Best way to get bigger arms?

[Blane]

squat, and DL...since i hv started focusing on the squat and dl...my arms have gotten noticably bigger.

 

[Big_BK]

In fairness, I've seen some people with chicken legs sporting excellent upper bodies

As have i but 2 things, why would you want to look unbalanced and like crap. I get more compliments from women on my ass and legs then i do anything else. and second, why do things the hard way? Sure you can train only upper body but it will takes years to achieve what you could do i probably half that time training properly by exercising your whole body. Your body is meant to be in proportion, do you really see THAT many people with chicken legs or huge legs and no upper body???

 

[desmond]

As have i but 2 things, why would you want to look unbalanced and like crap. I get more compliments from women on my ass and legs then i do anything else. and second, why do things the hard way? Sure you can train only upper body but it will takes years to achieve what you could do i probably half that time training properly by exercising your whole body. Your body is meant to be in proportion, do you really see THAT many people with chicken legs or huge legs and no upper body???

I agree BK - it's unattractive to be unbalanced and I wasn't advocating the appraoch and I DL and squat. It just suprised me when I was working in Melb this year the amount of people who had achieved good upper bodies and yet had chicken legs. I thought many of them looked ridiculous - and yes, noticed how silly pancake arse looked on well developed upper bodies

 

[jwo02]

At 164 lbs I had 16 1/4'' biceps. I just woke up and don't feel like typing the workout that initially caused my arms to explode(leaving some nasty stretchmarks), but if you PM me I'll be sure to write it to you later.

 

[Big_BK]

I agree BK - it's unattractive to be unbalanced and I wasn't advocating the appraoch and I DL and squat. It just suprised me when I was working in Melb this year the amount of people who had achieved good upper bodies and yet had chicken legs. I thought many of them looked ridiculous - and yes, noticed how silly pancake arse looked on well developed upper bodies

But in the grand scheme of things did they really have THAT over developed bodies or just enough to look bigger then most people and the lack of leg mass made it look even more impressive?

 

[SaiBoT]

But in the grand scheme of things did they really have THAT over developed bodies or just enough to look bigger then most people and the lack of leg mass made it look even more impressive?

I've only seen a guy matching this description and yeah he lifted heavy! But he was also a guy over 40 years old which obviously explains the tremendous difference between his upper body and legs, I could swear that his calves were about the same size of his forearms.

 

[Big_BK]

That proves my point. Who wants to look like that when there 40?

 

[desmond]

That proves my point. Who wants to look like that when there 40?

But BK, ur forgetting "curls gets the girls" lol

Just being facetious; I agree.

But:
- some of us lift mainly because we enjoy lifting;
- some merely to pick up girls or impress other guys, and the latter crowd often adopt strange routines (i.e., chest/arm dominant).

 

[BBR100]

I've only seen a guy matching this description and yeah he lifted heavy! But he was also a guy over 40 years old which obviously explains the tremendous difference between his upper body and legs, I could swear that his calves were about the same size of his forearms.

Not sure what you mean. What's the relationship between over 40 and tremendous diff between upper body and legs?

 

[SaiBoT]

Not sure what you mean. What's the relationship between over 40 and tremendous diff between upper body and legs?

It means that probably he was neglecting is lower body training for more than a decade at least, because the difference was huge, cartoon like, sick huge difference. It's not like your gonna get a HUGE upper body in relation to your legs in a couple of years.

I'm not talking about calf muscles, because it's possible to have huge quads and not so great calves...