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Also combine what Jinto has correctly said  with stretching your muscles a lot not lifting anything just stretching really so that when you do lift weights eventually your muscles will grow even more.  Theres many ways of increasing muscle size even with no access to weights.  Chin up's, Half Sits (full sits up's damage your neck), squats, and other excersises that I dont have a name for.  Use your bodys weight.

Invaderzim wrote:

It may help you increase power but not strength. If you want to increase strength you have to gradualy increase the weight you are using once you are able to do about 7 to 8 reps. Say you can lift 75kg 6 times when you first start out, after about a week or 2 of doing that every second day you will have built up the maximum amount of muscle that that lifting that amount of wieght can produce, therefore to increase strength you have to add more weight.

This must be the method that the racoon has used in your sig.  I might give it a go myself.

Do the Turtle?  Place palms on floor under ur belly pointing outwards n try n balance.

Lie on ur back, neck raised and moving side to side touch the side of ur waste.

Grab tins of food/sugar, and pretend ur ski'ing with the items.

Vertical Push up's off the wall?

Lie on back and do 6" leg raises and hold for 30 secs or more.

lol just chuck yourself around and when it hurts a bit and you sweat, stop.....and just repeat the bit that hurt.

For pecs and surrounding muscles -
1, Stand up straight with a food tin (increase this weight (juice cartons, petrol cans etc) to suit your needs) in each hand and slowly raise the cans so you are in the crucifix position hold for 5 seconds and slowly lower the cans repeat.

2, same as above but this time raise the cans so they are straight out in front of you.

You can do Nos. 1 + 2 laid on the floor.
No 1, Lay in the crucifix position then bring your hands together as if you were to clap
No 2, exactly the same.

3, Press ups with a backpack (to increase weight)

4, the bed idea is good but you need to make sure you position yourself right you don't want the bed moving in an awkward position.

For legs-

1, Calf muscles - Stand on your tip toes then under control lower your heels till they nearly touch the floor, then up again repeat (this is an easy exercise so you might want to look at doing 50 at a time) use a backpack to increase weight. Your calf muscles will burn on this one

2, Quads - stand up straight with your legs shoulder width apart, keeping a straight back lower yourself till you are squating (do not rest on your haunches) then raise, repeat. 
For increased difficulty widen your legs further apart you could also look at adding the backpack. Your thighs will burn on this one

The best exercise i can recommend for legs is cycling and/or running plot out a 5 mile circular route try and make sure it has a couple of decent up hills. If cycling go at it full throttle but always try and use a gear that makes cycling hard so you have to put some effort in (this will improve your stamina and give your legs a good work out).
If running maintain a constant speed but try and attack the hills.

Dumbells would make training a lot easier, you might also want to consider weights that you velcro strap to your wrists and ankles.

Look around outside you may find usefull walls etc that you can use to train with

Finally take care when exercising with make shift weights etc if it feels wrong STOP

Last edited by Jinto-sk (2006-10-17 06:18:33)

Des.Kmal wrote:

it wont help all that much, i did 200 a day for like a week... raised it 5 pounds. but now i can do a shit load of push ups.

so, all in all, it wont help BENCH but u can do more push ups.

what are u trying to do? raise ur bench max to look good? or look better body wise?

look better body wise... altho this usually means lifting more weights (building size, not being lean)  im pretty skinny but look alot better when i work out w/ weights... so this is pretty much for the girls/ my self esteem.

Eat protein. I only lift now about once every 5 days. It seems like I retain my muscle mass longer since I started eating a lot of tuna/pb/fresh fish and don't have to lift every other/3 days. I'm not trying to get any bigger, just to keep my current build so I'm prolly not the best person to take advice from.

Have you tried dips? No weights needed but you need something stable and elevated (like two posts or hand rails). Great for the tricep with some focus on the pecs. May not help your bench because bench hits your pecks more than your tris. You may not be able to do your own body weight yet and the dip machines at the gym have counterweights (use a chair). I started out on straight up gravity resistance doing only a couple at a time then worked my way up to as many sets of 8-12 reps I could do.

*Do triangle pushups.

Even in my lifting haydays I couldn't do a shitload of pushups. It seems p-ups are more stamina while benching is more strength. It'll help, but not drastically.

Last edited by MorbidFetus (2006-10-17 14:46:03)