By: Sean Nalewanyj
Submitted: 2009-11-01 03:19:45 | Word Count: 869
Everyone knows that every serious lifter is after an impressive pair of strong, muscular arms.
Imagine tall, peaking biceps resting on rock-hard, horse-shoe-shaped triceps-you know you want them!
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Why wouldn't you ache for a pair of ripped, well-developed guns that will rip through your shirt sleeves?
Without a good muscle building workout, it's difficult to develop muscular arms, regardless of how high the goal is on your agenda.
There are three basic truths in designing a good muscle building workout to effectively stimulate arm growth
1) In general, the biceps and triceps are small muscle groups.
2) Your biceps get a ton of stimulation during all basic pulling movements designed for the back.
3) Your triceps get stimulated by all basic pressing movements designed for the chest and shoulders.
Upon reviewing these 3 points, what do you notice about effective arm training?
You need to realize this:
Your biceps and triceps really only need a small amount of direct stimulation with a good muscle building workout in order to achieve maximum gains in muscle size and strength!
It's not necessary to be one of those people I see when I enter the gym, slaving away on endless sets of bicep curls and tricep extensions.
Keep in mind that a good muscle building workout featuring chest and back training also stimulates your biceps and triceps to a very large extent.
Also, when you realize that your biceps and triceps are small muscle groups to start with, you'll soon figure out that direct arm training should not be your main focus.
Keep in mind that the gym is not the place where your muscles will grow.
Your weight training just sets the wheels of the muscle growth into motion.
The actual process occurs outside of the gym when you are resting and eating, because this is when your body works to create new muscle tissue.
Keeping this in mind, it's important that you don't over train your muscles.
You must always make sure to provide them with sufficient recovery time if you want to see impressive results.
Did you know that overtraining can actually make your muscles grow smaller and weaker?
So, if you want serious arm growth, you have to stop performing so many direct arm movements.
Stay away from those never ending sets of concentration curls and tricep pressdowns.
You can easily achieve muscular arms through a good muscle building workout that focuses on heavy chest and back training.
You still need some direct arm training, of course, just not very much..
Check out these 2 arm routines to use as a part of a good muscle building workout…
***Arm Routine #1
Barbell Curls: 2 sets of 5–7 reps
Standing Dumbbell Curls: 1 set of 5–7 reps
***Arm Routine #2
Close-Grip Bench Press: 2 sets of 5–7 reps
Standing Cable Pushdowns: 1 set of 5–7 reps
When you workout, take each set to concentric muscular failure; work on getting stronger each week by adding more weight or performing an extra rep or two.
Once you add this manner of thinking to your arm training, the size of your arms will increase drastically.
