Damn, beat me to it!
[quote]mr popular wrote:
This thread has a really suggestive title.[/quote]
LMAO!!!
If you can add an inch to your arms, forarms, calves or dong then that would be noticeable for sure.
But adding an inch to your chest or thighs wouldnt be as noticeable because its a bigger muscle. Pretty basic concept.
.greg.
for the bored - what’s boring about arm exercises?
Just interested
[quote]gswork wrote:
for the bored - what’s boring about arm exercises?
Just interested[/quote]
Hard to explain because I am not really so sure I know why. I think it has to do with it being an accessory movement for me. And tends to be at the end of my workout. So it becomes a “filler” exercise after I have destroyed myself with my main movements.
EDIT: Btw, I realize that I am in the BB forum.
For arms i will just tell you what worked for me…
I know most will find it odd but it was due to rehabilitation reasons that had me doing arms EVERY single day
a few years back (long story).
Cause i had no time i used a giant superset that looked like this:
1.curls
2.hammer curls
3.tricep extensions
4.concentration curls
Every lift was done explosively(except from concentration curls). First set was 20 reps (remember the rehab),then for the remaining 2 it was 15 sets and finally 12. The weight was nothing to brag about at the beginning but increased every week.
I had never measured arms before till when the summer came and everyone commented how big my arms were (at the place i work i have to deal with a lot of people). I remember a comment by my fathers friend: Boy your arms are bigger than my legs… haha…
They were if i remember correctly around 47-48cm ( kinda freaky number for me so i stopped -a loooot of stretch marks).
I’m sure doing them like i did is a bit overkill, but the superset thing i believe was behind all this- and maybe cause i was carrying myself with only my arms for 5 months. 
a) how long does that take? - for me i guess it was like 3 months
b) how noticeable is it? - huge difference
c) how does this apply to bigger measurements (ie chest) i really can’t help you with this one, sorry
Try supersets for a while see how it works…
take care 
Thanks for the replies fellas - very helpful.
[quote]UNGETABLE wrote:
For arms i will just tell you what worked for me…
I know most will find it odd but it was due to rehabilitation reasons that had me doing arms EVERY single day
a few years back (long story).
Cause i had no time i used a giant superset that looked like this:
1.curls
2.hammer curls
3.tricep extensions
4.concentration curls
Every lift was done explosively(except from concentration curls). First set was 20 reps (remember the rehab),then for the remaining 2 it was 15 sets and finally 12. The weight was nothing to brag about at the beginning but increased every week.
I had never measured arms before till when the summer came and everyone commented how big my arms were (at the place i work i have to deal with a lot of people). I remember a comment by my fathers friend: Boy your arms are bigger than my legs… haha…
They were if i remember correctly around 47-48cm ( kinda freaky number for me so i stopped -a loooot of stretch marks).
I’m sure doing them like i did is a bit overkill, but the superset thing i believe was behind all this- and maybe cause i was carrying myself with only my arms for 5 months.
a) how long does that take? - for me i guess it was like 3 months
b) how noticeable is it? - huge difference
c) how does this apply to bigger measurements (ie chest) i really can’t help you with this one, sorry
Try supersets for a while see how it works…
take care
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Damn man, any idea/guess as to what they were before the 3 months? That’s almost 19in arms from “rehab” lol. What was your weight and height at the time?
Speaking from personal experience, if your arm development is lagging behind bigger muscle parts, it’s probably because you use too much weight on arm isolation exercises. Your larger body parts are taking over in the movement because the target muscle can’t handle the load.
If I curl 50’s I’ll feel it in my back, shoulder, bi, calf, etc. If I scale it back to 30’s and really concentrate on my form all that intra set soreness goes to my bi’s.
Forget about moving the weight from point A to B, and instead start the movement by flexing your target muscle, the weight will move as a result, as long as you’re not ego lifting. This is important for lagging and generally smaller body parts during isolation exercises.
I’m assuming you already have an arm day or similar in your programming…
[quote]pumped340 wrote:
[quote]UNGETABLE wrote:
For arms i will just tell you what worked for me…
I know most will find it odd but it was due to rehabilitation reasons that had me doing arms EVERY single day
a few years back (long story).
Cause i had no time i used a giant superset that looked like this:
1.curls
2.hammer curls
3.tricep extensions
4.concentration curls
Every lift was done explosively(except from concentration curls). First set was 20 reps (remember the rehab),then for the remaining 2 it was 15 sets and finally 12. The weight was nothing to brag about at the beginning but increased every week.
I had never measured arms before till when the summer came and everyone commented how big my arms were (at the place i work i have to deal with a lot of people). I remember a comment by my fathers friend: Boy your arms are bigger than my legs… haha…
They were if i remember correctly around 47-48cm ( kinda freaky number for me so i stopped -a loooot of stretch marks).
I’m sure doing them like i did is a bit overkill, but the superset thing i believe was behind all this- and maybe cause i was carrying myself with only my arms for 5 months.
a) how long does that take? - for me i guess it was like 3 months
b) how noticeable is it? - huge difference
c) how does this apply to bigger measurements (ie chest) i really can’t help you with this one, sorry
Try supersets for a while see how it works…
take care
[/quote]
Damn man, any idea/guess as to what they were before the 3 months? That’s almost 19in arms from “rehab” lol. What was your weight and height at the time?[/quote]
I really don’t remember exactly but they were faaar smaller from 48cm. My height was a bit lower than now i guess around 184cm. and my weight was around 85kg.
I never do arm work to tell you the truth after that, even with little work they just grow like crazy, its just not natural man.
Take care
[quote]UNGETABLE wrote:
I really don’t remember exactly but they were faaar smaller from 48cm. My height was a bit lower than now i guess around 184cm. and my weight was around 85kg.
I never do arm work to tell you the truth after that, even with little work they just grow like crazy, its just not natural man.
Take care
[/quote]
Almost 19in arms at 6ft and 187lb? Even in contest condition I’ve never heard of anything like that.
[quote]pumped340 wrote:
[quote]UNGETABLE wrote:
I really don’t remember exactly but they were faaar smaller from 48cm. My height was a bit lower than now i guess around 184cm. and my weight was around 85kg.
I never do arm work to tell you the truth after that, even with little work they just grow like crazy, its just not natural man.
Take care
[/quote]
Almost 19in arms at 6ft and 187lb? Even in contest condition I’ve never heard of anything like that. [/quote]
Its a long story man, i had a serious car acc years ago that had me with full body atrophy. My hamstrings and inner thighs are not functioning properly due to some nerve damage. Not so much muscle mass at my legs so it might explain the weight.
As for my arms, cause i couldn’t walk, i had to carry my own bodyweight for a long time till my legs could support me. Maybe its just that, or like my docs say that im a freak haha…
Don’t really know anything about measurements on contests man.
take care
[quote]StylinNProfilin wrote:
Speaking from personal experience, if your arm development is lagging behind bigger muscle parts, it’s probably because you use too much weight on arm isolation exercises. Your larger body parts are taking over in the movement because the target muscle can’t handle the load.
If I curl 50’s I’ll feel it in my back, shoulder, bi, calf, etc. If I scale it back to 30’s and really concentrate on my form all that intra set soreness goes to my bi’s.
Forget about moving the weight from point A to B, and instead start the movement by flexing your target muscle, the weight will move as a result, as long as you’re not ego lifting. This is important for lagging and generally smaller body parts during isolation exercises.
I’m assuming you already have an arm day or similar in your programming…[/quote]
You’re right about the heavier weights. My problem - and you can call me stupid for this, and rightly so - was that I didn’t REALLY do any arm stuff. I basically tagged 3 sets of a curl, or one tricep exercise after my chest/back days but even then I’d usually leave it.
Also, if I did back THEN tricep on the same day, my elbow felt like it was going to break (and my biceps tendons REALLY hurt on back + bicep day)
Can you believe that it took me 6 months to figure out that the way around this was to do:
Back + Tricep
Chest + Bicep
This took care of the pain and I was fine!
[quote]desolator wrote:
Deadlifting has nothing to do with arm size. Lamar Gant deadlifted 300kg at 50kg bodyweight, yet his arms were tiny. Well, it’s not good to bring as an example the probably most alien lifter on the planet, but to give you the idea. You can have huge arms while having good deadlift, but only deadlifting big won’t give big arms per se.[/quote]
Deadlifts have something to do with arm size. The biceps act as stabilizers for the movement. Deadlifts can increase the size/strength of your biceps. It is debatable of whether certain individuals will grow more size in their arms doing ONLY deadlifts or ONLY arm curls for bicep size depending on their experience level/body type etc. I think this was written in a Cosgrove article a while ago.
[quote]thrasher_09 wrote:
[quote]desolator wrote:
Deadlifting has nothing to do with arm size. Lamar Gant deadlifted 300kg at 50kg bodyweight, yet his arms were tiny. Well, it’s not good to bring as an example the probably most alien lifter on the planet, but to give you the idea. You can have huge arms while having good deadlift, but only deadlifting big won’t give big arms per se.[/quote]
Deadlifts have something to do with arm size. The biceps act as stabilizers for the movement. Deadlifts can increase the size/strength of your biceps. It is debatable of whether certain individuals will grow more size in their arms doing ONLY deadlifts or ONLY arm curls for bicep size depending on their experience level/body type etc. [/quote] I don’t even know what to say to that. [quote]
I think this was written in a Cosgrove article a while ago.[/quote]
Perhaps that appeared in the article due to a copy and paste that wasn’t read before pasting.
[quote]Bill Roberts wrote:
Perhaps that appeared in the article due to a copy and paste that wasn’t read before pasting.[/quote]
hahaha!
[quote]Bill Roberts wrote:
Perhaps that appeared in the article due to a copy and paste that wasn’t read before pasting.[/quote]
LMFAO!!!
As far as this whole deadlifting=bicep exercise thing I think people have it backwards.
I think it is important to have strong, big biceps to protect them from injuries incurred from using an over/under grip.
This opposed to this belief that since the bar is pulling down on your biceps that somehow you are going to add inches to your arms, I would believe maybe an increase of .000001 inch to your arms from deadlifting, anything more I am going to start to doubt.
lol did I not explain it right?
It was from this article
and he gives an example of two twin brothers lifting. one does deadlifts, one does arm curls for 52 weeks. He explains that at the end, the brother doing deadlifts is going to have bigger arms…
I think Deadlifts can indirectly build arm size by increasing your overall muscle mass.I understand of course that you need to do curls and isolation movements to build half decent arms but saying deadlifts have nothing at all to do with arm size is a bit much.