I'm coaching my freshmen roommate at the gym

[CCS]

Well, I don't know if he'll keep going back. He might flake out on me.

Today I just found out what he could lift doing 3 sets of 6 reps. After doing compound lifts, his arms were too burnt out to do individual lifts, so he'll just be doing 4 lifts for his upper body and maybe 4 for his lower body. Took a little fast trial and error, but his

starting bench rep weight was 50 pounds.
close grip lat pull downs, 50 pounds.
One arm dumbbell rows, 22.5 pounds.
straight arm side shoulder lifts, 7.5, 7.5, 5 pounds, at 6 reps each.

I had him drink milk and whey protein when he got back. he hated the taste until I added coco powder to it.

The only problem is he looks around the gym when I try to explain the lifts to him. Then he jerks the weight. I make him stop and do it in good form, and end up reducing the weight as a result. But I found how much he needs. I'll add some weight to the first of the 3 sets next time and get an idea how fast he will grow.

I will not teach him to squat tomorrow, because I think he won't follow directions, and will hurt himself. I'll have him do leg presses until he starts following directions on every set. When he has the right awareness level, I'll show him the squat. We'll head to the gym at 6am tomorrow for a lower body workout.

 

[CCS]

Well, he went to the gym with me this morning. Coaching him is really detracting from my workouts though, because it takes time to explain stuff to him. He keeps looking around the gym at everyone who is bigger than him, feeling intimidated, and worrying that they will look at him and laugh at him. I have to repeat my instructions 5x before he finally follows them. His form is getting better though. If he does a few reps in bad form I grab the weight and stop his set right there to make him listen to me. It is not possible to find out the ideal weight if he jerks it in the beginning. Took a little trial and error, but I got some good lower body weights for him:

leg press: 50 pounds
leg curl: 35 pounds
seated leg opening exercise: 50 pounds
2 legged calve raises: just doing 3 sets till burn for now. I'll switch him to 1 legged ones soon so he gets some mass.

I'm very careful not to give him too many exercises, since he told me that last night he had trouble lifting his dishes. I still want to give him more compound lifts. I just don't want him doing squats until he is willing to pay attention and follow directions.

 

[CCS]

I'm definitely not into having workout partners. I like to workout at my own speed and not have to follow someone else around.

 

[Aplunk1]

I'd let you coach me. I've stopped eating meat, as I'm trying to go vegetarian, and I can already feel the muscles going away. I still run 90-120 minutes a day, along with pushups, situps, crunches, and other ab exercises, but my diet is really impacting my strength-training.

 

[omgstfuty]

Nice one that your coaching him,

Maybe you could pick up tips from him on how to be at ease at the world as a young man, seen as you really want to be like this.
You no scratch my back, ill scracth yours...

But im sure you no that every day you can leanr new things and all...

 

[Guest]

Omfg, once again you are acting much too friendly? Why are you wasting time on this guy? He obviously is not interested in workout and he will stop soon.

I personally would like to have someone who would show me some exercises and give me hints. But as you know I have got no friends. But I am also somehow glad about it, when I am working out I wanna listen to myself and not talk to someone. plus you also lose a lot of time when you are working out with a partner.

 

[CCS]

I agree. I do waste a lot of time on him. If he wants to come with me, I'll help him. But I'm not going to pressure him to come. It is just so dumb to sacrifice one's self to help someone who does not want that help, or at least won't make good use of it.

 

[CCS]

All of his weights improved today. A lot. I caught him doing bad form on one of the moves, and he had to lower the weight to do it in good form. But I watched him do others in good form. He discovered if he puts the seat way back, he can leg press more, but I made him put it back up close. The main thing he improved on was the leg curls. I did not see his second and third sets though, so I don't know if he forced them. I'm not going to baby sit him, but I will just check up on his form now and then. He seems excited about upping the weight, so I don't think I have to worry about him stagnating. I just have to make sure he does not cheat. Once I'm sure he knows what good and bad form is, and how to keep records and up the weight, I'll just let him go and save myself a lot of time.

 

[Guest]

He will stagnate and then he loses interest and all your efforts were wasted. Newbies are always very eager because they think it takes like six months and they will look like Brad Pitt. Does he know he has to keep a stright diet for a six pack?

 

[hair today gone tomorrow]

He will stagnate and then he loses interest and all your efforts were wasted. Newbies are always very eager because they think it takes like six months and they will look like Brad Pitt. Does he know he has to keep a stright diet for a six pack?

or have good genetics..i had one when i was 21 or so without following a diet...i dont have it anymore...but im gonna start the gym up again soon.

 

[CCS]

yeah, people without good genetics have to work smarter. they are not handed the good stuff. better to have bad six pack genetics that bad face genetics.

 

[hair today gone tomorrow]

yeah, people without good genetics have to work smarter. they are not handed the good stuff. better to have bad six pack genetics that bad face genetics.

better to have both