Hello all, I am a beginner to what hopefully is a journey to build muscle and confidence, and improve fitness. I am a skinny-fat guy, early 20s, 5ft10/178cm, and my goal is to rid myself of belly fat and build muscle at the same time. My arms and legs are very skinny, and my chest is abhorrent. I can make myself look skinny, but the belly fat is too much for my liking.
I have round iron weights at home - I insisted on having them rather than them being sold off. They range between 0.5-5kg, and I have 2 dumbbell bars and a barbell. I have a bench in the shed but I believe there is no 'pin' to slot and keep it upright. Considering I have somewhat decent equipment at home, I was wondering if anyone can advise me on what to do? I have drawn up a list of exercises for arms: bicep curl, tricep extension, hammer curl, tricep kick back, spider curl, dumbbell thrusters. If anyone could advise me on adding anything to arms that would be splendid, but my main focus in non-arm exercises using dumbbells.
Nutrition is another thing. I have bought whey protein and casein, and I roughly know what to eat (I think). Eating is generally the easier part for me, as I am now in a mindset of drinking water and not buying junk from outside. I do need to increase protein intake a bit though, but eating is half of the journey.
One thing I do know is to limit cardio - I'll be hitting 10,000 steps a day but I'll be listening to my audiobook so it won't be too intense.
