Arms have grown in strength but not size since i started 9-10 months ago, i started curling 10kg dumbells and am now on 18kg ones and my lifts have gone up alot so i know my arms are getting stronger and still are but since i started my arms havnt grown at all. They used to look huge on me at 15.2" 9-10 months ago and are now not looking impressive anymore to the eye and are still at exactly the same measurement as when i started. For about 8 months i was doing 10 reps so this should have been focussing on building more mass?
Not sure why they wont get any bigger any suggestions?
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05-05-2007, 10:16 AM #1
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Arms have grown in strength but not size
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05-05-2007, 10:18 AM #2
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05-05-2007, 10:20 AM #3
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05-05-2007, 10:25 AM #4
^^^ What he said.
"Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride."
- Vince Lombardi
"No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training...what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable."
- Socrates
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05-05-2007, 10:26 AM #5
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05-05-2007, 10:26 AM #6
Even if you are getting stronger, you need to switch what excersizes you do on a body part to help "shock" it into growing. Your muscles are getting used to the same motion over and over again.
Not only would I suggest some new excersizes, but before that I'd do something like this:
Start off with a dumbbell weight that you can do about 10-12x max, and then you curl until you hit failure. Without rest, grab lower weight dumbbells(example, if you have 45lb dumbells, grab the 40lb dumbbells), and then curl this to failure. Keep going until failure and without a rest break until you've gone to failure on the lowest dumbell weight they have.
That'll be a good shock to start off with going into some new arm excersizes.
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05-05-2007, 10:28 AM #7
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05-05-2007, 10:33 AM #8Originally Posted by The Nyne"Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride."
- Vince Lombardi
"No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training...what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable."
- Socrates
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05-05-2007, 10:38 AM #9
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05-05-2007, 11:59 AM #10
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05-05-2007, 12:02 PM #11
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