Suggestions On My Workout

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I'm fairly skinny but not too skinny in my opinion; 5'8" and ~120 pounds. I do want to gain weight (not by eating loads upon loads of food), and so I've come up with a sort of plan. I can't drive yet and my mom and dad are usually not home when I am (mom does horse riding and dad has work) so it would be difficult to get a constant workout routine at a gym. Thankfully, I will be getting my license around June 1 and will be able to really use it around later June (18 day trip to China) so it will be much easier to go then and at that point I will ask for help on a good workout more related to it, but that's not what I need right now. Currently, I only have two ten-pound dumbbells which truthfully do pretty well for giving me a workout on some exercises, though not much on others. I've been using workout ideas from the link given up above in this section which seem to work fairly well, though sometimes I have to do only slight variations of some things in order to get enough of a workout. I've planned to do 5 different things from each row including a variety from their subsections (so that I don't only workout one thing) 6 days a week, each day going to the next one. I also will do modified pushups (for the chest) and reverse pushups (for the triceps, I believe, quite difficult in my opinion) with their respective rows. Then there's a exercise bike that my mom has that I could probably use.By the way, from what I've read on this forum what I'm going for muscle-wise is stronger larger muscles that are toned. I don't want to do the training where it's been described as tearing muscle and then the body replacing it with more. I assume the biology of what I want would be moreso strain the muscle so that the body knows that it needs more and increases the mass of it.What I'd like to know, training-wise:What should I modify for this workout that will most likely only last 3-4 months to create a base to work off from before I go to a gym or have better means for a gym?Now for the diet part.What type of diet should I have that's fairly easy and doesn't leave me fealing very full all the time. I'd like it to help my training also.Rough Current Diet:I don't eat anything for breakfast, though I probably should change this and get cereal more often (I've eaten it more as a snack than as breakfast). For school lunch, I usually have Wok and Roll (Teriyaki Chicken with some cold carrots and rice with a not-too-strong teriyaki sauce over it), and an Apple Izze on Mondays and Fridays, Chicken Cup o' Noodles and Arizona Green Tea on Tuesdays and Thursdays unless the school meal is something that looks like I'd eat most of it and enjoy it, and a Chick-fil-a chicken sandwich with nothing on it and an apple izze on Wednesdays. For dinner I can't really change except to add in what I don't get. It used to be there'd always be a type of fruit and a type of vegetable dish every meal, but my mom's gotten even more lazy and doesn't usually do both, sometimes neither. I can't really change this except to get a healthy snack afterwards. Then for snacks I'll usually have either a ham and cheese sandwich (1 inch of ingredients) or, more recently, a ham and cheese mini-bagel sandwiches that are fairly good (about 3-4).So any suggestions on what I should take out, what I should add in, or anything else related would be helpful.I never knew posting about this stuff would be easier to make very long than my own opinions on other things. Maybe it's because I just have to make sure that my situation is understood here, whereas in the other forums usually things are already stated and I don't need to be redundant.

Okay well first of all, Workout:If you want a nice tone, alot if it has to do with body type, some acheive it with ease( I can because Of My Muscle) Others have a tougher time.Your 10 pound dumbells just wont do, you need to go out and by some more weights and a bar to go with. You should do workouts like: Curls, Decline Press (Sit back and push the bar up from your chest) Another one is using your palms up and put the bar behind your back, while liying down on a ledge, and brign the bar back over your head, hard to explain. Curls {Palmed down ones}It's harder to explain but if you just google workouts and look for things you can do with bars you can get an idea, I'll go to school on monday and write down some workouts for you :D.Diet: I need to gain weight as well, but there is no way to get around it, you need to eat ALOT. Eat lots of high calorie meals, like oily fish or pasta. The HEALTHY Fat. Eat untill your full adn then more. I went to my doctor and he said that if your still at your growing age( you didnt specify your age) So you know 1-18 ish you should stay away from things like protein shakes, it is to much for the kidneys at a young age. AND Dont touch creatine it only gives temporary weight gain adn then you pee it all out.Yo uare 5'8 and 120 lbs... Now 120 lbs is more suitable for someone who is 5'6, so you might want to aim for 135-40 depending on your body type.Sorry I couldn't help as muich but ill go to the workout room and write some workout for you.

Thanks for the help. So 10 lb. dumbbells aren't enough even though the circumfrence of my arm at it's highest point flexed (tricep and bicep) is roughly 10.8 inches (I know, it's lame, but that's the point of gaining muscle)? Any recommendations on a good weight for dumbbells. Then is there a certain weight bar I should get and whether or not I should get extra weights to add on to that (and how much). Remember, this will probably only be for 3-4 months.

No modify button and I realized I forgot to add this. I'm 16 years old.Oh, and what are the ways that one should warm up before lifting, and then what about a cool-down?

Well it really depends on your lifting ability.....Generally by your size Im guessing you could probably keep up with me, so with dumbells you might want to get 20's or 25's or 15's just lift them see what you can do. See if you can lift it from behind your head lying down and brign it up your stomach then back over your head and beinhd your back sort of thing.With the bar? well if the bar is about 20lbs then you will want to get 2 10lbs and 2 5lbs... that will give you a max of 50, if you feel like more maybe get 2 15lbs as well...Warm ups: Stretch!!! Make sure you stretch all muscles, just google stretches if you dont know good ones, you want to stress your back particularely well!!!.Cooldown? STRETCH!! it prevents so many injuries every year its ridiculous. You also may want to take a nice shower. that way you wont be stiff the next day. and sweaty and all that.

How much do you think that all of this will cost? I'd probably pay for most of it myself if it's too expensive by selling a bunch of games I don't use. I don't get the thing that you're talking about with the dumbbells, though.

You really want to gain weight and tone up? Eat like one of your Mum's horses for the next 3-4 months, put on a few kilos of fat. Once you get your licence hit the gym hard and use that fat to build up muscle. Those 5kg dumbells aren't going to do squat, and it's not worth investing $750 into a home gym unless you plan on using it for a long time.

Originally Posted By: Thatguy12345I went to my doctor and he said that if your still at your growing age( you didnt specify your age) So you know 1-18 ish you should stay away from things like protein shakes, it is to much for the kidneys at a young age. AND Dont touch creatine it only gives temporary weight gain adn then you pee it all out. Protein powder is just a food, its perfectly safe to consume at any age (in moderation). I'd like to see your source on creatine too, not that I'm recommending it for an 18yo or under, I'm just calling BS on your theory.

How bout I eat all three of my sister's and mom's horses.I'd rather do something productive other than "eat 5 gagillion pounds of food and then work out months later."

Creatine just builds up water behidn the muscle, it doesnt actaully make you stronger it actuaally just gves you more energy. And My sources are a family pediatrition AND an athletic therapist, I'm going to take their advice over yours any day.

You asked for advice, I gave you the best advice given your current situation. Don't throw it back in my face just because you don't like it.And "Thatguy": I've had this arguement with you before, I won't have it again. You can believe what you want, from who you want, but stop spreading your misinformation to those who actually want to learn.

Seems like there is a lot of contradictions between what some people have said and what others have >.> If anyone's willing, could they provide what they think would work along with solid references? I think I also might check out a book from my school library and read it as well.Also, does anyone know certain muscle groups that, when practiced, could help a golf swing? I assume that the shoulders and the abdominal muscles have a lot to do with the swing, but which parts of those groups? I'm going to be golfing a lot so I'd like to pair some training of muscle along with the training in the game (which builds some toned muscle, but not a whole lot).

Okay, Becasue Your a genius in this sort of a thing, not an athletic therapist or how about a doctor, no they are stupid and all their information is wrong.

You don't need all that much muscle to really hit a gold ball hard, its got to do alot with form, but you would probably workout yur back muscles and triceps maybe, I'm not too sure.

Ya, I know it's all about form. But a little extra training would help to prevent possible injury and maybe help me achieve a better consistent form.

http://www.nbay.eu/does_creatine_really_help_build_muscle-15827.html"Creatine does exactly what it claims to do and that is to retain water in your muscles."Anyways, don't take creatine it's like cheating, and yo udon't exactly gain discipline when yo utake shortcuts in life, thats why I have no respect for those who do it.

Muscle will not help yo uwith form, only technique will. And unless your older I can't see you throwing your back that easily. you probably want to stretch your back muscles, and work them out, this means doing sholder excercises etc... I only know how to do them I don't know their names, alot of this information is on google.

But making sure that the muscles that are used in a swing are in shape and not undertrained will make it so that muscle soreness won't be a problem during a game or on the range. I'm not saying it will help the technique per se, I'm saying that it will make it so that I don't have obscure muscles that are used in the swing more often than they are used in the real world won't bother me. It only indirectly helps the form.

You know what, fine. I'm only in my second year of a BASci - Food Tech. and Nutrtition. Obviously I don't know what I'm talking about. Helms is only only been training for a couple of decades, has only benched 500lbs and has consumed more creatine than you body will ever naturally produce in a lifetime. Obviously when it comes to resistance training he has no clue what he's talking about!You listen to your "athletic therapist", I bet it was a challenging two weeks earning that certificate.

Yeah they are right you know, I'm just a complete idiot with an IQ of over 150, and athletic therapists only go to school for two weeks. They are right.