How to gain muscle

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Scorpio313
Scorpio313 Posts: 9
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I'am unable to go to the gym, I work out from home. How do you gain muscle from home also, I need to know of some good ab work outs to lose my potch: smile:

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  • engineman312
    engineman312 Posts: 3,450 Member
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    this is an excellent body weight work out that helped me out in the beginning, and i know a few people here that have done it and have seen results.

    http://nerdfitness.com/blog/2009/12/09/beginner-body-weight-workout-burn-fat-build-muscle/
  • Tujitsu56
    Tujitsu56 Posts: 392 Member
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    it will be hard and almost impossible to gain much muscle without heavy weights. You will need to consume over your body weight in grams of protien, while lifting heavy weights. You can try to increase the resistance on some of your workouts. Like push ups, have someone place a hand on your back to increase the difficulty. Do pull ups with a weighted vest or something. These things may help a little, but you are really going to need heavier weights.

    As for ab workouts, I do the P90X ab ripper X, which is pretty good to start with. It will have your core pretty sore by the end of it.
  • sandspur2012
    sandspur2012 Posts: 12
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    Convict Conditioning is pretty good. Though there is no reason you can't just pick up a pull up bar and some dumbells and sculpt your own work out. Check reddit.com/r/fitness for more.
  • melinda6569
    melinda6569 Posts: 124
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    this is an excellent body weight work out that helped me out in the beginning, and i know a few people here that have done it and have seen results.

    http://nerdfitness.com/blog/2009/12/09/beginner-body-weight-workout-burn-fat-build-muscle/

    That is a cool website..I am going to tryit out for a while :smile:

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