As adressed in the article “Pop-em out muscles”, if you want more peak, you have to work the brachialis, do this by doing pronated curls.
ukpairehmombooto,get swole. this is exactly what i’m talking about.now if i could figure out how to get the width i want i’d be really happy.
just vary your grip on everything for a while, wide and narrow.
Width… go for outer Bi and Brachialis:
Incline DB urls
1Arm Scott Curls
Close Grip BB Curls
Hammer Curls
Cross Body Hammer curls
Reverse Bar/scott curls
all outer and brachialis…
Joe
You want round arms?
Get some synthol.
[quote]toejam wrote:
by rounder, i mean fatter, i’d like mine less narrow. and no i don’t have tiny 16 inch arms, pumped i’m alittle over 19. i appreciate you guys replies.[/quote]
I am calling BS on this. If you have 19 inch arms, then your arms are pretty big. Post a pic.
My biceps used to be pretty big, but when viewed straight on from the front, they looked a little narrow. Solution? I just kept making them bigger until they started to look rounder -lol. Sure genetics will always play a role in muscle shape, but I seriously doubt there are exercises to add to a muscles’ “roundness”
S
If you want rounder, flabbier arms you should concentrate on
Ding Dongs
Ho-Hos
Fried Snickers
Double Stuffed Oreos
Chocolate Lucky Charms
Double Quarter Pounders
If you want your biceps to look more
like Arnold’s then concentrate on
Reverse Preacher Curls
Incline Dumbbell Curls
EZ-Bar Curls w/ Arm Blaster
EZ-Bar Preacher Curls
Standing Dumbbell Curls
I have had the same problem, i however, never will be BIG, although people i meet think i am, for my size i guess.
I am 185lbs at 5’8" with about 16" arms. I am not BIG, but well built and in proportion.
I had the same problem with arms, my tris were excellent, and are better than ever now, but Biceps are lacking. After a few weeks of 2x a week 24 sets total they came up a little, it was the outer head, and the brachialis that gave the rounder look, the nice “round” look you get on the back arm when doing a side chest shot, or when the arm is bent at around 90 degrees.
its still not perfect, but alot better, and FYI, i would NOT suit arms bigger than 16" at my current weight!
19"? Bollocks. Picture please, oh, you’ve gone! Shame that…
Joe
[quote]Joe Brook wrote:
I have had the same problem, i however, never will be BIG, although people i meet think i am, for my size i guess.
I am 185lbs at 5’8" with about 16" arms. I am not BIG, but well built and in proportion.
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Big for your size? This is a really confusing paragraph
i guess… you know what i mean though, for my build, slim wrists, ankles and a skinny-arsed kid always.
Now, while i still feel “small” i get comments, with people saying, “you’re getting big” these are obviously not bodybuilders, so “big” for them isn’t the same as big for me… 200lbs+ is big for me.
I would hope you know what i mean, as most people who have progressed a decent bit have experienced this i think.
Like i said in another post, you can tell i lift seriously in full clothing, so i am big enough for my size to show that.
fuuuuck off!!!
Joe
Where did this idea come from that you can’t do specific exercises to develop a specific muscle to look a certain way.
That is what bodybuilding is all about.
While the concept of bodybuilding is basically making certain parts bigger, and others smaller (to oversimplify for a moment), genetics and simple kineseology will always serve as limiting factors.
While muscles such at the pectorals, and lats are basically “fan” shaped, as they have many different insertion points, a smaller muscle, such as the bicep, essentially has 2 insertion points, and will either stretch or relax depending on the stress it is put under. While some people will talk about hand spacing affecting the inner or outer bicep, I have never actually seen any real visual evidence of this. My biceps looked very different at 16" than they do at their current 18". Am I doing anything different, or is it just a matter of time and further growth.
S
[quote]andersons wrote:
Where did this idea come from that you can’t do specific exercises to develop a specific muscle to look a certain way.
That is what bodybuilding is all about. [/quote]
It’s the goddamn truth.
Tell me a muscle belly you can ‘shape.’
Muscle bellies either get bigger or stronger.
You can shape your biceps because there’s a short head and a long
head. You can only make the short head bigger or smaller.
You can only make the long head bigger or smaller.
You can shape your Quad because it’s made up of 4 muscle bellies and you can vary the proportions of which muscle bellies are larger. But you can’t shape the muscle bellies that make up the quad.
The shape your muscle bellies will take when they get bigger or smaller has already been determined by genetics. All you can control is how large muscles are and how their size compares to the size of other muscles.
You can’t shape your pec major. You can only make it bigger or smaller. Inclines and Declines make your chest bigger because they add variety to your training. They don’t hit the muscle from some magical new angle.
‘muscle shaping’ exercises like reverse-grip pushdowns, hammer curls, seated calf raises, and other weird shit just hits different muscle bellies and makes them bigger (i.e. a hammer curl hits the forearms more than the biceps. It doesn’t shape the bicep).
Tell me any exercise that you think shapes a muscle and I’ll tell you an exercise that favors particular muscle bellies out of an entire muscle group but actually doesn’t do any shaping at all.
[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
While the concept of bodybuilding is basically making certain parts bigger, and others smaller (to oversimplify for a moment), genetics and simple kineseology will always serve as limiting factors.
While muscles such at the pectorals, and lats are basically “fan” shaped, as they have many different insertion points, a smaller muscle, such as the bicep, essentially has 2 insertion points, and will either stretch or relax depending on the stress it is put under. While some people will talk about hand spacing affecting the inner or outer bicep, I have never actually seen any real visual evidence of this. My biceps looked very different at 16" than they do at their current 18". Am I doing anything different, or is it just a matter of time and further growth.
S
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Well, HAVE you done anything different?
In your avatar pic, your biceps are big all the way down to the elbow. Is this look from training, genetics, or overall size?
A different look, for example, would be a sharp biceps peak mid-arm, like a ball stuck onto the arm.
[quote]FightingScott wrote:
andersons wrote:
Where did this idea come from that you can’t do specific exercises to develop a specific muscle to look a certain way.
That is what bodybuilding is all about.
It’s the goddamn truth.
Tell me a muscle belly you can ‘shape.’
Muscle bellies either get bigger or stronger.
You can shape your biceps because there’s a short head and a long
head. You can only make the short head bigger or smaller.
You can only make the long head bigger or smaller.
You can shape your Quad because it’s made up of 4 muscle bellies and you can vary the proportions of which muscle bellies are larger. But you can’t shape the muscle bellies that make up the quad.
The shape your muscle bellies will take when they get bigger or smaller has already been determined by genetics. All you can control is how large muscles are and how their size compares to the size of other muscles.
You can’t shape your pec major. You can only make it bigger or smaller. Inclines and Declines make your chest bigger because they add variety to your training. They don’t hit the muscle from some magical new angle.
‘muscle shaping’ exercises like reverse-grip pushdowns, hammer curls, seated calf raises, and other weird shit just hits different muscle bellies and makes them bigger (i.e. a hammer curl hits the forearms more than the biceps. It doesn’t shape the bicep).
Tell me any exercise that you think shapes a muscle and I’ll tell you an exercise that favors particular muscle bellies out of an entire muscle group but actually doesn’t do any shaping at all. [/quote]
I think this is exactly what we mean by shaping the muscles…or well, that’s how i always interpreted it.
[quote]FightingScott wrote:
<<<Tell me any exercise that you think shapes a muscle and I’ll tell you an exercise that favors particular muscle bellies out of an entire muscle group but actually doesn’t do any shaping at all. [/quote]
I didn’t say anything about shaping any muscle bellies. However, “favoring particular muscle bellies out of an entire muscle group” WOULD have an effect on the overall look, which is what I’m talking about.
[quote]andersons wrote:
FightingScott wrote:
<<<Tell me any exercise that you think shapes a muscle and I’ll tell you an exercise that favors particular muscle bellies out of an entire muscle group but actually doesn’t do any shaping at all.
I didn’t say anything about shaping any muscle bellies. However, “favoring particular muscle bellies out of an entire muscle group” WOULD have an effect on the overall look, which is what I’m talking about.
[/quote]
Then I apologize for being kind of a douche.
[quote]andersons wrote:
Well, HAVE you done anything different?
In your avatar pic, your biceps are big all the way down to the elbow. Is this look from training, genetics, or overall size?
[/quote]
No, I haven’t, that’s the point. I think there are only so many different exercises you can do for any muscle, especially a small, single joint muscle like the biceps. Sure, I change the ORDER of my exercises, hell, sometimes I may just pick one exercise and simply do 10 sets to failure and then go home. I honestly think people overcomplicate things. Yes it used to bother me when I’d read ‘expert’ theories on how it takes approximately 10 years to build a decent physique, but now that I’m on the other side of the time line equation, it makes sense. The only real trick I’ve learned over the years is consistency.
S
The guys is carrying 19 inch arms. I din’t understand the problem.
Now - if it is a fat 19 inches, is not going to look round at all. It’s going to be all droopy like the back of a fat lady’s arm, and the bicep will look skinny and out of shape.
If it is a muscular 19 inches - there’s not much can do about the shape because of genetics, as was already mentioned.