how many times a week should i workout my arms?

[loic2003]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
loic2003: If you're like me, you have a high metabolism and don't gain muscle easily. Until last year I never really made any progress gaining strength. I'd do bench for 2 months without going up in strength and would get kind of bored. I was eating a lot and trying to get plenty of rest but it still didn't help much.

Last summer, I got plenty of rest as usual. I lifted heavy 4-8reps. I did NO cardio except for some walking. And I ate like a huge fvcking hog. I ate 5-6 meals a day, moderate sized ones for the most part. Mostly meat, cottage cheese and whey shakes. I had to essentially force feed myself because I wasn't ever hungry for these meals.

I gained a bit of fat unfortunately, but my upper body really started to fill out and I was gaining strength on several of my big lifts pretty consistently. I'm still by no means a big strong guy, but I'd never really had a chest before so it was pretty cool. I of course flaked out a few months ago because winter tends to make my less ambitious, but thats my own fault...I didn't really have room for a proper workout space and am hoping to have one this summer when we move. (I did pullups at the school playground across the street, used my girlfriend sitting on my shoulders as resistance for squats, ran down to my parents once a week to do bench press and had a curling bar, dumbbells and a ton of plates that hid under my couch for a variety of exercises) I was also growing tired of eating so much...

I just need to eat a lot because I'm blessed and cursed with a fast metabolism. My girlfriend kept saying "I wish I was on a diet where I could eat like that!" (Since I would eat a large dinner, workout and then eat a second smaller dinner before bed.) Yeah, well, I needed to come up with some thing fast other than peanut butter sandwiches....I was getting really sick of eating peanut butter, oatmeal, cottage cheese and whey shakes.

I'd have to say that, for me at least...diet proved to be more important than any of the other elements. But they're all important.

Yeah that sounds like me...

So how about some other suggestions for the diet... I work 9-> 5 each day and am always wondering what sort of munchies to grab at lunchtime. I need something nice and simple to prepare because I only get an hour and frankly, I'm lazy. Preferably something I can grab from a sandwich shop or local supermarket. These days i'm a sucker for steak sarnies in baguettes.

I guess the day after a workout I should have something that is protein rich, and the day of a workout (I go after work) something with both carbs and protein for energy...

How about rest, what are you talking about there? more sleep or less movement or something?

 

[Turkish]

I work my triceps and biceps on seperate days and one day each per week. I think that's plenty... more is less rest which means slower growth... at least for my body. here's a webcam shot I just took of my triceps: my_triceps.jpg

i'm bulking right now so they look a little too bloated but I often get compliments on my triceps definition. if you want bigger, better defined arms, hit them twice at most. do 5-6 exercises for each arm muscle and use dumbells. i didn't gain anything until I stopped using barbells and began using dumbells.