic is God aweful, no wonder why ur scapula is winging so bad.
–Read articles by Eric Cressy, Mike Boyle, etc… pretty much the stuff on the “Performance Training” section of the articles.
–OR go to see an expert on the subject.
3- Lift heavy compound movements.
–Special attention to upper back workouts.
4- Get urself a Foam Roller or 2 tennis balls (like Mike B. shows) and do some rolling. Especially on ur theriac spine.
5- STOP COMPARING URSELF TO YOUR FRESHMAN CLASS! Compare yourself to other people who lift. Oh and don’t forget about competing with urself either.
“Cmonnnnn GROOOOOWWW!”
This looks pretty obviously winged scapula
Take a look at this picture and compare it to the threadstarter’s.
Depending on how bad it is, if you really want to take care of it, it may require surgical intervention. However, one important thing that I think should be noted is that treating winged scapulae has nothing to the back muscles–except for maybe improve posture, which would simply make the problem look less noticeable. Maybe some trap work ask the traps are likely very stretched.
To treat winged scapulae effectively requires strengthening of the serratus anterior.
Best pic I could find quickly:
The serratus elevates and externally rotates your scapula, so your scapula should go wide (like a bodybuilder showing the wings) and a little up like a shrug. It must be both though.
The best exercise I have ever seen to directly work the serratus is one I though up myself. Just take two dumbbells of light-moderate weight, lie on an incline press and do…well exactly what I said–lift your shoulders forward and up, making your scapula externally rotate and elevate.
If that doesn’t make sense, here is a link that also has an exercise that directly hits it.
Mine is basically the same thing, but I hold dumbbells and let my arms hang.
Thanks for some of the posts, I have gotten alot better at pushups, I use to suck at them… I’ll work on it, I was on the football team so we wroked out everyday and I was one of the bigger line backers besides the 6 foot 4 dudes on the team. I admit I look very small in the pics, but im really not, well to you guys I am, but I box and wrestle and the season is approaching so I will start cutting to hopefully 155.
I got pretty decent lifts for the national average I’m the 85th percentile for most of my lifts. I dont eat a whole lot mainly because we arnt wealthy kinda poor, but I do spend a lot of my time lifting and do strength related activities. I pretty much just got into the lifting game.
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but I box and wrestle and the season is approaching so I will start cutting to hopefully 155. [/quote]
Are you in college?
You pull 350 but you messed up your back “deadlifting” a pool table? Uhhh…you might want to read the ninth commandment.
Look, it’s great that you’re in the top percentile for your class and all, but you’re only 15. You don’t have much to compete with.
I’m going to disagree with the statement that you need to read everything here. That’s too much information. Read every article that has the word “Begginer” and “Newbie” in the title. Focus on the basics. Try to new things, but never neglect the basics. That includes pushups.
DO NOT CUT. You are 15. Your body is still growing. Even if you weren’t training, you still would need to eat a lot. But don’t eat much junk, and if you start to get fat, cut back a little. Forget about a six pack for now and you will lay the foundation for a badass physique in a few years. DO NOT CUT.
Don’t take our criticism too hard. Everyone here wants to help you, and most of us are jealous that we either didn’t get started or didn’t have the access to so much good information that you have at your age. Make the most of it.