Starting My Fitness Journey (16 YO)

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So to start im 5’8 140lbs and 16 years old
I haven’t been to a gym so don’t know my Pr’s yet any advice to help me through my journey?

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I’m pretty sure I’ve written up some mic-droppingly incredible teenage advice in here a couple times before, but don’t remember where.

What are your goals and what are you doing tomorrow? Why didn’t you start last week - I’m assuming there’s some “moment” that made you decide it was time?

And, if you’re a real person and I’m not just being duped again, you won’t be real proud of that screen name in a couple years.

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Do you know how to cook?

Do you know how to perform the barbell squat, bench press, deadlift and press overhead?

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Glad you took the plunge :muscle:

These 4 are your basics, even if you aren’t going for purposes of getting strong - they are the foundational movement patterns for pretty much all lifts. Getting good at these will pay dividends throughout your entire ‘career’ of lifting.

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And if you don’t know how, hire someone for a session to show you how to properly do it.

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Caveat Emptor of course. But hell: I learned from photos, haha.

And that book I linked (that he ignored) in his thread had some GREAT explanations.

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Nice to see a log started.

If i could go back to the start and give myself advice, it would be:

  • Eat like an adult.
  • Effort trumps everything. Find a way to train that you can apply consistent effort to for a long, long time and follow that. It all works, if you try hard enough.
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I hadn’t read his thread, but I went and found your post just knowing it was going to be that book…

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My suggestion will be similar to what I did. How many pull-ups can you do? How many parallel bar dips can you do? Be sure to do those with full range of motion.

I didn’t start lifting weights until I could do 20 pull-ups and 20 dips. I was 19 years old and weighed around 165lbs at 6’0”

I would target more body weight exercises for a few months. And incorporate all exercises that your coaches recommend. I am no track coach, but I would think 10 or so 50yd wind sprints twice a week would a minimum.

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get big

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yes i know how to do everything

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Google “Jim Wendler Help a Friend Get Stronger” and follow the steps in it.

Or that book I linked you.

What cooking appliances do you have? What is your food budget at 16?

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Can you link the book again, i really don’t know how to cook I just eat what my parents make but its mosyl goof like chicken some nights, steak, seafood, fish. Im starting to get protein shakes I don’t have a budget really

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Why did you lie to me previously? :slight_smile:

This is the post

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im going to Can you link the book again, i really don’t know how to cook I just eat what my parents make but its mosyl goof like chicken some nights, steak, seafood, fish. Im starting to get protein shakes I don’t have a budget really can you also link the book?

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how am i lieng wdym this is the post I’m so confused

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im real my goals is to look better, get stronger and become more confident

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I asked if you knew how to cook. You said you did. Then you said you didn’t.

If you click the link I linked you, it will show you the book I am discussing. Super Squats, by Randall Strossen.

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im not getting any link and and I only saw the part where you said do you know the compound lifts and I said yes to that didn’t see that you asked also how to cook