Arms finally growing, weird???

[TooPowerful4u]

Why does it seem my arms are like blowing up and growing so much more when i hit them less? Sometimes i dont hit them at all during the week cause DC's training split is kickin my ass, just goin heavy as fuck on chest and back compounds. If i do hit them, its one exercise for an all out set maybe once or twice a week. Has anyone else experienced this?

 

[xcelbeyond]

I believe I've stated this before. HEAVY compound movements like barbell bench (or slight incline), bent-over rows, deads, etc have helped me to put on more mass than direct exercises like curls and extensions. Don't get me wrong - I still do heavy barbells curls and extensions but believe the other movement work better for packing on the mass.

xcel

 

[Conan21]

the added rest days are allowing for more growth. If one uses proper form and rep speed like DC recomends (or any HIT advocat for that matter) then 1 set is all u need. DC's split is a higher frequency HIT routine.

Muscles should be trained Intensely, briefly, and infrequently. by you training arms infrequently (even less the DC recomends), and with High intensity low volume, you are minimizing the inroad into recovery ability but maximizing gains by giving them time to recover AND THEN grow. One thing that people dont relize is that training a muscle when its recovered its not always a good idea. you are only allowing them to compensate from last workout, but not over compensate (or altleast to its full potential). You are taking advantage of this scientific fact without even knowing it.

and also as Excel said. they are also being stimulated from other compound movements.

 

[cannonball33]

Personally, I only train arms directly about once every couple weeks. I do them on their own day and I usually superset. And I have gotten fantastic results. People never believe me when I tell them how INFREQUENTLY I train them.

The rest of the time, they get hit pretty well from compound moves, as Conan pointed out.