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whos weak? i am

panda50 Posts: 7 Joined: 2004/02/06	2004/04/28, 10:25 PM ok heres the problem ill be 15 in a month and weigh about 220. at the beginning of this school year i weighed 180 but i worked out really hard and am certain that almost all the weight i put on must be muscle. My maxes have gone up a lot this year but are no where close to where they should be. I bench 185 clean 165 and squat a mere 215. Squats are what i am especially disappointed in. Is this due to lack of protein (even though i think i get enough) or have i not reached a "prime" period of the teenage years when its very common to get much stronger? Im really discouraged, i give it 100% everyday but the people around me who weigh what i do lift twice as much as i do. Im determined to make this situation better but why is this happenning? I really need some help.
neiltilley Posts: 325 Joined: 2003/03/09	2004/04/29, 06:54 AM Don't kid yourself that you've put on 40 pounds of muscle in less than a year- some is definetly fat. You say your max is nowhere as close as it should be- Well that's bull for starters. Where should they be? Each body is different and my max aint your max and so on. The people that weigh the same as you, are they in training the same years, style, age group etc... ? Can you really base since on the fiction of what someone else can do? Stop it and look at your own figures as they are now. Accept these figures as 'good' for you- assess which areas are needing more attention. Set a goal to add a pound to the weight or 2 reps to half of all your sets each week. Your progress is your focus. The only importance to you. A pound a week is 52 in a year. On every rep it's good going. What some other guy did is not important. I train with the ''average guy after work'' weights and watch well cut guys with abs, triceps and all who lift what I'd call girlie weights. So stop the worry about others and focus on your pound a week gain.
panda50 Posts: 7 Joined: 2004/02/06	2004/04/29, 06:13 PM ok i understand. Its just really discouraging because i play football and im a big guy and people expect a lot out of me. I give it my all and i seem to always come up short of what is expected of me. This first thing i was told when i started lifting was not to worry about how much weight i was doing but how hard i was working. Sounds good but much easier said than done.
beatty07 Posts: 7 Joined: 2004/04/29	2004/04/30, 10:12 AM Right on, man. There's a lot of pressure to perform for the team. But you're in this for the long haul, right? So be sure to keep perspective. As for the 'teenage' boost, you may or may not have started that at 15. I think of it this way... like neiltilley said, don't sweat the other guys. Some will always be stronger and some will always be weaker. Your enemy is laziness and frustration, and putting yourself down. Get in the gym and vainquish that foe!
fitinboise Posts: 73 Joined: 2004/03/17	2004/04/30, 06:43 PM Well said beatty. =)