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Bulking up - where to start?

  • 27-12-2009 6:07am
    #1
    Fresh Breeze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭


    Hi, so I'd like to bulk up.
    I've never properly been to a gym or had a good diet plan so if someone could link me to regimes/plans or something, I'd really appreciate it. I'm 20, 5'11/6'0/185lbs. I'm just wondering where do I start? Do I need to buy certain things? (Dumbbells etc) Is it just as easy as raising and lowering the dumbell? Also, what does "keeping your core intact" or something mean? Sorry for all the questions.

    Thanks.


Comments

  • #2
    narwog81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,191 ✭✭✭narwog81


    are you drunk? if so good stuff, that is a natural state of being on the 26th dec.... if not, rethink and rephrase your query, and try again...


  • #3
    brianblaze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,100 ✭✭✭brianblaze


    Is this a serious question? Did you do your fifty press ups before posting?


  • #4
    Magic Eight Ball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭Magic Eight Ball


    Fresh Breeze wrote: »
    I'm just wondering where do I start?

    The fridge.


  • #5
    Hanley
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,981 ✭✭✭✭Hanley


    Fresh Breeze wrote: »
    Hi, so I'd like to bulk up.
    I've never properly been to a gym or had a good diet plan so if someone could link me to regimes/plans or something, I'd really appreciate it. I'm 20, 5'11/6'0/185lbs. I'm just wondering where do I start? Do I need to buy certain things? (Dumbbells etc) Is it just as easy as raising and lowering the dumbell? Also, what does "keeping your core intact" or something mean? Sorry for all the questions.

    Thanks.
    brianblaze wrote: »
    Is this a serious question? Did you do your fifty press ups before posting?

    It's a well structured and valid question. He wants to know what to eat, what to lift and what he needs to buy to do it.

    If we're looking down our noses at people who are beginners/weaker/not is as good shape/don't know as much, then I'm gonna start doing it too, and you'll all be fcuked.


  • #6
    me_right_one
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭me_right_one


    Well said Hanley, well said. So is anybody going to answer his questions? Everyone had to start from scratch at some stage!


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  • #7
    Chris89
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,158 ✭✭✭Chris89


    Go to a jim, sure you can buy weights and teach yourself at home but that can only take you so far, unless you buy a durty bug squat rack and an olympic bar.

    Essentially eat as much food as possible,lots more protein. surplus of calories = bulk.
    And pick up and put down heavy things.

    Then pick them up again.


  • #8
    Chris89
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,158 ✭✭✭Chris89


    And then put them down


  • #9
    Nate--IRL--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,235 ✭✭✭Nate--IRL--


    Read this, print it out and keep re-reading it. It will get you started in the right direction.

    Nate


  • #10
    Futurism
    Closed Accounts Posts: 553 ✭✭✭Futurism


    Join a gym and either ask an instructor or look on the internet for weight lifting routines. Starting Strength is usually recommended for beginners. Have a look at the stickies here to get the diet part right.


  • #11
    mindaugelis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 126 ✭✭mindaugelis


    Fresh Breeze wrote: »
    Hi, so I'd like to bulk up.
    I've never properly been to a gym or had a good diet plan so if someone could link me to regimes/plans or something, I'd really appreciate it. I'm 20, 5'11/6'0/185lbs. I'm just wondering where do I start? Do I need to buy certain things? (Dumbbells etc) Is it just as easy as raising and lowering the dumbell? Also, what does "keeping your core intact" or something mean? Sorry for all the questions.

    Thanks.

    where do you live?


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