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Anonymous
Hey /fit/

I've been lurking for awhile and have a basic starter routine setup, using information I gathered from /fit/ and from a few other online and offline resources. I just want to ask a few questions to make sure I'm doing it right and not screwing anything up too badly. What I hope to achieve with this routine is to slowly start gaining muscle mass, definition, and to get my body in an overall better shape, but I'm not expecting to get any extreme results for a good long while, and certainly not soley with this starter routine.

I have my routine setup so that I workout one day, then rest the next. I don't have access to a gym, and don't yet have the money for a good set of freeweights, only a pair of adjustable dumbbells with a max weight of 23 pounds each; so my routine is based around exercises I can perform using dumbbells. I'm 17, 5.8 feet tall, weigh 125 pounds, and have 10% body fat [yup, pretty skinny]. My workout routine is as follows, with "sets" referring to three sets of twelve.

Set of Flat Chest Presses with 14 lbs on each dumbbell.
Set of Crunches.
Set of Seated Shoulder Presses with 14 lbs on each dumbbell.
Set of Hammer Curls with 23 lbs on each dumbbell.
Set of Tricep Kickbacks [a set for each arm] with 23 lbs on each dumbbell.
Set of Single Arm Rows [a set for each arm] with 23 lbs on each dumbbell.
>> Anonymous
>>250616
I'm eating a lot of complex carbs and other nutritional things in a attempt to bulk up slightly; oatmeal cooked in milk with nuts and bananna slices added, plenty of veggies, multigrain bread, pasta, turkey and chicken sandwhiches with lettuce and tomatoes and, when I feel like snacking, Triscuit crackers and cottage cheese, sometimes combined. During breakfast and dinner I drink grapefruit juice and milk. Outside of dinner and breakfast I drink only water.

The main question I have is if I can do ab and leg workouts, like weighted crunches and dumbbell lunges, on my off day; I heard some people say that the abs heal faster then other muscles, so you don't need a day for resting. I was thinking about also doing cardio [bike riding] on my off day, and was wondering if this would have any negative effect. Any critiques or advice anyone has to offer on my routine would be appreciated, as I want to make sure Im doing this right.
>> Anonymous
bump
>> Anonymous
Are you a girl?
>> Anonymous
Get a job so you can do dead lifts
>> Anonymous
>>251001
Nope, I'm a dude.

>>251001
I'm running around all over the place applying for positions, but I was somewhat late in my searching and now they're all taken.