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Old 01-08-2007, 11:42 AM
EricT EricT is offline
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Talo is right.

Let me give your a reality check on the arms. I'll bet you any amount, judging by what you said, that their growth is keeping pace with the rest of you.

The MAIN point of this program is the big lifts. Weekly progression on them for ever how long. This is not a program to work on beach muscles. Arms are accessory. That means something that complements or helps complete something else. If you can do the arm work (and what you did is way too much IMO) and that either helps or doesn't hurt your progression. Then fine. Anything else, forget it. On abs, however, some people view them as accessory but I view them as essential. You need to keep the core stabilizers as strong as possible.

When you bring all those lifts up close to your full potential, you probably won't have small arms . That's how it works. For most people a little work here and there and a little emphasis here and there (maybe on a program designed to bring up weaknesses) necessary. But there is no need to obsess.

Another thing is if you did the that Madcow listed, it's an example. You can do other things and you can change this one. For instance you can do chin-ups and that will provide more emphasis to your biceps. As a matter of fact since you've done it once you can probably get away with some bodyweight sets of chinups to near failure on your "light" day, higher reps and increasing them up to about 12. Or you can do rows one day and chins the other if you don't want the extra on wednesday. You would just change the way you manager your progression. I would advise you to try a straight bar curl this time around on your isolation work however, providing your forearms are up to it.

Another reality check. I don't know your height and weight so it's a guess, but someone with 14 inch arms probably isn't very close to an advanced level. When you're done with this there are other things you can do to continue progressing in this type of training.

For instance, you don't have to always do ramped sets. You may choose to do 5x5 sets accross on Monday followed by a light and medium day. Or if that's too much too fairly light days. They would be designed to keep neural activity and to help the Monday 5x5 move along. There is all sorts of things you can do in there and still be within the intermediate framework. This would probably entail adding more volume as you advance.

Upper/Lower is always a choice and this can fit in as well.
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