Week 11!

Here is some growth of the lats and traps. As it is already obvious, I have been keeping track of my growth. I'm at week 26 now or somewhere in there. I was a bag of bones with a gut when I started. The bag of bones part from my skinny genes and the gut from poor diet.

If this is getting old for some, feel free to ignore this thread, and for anyone else who cares, I simply hope to be an inspiration to anyone looking to be fit. I care not what others think, but how I look and feel. That is a tough mindset to have when you go to a gym everyday and hit the freeweights section and all these other dudes make you look tiny. It's all about focus and determination and moving forward and pushing yourself to limits that for most are uncomfortable.

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*thumbs up* Kirk! Any more and you're gonna need to shave more weight off your Mark to compensate.
 
nice work dude. i know a pretty bad@$$ workout that i got out of a muscle and fitness magazine, i need to get back to it, i feel weak :( when i did it, i did it about 3-5 weeks in a row, dropped over 3 pounds a week, with this workout you do 30 mins of cardio after the workout, only you don't do cardio after doing legs lol, the workout was monday, wednesday, friday, i did cardio on monday tuesday thursday friday. i miss it, i wasn't able to work out because my garage became a storage after we had a new shower put in :( im going back to it today, i benched around 200 in febuary, after finishing this summer workout by end of september, i start a dorian yates hardcore winter workout, ill be benching 225 in no time :) stromberg, have you ever tried the leg press machine? i was amazed at how much weight i could do, i did 6 plates a side, so thats 45x12 plus 60 pounds for the metal plate my feet were on, thats 600 pounds, and i did 5 reps :) leg press really helps with giving you definition on your quads, big time, and a little on the calves. i have a smith machine, its basically a huge squat rack with a bench press bar attached to it, you can squat on it, shrug, bench, a million things. i put the bar on my back like im going to squat, and i do calf raises with heavy weight, 2 plates a side plus a 10 on each side and a five, it hurts like a you know what after your done. good luck with the workout dude, keep it up
 
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nice work dude. i know a pretty bad@$$ workout that i got out of a muscle and fitness magazine, i need to get back to it, i feel weak :( when i did it, i did it about 3-5 weeks in a row, dropped over 3 pounds a week, with this workout you do 30 mins of cardio after the workout, only you don't do cardio after doing legs lol, the workout was monday, wednesday, friday, i did cardio on monday tuesday thursday friday. i miss it, i wasn't able to work out because my garage became a storage after we had a new shower put in :( im going back to it today, i benched around 200 in febuary, after finishing this summer workout by end of september, i start a dorian yates hardcore winter workout, ill be benching 225 in no time :) stromberg, have you ever tried the leg press machine? i was amazed at how much weight i could do, i did 6 plates a side, so thats 45x12 plus 60 pounds for the metal plate my feet were on, thats 600 pounds, and i did 5 reps :) leg press really helps with giving you definition on your quads, big time, and a little on the calves. i have a smith machine, its basically a huge squat rack with a bench press bar attached to it, you can squat on it, shrug, bench, a million things. i put the bar on my back like im going to squat, and i do calf raises with heavy weight, 2 plates a side plus a 10 on each side and a five, it hurts like a you know what after your done. good luck with the workout dude, keep it up
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Ha! No pain, no gain. That is my motto. I actually started using the leg press machine within about 8 weeks after I started lifting. I WAS doing squats, but with my frame (skinny) it was a little too rough on my lower back and it was feeling funky, so I started the leg press machine which takes your back out of the equation by supporting it on the backrest. Funny huh, exactly how it sounds "back rest" lol. So anyhow, for my back, I am currently doing lateral rows, lateral pull-downs, and shoulder shrugs on the machines. I use the Roman Chair holding a plate to my chest and workout my lower back in that fashion. Again, I have skinny arms so I was dropping the dumbbells before I was able to get a significant workout of my shoulders doing the shrugs and the machine makes it a little easier on the arms. (stick arms lol)

And concerning my stick arms, when I realized that I need some more strength there, I started doing wrist curls, reverse wrist curls, and wrist twists, all with dumbbells. For a skinny guy like me, I felt this was an important set of exercises that I should add to my routine. Pretty much every upper-body workout requires the use of my arms so I figured it would be nice to build a foundation there.

I'm at about 500# on the leg press 4th and final set(x6), but you are absolutely right. I have stick legs and that has really beefed up my quads a lot! I can definitely relate there. And as a matter of fact I started to realize that there was some disproportion going on because my quads are starting to get some good size but the rest of my legs are still tiny. So, I started using a calf raise machine to really work out the calves.

Other than that, for legs, I use the extension machine and reverse leg-curls machine for working out the hamstrings. I'm almost to a point now where I'll have to start figuring out what to do on the extension machine because I have it maxed out at 260# lol. Tomorrow when I go back, I'm going to check to see if they have another machine. I know that at another gym location I was at earlier in the week, I actually finished my last set on another machine because it had a higher weight setup. I'm not sure if my regular gym has that or not. But hey, if some revisions need to be made along the way to get past these fences, I'll have to figure something out. I have amended my current routine already in certain areas and sometimes that's what you gotta do to keep moving forward like Toyota. :p
 
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Haha! I am not going to torture you guys for awhile now. I am going to let this thread die again. I'll revive it again in a few months. :D
 
thats good, yeah it definately puts alot of mass and cuts on your quads. for arms i usually do biceps triceps and forearms all in one workout. heres what i do
biceps:
1- Standing alternating dumbbell curls
2- Standing hammer curls
3- Standing double curls (just curl both at once)
4- Seated, concentration curls
5- Standing barbell curls
6- Standing ez bar ( it looks like a bar with swivels) curls
7- preacher curls

triceps
1- overhead extension (cup dumbbell with 2 hands behind head, press straight up)
2- rope extension (need cable machine)
3- pushups sometimes
4- skullcrushers (lay down on a bench with a barbell, put your hands on bar like you would bench press it, bring your hands to your head, don't go to heavy or you literally crush your skull, hence the name
forearms
wrist curls, reverse wrist curls with a barbell
repeat same thing with dumbbells

i do that sometimes, after that i have such a pump in my arms its ridiculous.

keep working out and results will come, i stopped working out, need to get back into it, i still have definition in my legs, arms, shoulders and chest, but would like to swell up, lose like 25 pounds and put 10-15 of muscle on. i need to get back in that mind frame, i've been slacking lol
 
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