I hate my arms

MHA said:
A great man wonce said BBing is not about how how much ya lift but about how much ya look like ya lift.

True story!

Lol

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soooo true.
 
dedlifter1 said:
imo, bb curls and skull crushers are the alpha and omega of arm lifts. i superset heavy to light, every set, my arms are just over 19. oh i also love close grip bench for tri.
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lol and how much do you attribute those arms to deadlifting and other back work? :dl:
 
dedlifter1 said:
quite a bit my freind, quite a bit. point taken!!:dl::footinmouth:
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Heh heh me too... I neglected to mention that I always train heavy and that heavy compound movements are where its at for size, overall. I remember my first experience with a Yates/Mentzer style of weightlifting. The day after back day, I really could not even pick up a toolbox that day. I had to go home because I was useless. My arms though after a week of the brutality had shot up half an inch and I had muscle gain and exercise improvement. I then fell in love with high intensity balls to the wall training.:saevil:
 
TheLastRonin said:
Heh heh me too... I neglected to mention that I always train heavy and that heavy compound movements are where its at for size, overall. I remember my first experience with a Yates/Mentzer style of weightlifting. The day after back day, I really could not even pick up a toolbox that day. I had to go home because I was useless. My arms though after a week of the brutality had shot up half an inch and I had muscle gain and exercise improvement. I then fell in love with high intensity balls to the wall training.:saevil:
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thats how i train, every day. I own a business, and its physically demanding, i still rip it up at least six days a week. I just hit the 19in mark recently. im on a bulk, just hit 218lbs today. doin some damage control on the fat tho. still at about 11-12 pct.
 
dedlifter1 said:
thats how i train, every day. I own a business, and its physically demanding, i still rip it up at least six days a week. I just hit the 19in mark recently. im on a bulk, just hit 218lbs today. doin some damage control on the fat tho. still at about 11-12 pct.
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Sounds like me lol I own a roofing company...fat controls not an issue there though lol. Its harder for me to force myself not to workout and overtrain.:laugh:
 
TheLastRonin said:
Sounds like me lol I own a roofing company...fat controls not an issue there though lol. Its harder for me to force myself not to workout and overtrain.:laugh:
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i own a hardwood company. woodslinger. lot of pattern work. during summer on big installs, calling my job cardio would be an understatement!! did back last night, doin bb rows from floor.BBBRRUUTTAAALLLL. pretty sure arms got good workout too LOL LOL.
 
dedlifter1 said:
i own a hardwood company. woodslinger. lot of pattern work. during summer on big installs, calling my job cardio would be an understatement!! did back last night, doin bb rows from floor.BBBRRUUTTAAALLLL. pretty sure arms got good workout too LOL LOL.
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Thats awesome I always call myself a Nailgunslinger. I used to do hardwood,laminate and carpet(hate lino) made more money roofing though at the time so I stuck with it. I also did back/bis last night lol, friggin back is so sore..i'm hitting the Hottub.:borladuck:
 
TheLastRonin said:
Thats awesome I always call myself a Nailgunslinger. I used to do hardwood,laminate and carpet(hate lino) made more money roofing though at the time so I stuck with it. I also did back/bis last night lol, friggin back is so sore..i'm hitting the Hottub.:borladuck:
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yeah i do pretty well, but i own the company. bout to hit up some arms today. the one is coursing thru my veins!!:dl:
 
russy_russ said:
Keep reps between 8-12 with ~60-90 sec between sets to help put on some mass.

Also, focus on the concentration of the curl. Try to maintain a stable proximal segment to require the biceps brachii to do the majority of the lift.
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I'm going to try and not sound like a butthole, but there are much simpler ways of explaining how to do simple things without resorting to what they taught you in your kinesiology classes. I'm just saying, not everyone on here has taken those classes, so a lot of people aren't going to know what you're talking about when you start talking about maintaining a proximal segment. Just about anything in bodybuilding can be explained using simple terminology. You keep more people happy this way :D
 
how many of you do arms twice a week? for exp: lets say back/ biceps on monday, chest/triceps wednsday, then arms another day like friday or something. or who does back/ biceps one day and chest/ tri's another? i do arms tri's, bi's together on thursdays
 
R6AAC said:
how many of you do arms twice a week? for exp: lets say back/ biceps on monday, chest/triceps wednsday, then arms another day like friday or something. or who does back/ biceps one day and chest/ tri's another? i do arms tri's, bi's together on thursdays
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I work back with bis and regulate myself to around 6 sets for bis, because of the heavy back work I do. I also train tris with shoulders keeping it to around 6-8 sets total for tris, because of the heavy shoulder work. I then work legs take a day off and hit pecs so they get maximum intensity without my tris wearing out first.:ninja:
 
arms aren't going to grow if you're not gaining weight. i realize this thread is now two months old, but this applies to anyone that just can't figure out why their guns aren't soooo hyyyuge yet.
 
mildsauce said:
I do little direct arm work, just bb curls. I do 3 sets of 10 curls till failure (3 min rests), then reduce the weight and do another 2 sets of 8 till failure. Then reduce the weight and do 5 sets of 4 with 90sec rests. I only do this every two weeks because I rely on compounds and I recover slowly (it's an age thing). If I did it more often I would not be able to do my other workouts because my arms would be toast.
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Doing a total of ten drop sets for biceps every two weeks?
Dude, if you want big arms you have to work them, and listen to me and the b5150 guy when we say that the muscles in the arm are mostly TRICEPS! That means close-grip bench, pressdowns, skull-crushers, dumbell kickbacks, weighted dips, and things like that are what you want to do to get big arms, try it, you'll see.
 
hmmm. i can relate to hating arms. even after doing a 4 month contest prep i still hold fat in my arms and upper shoulder. making my arms look like CRAP. strength wise i can hold my own. the muscles there. its just hidden, and its annoying cuz most guys dont hold fat in their arms. now trying to clean bulk and somehow get rid of the annoying fat in my arms and shoulders.... any tips would be great. i know diet is always key, and my bulking diet is high protein and clean carbs and moderate fat.

im going to be trying an upper bodybody/ lower body split hitting everything twice a week soon to c how that goes. im hoping the type of training will help shed a bit of fat and build some muscle where its needed.
 
Adding my 2 cents, take what you will from it:

I use to workout like a lot of people do. They have a split, certain days for certain muscle groups, blah blah blah. I havent worked out like that in a long time (about two years), as I've focused on Crossfit and Oly Lifting (as of recent). But my arms are bigger now, then they are when I actually did isolation movements.

Now that im doing all Oly Lifting, my arms are getting bigger (not cut and defined, but more of pure mass). Which is why I am such a fan of compound movements.
 
R6AAC said:
how many of you do arms twice a week? for exp: lets say back/ biceps on monday, chest/triceps wednsday, then arms another day like friday or something. or who does back/ biceps one day and chest/ tri's another? i do arms tri's, bi's together on thursdays
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I do chest and some tri's on monday and back with a few sets of bi's on tuesday,+ Friday-Arms day.:head:
 
I haven't read anyone mention to switch things up. I try not to do the same
exact excersise over and over. If one week you do dumbell curls, than next week do barbells. One excersise I really find gives my biceps a good pump
is to lie down on a flat bench and pull a bar towards your farhead that is
attached to a cable crossover machine. This forces you not to swing back
because your laying down and the cables allow tension both forward and return.
 
soseg said:
What do you mean by Periodizing?

The article I read said... if you use the EZ-bar... hold it upside down, otherwise use a straight bar. the benefits of a straight bar are that you hold it with your palms facing up... where as most people hold an ez-bar the ez-way ie their palms face in kinda 45 degrees with the thumb out above higher than the pinky (hope im explaining this right)... think about it, you twist your wrist on a flat bar so palms are flat horizontal, notice how your bicep tends to kinda come out more... if you curl with a flat bar apparently its better, more bicep is used, hits more of the inside of the bi, and uses less of whatever the muscle is on the outside of your arm which apparently is very strong and does a lot of the pull in a typical curl. but what i meant was - the article went on to say also that if you do use an ez-bar, use it upside down - even more effective than a flat barbell coz it twists your wrist out further. that and apparently curling by using pull down machine (you know where you can lower it and pull-up on the cable? using a flat T kinda attachment?)

I've lost the article I'm sure it was posted here on AM forums but ah...

Edit: If my explanation is crap... think of a hammer curl... your fist/wrist is making your palm face vertical ie towards your body... your bicep is being used different. Say your left hand... is in a hammer curl position now looking at your fist you twist it from your point of view anti-clockwise so palms go up, note how your bicep in your arm pops out a bit. further you twist that way apparently the more effective it is to curl?
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Thanks for this, I tried it last week on arms day, needless to say every one in the gym was looking at me as though I were a retard because of the way I was gripping the ezbar, but my biceps have not been this sore in years.
 
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