Bodybuilding - Build Massive Biceps and Triceps
Written by Editor on March 5th, 2007 in exercise.
The Truth About Building Massive Biceps and Triceps
It’s no secret that every serious lifter out there desires an impressive pair of strong, muscular arms.
Who wouldn’t be happy with tall, peaking biceps sitting on top of rock-hard, horse-shoe-shaped triceps? Who wouldn’t love to have a pair of ripped, well-developed guns forcefully bursting through the sleeves of their shirt? This arm training article will show you how and blow the lid off conventional arm training routines.
While developing muscular arms is usually at the top of many peoples’ agenda, the reality is that the majority of lifters out there have a very poor understanding of how to properly train their arms for maximum gains.
In order to gain the proper insight into effectively stimulating arm growth, we must first recognize three basic truths:
- Relatively speaking, the biceps and triceps are small muscle groups.
- The biceps receive heavy stimulation during all basic pulling movements for the back.
- The triceps receive heavy stimulation during all basic pressing movements for the chest and shoulders.
What do these 3 points tell us about effective arm training?
Arm Training
The most important thing for you to realize is this:
For maximum gains in muscle size and strength, the biceps and triceps require only a very small amount of direct stimulation!
So why is it that every time I enter the gym I see the same misinformed people, week in and week out, slaving away on endless sets of bicep curls and tricep extensions?
It’s very important to understand that the biceps and triceps receive a very large amount of stimulation from all of your chest and back training. Couple this with the fact that your biceps and triceps are already small muscle groups to begin with and it becomes quite clear that direct arm training is of minor importance.
[Robs Note:] My Personal trainer has this same view about arm training. Her theory is that if I was not to do any arm training at all, my arms would get bigger as a result of the stimulation they got from back and chest workouts. We’ve completely cut arm training out of my program and are monitoring my growth on a monthly basis. To be honest (and dont tell her this), but I still train arms, but in the fashion outlined here. I train them once during my rotation per 7 days and it’s a heavy workout with few reps and only 2 exercise per side (tricep / bicep). Have you ever noticed that after a short time off from training, your arms hurt after doing your chest or back workouts?. Same deal. They DO get worked without direct stimulation and are subject to overtraining quite easily.
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Chet Day is a trained journalist. We are not. So we begin with his synopsis of this 43-page eBook. “In 1939, a man called Peter Kelder wrote a book called ‘The Eye of Revelation’, a little health treatise that revealed to the world for the first time five previously secret Tibetan rejuvenation rites. Now you too can practice the exercises used by Tibetan monks to remain ageless.”
Now, forget the blurb that sounds exotic and mysterious. This is seriously good, and seriously good fun too. If you like Indiana Jones type action movies, the story that has the rites embedded in it is going to really give you a ball of a read.
The five rites are five ‘exercise’ movements with demo illustrations that should be shown compulsorily to any illustrator of contemporary exercise teaching books. Look and do, perfectly, first time. The text that goes with each is as concise and clear. These are idiot- proof, and safe, and fun, and work.
What do they do? Loosen up, tone, and produce the sort of energy high you may never have experienced, even as a child. Bon talks about ‘vortexes’, other traditions talk about “chakras,” and enlightened western medicine now recognizes ‘energy centers’ of the body. The moves undo locked in tension in these specific body areas, and free the ‘bound’ energy so you will feel like a million dollars, even if you currently don’t rate ten cents. Find time for these five fun bits (very little time) in your day, and while you may not make 150, your three score and ten are going to be a lot nicer. Absolutely brilliant, and even the village idiot can’t mess the moves up.
Part 2, rite 6, is for men who aspire to transform from wimps to supermen. Ladies may care to float this one past their men folk and bin the advert for Viagra, which is nasty dangerous stuff anyway.
Part 3 deals with nutrition and has elements Rea certainly aren’t going to tilt at. To the point and as applicable in Ohio today as in Lhasa of the past.
Part 4 is a voice exercise and it is an absolute riot. You’ll love it.
Overall, the interest will be in the first five rites. Chet reckons, from personal experience, that you get results in three weeks.
The man is wrong!
We put three friends onto the five rejuvenation rites as a test, and they report the improvement is noticed in four days. So, if you are looking for a gripping adventure story plus a way of using a few minutes a day to turbo boost energy and feel good, this is money you won’t regret spending. Better still, if you think the book is junk, Chet will give you an unconditional guarantee of refund in full — and you keep the book.
It’s cheaper than Ms Wiggles Exercise vid, ten times more enjoyable and it does the business. Go for it!
Are the Five Rites the Fountain of Youth Sought by Ponce deLeon?
This downloadable eVersion of Kelder’s manuscript contains not only the original drawings but also the unedited and unexpurgated story of British Colonel Bradford, the man who searched for and found the long-hidden Tibetan monastery that housed the ageless monks who taught him the secret rejuvenation rites in the 1920’s.
As the original publishers say in their foreword:
The Five Rites produce remarkable mental and physical rejuvenation within a month. So much so, in fact, that one gains new hope and enthusiasm with which to carry on. However, the greatest results come after the tenth week. When you stop to consider that the average man has endured his afflictions from 30 to 50 years, to obtain such amazing results in such a short time as ten weeks sounds almost miraculous.
Most Important: The information given in The Eye of Revelation was, for twenty-five centuries, confined strictly to men. Now, to the surprise and delight of all concerned, it has been found that women, too, get equally beneficial and amazing results. Now, after this long period of waiting every adult, man or woman, can go on to grand and glorious things, regardless of age, environment or circumstances.
Get started at once on the marvelous work of Rejuvenation, Transmutation, and Youthification. May success, health, energy, power, vigor, virility, and Life follow your footsteps forever.
Rob’s Note: I have know Chet for years and have learned a lot from him. I have talked with him personally and highly recommend this book on the five tibetan rejuvenation rites for anyone inclined to have a safe, easy and effective exercise routine they can perform daily. Great nutritional advice comes along with it too..
Simply go to the Five Tibetan Rites website now
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By Zach Bashore (www.fitnessaffiliatlinks.com/truly-huge )Cardiovascular activity is difficult to enjoy and it is even tougher when you do the same exercises every day. This article is going to give you an insight of the most popular methods of cardio available and how it can assist you to burn fat.The first method of cardio that I am […]
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(www.fitnessaffiliatlinks.com/truly-huge )Cardiovascular activity is difficult to enjoy and it is even tougher when you do the same exercises every day. This article is going to give you an insight of the most popular methods of cardio available and how it can assist you to burn fat.The first method of cardio that I am going to explain is walking.
Walking is the most common of cardio exercise. Walking is a very low-impact exercise, and is one of the few cardio exercises that can be incorporated into your own lifestyle. Another way walking can be used is power walking. Power walking at the gym is easy because you can just hop on a treadmill and take off.
You should choose a walking routine that emphasizes incline movements and you should alternate paces.
Jogging is the most common exercise known to the public. Most jogging program’s paces are determined on one’s physical conditioning. Beginner joggers should practice speed walking before they progress to a jogging routine. Jogging is not for everyone because it can be hard on your knees and is simply not an option when it is zero degrees outside. Jogging is a very good cardiovascular exercise because it burns twice as many calories per hour than that of walking.
Sprinting is running as fast as you can until you cannot run any further. This method of cardio should not be used by beginners.
Sprinting is the quickest way to do cardio that can be performed to burn calories because it only takes five to ten minutes to get an effective workout. However, sprinting can be dangerous to your body if proper warm-up isn`t in place. Make sure that you stretch thoroughly prior to sprinting because the quick movements cause an injury.
Dance is another popular method of cardio and is actually one of the few cardio exercises that are fun. Everywhere you look, it is almost certain that you can find a dance class to join. There are so many different dance styles available that it would be impossible to list all of them.
Indoor cycling, also known as spinning, is a new health club craze.
This intense workout targets the lower body, giving the quads, glutes, and hamstrings a good workout. Using stationary bikes that aim at increasing endurance, classes using the spinning exercise is a perfect way of getting a good workout and motivational boost at the same time. Almost every health club has a cycling class that you can join and the application process is easy.
Each forty-five minute session that you perform will burn 500-700 calories, who wouldn’t want to indoor cycle?
The best part about swimming is that it is not stressful on your body. Water aerobics offer the same support as swimming, but instead of propelling your body from one end of the pool to the other, you use the water as resistance to burn calories and tone muscle. Both methods are refreshing alternatives to boring cardio and will give you a good workout without getting sweaty.
Another reason swimming is a good exercise is that the water decreases the stress on your joints, and it helps people with joint problems incorporate exercise into their lifestyle.
For people who live in cold areas, ice skating is the preferred method over rollerblading. However both methods serve the same purpose and that is to get you active. These exercises are fun to do and are great for the lower body. If you want a more challenging exercise you can simply rollerblade uphill, but be careful when you are going back down because the excess speed may cause you to crash. Which brings me to the downside of rollerblading. It is a very dangerous exercise and you must wear protective equipment at all times. You also might try to show off when your ability levels are not so great and you could injure yourself if you are not careful.
Cardiovascular exercise wouldn’t be fun without the different methods that are available. Try them all out and determine which ones that you like best. If you’re a beginner, I suggest that you start out by going on a walk or a harmless swim. But once you get more advanced, then start incorporating more of the techniques that I explained above. Cardio doesn’t always have to be hard, it can actually be fun if you approach it properly.
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