Developing Big Arms

By Jacki Otis


A challenge that numerous people encounter is increasing their forearm size to equal their biceps and triceps. It can be a real struggle to not just get them big, but also proportional to the remainder of your arm. There's also the issue of one arm being larger than the other due to dominance of either your left or right arm.

Forearm Building Exercises

Performing barbell curls behind your back is your first exercise. You need to use either a barbell rack, or fixed weight barbells for this exercise. For example purposes you will be at the barbell rack. Its is best not to use the Smith machine for this, except when you do not have any alternative. Position the bar below your waist level to where you have to slightly bend at the knees to get the weight. Get your correct weight, and then grab the barbell, similar to how you would for back shrugs. With your arms pressed up against your body for stability, curl the bar upwards making sure you mainly use your forearms. Roll the bar back down and repeat. This is best performed x3 sets of x10-x15 repetitions.

Next you can try the rotating hand exercises. Grab a couple of low weight dumbbells that you can do x25 repetitions of. Begin with your arms bent at 90 degree and your forearms parallel to the ground. Begin to rotate your wrists to where the dumbbells rotate inwards and outwards. When carrying this out begin to gently raise your arms upwards and then downwards in a continual slow movement. By doing this, you are hitting all the muscles in your forearms and getting a real burn!

The final exercise is a reverse curl with dumbbells. Grab moderate dumbbells and simply curl your wrists as the weights are to your sides. These curls additionally hit the less known muscle groups in the upper arm, which is an added bonus.

Take advantage of Supersets for Extra Gain

A super set is where you perform another exercise immediately after a different exercise. As an example, to get a burn that will make your arms feel the blood pumping and muscles expanding complete biceps curls combined with a forearm activity. Perform the bicep curls with medium-heavy weights, as you normally would. Use correct form, keeping your back and legs out of the movement. Immediately afterwards perform a set of side dumbbell wrist curls. This will provide an incredible work out routine which will leave you with a good feeling the following day.

Be Sure To Stretch!

Your arms are needless to say very useful to you and you don't wish to hurt or injure them. There are many muscle heads and tendons located on your arms that need stretching, and your biceps and forearms are the easiest to injure without stretching. Also make certain you keep your wrists mobile by simply rotating and stretching the joint. If you notice that either of your arms are starting to get bigger then use more weight on the under developed arm, and make sure you are watching your posture and technique. Virtually all arms which turn out to be one bigger than the other are due to poor technique in exercises for the non-dominant hand.




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