Building muscle with weights advice please?

I am starting to lift weights but need advice on some questions guys and girls





1. I have only just started and am using 5kg weights. Am i weak if i can only lift 5kgs at first? I recently saw a documentary about young bodybuilders where this 15 year old girl was curling 7.5kg weights. So am i just a weak person?





2. I am very slender and so will i need to put on fat first by eating loads of food and then work out to see bigger muscles develop as the fat turns to muscle or can i see good gains from going from slender to muscular?





Thanks





DaveBuilding muscle with weights advice please?
You build muscle over time, not over night. Increase your lean protein intake and progressively add weight to how much you are training with. Don't just eat food, lean proteins, chicken, fish, skim milk, and protein shakes if you're so inclined. Even the Incredible Hulk started as a baby hulk.Building muscle with weights advice please?
have a higher protien intake, like eggs, protine shakes/powders.
big no no FAT DOES NOT TURN IN TO MUSCLE. and sorry to say but yes you are weak but everyone starts somewhere so hit the weights hard and one day youll be where im at ;) lol jk
Congratulations, Dave! Great to see you are taking an interest in your health. Keep up the good work! A few thoughts about your questions.





1. No sir, you most certainly are NOT a ';weak'; person. You should not try to measure your fitness and strength by comparing yourself to others. I'm a weakling compared to Lee Haney, but I look like a colossus standing next to my 5'6'; wife. If 5kg is all you can lift, go for it, and DO NOT be ashamed. EVERYBODY has to start somewhere. You'll move up soon, if you keep at it. Persistence is the key.





2. If you're slender, you don't want to get fat first, just to bulk up, and then try to replace fat with muscle. Putting on fat is unhealthy - bad for your heart, bad for your metabolism, and bad for your body chemistry. Eat plenty of healthy foods, and your body should - SHOULD - put on mass, if you continue to weight train.





';Healthy foods'; means lean protein (egg whites, soy, sugar-free yogurt, whey, grilled fish and chicken, and LEAN cuts of pork and beef), beans, fruits and vegetables, and whole grains. If you eat potatoes, they should be baked, and you should eat the skin (try low-fat cottage cheese instead of sour cream). Better yet, eat plain baked sweet potatoes (but skip the butter and sugar, much less candied yams).





Contrary to popular belief, a low-fat diet isn't very good for you. Get your fats from ';good'; sources, like RAW (not smoked or roasted or salted) nuts and olive oil - not from bacon, cake icing, or salad dressing and mayonnaise (unless it's homemade, with olive or flax seed oil, and then only in moderation). Don't forget calcium, which you can get from skim milk, yogurt and reduced-fat cheese.





Avoid fried food, sugar (drink diet sodas if you absolutely MUST have a soft drink), refined carbs (most pastas and breads), flour (again, breads, but also cookies, cakes, etc.), and alcohol. Every once in a while, ';treat'; yourself, but junk food should not be part of anyone's everyday life. On non-treat days, slice up a banana, and pour in half a cup of skim milk, or take a handful of fresh strawberries and add a tablespoon of reduced-calorie whipped topping, instead of reaching for that big bowl of ice cream.





You'll have to eat a lot more of those healthy foods, because an unhealthy diet is much more dense in terms of calories. But you do NOT want to train your body to accept a diet that makes you fat.





If you are eating like a horse, and exercising with weights, and you're still slender, that may that you are just ... young. A lot of guys don't ';fill out'; until they're in their late teens and early 20's. If you are under the age of 16-18 or so, you should seek professional assistance before undertaking any SERIOUS weight training.





If you're older and still can't gain weight, on the other hand, you might just have a high metabolism. Consider yourself blessed, my friend. Almost everyone else has the exact opposite problem, and would KILL to be in your shoes.
I started out with 5kgs i use to do 20 reps, then relaxed for a few minutes and then 20 again relax and then 20 again. You know when you are ready for 7kgs etc. I ended up pushing benchpress of 100 kg and could do 10 reps in a row. Those were the days. You must always remember to do warm-ups before doing any reps ok. I did not eat more at all just did loads of benchpress etc. Take care that you don't hurt yourself and get one of the guys who knows what they are doing to work out a plan for you. :)))
Don't eat tons of food to gain fat. Just eat healthy and add lean protien to help build muscle. What ever you can lift now is acceptable. Continue to lift and before you know it you will be stronger and lifting more. Everyone is differnt and will start at different weights. Do what is good for you and don't compare yourself to others.
in a bulking stage you will eat loads of food and train hard. you will put on a bit of fat too, this is inevitable. when you get to the size you want you can then gut back on food a bit and increase cv training to lose this fat.





fat does not turn to muscle. you build muscle from scratch.





the key to gaining muscle is eat clean and lift heavy. you want a high protein diet (1 gram of protein per pound of bodyweight)





everyone starts somewhere and when i started lifting my bicep curl was 5kg in each hand. thats up to 15 in each now.





good luck with it.





some interesting information here http://forum.bodybuilding.com
';The journey of 1000 miles starts with a single step';. In other words, yes.. your weak right now, but your doing something about it. So feel good about that. It's much better to work at the right weight, with excellent form than to over-extend and risk injury.





You certainly do NOT need a layer of fat to build muscle. You will need to increase your food in order to build muscle, but you do not need to get excess weight. Be sure to eat good quality protein foods after each owrkout too. Very best of luck.