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Thanks, everyone, for your help. I'll certainly look up some books etc and get clued up on the terminology. One final question: in a workout, do I do just one exercise per muscle? For example, there are many exercises for particular muscles, i.e. for the forearms, with the barbell, I have the...

Yeap - thanks. Though I'm a bit scared of looking stupid when I ask: what are compound muscles? I'm trying to find out as we speak.

Doms, Triple Threat, Tatyana, thanks for your replies. Triple Threat - I said I couldn't bend a lot, particularly under duress. I'm not sure sitting down requires repeated bending and with a stack of weights on your shoulders, though maybe my understanding of sitting down differs from yours...

Yeah the general feedback (from other forums too) is that I'm trying too hard, just concentrate on the major muscles, etc etc. I've only been working out for about 3 weeks but I'm not a total newbie, I did some bedroom workouts a few years back and did a fair bit of research into it all then...

Hi there After getting into building recently and getting some good initial advice from helpful people on this site I was advised to put together a routine and post it for scrutiny. I'd greatly appreciate getting some feedback on it. The aim of the routine, in line with my eating habits, is to...

LOL, now that's die-hard. I forgot to answer your earlier question: no this isn't for tennis, it's just for me. I'm not a tennis coach anymore. I'm about to go and post my new routine in the relevent section. Perhaps you could see what you reckon :) Thanks again.

Gazhole, Tatyana, thanks a lot for your help. I'm currently putting together a diet plan so I'll post that in the appropriate section when I've done it. One thing I'm still unsure about, though, is this word 'split'. Tatyana said: "a three day split doing upper body, lower body, upper body" -...

While I would agree that I should have done that first (I used to run a huge forum and would have probably said the same to someone who didn't read the stickies) I'm not sure the sarcasm was called for. That and the fact that the stickies haven't answered every single point I mentioned in my...

Hi there - new here. I've recently begun training with my dumbells/barbell and would greatly appreciate a few tips and answers to the following questions. A bit of background info: 27 years old; not a total newbie to training; former tennis coach; stocky build, not huge but pretty strongly...