Top 10 Tips To Successful Teen Bodybuilding Part 1

[nick2407]

Top 10 Tips To Successful Teen Bodybuilding Part 1

By Vince DelMonte

Teen bodybuilding is growing at an alarming rate, as enthusiastic teens hit the gym every night of the week. I don't blame them. Teen bodybuilding is one of the most effective ways to boost a skinny guys self-confidence and self-image. Did I also mention lots of attention and admiration from the ladies and respect from the guys. Teen bodybuilding does not just help out with vanity but promotes a nutritious diet, disciplined lifestyle, and strong work ethic.

So the question is, how is teen bodybuilding done right? Should teen bodybuilders read the latest bodybuilding magazines? Learn from their friends or a professional? Train every day or every other day? Rely on supplements? Start when they are done growing or earlier? Focus on endurance training heavy lifting? Teen bodybuilding has dozens of questions and many different opinions on each. Here is my top 10 tips to successful teen bodybuilding in no particular order:


1. Avoid Steroids

Duh! This might sound obvious and if you have not been offered steroids yet, make your stand now and be prepared to say 'no' when you get backed into a corner. Your body is flowing with more natural hormones than any steroid could replace. Don't screw up your natural hormonal levels at such a young age. Even though all your friends might laugh at you for not conforming to the pressure of using illegal drugs, be a real man and train drug free. In the end your friends will respect you more for staying away from the dark side.

2. Focus On Clean Eating

Old habits die hard. Believe it or not, the nutrition habits you are creating today will affect you all the way into your adult years. As a young teen bodybuilder, you have an opportunity to create good habits at an early age. Focus on eating clean carbohyrdates like whole wheat breads, oatmeal, brown rice, potatoes, fruits and veggies. Focusing on eating a variety of clean proteins like tuna, chicken, fish, cottage cheese and protein shakes. Balance out your meals with clean fats like olive oil, fish oil, natural peanut butter and nuts. Take pride in the fact that you even know what clean eating is. Look at this as an opportunity to be an example to your friends to be walking statue of health! I promise you that you will have a few friends who admire your physique and ask you for advice!

3. Avoid One Body Part Workouts And Focus On A Full Body Workout

A full body workout? But all my friends are training chest tonight. And tomorrow they are training back. And on Wednesday they are training arms. But if you have the courage, you are not going to follow the herd and trust me. You are too young to be splitting up your muscles groups into only one body part a day. Unless you are pursuing a career in competitive bodybuilding, one-body part splits are an excellent way to over train at a young age. Look at it this way. Do you only eat once per week? Do you only take supplements once per week? Do you only sleep once per week? Do you only study once per week? Than why would you train your muscle groups only once per week? It does not make sense. Full body workouts will allow you to hit all your major muscle groups three times in the week, without overtraining, instead of only one time.

4. Emphasize Your Conditioning

Teen bodybuilding can actually become something that appear to be a lazy man's sport. Next time you walk into the weight room, count how many people are actually doing something. Seriously, I guarantee you will see more people standing around and talking, adjusting weights and staring in the mirror. Not many people are actually hustling from one exercise to another or even sweating. That's another reason to avoid one body-part bodybuilding style workouts. They don't emphasize your fitness or cardiovascular system. Your weight training program should be incorporating more than just weights. Balance out your sessions with some skipping, stair climbing, hard running, supersets, and really short rest periods. If you don't feel like you are going to throw up at the end of your weight training sessions, I have to question your workout intensity.

5. Stick to Basic Supplements

Your a teenager and should be saving your money for college and your first car. Don't get scammed by over hyped supplement ads that promise the world. Follow the saying, 'If it looks too good to be true, than most likely it is!? All you need to budget for now is a high quality multi-vitamin which you should take for life as well as a high quality protein powder in your arsenal and a regular omega-3 fish oil cap. Between these three supplements you are more than covered. Don't worry about creatine, glutamine, fat burners, testosterone boosters or even NO2 products. The first three to four years of your lifting should be done with just the basic supplements.

[r1ppedup]

part 2 is where?

[PatChukwurah]

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[Welthy]

point three is ****e tbh.. how is training a certain bodypart once a week like sleeping once a week :S

[StylesOfBeyond]

pretty solid post, and whilst you definitely wouldnt sleep one day a week, the actual meaning there is clear enough :P

[MaxxBot]

Telling bodybuilders not to do bodypart split workouts is retarded.

[eggnog631]

i just saw this guys youtube vids the other day. it sounds like his brain has shut off, and he wears some gay ass skin tight painted on shirts.

[manolosoprano]

Bodybuilding has many different effects on different i find my self doing the chest one day back next and arms but i do incorporate supersets and short rest periods but most importantly i always make my work outs different from the rest that is the best way to gain size fast ex bench barbels one week then the next use all dumbells in my opinion variety is the fastest track to size gains

[N01SYtZ]

do w/e works for you.

[amze]

lol only do full body work outs... no thanks.

[SteezyChr]

i cant agree with full body work outs, iv tried them, they are great intensity, but feel like a cardio session to me. And i dont do one body part a day i do 2-3 and legs have there own day, but i hit them really hard, so its needed.

[Sethinator]

do w/e works for you.

I would say this. Everybodys different and reacts differently to different stimulus. Like it says not to do split body workouts? Thats all i do since ive started and seen amazing results. Thats all ive liked to do. Some people may like full body routines more though. People are just different

[nainchik]

Me:
reading
> vince del monte
still reading for some reason
> avoid splits and do full body
FUK SH!T what a turn
> you will over train with a split
stop reading

[firemon232]

seriously lol

[Freddy098]

Strong bump from 3 years ago. Still, the mans an idiot.