Hey i have been bulking gaining some good mass alot of red meat rice eggs whole milk just alot of food in general i added about 15 pounds already…my arms are lacking alot calories are between 3500-4000 and i am gaining weight off this so i assume it is working…i hit them once a week my regime looks like:
Bis-
Hammer 3x5-8
straight bar-3x5-8
preacher curl-3x4-8
Tris-
CGBP-3x5-8
weighted dips starting off with 45lbs working my way 90lbs for 5-8 reps
skull crusher-3x5-8
If you are gaining keep it up. Make sure you are not neglecting other areas of your body and make sure that you include exercises such as squats, deadlifts, barbell rows etc. If you are adding lean body mass your arms will grow, but they are not going to get massive instantly. Keep training hard, eating big and with a bit of patience they will grow. Your arm workout looks quite sensible to me.
there is nothing wrong with your current arm routine, just stick with it till you stop gaining then change things up. JMO
[quote]Gunit12 wrote:
Hey i have been bulking gaining some good mass alot of red meat rice eggs whole milk just alot of food in general i added about 15 pounds already…my arms are lacking alot calories are between 3500-4000 and i am gaining weight off this so i assume it is working…i hit them once a week my regime looks like:
Bis-
Hammer 3x5-8
straight bar-3x5-8
preacher curl-3x4-8
Tris-
CGBP-3x5-8
weighted dips starting off with 45lbs working my way 90lbs for 5-8 reps
skull crusher-3x5-8
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So you do hammer curls before straight bar and preacher curls? Maybe you just ordered it wrong.
What kind of weights you pushing? So you just have an arms day and don’t group them with anything? If you grouped say tri/bi work with chest and did forearms say with shoulders/back. I think you would be hitting them a lot more.
I mean I’d rather hit them hard twice a week versus once. You want to stimulate them as much as possible but at a reasonable pace.
I don’t really seem myself give arms their own day, until my overall weight is big enough to even warrant it.
[quote]Carlitosway wrote:
I don’t really seem myself give arms their own day, until my overall weight is big enough to even warrant it. [/quote]
What do you consider “big enough to warrant it?”
[quote]optheta wrote:
Carlitosway wrote:
I don’t really seem myself give arms their own day, until my overall weight is big enough to even warrant it.
What do you consider “big enough to warrant it?”
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Just meant it’s purely individual and just my personal opinion right now. I hit my arms grouped with other major muscle groups, cause it feels right and they get hit more frequently. Yet why should I nit pick my arms in the grand scheme of things when I know over all I need to put on a good 40-50 lbs of mass in the long run? Just looking at the big picture you could say.
Like a buddy at my gym he’s pushing 230-240 relatively lean around 6 foot. He’s pushing a lot
more weight then me and has already built a good overall physique. So him splitting up his body parts some more make sense at his level.
[quote]Carlitosway wrote:
optheta wrote:
Carlitosway wrote:
I don’t really seem myself give arms their own day, until my overall weight is big enough to even warrant it.
What do you consider “big enough to warrant it?”
Just meant it’s purely individual and just my personal opinion right now. I hit my arms grouped with other major muscle groups, cause it feels right and they get hit more frequently. Yet why should I nit pick my arms in the grand scheme of things when I know over all I need to put on a good 40-50 lbs of mass in the long run? Just looking at the big picture you could say.
Like a buddy at my gym he’s pushing 230-240 relatively lean around 6 foot. He’s pushing a lot
more weight then me and has already built a good overall physique. So him splitting up his body parts some more make sense at his level.[/quote]
This doesn’t explain why you think splitting your body up more would somehow PREVENT you from gaining 40-50lbs of mass?
If you are going for size, perhaps try lowering the weight you are moving and up the reps. And make sure that if you are going to hit them directly just once a week that you hit them indirectly once a week as well. Row, chins and pullups will help your biceps. Close grip bench and overhead/military press will hit your triceps.