new to working out - need advice

scottie pippen

I have a few questions as someone new to a gym/working out.

Im 5.8, and weigh 11stone, would like to bulk up, and put on some more weight / muscle.
Im Not particularly unfit – I play basketball for an hour - more than once a week, But sit at desk all week in work – I have joined a small gym near my job and plan to work out 3days a week
Mon, wed & fri - for an hour each morning before work.

My Biceps seem to be a decent size and shape, from infrequent use of a chinning bar at home combined with basket ball. Also my legs are seem to be in fairly good shape too
Would like to work on my shoulders/chest/lats

2weeks ago I started to add extra meals to my daily routine, more eggs/nuts/fruit, can see a slight weigh gain already.


My main questions are as follows
How much weight should press to start off with
How much weigh should I put on the bar when doing upright rows?
And what exercise/weights should I use to work on my chest, shoulders & lats


Would really appreciate some tips & advice, hope I’m not jumping the gun or doing bad research, kinda feel a bit overwhelmed with all the info about



Cheers

scottie pippen

bump;)

Scuba Ste

Why upright rows?? They're a recipe for injury for some people, you might be ok but you might not. I wouldn't do them anyway.

If you use search it will come. There's a lot of threads on similar topics to yours.

If you want an easy option:

Sqaut/Bench/Row one day, Deadlift/Overhead Press/Pullups another.

chadmustang

Scuba Ste wrote: »

Sqaut/Bench/Row one day, Deadlift/Overhead Press/Pullups another.

Just not upright rows... Try bent over rows or inverted rows instead!
Other than that x2