Is my work out plan good?

Question

I'm 20 years of age, 5'7", 145lbs. I work out 3 times per week, 15 minutes of walking at 3.5 mph 3% incline and 15 minutes of jogging at 6.5 mph and 5% incline. I do this at intervals of 1 minute. After that, I do low weight bench press, about 3 sets of 20 reps each. Then I do low weight military press, 3 sets of 20 reps each. Then I do 2 sets of 15 crunches. I also do 2 sets of 15 of bicep curls at 50lbs. Usually lasts about 30 minutes to do the lifting for a total of 1 hour per day that I do work out. I seldom do lower body exercises because I'm happy with my lower body. Will this get me anywhere within the next 6 months? I eat pretty poorly, but I don't eat not much, maybe 1200 calories a day. 2000 on the weekends.

Answer 1

No, it is not good. By doing all those body parts in one day, (And NEGLECTING LOWER BODY!!!!) you are barely working them, and you are ignoring many many parts of your body. What about your rear delts, side delts, traps, lats, back, glutes, quads, calves, hams?

Answer 2

No.  For one thing, it's going to give you bad posture and put you at risk for a shoulder injury.  You need to be doing a set of a pulling motion, such as a row, chin-up, or lat pull-down, for every set you do of bench presses or military presses.  If you're going to do biceps isolation work (not necessarily a good use of your time), you need to do triceps isolation work.

If your goal is either muscle mass or strength, you need to be working your whole body, including your back and legs, and you need to use fewer reps per set.  Krista Scott-Dixon's second beginner routine, "get in, get out, go home" might be a good choice for you.  If you're male, do 10-12 reps instead of the 12-15 she suggests.

Even the best workout plan won't be effective if you aren't eating well.  You admit that you're eating poorly.  Better do something about it.

Answer 3

Well first off, if you're eating poorly and not getting enough calories, you could be hurting your metabolism.  Everyone seems to be different and not one diet works for everyone, but it should be high in whole unprocessed foods and  we should aim to eat when we're hungry and stop when we're full.  your exercise plan sounds good if you enjoy doing it. one thing you should know about working out your lower body is that the thigh muscles are among the biggest in the body and if you are doing resistance exercises for them you can increase your metabolism.  For every pound of muscle you build you burn 50 extra calories a day on average.  So by working out your lower body you can easily build more  muscle and burn more fat.  

Even if you are happy with your lower body now you still have to work on maintaining what you want to keep.  Especially after a certain age everything can start to get a lot harder to maintain.

The main point of exercise is that you enjoy it and it feels good.  you won't do something for the longterm if you don't like it or are overly  concerned about looking a certain way.