benverner said:
Looks fine depending on your volume etc. Watch out for too much arm work. You need to count pressing movements as tri's and pulling movements as bi's in addition to your specific work. Lose sight of this and you'll have puny arms forever. Many of the people on here do no direct arm work because of this, if you must, I recomend doing 2 tricep exercises on your chest day and 2 bicep exercises on your back day. Keep the intensity up and finish with those...then rest and eat.
Can you tell me if my current schedule is going to hurt rather than help my arm size?
Mon: Chest & Traps: 5 sets flat bench; 2-3 sets inclines; 2-3 sets cables; 4 sets shrugs
Tues: Back: about 12 total sets of various back movements
Wed: Shoulders: presses; laterals; fronts; upright rows: total about 12 sets
Thurs: Arms: 5 sets standing barbell curls; 3 sets cable curls; 5 sets lying tri extentions; about 3 sets asst cable sets
Fri: Legs: 5 sets squats; 3 sets hack squats; 2 sets 45 degree leg press
Again, look at this in terms of arm size building. This schedule allows me to finish most days within 45 minutes. Would you keep arms by themselves, or make splits out of them with either back, chest, or shoulder days? If combining with larger bodyparts, people cant agree whether its better to team triceps with chest under the theory that chest workout done first will warmup the triceps, and allow a short but concentrated tricep session. Or, whether that idea wears out the tris when working chest so that the concentrated tricep workout is shot before it even starts. And in that case people say to team tris with Back, and bis with Chest, so that the arm parts are fresh when its time to work them.
Since it seems to be inconclusive, rather than get involved in this debate, I just decided to give arms their own day. But the above quote about puny arms has given me pause.
Someone, please, tell me how to 'best' work arms in.. Thanks.
