[quote]brucevangeorge wrote:
Bicep, Tricep, and Deltoid Implants.
Also some forearm implants would work too.[/quote]
That is gross!
Thanks for the informative advice, guys.
I know I should have done my own research via the search button and archives, but search wasn’t working for me yesterday on here, so I thought I’d just go for it and ask.
As for my height/weight, I know 155 lbs. is very light. Obviously I’m approaching weightlifting from a sculpt and tone position rather than bodybuilding.
I know it sounds hoky but I model in Japan, and will be going back soon. In the interim (my last year of college here in the States) I’ve been working on slightly increasing mass (I was down to 148 this past summer in Tokyo) while toning and pretty much getting the body I want with minimal fat on top. Modeling over there is a bit different than here, with more of an emphasis on leanness, simply because the clothes are usually slimmer-cut, domestic brands.
But that being said, I’m passionate about working out and have been lifting on and off for about a year now, and the past 2 1/2 months now I’ve really followed a strict routine and have seen (within my personal parameters and goals) results that satisfy me; however, my arms have simply remained my thinnest-looking physical component. That is simply why I wrote this post.
Thanks for the advice on focusing on compounds, Bill. And thanks also Elliot, I’ll try focusing more energy into a lesser number of exercises on triceps. What do you guys think are the most important tricep exercises?
Anyway if a guy of my size is expected to post in the Beginner section, I understand and apoligize for causing frustration. I just figured the bigger guys have the best advice, since I know we all started out somewhere, right?
Thanks again.
[quote]xfootball97 wrote:
I am kind of in the same boat, but a little bigger. I am 6’ 2" and 215 pounds. I just finished my college career and am trying to get bigger (more cut). I have been blessed with great metabolism so it is tough for me to gain weight. Even in my playing days when I lifted four days a week (for power), i still couldnt gain weight. I eat like a horse and lift hard at least 4-5 days a week. What kind of diet would anyone recommend for a little more mas but mostly for definition.[/quote]
The “See Food Diet”. In other words, if you see food, you eat it. 
Seriously, I have a metabolism like you. I thought for the longest time that I was simply a “hardgainer”, and that it wasn’t really possible for me to gain weight. Then luckily my ex-girlfriend clued me into supplementation (weight gainers in particular), and viola I began to gain weight.
The other thing is that with a metabolism like yours, you don’t really need to concern yourself all that much with gaining fat. Your body is already super efficient at burning it, and the more lean mass you put on through training, the better still it will get (at burning fat). Yes, that’s right; your metabolism will get even faster. So, prepare to eat, eat some more, and once again eat.
To the OP,
As for the whole wanting to gain in just your arms thing. If you read through more of CW’s articles, and several articles from some of the other great T-Nation authors, you will realize that the body doesn’t like to be out of balance.
In other words the biceps aren’t meant to work in isolation (from a physiological standpoint), but are meant to work in conjunction with the other upper body pulling muscles (traps, lats, Rhomboids, etc…). Therefore your body tends to like to keep this pulling group of muscles in balance.
So, the short answer is; if your goal is purely to put more mass on your elbow flexors, then you should work the entire upper body pulling muscle matrix.
Hope that helps.
Good training,
Sentoguy
[quote]peachboymomotaro wrote:
Obviously I’m approaching weightlifting from a sculpt and tone position rather than bodybuilding. [/quote]
Um. I don’t know if you noticed but this is TESTOSTERONE Nation not Estrogen Nation.
And there is no such thing as toning. You build muscle and you don’t look scrawny. That’s all there is too it. You have to BUILD your body to not jiggle. lol
[quote]peachboymomotaro wrote:
Obviously I’m approaching weightlifting from a sculpt and tone position rather than bodybuilding.[/quote]
Here’s a hint: That doesn’t mean anything.
If you want to be lean and muscular, you put on more muscle mass & you lose the fatty tissue covering it.
→ See bulking and cutting.
None of this sculpt and tone bullshit. Sculpt and tone what? You weigh 155. What is it you’re going to sculpt out of that?
What the hell does that mean anyway?
Is it like going to the gym to turn fat into muscle?
LOL.
Lets sculpt and ton those phat thighs!
I think modeling in Japan is a legit reason to stay that size.
[quote]HoratioSandoval wrote:
I think modeling in Japan is a legit reason to stay that size. [/quote]
Maybe. But then he doesn’t need to lower the morale here at T-Nation “BODYBUILDNG’s Think Tank”… does he?