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Rock-hard arms: follow this training, diet, and supplementation advice, and you could soon be packing big guns that stop people dead in their tracks!

Men's Fitness, Oct, 2004

Unless you stay bundled up in long-sleeve sweatshirts all year round, you simply can't hide your arms! Let's face it--biceps and triceps are the body's showcase muscles. They're also the only ones you can display without it being obvious that you're trying. So if you're hiding your pipes from the rest of the world, then you're obviously not happy with them. Meanwhile, it can be incredibly frustrating to see other guys in tight T-shirts with biceps that look like tennis balls stitched right under the skin, or thick, horseshoe-shaped triceps. These are the kind of guys who get bigger just by lifting a soda can. You, on the other hand, have to work out twice as often just to earn the right to wear a short-sleeved shirt!

But don't worry. Sometimes all it takes to turn your body around is a new approach. So starting here, starting now, it's time you stopped being embarrassed about your pipes, and started feeling excited about the new growth. By sticking to the simple routine and diet plan outlined ahead, you could be well on your way to becoming the guy who wears his T-shirts with confidence!

Get Ready for the Blitz

To force your arms into growth, your new workout plan must be something your arms aren't used to. That's how you'll give them the all-important "shock"--the unexpected situation that forces them to get bigger and stronger. The arm-blasting routine listed here is challenging, and for good reason. It's one that will get your arms pumped beyond belief, and will help them grow well beyond what you ever thought possible.

For your biceps, you need to start with a major massbuilding exercise like barbell curls. Try doing 4 sets of 6 to 8 slow, controlled reps. Make sure to flex your biceps at the top of the movement for peak contraction. Next, after only a two-minute rest, move on to machine preacher curls and do 3 triple-drop sets. Start with a weight where you have difficulty getting the eighth rep up. Then drop down in poundage by about 30 to 40 percent and do 8 more reps, and so on. Next, move to a "finishing" exercise like cable curls and do the same thing, starting off with 10 reps. After a three-minute rest, move on to triceps and repeat the same protocol you used for biceps--1 bulk-building exercise, followed by 2 other exercises using triple-drop sets. These finishing exercises will ensure you're hitting the most muscle fibers as possible in your lifts. And by carefully "damaging those muscle fibers, you force them to get stronger--and consequently bigger--so they can handle the load the very next workout. Try to go up by at least 5 pounds every week to ensure you're making progress.

Eating Your Way to Bigger Arms

In order to pack on serious muscle, you've got to be equally serious about your diet. First off, don't fear carbohydrates! Despite all the bad press they're getting these days, carbs are not the enemy! They're absolutely essential to getting the energy you need to train heavy and hard. Carbs are only bad when you have the wrong kinds, in amounts that are too large, at the wrong times. Just stick with yams and either brown or wild rice, and you'll be set. These sources are low in fats and sugars. Keep in mind that too much fat and sugar isn't going to do your training any favors. Be sure to also take in essential fatty acids (the healthy fats) like flaxseed, olive, and fish oils. Ironically, they could help you keep fat off your body while also helping to maintain good health.

But by far, the thing your muscles need the most is quality protein from lean fish, chicken, beef, eggs, and whey. Aim for about 1 to 2 grams of quality protein per pound of bodyweight per day, and pay special attention to post-work-out nutrition. Right after your tough workouts, your muscles need quality protein that's easily digested--and they need it fast. Meat takes hours to break down and digest, so that's out of the picture at this time. It's for this reason that professional fitness athletes and top fitness models are looking elsewhere for their post-workout protein--and finding it in delicious, convenient supplements.

The Best Protein Builds the Biggest Arms

After you've torched your arms with the workout prescribed here, you have to force-feed them the protein that will aid in the rebuilding process. And to do this, you need a top-quality protein with the best delivery system that'll help transport it into the muscles. That's where you need NITRO-TECH[R] to help build bigger arms. NITRO-TECH is regarded by many fitness athletes to be the very best musclebuilding protein in the world, and science is definitely on its side. For example, in one 6-week study, subjects who combined NITRO-TECH with a proper diet and weight-training program packed on an average of 8.8 pounds of lean mass. So the more serious you are about your diet, supplementation, and training, the more reason there is to believe that you can build even bigger arms than you thought possible!

Combining CELL-TECH[TM] with NITRO-TECH for Awesome Gains

Taking NITRO-TECH[R] is a surefire way to give your arms the ammo they need to grow. And yet there's even more great news you should be aware of. Big arms are largely built by creatine, and CELL-TECH[TM] is the world's best creatine-based formula! CELL-TECH[TM] is designed to force more creatine into muscles for immense size and strength. This is entirely credible, as the facts show. The results of one 28-day scientific study show that CELL-TECH is actually an average of 26 times better than creatine for gains in mass! As a matter of fact, test subjects using CELL-TECH in combination with a good diet and training program gained an average of 4.34 pounds of mass (over a pound of quality mass every week). Meanwhile, those subjects who combined regular creatine with the same diet and training program only averaged a measly 0.16 pounds of mass! So when it comes to choosing a creatine formula that'll help build your arms, choosing CELL-TECH looks like your best bet. And, as big as you could get from NITRO-TECH[R] and CELL-TECH taken individually, you could get truly awesome results when you combine the two. In one 8-week study, subjects who stacked NITRO-TECH and CELL-TECH with diet and proper training gained an average of 9.6 pounds of lean mass. That's more than a pound a week, and significantly greater than the average of 1.9 pounds of lean mass gained by subjects using a placebo and diet with training. Your best bet then is to take CELL-TECH immediately after your arm workout, and have your NITRO-TECH shake 30 to 45 minutes later. Then sit back and watch the mass construction begin.

 

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