i’ll dig out the pic and post a before and after this weekend somewhere.
it’s amazing at 150lbs i thought 170lb would be great, then i was amazed at 185lbs and was stuck for a bit there, and when i broke 200lbs i was stoked. Currently i flux between 212-206lb range…getting to 230lbs seem like a bitch, i’m sick of most food, calorie dense food gets you feeling a bit sluggish, i feel like all i do is eat and shit. Also getting to a goal for the sake of the scale defeats the point if you have to do too much damage control with the fat.
[quote]krazykoukides wrote:
And the reason I made noise is because I like esk and feel bad that he doesn’t seem to get many props when others who I feel should not get them , get them the most. His arms look better than 95% of the people who get props the most.
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When a person posts pics of their arms out of nowhere, they open themselves up to criticism. I don’t think anybody even said they look bad either.
[quote]Tumbles wrote:
krazykoukides wrote:
And the reason I made noise is because I like esk and feel bad that he doesn’t seem to get many props when others who I feel should not get them , get them the most. His arms look better than 95% of the people who get props the most.
When a person posts pics of their arms out of nowhere, they open themselves up to criticism. I don’t think anybody even said they look bad either.[/quote]
[quote]Short Hoss wrote:
esk221 wrote:
I was joking yo! JOKES. I do curls. Dumbbell, barbell, preacher, cable, hammer, pinwheel, reverse, Scott - I DO CURLS.
I think direct arm work depends on those who need it. Some people can get great development from chest, shoulder, and back work, while others need more. I personally need more, so I have to do direct arm work. Sometimes I will start my workout with bi’s or tri’s, then do my main workout, and finish with more bi’s and tri’s. I feel that I am more chest and back dominant, while my arms lag. That’s just me though.
Hmm I have a Brother of Iron competing in Strongman, he rarely does direct arm work for his biceps, though he has great genetics for arms. As for me, I’m not so lucky. I have to push it to the limit, punish them to grow. After all, they’re the part of the package. But recently I had the greatest problems with my forearms, grip strength. So I also started to do heavy work for the forearms, and my grip improved a lot from holding lockout on deadlifts and doing DC style lat stretches regulary.
Same thing with calves. Some people blame their genetics for having those thin sticks, though I can tell you from experience, that anyone who has great calves also vomitted his guts out during every calf session. I knew a guy with disc hernia, but he cycled a lot in the mountains AND did direct heavy work for his calves too (a bit similar to DC style calf training, because he had to pay attention to his spine, so he worked with torturing negatives combined with stretches at the bottom)… No wonder he had great calves even after spending months in hospital…
Okay, honest question, gents: what are the IMPORTANT direct arm exercises?
Rippetoe told me that nobody should train arms directly, but I know he frowns on training for aesthetics and I happen to think arm muscles are purdy. So apart from bench and overhead press, I’ve been doing pullups, assisted chinups, and some extra exercises at the end of my workouts for “fun,” but since I don’t know what’s useful, the “fun” stuff has been pretty much at random. And I never know if it’s a waste of time or not – progression is slow compared to the big lifts. Probably would be better to have a program.
If you had to pick three or four arm exercises, what would they be? (Stuff that would actually build muscle on a relative novice, not stuff that is only useful to competitive bodybuilders.)
[quote]AlisaV wrote:
Okay, honest question, gents: what are the IMPORTANT direct arm exercises?
If you had to pick three or four arm exercises, what would they be?
(Stuff that would actually build muscle on a relative novice, not stuff that is only useful to competitive bodybuilders.)[/quote] You make it sound like they have a secret stash of arm exercises or machine in the back that they can only do and do not want us to tell you.
Pretty much we do what they do and they do what we do.
Bis:
Preacher curls
Barbell curls
Single Arm Machine Preacher curls
Cable curls
Hammer Curls
Tri:
French Press
Close Grip Bench Press
Overhead Extensions
Single Arm D Handle Pulldowns
Rope Press Downs
Drips
