Friday, January 9, 2009

Tips For Building Arm Muscles

By Dave Vower

When you are working out, you should look for exercises that will focus on specific muscles. There are some tips that you should learn when you are doing this form of exercise. The exercises that you do for your biceps and triceps are the ones that will give you big arms. There are some exercises that will focus on these muscles on your body.

Biceps curls are commonly used in arm muscle building. Experts recommend using a 5, 10 or 15 pound weight. While standing straight, push out with your forearm while keeping your upper arm close to the body, than curl up.

There are a number of biceps curls exercises that you can add to your muscle building routine for variety. Hammer curls work on the muscles under the biceps which will help the biceps to become bigger from your workout.

Wide grip curls as well as close grip curls are used to work on the biceps muscles. The single cable arm curls are used to increase the tension in the arm and build up the biceps muscles. And the preacher curl is a common method of building on your biceps muscles as well.

Push ups have been a muscle building technique for a long time. You can do a push ups a little differently in an exercise called push downs. Start is plank position and push down but hold that position for a few counts before you push up.

Another exercise that is very common for the arm muscles is push ups. Instead of doing a typical push up, you should try a push down that will also build the arm muscles. It begins in a plank position where you will push down. Hold the position and push back up.

For the triceps, you should do triceps dips. Begin by sitting on the edge of a chair and push yourself up using your arms. Hold the position then sit back down.

Do not forget your hands and your forearms. Include wrist extensors and wrist flexors. Use the basic hand grippers to exercise your hands and forearms.

All arm muscle building tips are good; the number of repetitions of each exercise is up to you. People start out with 8 to 12 repetitions of each exercise.

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