Top 10 Tips To Successful Teen Bodybuilding (Part 1)

By Vince DelMonte

Jacob was 16 when he started doing the No Nonsense Muscle Building Program

Teen bodybuilding is flourishing at an alarming rate, as enthusiastic teens hit the gym day-after-day. And who can really blame them? Teen bodybuilding is one of the most effective ways to boost any teen’s self-confidence and self-image. Not to mention lots of attention and respect from other people, not just from the opposite sex. I see Teen bodybuilding not as a mere aid to vanity but as something that can encourage a nutritious diet, a disciplined lifestyle, and even a strong work ethic.

So how is teen bodybuilding done correctly?

Should teen bodybuilders read the latest bodybuilding magazines? Should they learn from their friends or from a Pro? Should they train daily or every other day? Must theu rely on supplements? Should they start when they’re done maturing or is it ok to start sooner? Should they concentrate on endurance training or heavy lifting?

Teen bodybuilding has dozens of questions and many different opinions on each. So here I’m giving my Top 10 tips to successful teen bodybuilding:

1. Avoid Steroids

I don’t have time to cite all the reasons here why you should stay away from roids, so I encourage you to do your own research yourself. If you haven’t been offered steroids yet, decide now and be prepared to say ‘no’. To be perfectly honest your body is streaming with more natural hormones than any steroid could ever give! So don’t mess up your natural hormonal levels at such a early age. Although all your friends might make fun of you for not giving in to the pressure of using illegal drugs, be a real man and train drug free. In the long run your mates will respect you more for staying away from steroids.

2. Focus On Clean Eating

As a teenager, you have everything stacked on your side compared to your older counterparts. If you have good eating habits now, you will establish such a great advantage for yourself because  the eating habits you’re creating now will influence you all the way into your adulthood. As a teen bodybuilder, you have a chance to establish good practices at a young age. So even if you have lousy eating habits now, do your best to change now and start eating clean carbohyrdates like whole wheat breads, oatmeal, brown rice, potatoes, fruits and veggies. Focus on eating an assortment of clean proteins like tuna, chicken, fish, cottage cheese and protein shakes. Balance out your meals with clean fats like olive oil, fish oil, natural peanut butter and nuts.

Take pride in the fact that you even know what clean eating is. Look at this as an opportunity to be an example to your friends to be walking statue of health! I promise you that you’ll have some friends who’ll look up to you, admire your physique and ask for your advice!

3. Avoid Isolated Exercises And Focus On A Full Body Workout

“A full body workout? But all my friends are training chest tonight. And tomorrow they are training back. And on Wednesday they are training arms…”

If you have the courage, you’re not going to follow the crowd. Here’s the lowdown: you’re far too young to be breaking up your muscle groups into only one body part per day. Unless you’re going after a career in competitive bodybuilding, one-body part splits are an excellent way to over train at a young age.

View it this way: Do you only eat once a week? Do you only take supplements once a week? Do you only rest once a week? Do you only study once a week? Then why would you develop your muscle groups only once per week? It doesn’t make sense. Full body workouts will permit you to hit all your major muscle groups three times in the week, without overtraining, rather than only once.

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4. Emphasize Your Conditioning

Next time you walk into the weight room, count how many people are actually working HARD. Seriously, I guarantee you’ll see more people standing around and chatting, adjusting weights and gazing in the mirror. Not many people are actually hustling from one exercise to the next or even breaking a sweat. That’s another reason to avoid one body-part bodybuilding style workouts. They don’t contribute to your fitness or cardiovascular system.

So choose a weight training program that integrates more than just weights. Include in your sessions some skipping, stair climbing, hard running, supersets, and really short rest periods. If you don’t feel like you’re going to be sick at the final stage of your weight training workouts, it means you’re not working hard enough.

5. Stick to Basic Supplements

You’re a teenager and should be saving your money for college and your first car. Don’t get scammed by over hyped supplement ads that promise the world. Follow the saying, ‘If it looks too good to be true, then it most likely is!” All you need to budget for now is a high quality multi-vitamin which you should take for life as well as a high quality protein powder in your arsenal and a regular omega-3 fish oil cap. Between these three supplements you’ve got more than you need. Don’t bother buying creatine, glutamine, fat burners, testosterone boosters or whatnots. The first three to four years of your lifting should be done with just the most basic supplements.

He specializes in teaching skinny guys how to build muscle and gain weight quickly without drugs, supplements and training less than before.

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