Arms

[Skenghis Khan]

my arms were always lagging behind my back and chest development, which meant they didnt look in proportion. the only thing that worked for me was having an arms day and doing dropsets until failure and shocking my arms into growth. training tris on chest day and bis on back day, i found my arms were too fatigued to get the right intensity./those fat grip things seem kind of expensive for what they are, altho ive heard good things about thick bar training, might look into it if i find myself in a plateau.

[Flex]

Are Fat Gripz just pads you put over a BB/DB

yeah pretty much. suppose u could improvise by wrapping a damp towel round or summin.meant to be very effective, aint really seen a bad review through my breif research.

[carpedeum]

i have them, they have given me much bigger forearms and added volume to my bi's.

[Skenghis Khan]

i have them, they have given me much bigger forearms and added volume to my bi's.

do u use them on all lifts? or just curls? read defranco material where he really promotes thick bar training on all lifts for increasing power.

[carpedeum]

only on curls, and medium weight bench

[Skenghis Khan]

those fat gripz things are £22 including shipping atm btw.just ordered sum,

[DRC]

those fat gripz things are £22 including shipping atm btw.just ordered sum,

link?

[Skenghis Khan]

those fat gripz things are £22 including shipping atm btw.just ordered sum,

link?

http://www.fatgripz.com/

[Mr. Gayle]

Are Fat Gripz just pads you put over a BB/DB

yeah pretty much. suppose u could improvise by wrapping a damp towel round or summin.meant to be very effective, aint really seen a bad review through my breif research.

How does it do this though, just cos its easier to grip the bar ?

[Skenghis Khan]

its harder to grip a thick bar, click the link its got the 'science'

[Flex]

yeah what sho said more or less.

[Mr. Gayle]

Ok we have some new thick BB in our gym, gunna try 2nite

[King Jammy]

Might cop these.But I know its gonna draw mad attention in the gym and everyone is gonna wanna put their grubby hands on them

[NiNES.]

how often should you be working your arms a week?

[King Jammy]

JM Press >>>>Tried it last week and can feel a difference already. Gonna merge these into the Tri's workout from now on

[djbmc]

anyone use this? at the mo this is like the main workout for my biceps and they are feelin sore the next day! i can get up to 17.5k on either side but i wouldn't say the form was perfect, highly recommended./i do my biceps once a week, but they get a good workout on back day as well, so really it's twice.

[NiNES.]

so 3 arm days is too much then?

[djbmc]

well it depends, but probably, if u do biceps on one arm day, triceps on the other and then a mixture on the third then that would be cool (maybe), but i do biceps once a week and then i avoid doing exercises that will involve them for a good 3 days after because i've worked them quite hard and i can feel they need a rest. if ur doing them 3 times a week ur probably not doing them properly, go hard for one session and u won't feel like u need to work them again for like 4 days after.

[Mr. Gayle]

I dont like the bent bars, spesh for preacherI have 1 dedicated arm day, but work bis on back day and tris on chest day

[Skola]

i find the bent bar kinda annoying aswell@BMC we have something similar at my gym too nice to feel the biceps hurting again i do some sort of superset with 10s and 15s on each side

[carpedeum]

so 3 arm days is too much then?

definitely too much to attain proper growth. your arms need to rest, so best thing is to do them heavy once a week.if you do them 2x a week, then its your biceps on one day and triceps on another. the EZ (bent) bar preacher curls are one of the best exercises for biceps.