Friday, December 5, 2008

Train Your Biceps For Optimum Growth

By Jennifer King

Almost all people that begin a body building plan want bigger biceps. Biceps are the muscles that show strength, and weight trainers like their shirts fitting tightly at the top of their arms. Because the biceps get a lot of attention they become the most over trained muscle which means for a lot of body builders their progress actually goes backwards.

The most common reason why most body builders train their biceps too much is because they pay too much attention to body building magazines. Most magazines have an article that will try and tell you how to get bigger arms within 6 weeks. In the article you'll see a huge weight lifter, and he'll give you his biceps routine.

A typical arm workout in a magazine will generally be a workout of about 20 sets of exercises. This is a massive amount of sets to encourage growth in your biceps. You can give your back, cheat and shoulders a good workout with 20 sets, and your biceps don't need no where near this amount of training. At the end of the article you'll usually see a photo of the weight lifter sitting their with his favorite protein shake in his hand. The article you read is an ad for whatever he's holding, and is in no way suppose to help you get bigger biceps. They want you to purchase the supplement.

When you exercise your shoulder and back muscles, all the pulling exercises that you do will have already given your biceps a decent workout so giving them another 20 sets will definitely train them too much. Body builders in magazines can give their arms 20 sets because they're usually on steroids and growth hormones. This kind of routine is impossible if you're a natural body builder.

After all the training you give your back and shoulders all you only need to give your biceps around 4 sets a week. You don't have to punish your arms to make them bigger, all you need to do is make sure you gain strength.

All you need to do is add more weight to the bar every time you train, and as you get stronger then your arms will get bigger. Getting bigger isn't achieved with adding more sets to your workout. If you don't add more weight or more reps every week then your muscles won't have any reason to get bigger.

If you don't gain the strength to add more weight or more reps every week then you need to look at your diet. To get growth you need to consume enough protein, carbs and healthy fats to aid the repair of your muscles. Without the right balance of macro nutrients, and an adequate amount of them you won't get bigger. Consuming enough small meals spread out through the day will cause a natural anabolic effect in your body that will encourage extra growth.

Keeping a diary of hop your getting on will help you discover what is working best for you. Once you get all of the little things right you'll begin getting the gains you're after. - 16928

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