But despite how obvious this seems, far too many guys (and not just beginners) ignore the basic principles of power training and rarely make an effort to gradually increase the weights they are lifting from workout to workout.

A bigger muscle is a stronger muscle, and vice versa. So you must get stronger in the basic mass building exercises in order to bring about any significant muscle size gains.

One of the biggest mistakes that the average gym junkie makes in their workouts is implementing bodypart specialization routines before they have the right to use them.

Nobody is going to be able to pack on any substantial muscle mass on his arms unless he first puts lays the muscular foundation on his chest, back, and legs first. There's just no other way around it.

Let's face it...

Thin arms hanging from narrow shoulders, that are attached to a flat chest, which is joined onto a weak back, and stacked on top of chicken legs is not ready for a bodypart specialization routine. Let's not try to put icing on the cake before the cake has been baked.

Just to give you an example of this...
How often have you seen novice lifters in the gym hogging the preacher bench and doing bicep curls until they are blue in the face, but despite their best efforts, their arms are still painfully scrawny to look at?

To get big arms you first have to focus on building up the major muscle groups and laying the foundation for big arms. So I'm here to tell you that the very "Best Arm Exercises" that you can do are not even direct arm exercises at all.

"WTF... did you make a typo Lee? I thought this was supposed to be arm exercises..."

Don't worry, you are reading this right...

First off, all 3 of these movements are bodyweight exercises, meaning that you are moving your entire body through space, not just moving your limbs. When ever you move your entire body through space you are activating a lot more muscle mass and stimulating a higher level of neuromuscular activation.

Bodyweight movements create a real 3D exercise environment and this triggers the brain, central nervous system, and everything else to be more alert. After all moving your entire body under resistance is more stressful and the body senses a greater risk then it would if you were sitting on a nice padded exercise machine and lifting the handles up and down.

Because of this higher level of muscular activation you'll get the most muscle building bang for your buck with bodyweight exercises. Not only that, but doing big basic compound exercises like squats, chins, and dips will stimulate your body to release higher levels of anabolic hormones, like TESTOSTERONE and GROWTH HORMONE. This will spur on new muscle growth more so then doing smaller easier isolation type exercises.

Now don't take this the wrong way...
You still need to train your arms directly, but the foundation of your workouts should be based around big mid-range compound power moves first. This will allow you to get the most benefit out of the direct arm specialization training that is to follow in the later phases of the "Blast Your Biceps" program...

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