problem with skinny arms

[KickScrew]

I do lots of lifting and I mean lots and I have been gaining a decent amount of weight. But sadly, my arms havent been gaining much of it. They arnt puny or anything but I would really like them to be bigger. They arnt as perfectly perportioned with the rest of my body as I would like.

Are there any weight gaining methods somone could suggest to target my arms. And diet exercise tips or just weight gain shakes and what not. I really need to gain mass in them. Thanks for any help you guys can give.

 

[Anybody]

what kind of arm exercises are you doing right now?

 

[H_T_]

focus on tricep exercises. anything overhead will help immensely.

 

[thelion2005]

I do lots of lifting and I mean lots and I have been gaining a decent amount of weight. But sadly, my arms havent been gaining much of it. They arnt puny or anything but I would really like them to be bigger. They arnt as perfectly perportioned with the rest of my body as I would like.

Are there any weight gaining methods somone could suggest to target my arms. And diet exercise tips or just weight gain shakes and what not. I really need to gain mass in them. Thanks for any help you guys can give.

I'm surprised.

If you are "pushing" and "pulling", you are working biceps, forearms and triceps.

Better tell us your complete workout.

 

[KickScrew]

I've been benching a lot, pullups, and preacher curls. But since I have this arm problem, and I've been doing tons of lifting with dumbells and forearm wights. And after my workouts I workout my forearms every night.
Veins are sticking out and they are getting really ripped, but there is no mass going on them.

I was wondering if I take a lot of weight gainer shakes and stuff and I work out my abbs and chest, that I might be able to gain weight in my arms. Sorry for the stuped question, I'm really new to this bodybuilding thing.

 

[thelion2005]

I've been benching a lot, pullups, and preacher curls. But since I have this arm problem, and I've been doing tons of lifting with dumbells and forearm wights. And after my workouts I workout my forearms every night.
Veins are sticking out and they are getting really ripped, but there is no mass going on them.

I was wondering if I take a lot of weight gainer shakes and stuff and I work out my abbs and chest, that I might be able to gain weight in my arms. Sorry for the stuped question, I'm really new to this bodybuilding thing.

IMO ...

Extra calories won't add size to just your arms. It may add dreaded fat all over. Eat lots of clean protein and veggies. This will add muscle.

Make sure you are not overtraining and failing to recover. This is a common error ... just too much total work. Once you walk out of the gym, rest only.

As for specific exercises ... When in doubt, go back to the basics.

I put triceps after chest and shoulders. My fav size makers are: (1) Close grip benches, (2) push downs w/V handle and (3)reverse pushdowns with straight bar ... all 3 x 8-6 ascending in weight.

I put biceps and forearms after back. Fav size makers are (1) Standing bb curls (2) incline db curls at 30 degrees (3) Arnold curls ... all 3 x 8-6.

For forearms .... which have already been beaten by chins and rows ... (1) Reverse EZ curls on preacher bench (2) bb wrist curls ... all 3 x 12.

Good luck.

 

[Anybody]

Like lion said, don't work out your forearms after you leave the gym, and definitely don't work any muscle out every day (except abs). At a very minimum a muscle needs 48 hours of rest after strength training or it never has a chance to grow, and many people find their gains speed up if they start resting longer than 48 hours (mine did).

Benches should help with triceps, but at a wide grip they aren't meant specifically to target them. Because of that, and because the tricep has three heads which can all be hit separately, i also do weighted dips and lying tricep extensions for tri's. Make sure to steadily increase weight if you aren't already. You could spend the rest of your life benching 135 for 8 reps and you would never get stronger if you didn't keep adding weight.

Preacher curls have a lot of synergist muscles, but their main target is a small, less noticable muscle, so I wouldn't expect to get hulking forearms with them alone. I personally add wrist curls, reverse wrist curls, and reverse curls to the forearm mix. Deadlifts also work your forearms, and are a great mass builder to boot.

If you don't know what some of these exercises are, you can look them up here, and find some other good stuff on this site as well. http://www.exrx.net/Workouts/Workout2PP.html

Also, since you're new to bodybuilding, you should spend a lot of time doing research. In the beginning, your most effective work is done outside of the gym. A newbie who spends 100 hours researching and 100 hours in the gym will come out looking much, much better than a newbie who just spends 200 hours in the gym. There's ALWAYS more to learn, but if you don't spend a lot of time learning at first you'll end up kicking yourself down the road for all the time you wasted doing the wrong stuff. Read the stickys in the weight training forum and diet forum here if you haven't already.

A lot of good intro information is on this site, particularly under "Anatomy" http://www.abcbodybuilding.com/

 

[SgtSlaughter]

Excellent responses bros... Ditto on the 2 above responses. You may be overtraining.

IMHO: There is NO SUCH THING as "overtraining!"

... there's just undereating, and undersleeping think of it that way for about a good week and see where you are next month.

- SLAUGHTER

 

[Tweakle]

right.. and if you eat enough and sleep enough you too can be standing on the Mr O stage some day.

ok, little guy who started the thread - you're going about this the wrong way, take time to educate yourself.. http://www.ironaddicts.com/index.html the articles here are a great place to start, then take a wander over to intensemuscle.com and read DC's posts. ALL of them.

 

[jdevlin1985]

To gain on your arms, you need to gain overall bodyweight. (unless you are a genetic freak)

This means plenty of calories for growth and focusing on the big movements such as deads, squats, presses, in addition to arm excercises mentioned above.

They say to add 1 inch to your arms, you need to gain roughly 10lbs of overall bodyweight.