Need advice from people who lift weights! HELP!?

Hi, I just started a regime and feel great. I've been at it for about a month and a half now and see a difference in my body already! Heres the thing: I was stupid and only doing squats for my legs. I just read lunges work different parts of your legs and have started doing them now too, but I feel as if now my legs are now ';behind'; in terms of progress from the rest of my body, which has already developed further ahead.





My question is: If you incorporate new exercises into your routine to work out different parts of your body (as you learn more and more, the different exercises) will those new parts you work out ';catch up'; to the parts you have already been exercising? Or will they always be behind in terms of progress? I have also wanted to start working on my forearms a bit more. Is it too late to start on my forearms/legs now that I have already begun working other parts already? Or will they eventually ';catch up'; to the progress the rest of my body has already made? THANKS!!!Need advice from people who lift weights! HELP!?
Damn good question, man!





Here's the simple answer: your brain is brilliant. Even when you're stupid, your brain is still brilliant. It made you aware of your situation and then to ask the question to one of the world's biggest Q%26amp;A communities so it's doin' something right. But what it wanted was for you to not worry and to just trust it and that's the gist of what I'm going to tell you.





I mean, sure, you go ahead and incorporate those new exercises and start targeting the lesser developed muscles. Your body will be grateful, actually, because it helps development to mix things up a bit.





And, sure, you can develop some muscles more than others so that it can LOOK awkward, like bigger arms than legs... or bigger bi's than tris, etc but if anything ever got TOO out of whack, your body would tell you very quickly in the form of FEELING the imbalance. It would DRAW your attention to an area by making you feel pain or unstable.





So, say you worked your bi's way more than your tri's... then just work the tri's more, back off a bit on the bi's but don't neglect them.





Your other muscles will catch up. In fact, they've actually been getting worked all along, subtly, but it just wasn't as obvious to you because you hadn't been TARGETING them... but in any exercise, there's many muscles being worked that aren't actually being targeted. So the whole leg works during a leg exercise even if you are targeting just 1 or 2 muscles.





Now, you are just shifting the targeting... that's all. You'll do great, just start off a little easier to respect the new target, and give the brain a little time to make the necessary adjustments.





Best wishes...Need advice from people who lift weights! HELP!?
The idea is to balance your training of each body part as you add different exercises and routines. It will all balance out as long as you balance your training - e.g. don't just do arm curls or your triceps will lag behind.
legs are the hardest part of your body to train as you are using them all day so to stimulate growth in that area takes twice as much work


they will catch up work them from different angles


squats are the best overall bulk builder


keep at it good luck
They'll eventually catch up. Your body will only allow you to get so much out of proportion. For each muscle group there is an opposite muscle group. For example if you do bench press all the time, but never work your back, you'll peak on the bench pretty early because your back can't support the strength of your chest muscles.





It's absolutely possible that you will 'catch up'. Definitely add in the other work. And vary it. Do your routine in reverse order sometimes.

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