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.

The first one that you may already be familiar with are bicep curls. The experts in muscle building recommend that you use a five, ten or fifteen pound weight for these exercises. When you are standing straight, push the forearm out in front of you while keeping the upper part of your arm, close to your body. Curl the arm up toward you.

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.

Triceps dips are for arm muscle building. Sit on the edge of a chair and push yourself up only using your arms and then hold the position and let yourself down.

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.

Don't forget your hands when you are working out your arm muscles. Exercise your hands with hand grippers.

All of the exercises that you do for your arms will help you to increase the size of your muscles. It is a good idea to do eight to twelve repetitions of these exercises to build up your arm muscles.

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