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Arm days only (Yes or No) ?

Arm only days?

  • Yes

    Votes: 13 43.3%

  • No

    Votes: 17 56.7%
  • Total voters
    30
I don't but thinking of having arm only days. It;s been a few years since I've experience significant growth in the gunz. I wanna see if I can trigger new growth.
 
I do 2-3 exercises after chins and chest dips. I don't have separate chest and back days so I throw some bis and tris in then.
 
Oh ok, I guess there's an advantage to working back and chest on separate days as you can then work tris and biceps on those respective days and give them more attention/intensity.

I'm curious, when you say 'chest dips' what sort of parallel bars do you use as all the ones I've seen and used are too narrow to use as a specific chest exercise.
Ideally I'd like the bars to be a V shape so you can use the wider outer ends for chest dips and the narrower inner ends for triceps dips
 
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OK from a puny girly perspective ...

I don't do "arm days" ... I do throw in some tricep dips and stuff as part of assistance work BUT

generally speaking my arms get a massive workout on leg day too (plus bruising).
If I'm using DBs for stuff like step ups and sumo squats and the like, my arms die before my legs even get tired.

I'm talking about holding a db that is about 50% BW here.
You don't get that if using a bb of course.

Also doing assistance work on olympic rings etc means arms get plenty of work time. ie switch dips and pushups to rings and you find your arms get a whole new workout.

I've seen more arm development in the past 6 months without really thinking about arms specifically - more than before when I was forced to do curls etc.
 
Darkoz said:
Oh ok, I guess there's an advantage to working back and chest on separate days as you can then work tris and biceps separately and give them more attention/intensity.

I'm curious, when you say 'chest dips' what sort of parallel bars do you use as all the ones I've seen and used are too narrow to use as a specific chest exercise.
Ideally I'd like the bars to be a V shape so you can use the wider outer ends for chest dips and the narrower inner ends for triceps dips
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Yeah the wide grip ones that place emphasis on the chest, although the triceps still get worked somewhat.
 
Iwas doing curls and cable pushdown on all my off days late last year. Arms went 15.5-16.5 in 8 weeks. Was doing all sorts of different curls.

Good growth but I'm 90% sure it lead to an extended dose of elbow tendonitis, when added to my normal squat/dead/bench.

Everyone wants some of dem guns. Had 18" once upon a time. Arms needed their own day to get to that size.
 
I've never been a fan of an arms only day, nor one body part per day workouts, it's not what I consider a decent workout.
 
Bazza20 said:
Arms only day is a waste of time. Use it to do real training.
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Do you bother with skull crushers or anything?

I used to, and used to do curls too. Now I've got less time to work out I prefer to focus on compound movements, and see every arm set as one I could be pressing or pulling.

I've never done arms only days.... it would be a squeeze to fit it in.
 
Brick said:
Iwas doing curls and cable pushdown on all my off days late last year. Arms went 15.5-16.5 in 8 weeks. Was doing all sorts of different curls.

Good growth but I'm 90% sure it lead to an extended dose of elbow tendonitis, when added to my normal squat/dead/bench.

Everyone wants some of dem guns. Had 18" once upon a time. Arms needed their own day to get to that size.
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You had 18" arms at 5'7"?
Is that muscular or just fat?

:eek:
 
GROAR said:
Do you train arms as a stand alone day. If yes why, if not, why?
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From memory...like me your arms got bigger after you started concentrating on the compound lifts...

Now that you have a stronger base it will be interesting to see what a 6 to 12 week arm specific program can do... I don't think they would change much further past this once your body adapts...

I would think you would need to hit the bi and tri twice every week? Will be watching with interest...
 
GROAR said:
And it is real training. If you think it isn't do not post in this thread again or the BB section again.
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Fuck you. I'm as much of a BB as any other fuck in here. My goals are to grow muscle and get stronger.

Do you have to do a heap of useless arm training to qualify for the BB section here.

Arms training is largely a waste of time especially the way most people do it. It doesn't need its own day.
 
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