New to lifting - where to start

IamtheWalrus

Hi all,

I was wondering if any of you know how I could find a decent weight-lifing program.

I am not a member of a gym yet but plan to be in a few months. In the meantime, I am going to workout at home. The equipment I have is a weights bench and a set of dumb bells, with some weights. I also have a 'sit-up bench' thing.

I am doing some bench presses, some dumb bell work and some sit-ups but I do not really know what I am doing. I know I need to vary my workouts to cover the entire body. I am also taking a protein shake once per day.


I am a 6 foot tall male and just under 73kgs. I am fairly skinny and I want to bulk up. I 'was' fairly fit last year as I ran a marathon but it didn't do much for bulking up (I wasn't running for that reason).

Do any of you know where I could find a good work-out?

Any suggestions are welcome,
Walrus

Transform

all this will help -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6Oxa__Fbi4

and sort your diet out

Nate--IRL--

Have a read of this. It explains basically what to do and why.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17401146

Nate

IamtheWalrus

Thanks for the suggestions people.

chadmustang

Use Mark Rippetoe's Starting Strength workout or Jim Wendler's 5/3/1
Two of the best programmes out there for someone new to the iron game. They both utilize basic compounds movements and steady constant progress. If you can get your hads on the DVD of starting strength he goes into great detail of the 5 main lifts.