Progress & Tips For Home Lifters

Training Beginners
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If you cant be assed to read all this please just check out the bottom question, Thanks.

Well if any of you remember me when I used to post here a lot I first joined after losing some serious weight after being fat in my early - mid/late teens. Lost a ton of weight and a ton of muscle one of the usual stories. I started posting here at around 127lbs I also had a ROM arm problem from surgery years ago.

Here is a brief outlook of my progress… I’m now up to a steady 140lbs upto around 147lbs at most as of three weeks ago hopefully more now. Going to a physiotherapist for my arm. My ROM has improved through massage therapies which really do work well however I am not to the point yet that I can do curls for the full ROM yet though.
My lifts have improved I think mainly through eating so damn much I can bench about 60kg for 6 reps and 4 sets which I did the first time I headed to a gym for the first time not too long ago (more in a second) I like to shoulder press at home with my barbell at the moment I shoulder press 30kg 6 reps 4 sets again.

My program has changed, I’ve always designed my own programs maybe not the best idea but I’m not very malleable and I dislike being told to do a certain program especially when I don’t have most of the equipment needed.

Anyway.

For people that workout at home I think it would be really worthwhile just visiting a gym at least once. I did and the guys in there started me off on lower weights than what I do at home some how though the next day I was sore for once.

If you don’t have a bench at home like myself lie back across the horizontal plane of your bed and bench from there take spin locks off of the end of the barbell just in case you need to get the weight off and you can’t get back up you can just tip it over to the side.

Also a very good developer of the chest are good old fashioned push ups I feel like from a lot of people they don’t get as much mention because they can’t really charge you anything for doing them. I like starting at around 8 push ups counting down, 7 push ups down etc until you’ve got to 0. Have a short rest then complete it again. I started off at 5 and down up to 8 and down within 3 weeks of doing that which is a load more push ups every week in the first week you add 12, 14, 16 in 3 weeks your doing 42 more push ups. I don’t really have anymore tips as such because everyone is doing their own thing.

Getting a bench at Christmas I hope with a lat pulldown as well which I’m happy about because that’s one of the things in the gym that I really did have fun with.

One thing I would like to ask you guys is, when I was at the gym I was advised by some of the trainers to either go for size or to go for definition apparently I can’t go for both? Which is kind of off-putting because I wanted to be around 160lbs with low body fat. One thing that is getting to me now is the lack of definition I look so lean across my midsection despite no visible abs, my delts have great definition and my forearms are getting better but I have a load of excess skin between my forearm and bicep when I “close” the arm and a lack of the peak on my biceps despite them being very thick and the actual muscle itself has all the possible length it can have which I personally consider the peak as signs of well defined arms. I mainly work on my triceps now which is where most of my arm size comes from, I think my biceps just suck at the moment.

So is there a good way for me to try and get rid of this excess skin while I’m bulking? Thanks.

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You’re 140 lbs, dude.

Don’t start talking about how lean you are across your mid-section but how cut you are in your shoulders and forarms. don’t talk about how your biceps are ‘thick’ but lack ‘peak’. Don’t talk about how your biceps ‘suck’, and your triceps have all the mass.

You didn’t show up yesterday and you’ve read the stickies (you should have by now, at least). You’re welcome to give all the advice you want… but you’re still 140lbs.

Keep that in mind.

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Reading over that, that was a bit harsh. You’ve made good progress, and I have no intention of cutting you down for that.

I think you’re focusing on minutia when you need more solid schooling in the basics. You’re young, young people are arrogant, and that’s cool. Keep coming back.

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Will do man I should be posting again in a few months with progress.

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I haven’t seen you in a while. Hopefully you’ve been eating a bunch and training hard.

I didn’t read your whole post; sorry.

You don’t have to be a giant to post here…but i can see your still unable to see the forest through the trees.

Continue to learn the basics.

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Put weight on floor, crouch down and grab weight, lift weight, put down weight.

Repeat. (No gym needed)

Get somebody to teach you the deadlift form before you do it, though.

There is no exercise for you legs or back among the exercises you list. If you get a lat pulldown, that is minor help in you situation. Even if you put in a lot of effort on the mirror muscles, you will not get the bang for the buck unless you do the corresponding muscles in your back and preferrably legs, ideally through compound lifts.

I know you situation. I was fat in high school, lost 40 lbs and have been lifting for years now. About to set up my home gym, too.

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I sometimes wish I had a home gym instead of my weightroom. Although we have a few cool older guys, one who squatted 475 in competition when he was younger, and another who’s grandson competes. They like to talk about lifting, so it’s all good.

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there is nothing you can’t do with a pile a weights, a powercage, a bench and some plate loaded dbs.

I really want a hardcore gym to train at.