Hi. Currently I can do 30x2 curls using 3 kg dumbbells or 20x2 curls using 5kg dumbbells each day. Which is better?

Hi again. Could someone kindly advice me which is better between the two

30 bicep curls using 2.5 kg dumbbells twice daily

or

20 bicep curls using 5kg dumbbells twice daily

Those are the maximum I can do a day without getting sore muscles the next day.

What's an alternative to building chest muscles besides push ups. I can't do push ups because my feet can't bend enough anymore to it. The lowest I can go is like to the height of a sofa's backrest.

Thanks for all the advice. I know 2.5kg is light, but it's really heavy for me. Only like a few days ago was I able to lift 5kg. I'm just looking for the proper way to build back my muscles. I actually got involved in an accident and my lifetime of muscles have all withered. A few months ago I could hardly lift up a mug of water.

A few years back I knew a really hot guy, His body is hmm better than CPU's pic in the body building progress thread, the one on the last page. He told me that the weight isn't important, but the number of repetitions are. He told me to do like at least 200 pushups and situps a day. So I just assumed it's the same for bicep curls.

I saw the video already and I'll do that. (btw, your sis looks awesome)

I need some more advice on building up my butt. Yes my butt, it's totally flat now because of the accident. So flat that it's pain to even sit on a chair. I can walk, but I can't run yet. Any advice on this. Also my calves are pretty skinny.

And of course, my stomach, abs I guess. Now I can do 20 sit ups twice daily. After 20 sit ups I feel like my guts are gonna burst out already. So what do I do? More times a day? Strap some weights onto my chest?

Besides all those, I also hand the dumbells over my head and lift them up to the air. Dunno what you call that. I do that 15 times with 5 kg. And I hold the dumbbells with my arms 90 degrees then turn then 70 times twice daily. Also 5kg. I suppose that will build up my lower arm?

Please advise, thank you.

Thanks gtoforce for the link. I will read the articles.

I'm 177cm and I'm 62kg or was it 58. Somewhere there.

Sorry to hear that.

What exactly do you mean by "working abs"? Sorry if this is a typical newbie question.

I would like to do leg presses, but I've no access to a gym. I don't like in KL or PJ and there are no gyms near my place. I can't do squats again because of the stiffness in my legs. I can't squat at all in fact. The tendons and ligaments in my right knee and foot/ankle (sorry I'm not to apt with the terms) have shortened, so has the calve muscles. And it's taking really long to stretch them back.

As to my injury well if it's relevant, I broke my right tibia in two and so there's a metal rod there now and that contributes to the stiffness as well. So basically I can't bend my feet all the way and my knees all the way and they would just lock if I tried bending both together. Other than that I'm pretty normal. I was bedridden for like 6 months and I probably started walking in December last year. Now I've enough strength to walk but I can't run or jump. I totally screwed my hips and all the bones there, so I'm pretty stiff there too. When I do sit ups, I can't bring my chest to my knees anymore, maybe that's a problem?

I've read that eating is important too. Until like two weeks ago my protein comes mainly from eggs. I had like 2-3 eggs days because I couldn't open my mouth at all so I'd just swallow my food. I just had a surgery to open my mouth, so I can eat some chicken. beef and prawns. I'm not too sure how much I should stuff myself with. I don't and I can't drink milk. I also can't drink protein mixes because they all have some kind of milk derived protein in them too.

Also please don't get me wrong, I'm not telling some sob story, just telling you what I can and can't do.

This post has been edited by mumeichan: Apr 15 2010, 02:13 AM

Thanks for the advice. Yes I've talked to the orthopedic surgeon as well that the rehabilitation specialist. They say as far as the bones go, I'm fine. The stiffness is just due to the shortening of the ligaments, tendons and muscles, which will stretch if I work on it as well as tissue scarring. Basically they say do whatever I want to as long as it's not unbearably pain. One thing I do avoid though is getting a cramp. If it's too strenuous and I feel like I will get a cramp, I've to stop right away because there's a chance I will get fits right after a cramp.

They asked me to do various kinds of exercises in the bed, which is mainly just flexing my muscles to prevent further atrophy. But by the time I woke up from coma, I couldn't move my right leg already or sit up. I was discharged before I could walk, and so I hired my own physiotherapist. However, she only worked until I could stand then didn't want to work anymore. So basically it was pretty much my own effort and visits to the hospital's rehabilitation clinic when my parents had the time.


Thanks. I can't jog either. I do try to walk as much as possible. And walking is more like limping. It's hardly a workout, but I spend time playing Wii games, it's the closest I come to a cardio workout.

This post has been edited by mumeichan: Apr 15 2010, 03:03 AM