C
urls, rope pressdowns, reverse curls, dips and
done. Sound like a familiar arm workout? It’s
probably because that’s the one you see every-
one doing all the time, so you do it, too. The
problem is that your progress has stalled, and
even though you still get a solid pump from the
workout, once that pump disappears your arms are still the same size
and the sleeves of your shirts fit the same as they did six months ago
when you started doing your current arm workout. If you were truly
into building strength and muscle, you might want to ask yourself:
Why aren’t my arms growing anymore? The answer is easy: You need
more variety.
However, there are a few principles that need to be defined
and understood first in order to really see a major difference,
the first of which is the size principle. Forget the biology for
a second. What you need to take from this principle is to
work big muscles first because they are stronger than the
small ones. Think your chest isn’t involved in triceps-