just unmature

[magman1]

i just turned 20, so im thinkin maybe my arms just need to mature--my biceps are fairly strong, and kinda large from some angles--but they're skinny--it seems to be common with a lota younger guys i look around at--anything i can do??

 

[Citruscide]

Muscles take time to grow my man... there are 100's of different plans out there to help you get bigger. For me, my arms tend to grow the more I do heavier compound movements such as deadlifts or barbell rows and squats... believe it or not.

I really only do about 3 exercises for biceps... once a week... but it is enough to work them considering what I put them through in my back workout.

Switching up your workouts... making sure to do some low-rep, high weight exercises... such as the 5x5 -- do a weight you can only do for 5 reps or so for 5 sets... you'll hit your LARGER muscle fibers when you do reps from 3-5 at a weight you can only do for that amount.

Too often I see guys going in an curling weights for 12-15 reps... it will only hit their smaller... slow twitch fibers... increase endurance... some growth, but not a substantial amount.

C-ditty

 

[leancuisine]

magman1......

its IMMATURE not UNMATURE.

forget bodybuilding dude.. its time for grammer courses. just kidding.

 

[bignate73]

hit the brachialis more. it provides width to the arm.

hammer curls (dbells)
rope curls (cables)

 

[MidwestJ]

it takes time

 

[Zander1983]

My biceps are tiny compared to my triceps, yet my arms look big in T-shirts.

Make sure you don't neglect your triceps! I think they are the key to a big looking arm.

Lots of heavy pressing (bench, close-grip bench, military/push press) and very few isolation movements (near none) got me my triceps. Maybe its just the way I am though

 

[JollyRogers]

I have just the opposite, my bi's are bigger then my tri's ...weird huh?

 

[Hannibal]

My biceps are tiny compared to my triceps, yet my arms look big in T-shirts.

Funny thing is that if anyone can talk me into measuring my arms they are bigger than they used to be when I actually did bicep work. I guarantee you that I have not done 20 sets of direct bicep work in the last year or more...Spatts of Project can verify that. However, I have done a tremendous amount of heavy tricep work.

So if filling out the sleeve of a t-shirt is your goal...work your triceps. Pillows in the front...handles in the back. As a nice bonus, if you work them correctly, your bench will increase. Like the saying goes...if you want your bench to increase gain weight and train your triceps.