How many of you don't train arms?

[b fold the truth]

I think that it is important to do something for the biceps...especially if you are a bodybuilder. Most bodybuilders that I know aren't using HEAVY weights on a lot of other exercises which can really tax the biceps...so they can afford to train the biceps without overtraining them (and their AAS use is different as well).

For myself...I do 1 set of curls with the 52 pound bar per week and if I feel frisky I might ad 50 pounds to the bar and do another set. My biceps get worked a lot from doing atlas stones, tire flip, log clean and press, chins, and lots of other things though...

B True

 

[*MissFit*]

I don't do bicep work, but just started doing tri's again..

My biceps r like little baseballs as it is

 

[putrefied_dead]

this is how i do it:
tue: legs (1 exercise), abs (1 exercise), lats (both directions for 2 exercise), bi's (1 exercise, usually not too intense)
thur: chest (2 exercises), tri's (2 exercises), shoulders (1, sometimes 2 exercises if i want to up the intensity)
sat: repeat tue (speed work for legs)
sun: repeat thur (speed work for chest)

so as u can see, i take the tri exercises seriously but am not so concerned about bi's. this is the priority i have decided will get me stronger and bigger in the long run. (in case ur wondering, i avoid working legs too heavily because they outpace the growth of the rest of my body if i do).

 

[King Cobra]

I don't see why anyone would shy away from biceps for any extended period of time. Curls are a fun exercise where you can really test your determination. Also, once your biceps are nice and tight, they become handy when you are choking someone to death as well. Pythons baby, pythons.

 

[Guinness5.0]

I don't see why anyone would shy away from biceps for any extended period of time. Curls are a fun exercise where you can really test your determination. Also, once your biceps are nice and tight, they become handy when you are choking someone to death as well. Pythons baby, pythons.

There's nothing wrong with some arm work. The problem is that most people feel that arms deserve much more work and emphasis than what's really necessary/ideal.

Arms are (for the most part) an accessory muscle from a function standpoint - they are helpers in big movements. People run into trouble when they ignore important movemnets like rows and presses for the sake of adding things like concentration curls and tricep pressdowns. Moral: focus on the big lifts and throw in some limited assistance work and your arms will get as big as yoru body will let them (assuming you eat enough )

 

[Tweakle]

a couple of sets of curls a week isnt going to take away from your pulling I don't think.. I hate the way my arms look when I dont do direct work, even if they're bigger they look more sausagey

 

[Lestat]

I do bis last and often times skip them yet my arms continue to grow.

 

[kethnaab]

i stick in some hammers and 1-arm barbell curls, and my back workouts benefit from the added strength, as I never reach anywhere near failure unless my back is thoroughly trashed.

makes chinups almost too easy, depsite me being a fatty.

 

[DZLS]

it's pretty obvious that everyone is different...

but you CAN tell an arm apart that gets direct training from one that doesn't...

i liked the term "sausagey" above... i know excatly what he means...