Are big arms genetic?

catz123456 · 2020-01-27T19:43:56+00:00

Yep every body part is to a degree. Many people with big arms including myself often have a lagging chest. Depends a lot on your biceps/triceps insertions too. People with longer insertion will have more muscle growth potential and illusion of bigger fuller arms.

Best advice would be try to throw more volume in for arms and don't just go through basic arm movements as you would with compound exercises like bench press. You really need to focus on isolating and feeling it in the muscle belly not the tendon/ligament. Try different angles/exercises to find the ones you feel in the muscle. eg. skull crushers feel horrible for me but with one arm overhead tricep dumbells extensions i can get a great tricep pump and not have tendinitis after. eg2. standing bicep curls are a hit and miss for contraction but single arm preacher curl with full ROM gets me a great pump.

maljo24 · 2020-01-27T20:17:11+00:00

Gymnetic

kentucky-windage · 2020-01-27T19:42:49+00:00

I’m the opposite, weirdly. But while scientifically the answer is probably yes, don’t have that mentality. A guy I used to lift with quite a bit would say “nothing is genetic”. It can be overcome if you’re willing to do the work.

FinancialThanks1 · 2020-01-27T19:52:37+00:00

It’s probably a mental thing. You’ll favour certain muscles on your lifts. The mind-muscle connection is stronger in your chest than your triceps. Try and think about contracting your biceps and triceps on lifts where they’re working.

Also you can use a narrower grip on the bench press.

Do more isolation exercises for arms

quijote3000 · 2020-01-27T20:13:49+00:00

Watch Rafael Nadal's left and right arms. They are like night and day

AnneStaz · 2020-01-27T20:24:30+00:00

Definitely

meller91 · 2020-01-27T20:29:08+00:00

patience, iago

RupturedGlass · 2020-01-27T20:34:46+00:00

Idk but dick size definitely is. Like I'm a skinny fat beta retard but my cock is huge dude.

MVWeiss · 2020-01-27T21:08:47+00:00

Yah man but work hard Eat hard sleep hard and you can max your own arm genetics out.

Maxes out arm genetics will already set you apart from 90% of men

beholdthemaverick · 2020-01-27T21:30:13+00:00

John Meadows has fantastic material on growing the arms on youtube (mountaindog1). Depending on your genetics, it’s probably not enough to throw in some arm work at the end of your workouts like most do. You may have to fit an ‘arm day’ into your split somehow, as brotastic as it sounds. Specificity really does bring results.

Protocol_Apollo · 2020-01-27T22:05:34+00:00

Typically most people are either arm dominant or torso dominant. This does affect your leveraged on all lifts- eg for arm dominant guys, their triceps tend to take more load on the bench than their torso dominant counterparts.

Not everyone can get 20 or even 19 inch arms.

If you want bigger arms, prioritise them. Train them more frequently and train them at the start of your workout rather at end.

Casd12 · 2020-01-28T03:56:47+00:00

I literally have a day just for arms and they're still not even that big. Not compared to my chest at least

Title	Are big arms genetic?
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Date	January 27, 2020 7:39 PM UTC (6 years ago)
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