KarateKid7

How can weight training and/or callthisthenics be used to really hit the posterior deltoids ebcause for the anterior, I am doing vertical raises with dumbells. I need to build the posterior also if I am to increase shoulder bulk so please help me. I suspect dumbel rows do the job but I am not sure.

You should visit mattfurey.com. Callisthenics do build mass. You just have to kno where to go once u reach the plateau in one exercise so u can advance to da advanced form of it.

Thanks dudes

Thanks guys. Much appreciated

Is this possible? Any1 kno of an advanced pressup workout - im not talking abt bog standard military pressups...like ones where the pectorals are hit especially hard which causes them to grow like mad. Is this possible using your own body weight or are free weights they only answer? Thanks

Well said june 1

Damn. Thats useful work but I think everyday is too much. Depending on how hard your working yourself, (pretty hard by the looks of things) u need to rest ur cardiovascular system from da run and ur muscles from the weights. Take it easy coz otherwise u will get injured and it will hinder u.

Thanks to both of you for your valued help. Much appreciated.

i dont want to work the endurance on these muscles. I want to make them really explosively powerful for sprinting and kicking. Any tips/exercises folks?

Baring in mind i dont hav access to a gym

I do bicep curls 8 repsx2 sets, bench press with dumbells 10repsx3 sets. And thats about it really. For legs, I practice kicking with weights on my legs and I do 2 sets of 5 with high weight and then take the weights off and do 1 set of 10 on each leg.

Thank you. Much appreciated advice

Dont get fat. I think you are misunderstanding the logic of building mass. THeres a difference to building mass healthily and unhealthily. Rite now you are building it unhealthily. U will get high cholesterol and salt levels which is crap for u. Eat chicken etc to put on muscle as mass. Why do you want to put on fat? It doesnt work the way u think it does. U cant convert fat into muscle. U burn fat and put on muscle or you put on muscle. Hope that helps. So get in the gym and start bustin out those reps!

Explain your chinese pushup variations to me please. I am interested. Meanwhile il burn out the pullups

IT consists of martial arts twice a week. Dumbells and free weights when I can...its nothing strcutured and organised....i used to do it regularly but I am in education at the moment and dont have as much time as I used to.

Man you are a life saver thanks. I really appreciate your advice on supplements but i am a little loose on da money at the moment if u kno what i mean. I should eat 6 times a day. At the moment I eat barely twice. But getting meals 6 times a day when your at school and when its expensive is hard. Is it poss to put on weight healthily without lifting weights. I.e. just eating mor calories than u burn coz at the moment, i burn a LOT....i play a LOT of sport and also its heriditary to burn a lot for me.

Please could someone advise me!!!

Can anyone do one arm pullups? If so, how many and how do you balance ur body without helping the actual lift coz i want to isolate one half of my body when I pull up but i want to balance so I can actuali do it in the first place! :?

Yeah thanks guys Pushups and pressups. I mean they are just endurance exercises after a certain limit. Once you can do 40, you wont see significant strength/mass gains. Iv tried all the variations and sure I feel sore afterwards but this is just lactic acid. The muscles arent actively breaking down and building up again to give me strength and mass gains. THe next progression to these are handstand pushups

Thanks for you contributions guys. Thing is, I am almost 17 and thus still growing, and i dont want to compress my spine and stop myself from growing. Will the handstand pushups hav an effect on my growth due to compression of vertebral discs?

Btw I dont have access to a gym. At most I have some dumbells.

Do dips really hit the pecs? I am beyond doing pressups as I dont get strength increases/hypertrophy from them anymore. So i turned to dips to develop my pecs and shoulders and arms in general. Good idea or not? Cheers.

How can I build my self up to do these. I kno i need balance and I can do handstands just about which means I have the strength in my shoulders. Would you suggest doing them against a wall...or...?

Also, i forgot to add. I have reached a weight of about 55Kg which is about right, if not a little underweight of what I should be. I should be atleast 60. I have done some research and noticed that most male teens are about 55 around 15 yrs of age (as was I, but i havent put on much weight since!!!) but then suddenly put on large quantities of mass to reach an average final mass of 70kg when they are 18. Considering Im almost 17 and am still under 60kg, has any1 got any tips for me? I find that I have a small appetitite...how can I increase appetitie and maybe eat so I can manipulate certain hormones like testosterone to aid my growth. I am a lot smaller than my friends. I used to be mor built but they have all put on weight while I havent.

I believe it is a common medical piece of knowledge that proteins (and an excess of) are deaminated in the liver i.e. broken down into amino acids and then excreted in the urine and I have read several times that taking in too much protein in the diet in the hope that one may put on muscle leads to almost all of it being excreted. Even worse, the body adapts to combusting proteins for energy instead of carbohydrates which is the norm for obtaining energy for respiration. I have been trying to put on weight since I was 15. I am almost 17 now and my physiology hasnt changed much. I am a lot stronger but my body is still very skinny and my arms are like sticks. I want to put on atleast some weight but due to my ethnic origin, rice is a big part of my diet. Surely stacking up on these carbs should cause me to put on weight. What am I doing wrong? I cant start lifting weights without having atleast some form of intake i.e. there is nothing on my body to create muscle out of. I am very stuck and really want to put on a bit more weight. I'd hate to think I am restricted by my genetics. I am very fit and athletic and can punch with most of my bodyweight behind my punch but i have reached the limit. I want to put on weight so I can pack more weight behind the punch and take out bigger people if need be. Please help me somebody.