If you are a teenager, don’t do these mistakes.

Has anybody ever said, "I wish I was a teenager again?" to you? If you are a teenager and hearing someone say that than probably he/ she is of middle age and no realizing their mistake. Over here, we are not talking about just any mistake. It is about teenagers who have started lifting weights and do mistakes. But later they realize thinking, "I wish I knew when I started lifting".

So here are the few things which may help if you are a teenager and have just started lifting weights. It might give you results faster and save more time, rather doing mistakes and wasting.

Keep others from simply influencing your training

This mistake is manifested in new lifters and commonly done by young ones. It is probably the dangerous one because the idea of lifting weight is to impress their friends and other people in the gym. As a result, they get loaded with heavyweight, then they could handle with a good form.

So, they end up doing things for example, a young kid on a squat track with a good heavyweight, end up not squatting to full depth. not touching the bar to the chest while doing a chest press. Thus, the trainer who is supporting has to pull up the weight for you.

In reality, no one really cares that how much weight you can move, if it is not done with a proper form. It is important to keep in mind that ideally, this is going to be a long journey for you and the downside, including bad lifting habits which are a serious mistake that should be un-programmed as early as possible.

Many young lifters try to copy lifting forms exactly how your favorite bodybuilder or influencers performs in the gym. Don't just blindly follow everything that they say, and get influenced. Find out what works better for you through a combination of self-experiments and healthy skepticism.

Building muscle and losing fat can be simple

A lot of you-tubers and influencers make this concept sound much more complicated than it actually is. It is possible to gain muscles and lose weight at the same time as fat tissue and muscle tissue are separate systems. The phenomenon is called body recomposition. Here are a few examples:

• New lifters: New lifters can lose fat and gain muscles at the same time very easily because being a new lifter you are most primed for muscle growth as it is your beginning. So this means that calories can be pulled from form your stored fats to fuel muscle building process which is basic programming resistance training and a good diet.

• Overweight/Obese: they have very large energy stored as body fat. They can be on a low-calorie diet and still have plenty of energy to fuel the muscle-building process.

• Detrained: People who stopped lifting earlier due to some reasons and now resumed again. They are similar to the new trainees but can build muscles very quickly with the help of a powerful muscle memory effect they can rebuild a lot of muscle very quickly.

So, don’t accept everything said by the YouTubers blindly.

Genetic matter

Many people get discouraged because they assume maybe they don't have the best genetic to build muscles so they don't even give it a try. This isn't the case here, it simply means that like almost anything we are not all starting on an even playing field. This generally means. You should compare your current physique to your initial place and not with anyone else's current physique.

You can consider other people as motivation but it is important to know that if you copy exactly what your favorite bodybuilder is doing, you won't be able to achieve that type of physique because the genetics differ. So it is important to self-experiment and try different training styles to know what is really better for you.

This doesn't mean that you leave a particular program at a halfway a try something else to see what fits your expectations.

You need to train consistently with a particular program for a minimum of four months before you can have a better idea of how well you respond to a particular training program if you have just started.

If you don’t put in at least a year of consistent, challenging training with a good attitude and high expectations about your aspects, you probably aren’t justified in confidently claiming that you have bad genetics for lifting.

Genetics also plays a role to give shape to the muscle. So you cannot change the size of your muscle as you want, eg Abs symmetry, bicep insertion distance from the elbow cannot be changed by training. So don't be fooled by the people who fake out that they can help you to change the size of muscles.

Your physique will look different on lighting, pump, and time of the day

Physique looks very different based on lighting, pump in muscles, time of the day, etc. lightings around you can fool you and show you, your different physique. It can make you look muscular and can also make you look less muscular. You shouldn't judge you progress in an hour- to- hour or day to day basis which can actually discourage you.

Judge your progress over a longer time scale and your objective means to track your progress. For eg use measure tape to measure your body parts after every 1 to 2 months. Make sure, you progressively getting stronger. Strength is the best indicator to note your progress.

Be analytical about training and nutrition

This is a very good thing to drive progress. You should maintain a workout logbook where you can track your weights and reps from week to week. Tracking your macro or your food intake is a good way to know what are you exactly providing your body how you can control that to achieve your goals. You can also follow a meal plan.

It can work fine as long as the macros are well suited as per your goals. For beginners have a flexible meal plan and initially don't stick to a particular meal plan. Later you can change your diet plans as the need changes or the goal changes. Eventually, you will be able to understand your body and its nutritional needs.

Keeping records for future reference and to see if you are making progress.

Steroids are not necessary to have a remarkable body

A lot of young lifters get convinced to take steroids to make any muscle and have a lean physique. Use of steroids when you are a new lifter can give you side effects like a serious mental and physical issue in the journey especially you stop exercising. You may lose most of the size you had put on with can perpetuate the problem over time.

“Newbie gains” are real! Take advantage!

When you are new to the gym. New to weight lifting or weight training, you are the most primed (prepared) for growth. So during this time take advantage of getting serious about your training. It is common among new lifters that they only train chest and arms for the first year of training and end up with an "unbalanced disproportionate physique" which might take more couple of years of intense legs and back training to balance out.

So when you are a newbie, be intelligent and thoughtful about your training because initial time is the only time when you make the best gains of your life because you won’t get this type of seriousness and gains once to stop in between.

Be consistent and balanced with your training over the coming years, and then gradually the things will fall into its place. Initially, just don't go for heavyweights. Start with some cardio, let your body get familiar with the new environment, and then gradually pick up the pace once you are comfortable with the weights.