What the hell is wrong with my arms?

[coolcolj]

To tell you the truth I have the same problem as well, in terms of genetic proportions. My calves are still larger than arms, but thankfully arms grow faster than calves, and are catching up quickly

natural body proportions tell you a lot about how many fibres you have in each musclegroup and their proportion of fast twitch to slow twitch fibres. White fibres are very large. My legs and calves are naturally bigger than the rest of me. I have mesomorph legs and ecto upper body

 

[Thaibox]

You're lucky for the meso legs. Most people have it the opposite way. Or, they aren't willing to do the work required to discover that maybe they do have it.

 

[vinylgroover]

I'm a big believer in genetics Thaibox. 17" arms is pretty decent in itself, but you're a big boy which is why they may 'look' small.

Calves and arms should always be dead even, or at least within 1/2 an inch of each other to look proportioned.

I seriously don't think there is anything you can do. If there is, let me know as well

 

[Lord_Suston]

If you still train to fight then that would limit the size of your arms...

Other than that I would suggest a lot of supersetting and isolation excercise after compound excercies. Genetics might make it hard for you but it doesn't mean it will stop you....

 

[needsize]

I was in the same boat, but I've specialized on my arms for the passt eyar and put almost 2" on them. What i do is have a heavy day set aside just for arms, and it's all about heavy compound exercises for lower reps. Close grip, weighted dips, skull crushers, overhead extensions with ez curl bar for tris, standing barbell, incline dumbell curls, and preacher for bi's.
The on back day I do some light and fast bi work,a nd the same thing for tris on chest day. This has worked for me to the point where most people never guess that arms were always my weakest point

 

[Thaibox]

Lord S,

I'm not fighting anymore. Just lifting. Doing both was pretty tough, and I've been fighting so long that my body is pretty wrecked. I'm going to start formally studying a more gental art soon.

NS

I know that you're one that understands my problem here. 2" in a year is pretty damn good. I've been thinking of doing just what you said. Maybe even putting rest days before and after arm day. In a couple weeks I'm going to be hitting test/eq/win/slin after a while of nat training so I think that'll help a little Maybe the strands of spaghetti hanging off my delts will start growing.

 

[CrimsonKing]

this might sound weird but its true. My arms grew 1/2 each arm when I didn't do any specific arm exercises and did 20 rep breathing squats! Really! In reading, I found that that exercises is so intense that it creaste a surge of HGH in your body which mean you grow all over.. and I did!.. give it a try you won't be sorry.

 

[SAGAT]

well if you've tried about every training regime there is, i don't think i could help you. but i'll say this: 17"is nowhere near small, mine are only about 15" at about 185, and i'm just as tall as you are. so quit your whinin'

 

[needsize]

Thaibox, if you train heavy and hard with that cycle you mentioned, you should be able to gain some decent arm size, just be careful of that winny, it dried my joints out really bad and as a result all my old injuries came back

 

[Thaibox]

Thaibox, if you train heavy and hard with that cycle you mentioned, you should be able to gain some decent arm size, just be careful of that winny, it dried my joints out really bad and as a result all my old injuries came back

I'm thinking of replacing the Eq with Deca for that very reason. I've just never tried eq, so I wanted to.

When I said that I know you understand my problem I meant your past. Obviously not your present condition. You've got guns. I figured you didn't think that, but just wanted to clear that up