Group: Beginners to Exercise

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I need some help

Nirvecho
Nirvecho
Posts: 14
Joined: 2004/06/21
United States
2004/06/21, 04:45 PM
I got a weight bench for Christmas last year. It has a Lat tower, bench (for normal and incline bench press). It also has a leg extension that lets me do leg extensions and let curls.

I also have two dumbbells where you add weights so you can adjust its weight.

I started lifting when I got my bench but I stopped after a month or so afterwards. I then picked it up again, and then I stopped., and this repeated until now.

I am now determined to stick with it, but I need some help. I am really skinny. If I suck in my stomach I can count all my ribs. I weight around 160 and I'm 6'3 feet tall. I want to gain a lot of muscles. I'm not hoping for overnight results. But hopefully in 3 months there will be some definite visible results.

I plan on doing Benchpress, curls, lat pull-downs, crunches, leg curls and leg extensions. I need help. I am a complete noob and I'm not sure if I have sets and reps mixt up, but I want to know if I should do a few reps over a lot of sets, or a lot of reps over a few sets. What is best for trying to build muscles?

Also, Should I do each workout every other day. Say I bench/crunches/leg curls on monday, wed, friday
Curls/Lat pull-downs/ Leg extensions on tues, thurs, sat
and rest on sunday?

Or do I need a few days rest in-between working out a certain part of my body to allow my muscles to re-grow?

I have spent the last few hours searching through the forum for previous posts and I have already found out a lot. This site is amazing!
yadmit
yadmit
Posts: 4,670
Joined: 2003/10/05
Canada
2004/06/21, 04:52 PM
Welcome to FT! It is a great site... I would suggest starting with a plan from this site... there is a muscle gain plan... it'll give you a good start... plus, check out the grocery list for a bodybuilder.... both will go a long way!

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