| No More Empty Promises for Muscular Arms Today - Part 1 |
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TITANIC TRIS!!!!... BULGING BIS!!! ... LUG NUT LIMBS!! ... ARTILLERY-LOADED ARMS!!! ... Promises, promises! The point is, no matter how much the title may inspire or motivate us, or cause us to want to rush down to the gym and try it out before dawn, it doesn’t necessarily follow that the content of a sensationally-titled workout is anything special just because the body part has been paired with a ‘galvanized’ word. Okay, so it’s true… Hard abs does remind us of metallic armor. Rock hard quads do resemble tree trunks. Biceps that are bulging and pumped up with blood just following a workout do remind us of hammers, anvils or other steely paraphernalia. So do triceps conjure images of iron horseshoes? The epitome of what we all seek to achieve in the gym is a hard-as-nails quality that can only be gotten through gut-busting training practices. After all, isn’t anything worth doing, worth doing well? Still, the names accompanying some workouts are about as cheesy as a Kraft pasteurized foodstuff factory, and more often than not, they typically bomb in the area of effectiveness. There’s something in a name, alright, and it’s usually malarkey! So we thought we’d take a different tack… a generic approach to workouts: If it’s good, you’ll know it just by trying it out. If it isn’t… Well, hey, at least we didn’t use some lame name and end up with egg on our faces! Arms are probably the easiest of body parts to build. That may be an unpopular stance… particularly among the set that find it difficult to build anything bigger than a limb that resembles buggy whips… but it’s basically true. The tricky part is, more than any other body part, the arms are really only as good as your genetics. You can always build a bigger chest, a better developed back -even much denser shoulders- but you can never really supercede the genetic hand you were dealt for bis and tris. And let’s get something straight right from the start… It’s a stupid waste of time to split up your arm training! Maybe gym newbies will want to do the requisite back/bis - chest/tris type of workout, but you’re really just wasting your time if you are at all advanced and choose to do this. Bis and tris work together mechanically as a single unit in one designated area of the body to accomplish a great many tasks throughout any given day. To fracture them mechanically, and work them on different days, just makes no sense at all. The best arm development follows a session that is intense and short-lived, and then leaves the arms alone. There’s no denying that a certain amount of exertion on the part of the bis and tris happens as a matter of doing chest and back workouts. However, what ends up happening if you train the bis with the back and the tris with the chest is a chain of events that ends up causing over training to occur. And over training is probably the worst enemy of arm development. Let’s say you work every body part twice weekly. But let’s say you’re the kind of person who splits the body into back/bis - chest/tris. Sounds fine… it’s the split that most people recommend. Now take a closer look… You’re working bis during back workouts, and then following that workout up with yet another bi’s workout. The next day, you come in and you work the chest. Then immediately following the chest workout, you work tris… again! What gives here? What gives is development and growth, that’s what! People often argue, "Well, you inadvertently train bis and tris on an extra day whenever you work the back or chest, so why not just get it out of the way on the same day so you have extended recuperation time?" If only the biceps and triceps saw it this way, everything would be fine. But the truth is, they don’t. The biceps and triceps just see a continuous barrage throughout the course of one workout as a stumbling block to potential recovery. To prove this point, ask yourself this simple question: Would you EVER do 30 sets of biceps and 30 sets of triceps in arm workouts? If you answered ‘no’, then you see the point. Of course you would never exceed about 16-18 sets per arm workout if you were experienced at training! Who would? It would be developmental suicide! Unfortunately though, if you endeavor to combine chest and triceps into one workout and back and biceps into another, that’s exactly what you’re doing… committing developmental suicide! If you’re that sort, when you work the back, you use at least 4 different exercises, do four sets per exercise, and then move on to biceps for at least another 16 sets. Pre-exhaustion for the biceps is one thing, but working the bis in this way isn’t pre-exhaustion, it’s just plain exhaustion! Yet, people do this type of split everyday and wonder why their arms never go beyond a certain point. Genetics, or a lack thereof, could always be blamed for the lack of growth but it’s likelier that there has been a total failure to even reach the boundaries of any genetic potential for arm growth you may have. Less is definitely more. That statement needs no qualifier and no explanation. If you’ve dialed into arm growth, you know it’s the absolute truth -not just for the guy who is gifted, but for you too! It’s like the girl who walks into the gym wearing a lot of make-up and a ‘come bone me in the aerobics room’ outfit… she’s eye candy when she first walks in. She definitely registers on the peter-meter and you immediately want her because she’s essentially told you that you do. But upon further inspection, she’s a bit much. And maybe underneath it all, she doesn’t even have as great a body as the girl wrapped up in sweats you probably overlook or don’t think is anything special. Come to think of it, she fails to fulfill any promise at all. You pass.
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