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2004/07/26, 04:50 PM
well, right now my football team has us working out 5 times a week. monday, wednesday, and friday we lift weights, and tuesday and thursday we run and stuff. I have been working out hard for the last few months and havve seen a lot of improvement in certain placers, but nearly none (or not as much as I would like) in other places. mostly my biceps and triceps.
They just seem small to me. tops 15 flexed. I have been doing a lot of tricep and bicep stuff like skull crushers, kickbacks, curls and stuff, on the three main lifting days of mine, and light stuff on tuesday and thursday. but I haven't seen any real improvement. (especially on my triceps which im dieing to make thicker) So what I was wonder is if I am over working them. I mean I really work them hard monday wednesday and friday, and on tuesday and thursday I just do a few light lifts at home. But is this to much? I'm considering doing this plan of blasting my biceps and triceps on monday and friday, and then on wednesday just doing a few basic sets of curls and such. good idea? bad idea? I need some help because I want to improve my arms!
btw, I bench 3 times a week, and do pushups every day. Is that over working my chest? because it too seems to not be growing much. :(
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2004/07/26, 05:00 PM
You are probably not giving your arms enough rest for one. Second, your biceps and triceps grow mainly based off your overall size. You probably never see a guy who has huge biceps and triceps and a flat chest. Sounds as though you are over training. If you are trying to put on mass, then you need more rest. For example I'm on a 4 day split right now (only 4 days a week) gaining mass. When I go to weight loss phase I'll increase this to a 5 day split. Try to go down to about 1 body part per week on a 4 day split. This gives you the ability to truly concentrate on that particular body part and blast :dumbbell: it within 30 - 45 minutes (keeping good form of course). If you do it right, you'll need the week rest from that body part.
Hope this helps!
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2004/08/01, 02:00 AM
in reply to your comment on overall size. my biceps and triceps are to small for my size. I know that for a fact just by looking in the morror haha. compared to my chest, shoulders, and other parts, they look smaller then they should or can be.
On another note. I have tried blasting my triceps and biceps. And I can get them so they feel pretty worn out and pumped up. But a few hours or so later it feels like I haven't worked them at all. So whats up with that?
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2004/08/01, 04:55 AM
not sure about the second q. but it is important to remember that you build muscle when you are resting, not when you are exercising. The harder you work your muscles the longer you should leave before working them again. As davisp says, lots of people only work a certain muscle group once a week, leaving maximum time for muscle growth before working again.
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2004/08/01, 08:28 AM
well heres the thing with sports and body building.
Your trying to body build at the same time doing a football work out, these are not good bed fellows. You don't need 20in arms to play football. That may not be what you want to here but its true. In footbal you need explosveness, and quickness to be good. If you wanan body build and get "big guns" then i suggest you reevaluate what you really wanan do. Play ball, or body build.
That being said......I suggest you work out on mon wed fri with the football team, and that it! No crunches no curl no nothing on tues thurs, and the weekend. Except running and drill on tues and thursday. If you don't give your body a chance to grow, how you expect to get bigger?
15in arms don't sound bad at all man, You have a good fondation, but heres somthing els eto think about. Your arms are gona be in porportion to your body, you can't be 150lbs with 20in arms, it don't happen. to have big arms you need alos a big chest and big back, since its these 2 muscle groups that they work in conjunction with as a "pull" and "push." SO basicly saying, if you can't bench or row worth shit, then them arms won't get big, sorry.
also on a side note, i'm a college cheerleader, and I have 19in arms, and somtimes having big arms gets in the way, my wrist have to be stronger than most guys, because my bicep won't let my forearm come no where near my lower shoulder. So say if I do military presses, my arms are like 5 in away from my body, because my biceps are so big. And I have wrist trouble still.
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2004/08/04, 08:37 PM
thanks for the replies. I have started just lifting on mon wed and friday. and resting mostly on tuesday and thursday. I WAS doing forearms only on those days, with a simple 3x10 wrist curl thing, but I might even stop that totally. Only thing I haven't stopped on those days are ab stuff. I only do 2x20 sets of leg lifts and crunches. So you're saying I should just stop that as well? hmm I will give it a try i guess.
As for my back and chest, I max on bench at 235. That isn't bad. I don't know about rowing stuff though. But my back is pretty strong as well.
well thanks for the help guys. Hopefully I can work things through. Im not wanting huge biceps, I was just hoping to get to about 17 or so. It would look better with my frame i think. even if I don't get them that big, I would like to make them thicker at least. Any tips on making the tricep or bicep wider? if thats even possible haha
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