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Originally Posted by TYSON I notice that two of you say just do one exercise for biceps and one for triceps, is that really going to build arms ? i know you use muscles during other exercises but ive never known doing one exercise. Im not questioning your knowledge (you know better than me) but what happens to dumbell curls and kick backs ect: seems a little weird not to include full arm training so im not saying its not right i just wondered how this would build bigger arms than if i did three exercises per bodypart . |
Like so many things with bodybuilding, it depends on you.
If you overtrain you won't get any gains at all. More isn't better.
Really the big compound moves like bench presses, military press, rows etc will hit your arms quite a bit. It is not unusual to get great gains in arms from these alone. Ronnie Coleman, who has one of the best biceps in bodybuilding, has claimed to train biceps maybe only once a month. He does HEAVY deads and rows.
Many people find their arms explode in size when they actually back off the arm work.
You can only try it both ways and see which gets the better results.
I have tried:
no arm work - ok results but not great
lots of arm work - no results at all
low volume direct work - 1-2 sets for bis and 2-3 sets for tris - along with big heavy compound work - good results.
So for me I generally just do 1 direct set for bis and 2 direct sets for tris, if that. You might find you're the same way, or you might do better with no sets or 10 sets. Only you can find out via trial and error.