15 y/o gym workout plan

I've been going to the gym for a few weeks now and I've been using a plan a friend gave me. After reading articles online I'm not sure if this plan would be good for me. I want a plan for both upper and lower body. I'm particulary concerned about arms (forearms, biceps , and triceps), abs and legs. I want leg strength for basketball so I can jump higher and be quicker/faster. I want upper body strength for baseball. Also i want abs for a 6-pack haha. A workout plan with all these things would be great. Thanks for the help.
 
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Height: 5'9'' or 5'10''
Weight:145 pounds
level of fitness: umm I'm in good shape. I guess I'm kind of small for my age and height. I played basketball all season ( october till now) so I'm in good cardio shape i guess.
Diet: right now i ate whatever i can get haha. I usually have cereal in the morning (vector, corn flakes, etc.) for lunch i usually have a sandwich of some sort or pizza, and for supper I have a home cooked meal consisting of vegetables like potatoes, carrots, green beans or turnip and meat such as roast beef, steak etc. I usually have cereal after school and/or after supper. I also drink a lottttttt of milk haha.


I'm trying to play in the varisty levels in both basketball and baseball.

My work out right now is: Day one: chest, biceps, triceps , day 3: back, shoulders and abs, day 5: chest, biceps, forarms and legs. I do 5-6 exercises for each muscle. Usually 3 sets of 10 reps of everything but legs (3 sets of 15-30 reps for legs)

Chest Exercises: flat bench press, incline bench press, flat dumbell press, incline dumbell press, and some machine called the pectorial fly I think? where you move your arms from your sides to in front of you.

Biceps standing bar curl, machine curl, standing dumbell curl, sitting down machine curl ( not sure what its called)

Triceps close grip bench press, dumbell kickbacks, french press, tricep down press

Back deadlifts, seated row, bent over row, straight back seated row

Shoulders military press, seated dumbell press, shoulder press, lever shoulder press

Abs ab rocker with knees up and together with weight on them, captains chair, machine crunch? ( cross your arms and press down)

legs leg press, leg curl, squat
 
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yeah i pretty much was doing the same workout you are doing when i first started, and its garbage. check that out. its a great program. ive been doing it for about a month and have seen great inprovments in my stength already. theres also an article on that site for tips to jump higher. why so many reps for the legs also? i believe anything over 18 reps is considered as cardio. your diet could probaly use a little shaping up also. 5-6 small meals a day. its tough with school, but is managable. looks like the only protein your getting is from your dinner. maybe look it protein shakes. substitute cereal with oatmeal for after school and add a fruit or vegetable. pizza for lunch isnt really that great, but if your school is like mine i cant blame you as all of the food is nasty and bad for you.
 
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I thought that you should have 5-6 exercises for each part of your body (biceps,chest, etc.) but it seems that for the defranco better athlete plan you only have 2 exercises??? another question. Should i basically just give up doing the machines at the gym and just do freeweights?
 
Defranco's seems to work for most people. Got a great track record. 2 exercises should be enough if done at the right intensity.
 
5-6 excersises per body part is way too much. defrancos has less excersises because there are alot of compound excersises. compounds work more than one muscle at a time. and yes forget about the machines they're useless
 
What do you think of this workout?
Day One:
Barbell Bench Press
Incline dumbell Bench Press
Chest supported rows
Bent-over dumbbell rear delt flyes
Russian Twists ( holding free weights)

Day 2:
Box Squats
Walking Lunges
Glut-Ham Raises
Plate Pinch Gripping

Day 3:
Bodyweight dips
Skull crushers
Chin-ups
barbell shrugs
Barbell Curls
Abdominal circuit training

I wanted to put some exercises to help my vertical jump in there too. The exercises were seated calve raises and 1 set of 50 squats alternating between on your heels and toes. Would I just work this on my lower body day or would I have to switch an exercise so I could do these?
And I wanted to help my forarm strength for baseball. How many exercises could i do and would i have to replace them with an exercise already on the plan?

What does "Work up to 3 sets of MAX REPS" mean? WOuld it be to do as many as you can 3 times?
How long should I do the plate pinching for? It says do 3 sets of timed sets.
What does " Work up to a max set of 5 reps" mean?
And how many exercises should i do for the abdominal circuit training?
Thanks for all the help:D
 
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looks good. i would include the vetical jumping excersises on leg days. can i ask what you are trying to do with 50 squats though? you can add a forarm excersise to both upperbody days. 3 sets max reps mean 3 sets of as many reps as you can do. plate pinching time it for as long as you can. start with two 25's or 2 10's, and once your able to hold it for about 3-5 minutes, move up to bigger plates. those excersises do work your forearms so think of that when adding other forearm excersises. work up to max set of 5 reps means do 1 set of up to 5 reps. this takes a hit on your cns ( central nerve systems) so switch the excersises or just dont do it every week. and for abs do 1-3 excersises.
 
What Jake said is good, however machines aren't completely useless. As for max reps I wouldn't train 3x to failure at this stage. That doesn't make sense to me
 
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