I-tallionStallion said:
Mad Manic...if you want to offer all these different opinions and what not and teach us powerlifters how to 'really workout' why don't you write a guide. I mean if its good i'm sure it will get in the H&F stickies. While i do some iso work with my big three, i'd like to see your take on whats best. Go write an article and give us links/sources and what not. It would be to say the very least very interesting. And i'm not saying this to mock you.
That doesn't make sense because you've called yourself and the others powerlifters, I was talking about bodybuilding and building muscle. If you want me to write a big article on bodybuilding then I'll do that but it's pointless if I'll just get powerlifters saying to squat for big arms (which is BS).
And to the other poster - Yes his figures are plucked from nowhere and doesn't really correlate with what I see. The reason people don't have big arms is because they either don't do enough arm work, or they do enough arm work but not enough work on bigger muscle groups so the body is reluctant to pack on arm size alone.
For example, from experience, you can hammer arms 2-3 times per week and do drop sets, volume work, low and high reps etc. to really get them growing. I do my squats and stiff-leg deadlifts too but for my legs, not for arms.
Another rookie mistake is doing the same amount for bis and tris. I think one should typically do twice the amount of work on tris compared to bis. Tris are bigger and more durable and need a lot more total volume to really hammer them.
Another rookie mistake is reading off the net that the bigger muscle groups need more sets than the smaller ones. That's actually wrong IMO because the bigger muscle groups get shifting a lot of weight and really take a hammering whereas the smaller muscle groups undergo much less load and stimulation per set so need more sets/angles/'care' etc. e.g.) Do 4 sets of squats, your legs are hammered. Do 4 sets of narrow dips, your tris still have plenty left to really get hammered.
MM
