Gaining muscle, losing (or is it loosing?) weight?!


Question: Gaining muscle, losing (or is it loosing.?) weight.?
Right, I'm 13, male, I wanna lose/loose weight. I'm going to start going to the gym at the start of 2009, three (sometimes two) times a week, I'll be spending 2 hours every time at the gym. I'm a bit on the chubby side. I'm not old enough to use the weights (16+ only).

Any ideas how long it'll take until I begin getting some noticable muscle.? I got machines like the treadmill, rowing machines, arm bike, bike bike, this thing called the "stepper machine" and another machine identical to the "stepper machine" aside from the addition of some sort of arm motion thing.Health Question & Answer


Answers:
At your age mate you should adopt an all over healthy lifestyle rather than concentrate on one specific area, but any changes will take a good few months at a healthy rate. And you can still do things like push ups/sit ups at your age, these will help develop your muscles without hindering growth.

For a healthy diet, you need to be eating small to medium meals regularly. 4 or even 5 times a day. Each meal (apart from breakfast which should preferably be fibre rich), should contain a balanced ammount of carbohydrates for energy, (from potatoes, rice and pasta, etc) protien (from fish, chicken, occassional red meat is fine, soya is good too) and plenty of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants (simple fresh fruit and veg). Eat like this and make sure you are well hydrated (fruit juice is as good as water, any fluid counts, but some fluids have negative effects too, such as alcohol or caffiene rich drinks.)

You can have a wide range of healthy meals with this, from Thai, Chinese, Italian, British, Indian, etc. Just make sure each meal contains balanced ammounts of these three. On the bright side too, fresh veg and rice and pasta is a lot cheaper than crappy junk food!

This doesn't mean you cant have chocolate or pizza/takeaway/etc, just save them as very occassional treats.

The big secret to keeping a healthy weight and staying healthy is EXCERCISE, particularly cardio excercise (running, swimming, cycling, etc).

Cardio exercise includes any form of excercise such as running/jogging/swimming/cycling etc that gets your heart rate pumping and you sweating and out of breath. It will not only burn calories and reduce your body fat levels, therefore making you 'slimmer' by having less fat on you, but will also improve your resting heart rate and lung function, making you healthier.

Strength training will help you strengthen and tone your muscles. This is done with the use of weights or by free training.

There are essentially (without getting overly complicated) two types of strength excercises based on different types of muscle fibres depending on wether you want to build size, bulk and power, or just 'tone' up the lean muscles an get more muscle endurance.

Heavy weights with short reps/sets will build your fast twitch muscle fibres and build size, power and strength. Imagine big guys at the gym lifting heavy weights.

But if you use light to medium weights with lots of reps/sets you will excercise your slow twitch muscle fibres, you wont build size, but you will tone up your body and train muscle endurance. This will obviously make you 'look' healthier and more toned, but will also increase your metabolism (as your muscles demand more energy) so you will burn calories faster. These muscles are also excercised a lot with cardio workouts (i.e your leg muscles when running).

As far as excercise goes, you should aim to strike a balance between cardio training and strength training, this way you will build good strong and toned muscle, but also keep your body fat levels down and increase your heart and lung performance, making you much fitter and healthier.Health Question & Answer

yeah, you are too young, but i guess if you are physically mature like i guess if your voice has broken and you have armpit hairs it should be ok. but use low reps, high weights to gain muscle, but if you want to tone and lose fat you do high reps low weight, i guess just ask at the gym,

if you cant use weights just do lots of sit ups and press ups, the step ups will tone your bumHealth Question & Answer

1) you are not 13
2) it is losing

I have been teaching teenagers for 15 years. You are not a teenager. Troll. (or groomer)

EDIT:

Listen, idiot, do not send me any more emails. You are not a child.Health Question & Answer

LOL probs ages you need to focus on will power tbh aha happy i'm built stocky xDHealth Question & Answer

you really dont have to go workout at a gym to gain muscles.
all you have 2 do is about 100 pushups morning and night. do about 20 every three minutes and you will be built by next july.
but if you want to go to gym run on the treadmill for about 20 minutes. then do some pushups and some situps.
i go to the YMCA and lift weights you have to be 14 but im 13 and they let me go.
just lie about your age and say that you are 15 almost 16 in about a few weeks but i dont think they will ask how old are you

try doing some running around the house. try not to eat at mcdonalds everyday or any fatty foods all the time
buy some ankle weights at the store and walk in them everyday and jump rope in them as well as run and skip with them

Good LuckHealth Question & Answer



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