The text that’s about to follow is going to cause a stream of hate. You will hate me so much that you may even consider breaking the computer monitor. Since I don’t really care about the future of your monitor, I will continue to write.
Let’s get straight to the point. You want to have muscular arms. You want strangers to look at them with more love than they look at their baby’s face. You want to cause nipple inflation every time you flex those powerful biceps. Your only problem is that you don’t know how to get there. The workouts that you’ve tried promised you a lot but delivered as much as banks do after a financial collapse. Well, it’s time for you to learn the real secret to building “arm muscle”.
The secret to “building arm muscle” is – there is no secret.
As a natural, you can’t have big arms. It’s impossible. Forget it. It’s never going to happen. Even if you do enough Scott curls to dig a hole in the bench with your elbows, the growth that you are dreaming of will never become a reality naturally.
Can I have 18 inches lean arms? No, you can’t.
{a moment of silence}
“But a guy on T-Nation.com said that I can have 18-inch arms naturally?”
Do you want the truth? Get ready.
Your Internet forum hero is a liar or at the very least missed the epithet “fat because the only way to get your arms to that number naturally is to up the pancakes. I heard that eating double chocolate sandwiches with Nutella in-between at midnight helps too. This or Rippetoe’s GOMAD should do the trick. You can even reach the magic 20s this way.
In the real world, natural bodybuilders cannot build arm muscles larger than 16 inches without getting fat. I know that you are getting closer and closer to punching that monitor, but please, hold on for one more minute.
A realistic arm size for an average natural bodybuilder who is at normal body fat levels (10-14%) is 14-15 inches. Now, punch that monitor extra hard. Kill the motherfucker trying to shatter your arm construction dream. Who is he to talk to you like that? Chicken neck, keyboard warrior, dipshit is all he is and will ever be.
{angry punch in the monitor…..there’s some damage, but after a while, the crystal box resumes output}
If you unlearn to measure your self-worth by the standards imposed by the media, you will actually be happier with your arm development as a natty. Yes, you read that correctly. A measurement of 14-16 inches is plenty, especially when backed by nice performance and leanness.
How do you get there? It’s simple. You focus on solid exercises. For the vast majority of people, this means chin-ups, curls, bench presses, and dips. There are many other options, but those are classics and easy to program.
Get your dips to 2×20 and your chin-ups to 2×15. Then, start adding weight. By the time you are doing dips and pull-ups with 50-60% of your bodyweight, you arms should be bigger.
Remember. The muscle media will continue to use the bodies of steroid users to sell hope and pig food. Muscle models are like Playboy bunnies. Every day there’s a new one willing to put on the thong for a paycheck. The only way to stop the madness is to make the right choices as a customer.
