Everybody wants big arms. Well, almost everybody. In his preparation for the 2008 Mr. Olympia, the owner of the most impressive arms in current professional bodybuilding Phil Heath reportedly trained his arms with less than five sets per week. Since we aren’t all blessed with Mr. Heath’s genetic gifts, we will have to train ours with a variety of techniques and intensity just to reach a small percentage of what he has achieved. Now that you feel better about yourself, let’s get started!

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If you’ve ever seen the Terminator series of movies featuring bodybuilding legend Arnold Schwarzenegger, you have learned one lesson, and learned it well. We cannot trust the machines! They have been sent back in time to destroy civilization, blow things up, and otherwise ruin peoples’ days.

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Every bodybuilder wants big arms. But when they enter the gym, they’ll often run first to the biceps stations and curl to their heart’s content. Over time, this will lead to a nice set of biceps, but the upper arm will still look very average in a t-shirt, tank top or shirtless. What these bodybuilders (if you want to call them that) are forgetting is that triceps are the key to big arms – not biceps. They make up two-thirds of the upper arm mass. They also protrude into the air in almost every major biceps pose, while the biceps often tuck neatly against the body inconspicuously.   If your biceps are great but your triceps are anything but, there is still hope. It’s possible to build a nice set of triceps, but you’re going to have to make them a priority. In fact, you are going to have to put them before everything else on your bodybuilding agenda for 6 to 8 weeks so that they can receive the mass building movements, and frequency of training, needed to facilitate some growth. 

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Every muscle group in the body connects to another muscle group by virtue of location and tendon placement. They all work together to form a unique network of muscles, unified in the single purpose of completing tasks we ask of it. When we attempt a simple lift, such as the bench press for example, hundreds of small muscle groups and thousands of fibers are called into play. The simple act of benching 135 pounds for a single rep requires contributions (in terms of contraction and the exertion of force) from the pectorals, three heads of the deltoids, triceps, forearms, and back muscles to a lesser extent. Additionally, we may even exert some force all the way down to our calves as we use our entire body to help move the weight, as is the case in some circumstances.

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The triceps comprise about two-thirds of the upper arm. Many bodybuilders will spend ungodly amounts of time training their biceps, only to neglect their triceps. They’ll develop that 1/3 of their arm to its maximum, all while the other 2/3 sit far below its potential. This type of training is counterproductive, and it robs the bodybuilders of an inch or two of upper arm mass that they should be enjoying. Here are four tips for increasing overall triceps mass, which will add some serious size to your upper arms.

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Ask any new trainer in the gym what he does for triceps, and he’ll invariably point over to the cable machines.  Good answer. There’s nothing wrong with using cables.  They do provide the triceps with stimulation, which brings blood into the region.  The muscle grows and detail is etched into the region.

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