Question for old newbie

On Aug 25, 10:08 am, "verse.notes" wrote:
Age 52, M, 5'11, lifelong narrow shoulders, slightly wide hips. Just
dropped 40 pounds to 175 on docs orders (eat most veggie, fish maybe
three times a week.) Looking thin, but I am already losing muscle
mass, I can tell, and sure enough when I went to the gym man I can
barelt do 50 pounds on the bicep machine and overhead press.

Were you doing much more the previous month? Maybe you haven't lifted
in a while and would have been out of shape, diet or not.

How can I
get better? Diet tips (have to be very low cholesterol).

http://whfoods.org/index.html

Specific
workouts for forearms, arms and shoulders?

If you can't even do fifty on the machine, I suggest sticking to good
ol' fashioned push-ups. Just do some push-ups for now, do as many as
you can first thing in the morning and before every meal. After two
or three weeks of this, you should be much stronger.

What sort of development
should I expect?

Not much any time soon, in terms of what you can see in the mirror.
But push-ups, like how I advise, you should be knocking out a good
forty or fifty at one time within three weeks! Of course, don't
forget to feed yourself and take adequate rest....

And what about the wrists and neck (15 1/2 in.)? My
abs and lower body are pretty strong. It's the upper body that needs
big time work.

Nautilus has a great 4-way neck machine but unfortunately very few
gyms have it -- and I hear that the company's going out of business!

After "mastering" push-ups, you should consider chin-ups/pull-ups.
Depending on your goals, you might not even need to use any free
weights. But right now it doesn't sound like you need any equipment
at all: just do basic calisthenics for about a month and you'll get a
better sense of things....