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FaustinoBashkir Posts: 8 Joined: 2008/05/19	2008/05/19, 04:06 PM Hello, I'm 13, and am trying to tone up my body. However, I do not have access to a gym and I don't yet have weights. On the profile, I selected the 5 day training, because I have lots of spare time, beginner and so on. On the next page, I wanted to select 'Toning and Weight Loss', but lack of equipment made sure I only did Home excercise and abs workout. Now... I go onto my page.. What the??? Theres only 3 workout days, and 2 on the abs, but 1 of the abs mixed with the standard excercise. Should I buy weights and change to what suits me? Or what? Thanks, Faustie
Dowd48 Posts: 50 Joined: 2008/04/17	2008/05/21, 04:03 PM you don't really need weights to tone up, and you also can add to the workouts that they give you -------------- -Dustin Never let todays disappointments over shadow tomorrows Dreams
docksideguy05 Posts: 90 Joined: 2008/05/15	2008/05/22, 03:16 AM at 13 you really shouldn't be lifting much. you can mess up the growth plates in your bones if you start doing too much weight. I'd suggest adding cardio about 3 days a week. every other cardio day do interval sprints. otherwise you could just join a sport at school, then you'd tone up and make some new friends too
asimmer Posts: 8,201 Joined: 2003/01/07	2008/05/22, 08:53 AM dockside guy - that is pretty outdated thinking. Teens can lift weights, true they don't need to be doing max lifts, but there isn't as much damage done as once thought. Fuastino - do calesthenic exercises and play outdoor sports that you like and you should feel stronger, fitter and more toned. Also rememebr that you need to eat a healthy lifestyle diet to look fit.
FaustinoBashkir Posts: 8 Joined: 2008/05/19	2008/05/22, 04:16 PM Cheers, asimmer. For sports, I do tennis a bit, basketball a bit, a little bit of football, but nearly every day I do concentrated swimming and table tennis, so I think its mainly flab loss, and I'm working on a diet. I think that I'll leave weights for now, the home exercises are quite enough for a start, and I don't have the time to join a gym (What with my music and everything). Also... calesthenic? Haven't heard that word before.
FaustinoBashkir Posts: 8 Joined: 2008/05/19	2008/05/22, 04:29 PM Oh yes.. One more thing. When I input my data, for example, pushups, or crunches... Do I put in my bodyweight on "Weight used". Because I don't use extra weights when I'm doing pushups.
docksideguy05 Posts: 90 Joined: 2008/05/15	2008/05/23, 03:07 AM calisthenics are excercises like push ups, sit ups, pull ups, prisoner squats, squat jumps all that kind of fun stuff
docksideguy05 Posts: 90 Joined: 2008/05/15	2008/05/23, 03:13 AM guess thats what i get for not checking to make sure the info i'm spitting out is the most recent, gotta love the ever changing world of fitness :big_smile: ============ Quoting from asimmer: dockside guy - that is pretty outdated thinking. Teens can lift weights, true they don't need to be doing max lifts, but there isn't as much damage done as once thought. Fuastino - do calesthenic exercises and play outdoor sports that you like and you should feel stronger, fitter and more toned. Also rememebr that you need to eat a healthy lifestyle diet to look fit. =============
ecle5c Posts: 1,312 Joined: 2003/07/10	2008/05/23, 12:18 PM Table tennis counts as a sport now? ============ Quoting from FaustinoBashkir: Cheers, asimmer. For sports, I do tennis a bit, basketball a bit, a little bit of football, but nearly every day I do concentrated swimming and table tennis, so I think its mainly flab loss, and I'm working on a diet. I think that I'll leave weights for now, the home exercises are quite enough for a start, and I don't have the time to join a gym (What with my music and everything). Also... calesthenic? Haven't heard that word before. =============
FaustinoBashkir Posts: 8 Joined: 2008/05/19	2008/05/23, 12:51 PM It does when you jump out all over the space :P
wrestler125 Posts: 4,619 Joined: 2004/01/27	2008/05/23, 03:19 PM ============ Quoting from docksideguy05: guess thats what i get for not checking to make sure the info i'm spitting out is the most recent, gotta love the ever changing world of fitness :big_smile: ============= For what it's worth, there was never information that lifting stunts growth plates, so it's not like this is new information. As for the routine, just because you CAN workout 5 days a week doesn't mean you necessarily SHOULD. -------------- SQUAT MORE ~Jesse Marunde Blood Guts Sweat Chalk
docksideguy05 Posts: 90 Joined: 2008/05/15	2008/05/23, 08:59 PM Sorry, highschool weight training teacher told us that so I figured it was correct. I found a good site that explains how the myth came about if anyone's interested. http://bodybuilding.about.com/od/bodybuildingfaq/f/stuntgrowth.htm