Arms finally growing in the last 4-5 months!

TooPowerful4u · Sep 2, 2004

Just an excited rant here lol. Iv had every bodypart i got grow pretty easily in the last few years since iv been bodybuilding, but never my arms. They always grew so slowly. I had like 16.5 inch arms at my comp in april!

Now recently iv changed up my whole style of doin arms and really focused on the squeeze and the muscle the entire time as well as changing up exercises often. Pumps became a lot better and so were the results. Now i think back on the 3yrs i wasted just tryin to lift heavy weight with strict form to make them grow n always wondered why they didnt. I guess strict form isnt enough, u gotta really FEEL it for it to work well. Iv also backed down my volume a ton which i feel is also helping. Wish i knew this 3yrs ago, wonder where theyd be at right now. Im at a good 17.5-17 3/4 and climbing now! To my delight they are not only gettin taller but a lot thicker as well a LOT more seperation and shape to them. Hope i didnt jinx myself here lol

D Animal · Sep 3, 2004

What was your workout before including sets and reps and what is it now? Just curious.

TooPowerful4u · Sep 3, 2004

never was anything special. Just heavy heavy heavy and lots of sets, and even trained them on their own day. Just never grew, and honestly i always felt it more in the joints and tendons. thats what NOT to do haha

D Animal · Sep 3, 2004

What rep range do you use now...also do you work then out after back? Also what weight are you putting up or using ligther weight or still sort of heavy? Another question is when your bulking do you go up in weight every week or with arms do you usually stay with the same weights?

xcelbeyond · Sep 3, 2004

TooPowerful4u said:
never was anything special. Just heavy heavy heavy and lots of sets, and even trained them on their own day. Just never grew, and honestly i always felt it more in the joints and tendons. thats what NOT to do haha

Kinda sounds like you were overtraining them. Sometimes when you want something so bad, you unintentionally overtrain - I've done it!